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I f you grew up in New Jersey it’s likely you knew somebody who had a friend whose second cousin had a brother-in-law whose uncle was connected to “the Mob.” Born in Jersey City and raised in Union City and then Secaucus, Jon D’Amore had family members who were “connected”. An accomplished musician and songwriter, D’Amore kept mental notes of a Las Vegas casino caper that went down back in the day and tells the fascinating and sometimes nail-biting story in his new book, “The Boss Always Sits in the Back.” Here’s an excerpt:

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“This is my story, based on actual events, of living on the fringe of what some people call ‘the Mafia.’ You see, several members of my immediate family were connected. Connected simply means that through blood, honor or business...you have a direct connection to the Cosa Nostra, the Mafia, Our Thing , La Famiglia, the Mob. And those members of my family made a very comfortable living for many, many years through this affiliation. I thought about

becoming more involved when I was in my early 20s, but at the time it was the mid-1970s. I was a professional musician and having too much fun living the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. I was living every dream of most of my high school and college buddies (and at the time... that mattered!), so why would I want to cut my hair, wear dark suits and ties...and take the chance of getting whacked? Instead, I decided to watch da guys from the sidelines.”

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Funny, irreverent and a natural storyteller, D’Amore has made Los Angeles his home since the mid-1990s, but he has remained connected to his Jersey roots. He returns to Hudson this month for special appearances at the Secaucus, Jersey City and North Bergen libraries where he will read excerpts and sign copies of “The Boss Always Sits in the Back,” On a recent afternoon, D’Amore took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Riverview Observer about his controversial new book.RO: Can you tell our readers what “The Boss Always Sits in the Back” is about?JD: The book is about some guys I knew from Hudson County who pulled off one of the greatest scams to hit Las Vegas and after it was exposed it changed gambling laws across the country forever so that a scam like this could never happen again. It tells

a story of the human side of these people and at the same time it describes the demise of what can be considered ‘the Mob,’ because it certainly isn’t what we knew it to be from the 1940s through the late 1970s.

RO: Why did you decide to write a book about the Mob?JD: The things that happened in this book started in 1975 when I was a musician. When I had heard about what these guys were doing in Vegas, I thought it would make a fantastic story. One thing I always believe to be true is that these guys are part of our history. Like it or not, there isn’t a culture that hasn’t come to this country that didn’t have to do what they needed to do to survive as a family and as a culture. It’s part of our society. These things I heard about I knew it needed to be written about and that these people needed to be immortalized,

“Jon D’Amore on the Road.” When I was touring, I got to tell about being a musician on the road. I got to review albums, concerts. I got out of the music business in 1985 and I made it into the corporate world and by the 90s, I was traveling all over the country as a corporate executive doing presentations for large groups. I was in the insurance business but I never sold a life insurance policy in my life. After a decade in the corporate world, I was unhappy with what I was doing. I loved the people who were benefiting from what I did, but I’m not really a corporate guy.

RO: What made you decide to become a Californian? Did you have ties there?JD: My father had two cousins who had established themselves in the restaurant business in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the 1970s, so when I was a kid, we came out

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JD: There’s been a lot of interest. I wrote the screenplay and I have people contacting me wanting to talk business. We’re just waiting for the right person to get a $25 million movie made. That’s the budget of this project.

RO: How did you go from being a musician to a writer?JD: Because I had been taking guitar lessons since I was seven, by the time I was 14, I could read any kind of music chart put in front of me and that gave me impetus to write songs. I’m not saying any were blockbusters or hits, but I learned how to write lyrics that were good. In the Jersey club bands I played in, the songs I wrote were good for the time we were doing them. I always wrote to a degree, just not books or anything that was publishable until 1976. At the Herald News an editor found out I was a traveling musician and gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column called

because of what they were doing. These guys, and I say ‘these guys’ with love and respect, did amazing things when you think that none of them had a college degree, or even prior to 1970, a large number of them didn’t have a high school diploma and some of the things they did were worth writing about. I knew I always wanted to write this story but the timing wasn’t right. I needed to wait. There were loose ends that needed to resolved – people needed to be incarcerated or released.

RO: Weren’t you a bit nervous about naming names? JD: I changed the names of everyone except my family. Everybody who is still alive and who I am still in contact with, I told them that I wrote this story and they all ask the same question: ‘Who’s going to play me in the movie?’

RO: Have there been any movie offers?

con’t from pg. 2here to visit. I don’t remember this, but I was told that when I was just an infant the actor James Dean, who was a frequent customer of my cousin’s restaurant, picked me up and held me in his arms. Six weeks later he would be killed. I always had a connection out here and I always knew I would live here.

RO: You have several book signings scheduled including May 16th at the Secaucus Library. How does it feel to come back to your hometown a published author?JD: In all honesty, it’s a wonderful feeling to be able to go back. From first grade to eighth grade, I attended school in Union City and from ninth grade to high school graduation I went to Weehawken High School. (Back when I was living in Secaucus, there wasn’t a local high school and we went to Weehawken.) At the book signings, there will be people I haven’t seen since then. I was the guy who played all the high school dances. And you know whose footsteps I’m following? You know who else was famous from Secaucus who came before me? The Tidy Bowl Man, the guy who did all those Tidy Bowl commercials. That’s the guy I’m following.

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If you go:Jon D’Amore will read excerpts and sign copies of his new book “The Boss Always Sits in the Back” on the following dates in Hudson:

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Jersey City, NJ – The Central Avenue S.I.D. Man-agement Corporation is pleased to announce thatthis year a number of dance and cultural performances will take center stage to add an exciting new dynamic to the 5th Annual Everything Jersey City Festival on Saturday, May 19th, 2012. Performing at the festival will be the Haesun Jung Korean Traditional Dance Academy, Emerald Fire Dance,The Hope Center for the Per-forming Arts, 407 Moves from County Prep High School,

live theater performed by the Jersey City Children’s Theater, belly dancing, a mariachi band and even two fashionshows! The event is rain or shine and will run from 11 AM to 6 PM. Hosted by Central Avenue’s 220-plus businesses, The Everything Jersey City Festi-val is both a “thank you” and “welcome” to the thousands of neighbors and resi dents who decide to shop localeveryday. The event showcases the wide variety of goods andservices availabel right around

the corner on Central Avenue’s classic main street business district, and with dozens of One-Day Sales offeringbetween 10-50% off on select merchandise, Sidewalk Sales and special promotions, Central Avenue’s business owners encourage their neighbors to discover some of the approximately 80 newbusinesses that have opened since 2007 and revisit some of their favorite restaurants, stores, and other

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Mother’s Day and Its Time - Honored Traditions

By Maureen Wlodarczyk

Mother’s Day is here again, the day when we remember and honor the singular selflessness of the women who nurtured and loved us in our earliest days and formative years, whether they were our birth mothers, adoptive mothers or others like grandmoth-ers or aunts who filled that role. The idea for an annual Mother’s Day celebration originated with Philadel-phian Anna Jarvis who lost her own mother in 1905 and resolved to campaign for the establishment of a national day honoring the sacrifices and contributions of mothers. Her passion and tireless promotion of that idea gave rise to national and international interest and Mother’s Day was born soon after. In those early days, it was local churches like

Hudson County that em-braced the new Mother’s Day celebration and gave it a welcome home. At the time, Hudson County newspapers listed all the local Mother’s Day services along with essays, poems, quotations and new “tradi-tions” accompanying the commemoration includ-ing the wearing of a white carnation to show maternal devotion. What was sen-sitively, sensibly and elo-quently written then remains just as timely a century later

and is worth revisiting as we once again honor motherhood: “Mother’s Day is to be observed in sermon and song and the pastors will take for their topics the influence of motherhood. All who attend any of the services are asked to wear a white carnation to show their interest and devotion. Later in the day a commit-tee will take some of these flowers to a number of the sick and aged mothers that they too may have part in the observances of the day.

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representing purity; its form, beauty; its fragrance, love; its wide field of growth, charity. “You are asked to remember with flowers and comforts and a letter of cheer the shut-ins in homes, hospitals and prisons. Such remembrance may set the blood to tingling in the veins of those you may think have no heart and who may think you have none. “As to ways of observing the day outside of religious exercises, we are urged to honor our mothers by doing some distinct act of kind-ness and living on that day as our mother would have us do. “Millions of Americans will wear a white carna-tion in honor of one of the greatest forces for good that ever came into this sordid world – mother love. No pen can do justice to what mother love has meant to man through all the ages. Were the world tomorrow to go to chaos and despair, mother love would bring it back patiently to sanity and repentance. No sacrifice is too great for mother love to make freely and without complaint. For mother love is the one thing that time cannot change or wither. It is eternal.”

“Every day should be Mother’s Day. It is a big and beautiful thought, the setting aside of one day in the year when the mother shall hold court in her home or the tender memories of those who have died shall spring fresh into the minds and hearts of the sons and daughters left without her tender care. But, after all, that is only one day – how about the other 364? We are very prone, all of us, to forget the little courtesies and confidences that mean so much to the older folk. We are often intolerant of what we call their ‘old-fashioned’ ideas and it is not until the whole world sends ringing towards heaven its song of praise of all mothers that we stop and remember and add our voices to that vast chorus.

Every day should be Mother’s Day (and Father’s Day too) and every thrill of love that we feel as we bend over the cribs where our own little ones are sleeping should find an answering note of understanding of the love and patience which guarded our own youthful years.”

Happy Mother’s Day to all, and most especially to my mother, Arlene Reich Montanaro, and my aunt, May Reich, both Jersey City girls.

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Everything Jersey City Festival Cont’d from page 4 neighborhood fixtures. Organized by the CASID in partnership with Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, The City of Jersey City Municipal Council, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise and Board of Chosen Freeholders, The Everything Jersey City Festival is paid for in part by the Jersey City Urban Enterprise Program.Major sponsors include Amway, Bayonne Medical Center and Hoboken University Medical Center, and LibertyHealth. The Everything Jersey City Festival is a daylong, family-friendly street festival dedicated to celebrating all that the City of Jersey City and Central Avenue have to offer to residents, visitors and shoppers of all ages. Festival Committee Chair-man Michael Yun explains, “The Festival plants good, positive memories of their hometown in our children and helps strengthen the bonds of community pride and harmony.” In another first for the Everything Festival, Field Station: Dinosaurs will roar into Jersey City for two Jurassicly cool demonstrations during the festival. These life-sized animatronic dinosaurs are some of the largest ever created and they will stoke the imaginations of children and adults alike.

In all, more than forty different performances will take place between the Festival’s four stages.Headlined by Jersey City-native and Afrobeat maestro Chico Mann, and the Latin flavor will be strong with Festival favorites Rumba Con Son and Swing Sabroso both returning to spice up Central Avenue with their big band Latin sound. Famed Celtic band McLean Avenue will play their first Festival, along with up-and-coming Jersey rockers Outside the Box and Jersey City’s own The Audiobodies. Returnees include teenage pop-punk star Leah Le Grace, funksters Woodfish, and pop-punkers Go Falcon!. Jersey City-based singer-songwriter Christine Santelli, and Jersey City favorite’s, a-cappella group Choice, whose fresh takes on classic R&B will dovetail with the romantic, jazzy sounds of The Manhattan Dolls, who bring the classic music of the 1940s and 1950s to life again. Also bringing their creativity to the Festival will be a dozen Creative Grove artists, including organizer Uta Braüser of Fish with Braids Gallery.An annual event unlike any other in Jersey City, the Everything Jersey City Festival features ten blocks of family-friendly shopping, music, dance and entertainment. Among the over 200 vendors are many of Jersey City’s and Hudson County’s premier artists and artisans along with festival food specialists, and numerous local small businesses and community organizations.“This is the third year that the Jersey City Parks Coalition will be participating in Everything Jersey City Festival,” explains Heights resident and 2012 Pride and Har-mony Award Honoree Laura Skolar.“As a parks and open space advocacy organization the festival is a great opportunity for us to meet and connect with our neighbors from across the City.”For more information, performer schedules and a full list of the Everything Jersey City Festivalsponsors, supporters and performers visit JCHeights.com.

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By Sally Deering If Austin Powers was real and lived in Jersey City, VB3 Restaurant, Pizzeria and Bar would be his favor-ite place to eat, drink and Frug some totally groovy moves. It’s one of the coolest-looking restaurants in Hudson and the food and drinks are out of this world, baby! Entering VB3 in the Monaco building on Wash-ington Boulevard in down-town Jersey City, a visitor is greeted by the enticing aro-mas of pizzas baking in hot ovens. This is the VB3 Piz-zeria where office workers and neighborhood residents dash in for a slice or a pie; cold and hot subs; wraps; and seafood, meat and pasta dishes. VB3 held its Grand Opening this month and word is already

catching on – these are very serious pizza pies, well-crafted with fresh ingredients and a real chef’s touch. No waxy cheese pizza with cheap pep-peroni tossed carelessly on a dough soaked in tasteless tomato sauce. VB3 pizzas are individual works of art with all fresh ingredients and you can taste the dif-ference. On a recent visit, I tried the Wild Mushroom pizza topped with fresh wild mushrooms, mozza-rella, thyme and truffle, ($3 a slice; $19 for a large 16” pie) and it was a delicious and flavorful delight. Walking through the piz-zeria to V3B’s lounge and dining room and you enter a stylish and hip “I want to hang out here” atmosphere and the sexiest bar in Jersey City. That’s right.

It’s an eye-catching island of dark wood with a surface of “orange liquid lava”. Bar stools have bright-orange backs and black and white spotted seats on a dark wood frame. Tables and chairs surround the lounge’s perimeter and line the windows facing Washington Boulevard. Architect Axis and designer Reva Sloan did a spectacular job. No detail has been overlooked by owners Head Chef Michael Colletti, General Managers Giuseppi “Little Joe” Russo and Giuseppi “Big Joe” Russo; and business partners Gary Leff and Ricky Leff. This team put heart and soul into the place and it shows. Chef Colletti’s menu is Nuevo Italian with homage to his grandmother’s tradi-tional Italian recipes.

He brings those old-world flavors to a whole new level and his dishes are created with fresh ingredients from New Jersey farmers and neighborhood markets. Antipastos include Arancini, saffron rice balls stuffed with mozzarella and peas; Crispy Baby Calamari; Valley Shepherd’s Sheep’s Milk Ricotta with fava beans, mint and pine nuts; Roasted Eggplant Meat-balls; Scallops Crudo with radish, grapefruit, opal basil and crispy onions; Baby Pork Ribs; Long Island Mussels; Steamed Clams; Brick Oven Chicken Wings; and an Antipasto board

with a selection of salumeria biellese salumi, Italian cheeses and house cured olives. A selection of Pizzas include the Roasted Tomato with mozzarella di bufala, basil and extra virgin ol-ive oil; Pizza Bianco with ricotta, mozzarella and parmiagiano-reggiano cheeses, roasted garlic, extra virgin olive oil and parsley; Crispy Boneless Chicken; and Biellese Pepperoni with Bacio mozzarella, tomato sauce and fresh oregano. Meat and Seafood dishes feature Free Range Chicken

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with garlic, rosemary, house cured olives, lemon and potatoes; Hanger Steak with grilled asparagus, pepero-nata and salsa verde; Wild Salmon with ramps, mo-rels and peas; Pan-roasted Chatham Cod with as-paragus caponata and spicy prosciutto vinaigrette; and Scampi Prawns with garlic, white wine, basil and grilled lemon. A menu this fantastic can only be designed by a chef with chops and Chef Colletti has had a dynamite career and he’s still in his 20s. He attended the Culinary Education Center in Asbury Park and after graduation landed a job at Le Cirque and became Chef de Cuisine at Mai House. After five years in New York, Chef Colletti joined his friend and celebrity chef Spike Men-delsohn at the Sunnyside Group and helped him open Good Stuff Eatery in Wash-ington D.C. In 2010, Collet-ti and Mendelsohn appeared on TV’s Food Network in “Iron Chef” competing in “Battle Proscuitto” against world famous chef

Michael Symon. Chef Colletti also cooked for President Barack Obama and his staff at The White House. It won’t be long before VB3 becomes one of the hottest ‘go-to’ spots in Jersey City. Once word catches on about the fabulous food and hip atmosphere, people everywhere will want to eat, drink and be seen at VB3 – and that’s totally groovy, baby!

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