1 Adam-12, 1 Adam-12, we have a helicopter down in the Hudson River

Five people were onboard what is being called a private helicopter (earlier reports said it was a FOX-5 news chopper) that landed in the Hudson River today near the Upper West Side (Think 79th St.). All five were rescued and the investigation continues. It's another Sully miracle!

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Let's get this guy on Chopped stat! Let's see how badly chef Alex Guarnaschelli wants to criticize Mr. Klindt for poorly incorporating the gummy worms into the eggplant.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

The question here isn't why the nightclub 'Circle' had to pay a $20,000 fine...

No, they had to pay that after the attorney general investigated clubgoers complaints about the doormenz and staffs favoring Koreans over non-Koreans. Paying bottle service, being denied entry, enforcing dress codes arbitrarily and forcing, again, non-Koreans to make reservations. You can't discriminate. It's simply wrong. We don't care who is doing it. It's not just people from a certain geographic region south of the Mason Dixon line in a place they used to call Tennebamasippi. It's right here, right now. Shame on Circle.

The question in all this is who the hell still goes to Circle?

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Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ELVIS COSTELLO!

You like treats don't you? Of COURSE you do. Really great versions of song you may not have heard covered before can be wonderful treats. Oh hey, here's one of them now. Elvis Costello, who has dinner at Johnny's house whenever he's in town, (Hey it worked for Bobby Brady) really puts gorgeous new face on a classic by The Animals. Pure sumptuousness for the earholes.

Elvis Costello with 'Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE ORLONS!

Setting the Wayback Machine for 1962 for a song so obscure a scouring of the intertubes doesn't bring us back any live video. Most of the smattering of clips of this one are actual record players playing wax.  So get a smart cocktail and some attitude. It's time to strut around your house dancing like there's no tomorrow party cats and kittens. Don't spill no nothin'.

'Not Me' by The Orlons

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BLONDIE!

Hearing this song around 6pm tonight on the iTunes Johnny just knew it was going to play off the Music Series for another week. There are a lot of Blondie fans and a couple critics who will tell you this is their best song. It's sure way up the list.

Blondie with 'Shayla'

Scenes like this used to help define that authentic city living vibe

Yet you rarely see this anymore. A lament for clotheslines.

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Fred's day just got interesting.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Boy this Fulop inauguration is getting quite the guest list; The big man signed on to speak

The Governor himself will speak at Mr. Fulop's inauguration as well as U.S. Senator Bob Menendez. That should be a sight that will be much photographed and long remembered, this outdoor inauguration in front of city hall. It's a great idea and good for everyone on stage for again putting differences aside in an adult manner.

Which brings us to this. We realize you may have issues with the governor, some people even say his mild-mannered ways come across as brash or insulting. You may have policy differences. You may be angry he'd even consider putting the right to get married to whom you choose on the ballot instead of fighting in favor of the right side of history. You may think something he did or didn't do after Sandy makes you mad at him.

Steve Fulop's inauguration is not your place nor time to shout or protest at Christie. Strangely enough Steve Fulop's inauguration is about him. Imagine that. He deserves his day. Respect that. Jersey City is not some backwater like East Stroudsburg (we needed a new foil, they'll get this insult by telegraph by Saturday). We are a diverse city with diverse opinions that bring us together rather than tear us apart.

That's on July 2nd when the replant they trees.