Saturday morning MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ARETHA FRANKLIN!

The Queen of Soul! Newark may have homegirl Queen Latifah but she's not Aretha Franklin now is she? No, of course not. There can be only one Queen and she lives in Detroit.

Aretha Franklin with 'Respect'

Saturday morning MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES!

More more more Detroit music as the ice men of the north cometh to Newark and Manhattan this weekend!

Smokey Robinson & the Miracles with 'Tears of a Clown'

Late night open thread

Let the high holy weekend of hockey begin! Specially themed music series coming up tomorrow,

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Flee! Flee for your very lives New Jersey and Ranger hockey fans!!! Hockey Inc. has arrived!!

Yes NHL fans of the tri-state area, Hockey Inc., better known as the Detroit Red Wings are in town for a game tomorrow in the Prudential Center and after they make that building their own on Sunday night they will set their sights on ravishing Madison Square Garden. Hide the children, the carnage is about to begin!!


Of course Johnny will be at both games signing autographs for kids in Red Wings togs before and after the games.

Late night open thread

Johnny caught a civic event tonight where Mayor Healy was helping light a Christmas tree by the Grove Street PATH station. He looked so proud and smarmy standing with his cronies getting face time and adulation of hangers on with cameras until Johnny yelled out to da Mayor "Santa is bringing you some coal for your stocking and a jail sentence" which certainly whipped Da Mayors head around from his appointed pre-fab smiles.

He knows citizens, he knows the other shoe is about to drop. He just can't stand these comments are coming from us commoners.


Time for Jersey City, After Dark

'Scandalously filthy streets' in Jersey City? According to one JC blogger the answer is yes

Ray Schroth says on his NJ Voices page claims that's exactly what Jersey City has. We'd tend to agree. There are certain areas of this city where citizens are downright pigs (And Johnny would suggest India Square and Newark Avenues area for one) but Scroth goes on to make a bigger case against a lazy disaffected populace in a fine article you can read here.

Late night open thread

Johnny is thinking of sleeping out on the couch tonight to hear the big storm carry on all night. The wind gusts, the pelting rain, and just the sounds of a good storm coming in from the south would be a perfect backdrop with which to sleep. Johnny's three big main picture windows all face south, or in this case, the direction of the storm.

Nothing like a nice cathartic sleep with great ambient noises.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Is Jerramiah Healy still mayor of Jersey City this morning?

If so, why?

Torches and pitchforks at the ready JC citizens...

Late night open thread

Did somebody say snowflakes later this week?

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Smoking gun--Deputy mayor says Healy KNEW illegal funds were headed into his coffers

Indicted Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini said in a superseding indictment that Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy without any doubt KNEW that illegal money was being funneled into his reelection account.

The actual indictment is worded thusly (and Healy is JC Official 1):

It was part of the conspiracy that defendant BELDINI and others received illicit political contributions from the CW in order to fund the Re-election Campaign Committee and the JCDC and to otherwise support the re-election of JC Official 1.

So, our mayor KNEW of these illegal payouts. He KNEW the money was being funneled into his account. So, when is he going to be arrested? When is he heading out to Newark to give up the fingerprints and to do the perp walk?

Mayor Healy, the editorial board here at the Jersey City Desk has been calling for your resignation for quite some time, now we DEMAND it. You WILL be leaving office here. You will do us all the favor of hauling your crooked ass either off to jail or the old disgraced mayors home or wherever it is you wanna go live in shame. You are DONE here.

Again, you can go on your own, you cam be removed in some sort of civil procedure or we can break out the torches and pitchforks and chase you to the Delaware Water Gap.