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Remember where you put those umbrellas, you'll sure need them tomorrow...

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Looking for some good food around the Journal Square area? Try Culinary Cafe

A new breakfast and lunch option has opened up to those in and around Journal Square that uses not only local fresh produce, but local aspiring chefs as well. Rick Low of the Culinary Cafe at the Culinary Conference Center has a new spot open only on Tuesdays and only for breakfast and lunch but it offers more than just menu fare, it offers young chefs the ability to set a menu, use locally grown and fresh produce and run a restaurant if only for a day.

Said Low on his students:

"They wrote bios. They designed their own menu. I let them order their own food, project food cost. We got a lot of response from the community and the students really liked it."

So why not support local food and local talent? Besides, doesn't rosemary beef stew, orange glazed Cornish game hen, cinnamon roasted baby pumpkin and seasonal vegetables sound better than White Castles?

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A little Monday night Motown before bed. The legendary Mary Wells with 'You Beat Me to the Punch'.


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We haven't had many of these lately but sometimes ya gotta deal with other things. Talk about whatever floats your boat.

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Hey this one almost snuck by Johnny and we want to make sure everyone hears, the pride of Jersey City, St. Peter's College upset mighty Alabama last Tuesday 50-49 in the Paradise Jam in the US Virgin Islands. Jeron Belin hit a three point shot with ten seconds left to lift the Peacocks.

Fight on St. Peter's!

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It's getting to be ice on the road time Jersey City

A very bad accident at Tonnelle at Manhattan over in the Heights quite possibly due to icing on the road should serve as a reminder that it's black ice season once again. Granted, the ice on the road looks like it may not have been done by mother nature but set in motion by a leak from a nearby building but ice is ice is ice. Take some extra time in the mornings and make sure you're safe on the bridges around town as well as surface streets.

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Saturday night scoreboard edition:

Michigan State 28
Penn State 22
Sparty gets a share of the Big Ten title, the first for MSU since 1990

Ohio State 37
Michigan 7
RichRod's days are numbered according to the Detroit media.

Connecticut 38
Cincinnati 17
UConn needs to win next weekend at S. Florida and they'll be BCS bound

Boston College 16
Syracuse 7
Because the world needs middling bowl teams

Notre Dame 20
USC 16
These teams play for a shillelagh. Does it seem odd that USC would play for a shillelagh?

Georgia Southern 41
S. Carolina St. 16
Quite an upset, betcha didn't know it.

Middle Tennessee 38
Florida Atlantic 14
Because the schedule demanded it

Western Illinois 17
Coastal Carolina 10
Western Illinois will no doubt get bid to the BCS Fiesta Bowl.

Tonight's Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
Lehigh 14
Northern Iowa 7
Lehigh gets power up and wins a HUGE Division I-AA playoff game in Iowa today. It's a Lehigh world, we just live in it.

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Atheist billboard next to Lincoln Tunnel sure to turn some heads

First off, Johnny is not religious in the least. He's NOT a believer in ANYBODY'S God. Now that that is out of the way, no doubt this billboard sponsored by Atheists locally will get people talking. The billboard itself has the following message:

"You KNOW it's a myth. This season, celebrate reason," a silhouetted background shows the three wise men walking towards a manger.

Now no doubt the Christian crowd will be loud over this affront to their very lives but Johnny says GOOD. No group in America should feel somehow threatened because a differing view appears on a billboard somewhere. The 'War on Christmas' crowd will no doubt be attacking this sign as will the usual suspects, not quite rooted enough in their own religion to just accept the fact others may have opposing viewpoints from their own.

It's our belief that freedom of religion for all is also freedom FROM religion for all as well.

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Think warm thoughts, lake effect snow around the Great Lakes tonight.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ELO!

That's right, some Electric Light Orchestra to kick off AM Gold night here on the Jersey City Desk music series. Those wonderful songs that used to drift out of whatever AM radio device one may own, from box to transistor to those cleverly made to look like anything from a banana to a softball. Johnny was lucky when it came to AM Gold stations, had the famed AM 800 The Big 8, CKLW out of Windsor Ontario and all those lower watt Detroit stations playing that sweet soul, R&B and Motown along with Top 40.

Here's ELO to kick off our look back at AM radio with 'Sweet Talking Woman'.