An Italian Restaurant in Nutley? Go On!
Queen Margherita, formerly known as Regina Margherita (changed due to some kind of copyright dispute), is located in Nutley — can you fathom what type of cuisine it offers? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.
A relative newcomer to the scene, Queen Margherita distinguishes itself from the pack with a more upscale atmosphere than is typically found in Nutley’s myriad restaurant/pizzerias. The tiny, cramped dining room is candle-lit and table-clothed, and is supplemented by a sidewalk-seating area which is open year-round. If you sit in the dining room, you have a good view of the pizza oven’s flaming interior. While the establishment does accomplish a certain level of classiness, the food doesn’t quite live up to the flair.
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An Editor’s Journey to the GoOutJersey Launch Party
Author’s Note: On Friday, April 20th, GoOutJersey.com celebrated its official launch with a party at Rogo’s in Hoboken. As Assistant Editor of the site, I was invited. The party was a gathering of staff, contributors, and friends of the site. We chose Rogo’s because it was a spot that represents what the site is about — it’s for real Jerseyites (present company excluded), and it’s cheap.
The following is a very approximate timeline of my evening…
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Today’s Click This! is being posted in honor of our very own recreational boxer and Executive Editor (at large – for another 2 weeks) Donna.
Saturday night, Jersey City Firefighters and Police officers will face off against their NYC counterparts in an amateur boxing match for charity. The event will benefit the Police Officer’s Benevolent Association Memorial Scholarship Fund and is dedicated to the memory of slain Jersey City Police Officer Domenick Infantes Jr.
For more details and to find out what celebrities are scheduled to appear, Click This!
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Should Virginia Tech have been locked down following the first shooting?
Is email an effective enough way to reach students in an emergency?
At this point, placing blame and pointing fingers won’t help the 32 victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, but the mistakes that were made have lead college campuses across the country to re-evaluate their alert systems.
New Jersey colleges and universities are no exception. Rutgers, the state’s largest university, has put in place a new mobile phone alert and Princeton has set in place a similar system, purchased just before the shooting.
For details, Click This!
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I’m pleased to bring you all a light, fun Click This! today. While searching for a Jersey link this morning, I came across a post from Chris Gruber on Metafilter. It’s a very catchy, very driving-down-the-shore kind of song that he’s written about Jersey Girls for some friends of his who are moving to our neck of the woods. Chris is looking for feedback, so maybe you can help him out.
To listen to the song, New Jersey Girls, and read the lyrics, Click This!
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If you’re so hooked on NJ politician drama that the tragic accident of our current governor isn’t enough to keep you satisfied, you can soon read a little bit more about one of his predecessors.
It seems Dina Matos McGreevey will release Silent Partner: A Memoir Of My Marriage on May 1 as an answer to her husband’s memoir, “The Confession,” published last year. If your not quite up to speed on Jim McGreevey’s point of view, check out this Sept. 2006 article from New York Magazine.
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I now pronounce you…still technically single
Since, for some reason, much of the hetero population treats the right to marriage like a toddler treats an old toy his younger brother wants to play with (with total disregard until someone else shows an interest in it – and then suddenly becomes overly attached) – the “best” New Jersey could seem to do for its gay inhabitants was “grant” them the right to civil unions.
It was a step forward – with a shaky, arthritic leg – and now that tax time has rolled around, the flaws of a separate-but-equal substitution have made themselves abundantly clear.
To read more about the inequality of civil unions, check out GoOutJersey’s link of the day at GayPeoplesChronicle.com.
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Hello Readers,
Donna and I have been struggling for two months to develop some kind of ratings scale to make life easier for our dozen (perhaps dozens) of readers. We wanted something a little bit different, a little quirky, very GoOutJersey. And it just hit me, thanks to my mother.
My family and I were about to head out to Marzullo’s in Montclair for Mom’s birthday dinner and I asked her how I should dress. Her response, “Casual,” didn’t help me. I was standing in my living room at 5 p.m. wearing glow-in-the-dark monkey pants and a hooded sweatshirt. “This is causal, no? I don’t get much more casual than this.”
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Confused But Mostly Happy, Very Full Bellies
Cuban Pete’s is a good choice if you are looking for great food and have a lot of patience. The Cuban and Carribean restaurant has a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere, with murals of pot-bellied men on beaches leaning against palm trees and pretty girls poking their heads out from behind canoes. A beautiful courtyard provides outdoor seating in warm weather and the food is delicious and affordable. The trick to dining at Cuban Petes, however, is not to let the shoddy service kill your joy.
This review should really start off with an apology from me. I have owed you this review for quite a while – having eaten at Cuban Pete’s for the first time about two months ago. But unfortunately, I had no idea what I had eaten and, therefore, could not evaluate it properly.
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As a newly-married person trying to figure out where I’m going to —ugh— “nest” permanently, I often find myself arguing with my husband about the kind of town we’d choose. This might not be unusual —newlyweds bickering? No!— it was rather unexpected for us. We had spent the last several years living in NYC and were in-synch about the kind of area we wanted to live: ethnically- and culturally-diverse; considerable nightlife (the kind where you’re grateful there are people out on the street at 3AM as you walk home); good public transportation; restaurants; a general liveliness and “neighborhoodness” without the persnickety, pesky neighbors — basically, a city.
I’m a suburb-born, Brooklyn-bred gal, and he’s a Third World-city-born, NYC-bred guy so, of course, we agree on… nothing.
Initially, we both had wanted to buy in NYC (Brooklyn, Queens, or the Bronx), but after you’ve spent 10 years living over such people as a violent-sex-crazed couple (even their dogs would howl out of concern), a “clothes-designer for strippers”, and sundry drug dealers, arsonists and snide-snippy-scowling elderly, you appreciate the extra padding between neighbors a house with a yard can provide. And since I’d rather shoot myself in a treasured artery than live in Staten or Long Island, never mind Upstate, Jersey here we are! But where in this diverse state of garden?
Imagine my horror when my husband told me his ideal neighborhood is none other than the small, homogeneous, movie-theater-less hometown I spent years trying to escape. And where would I like to be?
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