What does Seinfeld, Snooki, Joe Jonas, Big Brother, & the Olympics have in common with Staten Island?

Jerry Seinfeld will perform at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre on Nov. 1

 Yada, yada, yada — Jerry Seinfeld will perform at the St. George Theatre on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. as part of a five-borough tour of his signature stand-up comedy.

The tour marks the first time Seinfeld, a New York native, has performed full shows in New York since 1998, shortly after the final episode of his iconic television show.

Snooki signs new book at Staten Island Barnes & Noble

 Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi, one of the stars of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” signed copies of her new book, “Gorilla Beach,” on July 24 at Barnes & Noble in New Springville.

Though hard to believe, “Gorilla Beach” is Snooki’s third published fiction novel. It’s actually a follow-up to her first book, “A Shore Thing,” which details the escapades of Giovanna (Gia) Spumanti and her cousin, Isabella (Bella) Rizzoli, who party in Seaside Heights, N.J., consume large amounts of alcohol, and involve themselves in storylines not too different from those seen on “Jersey Shore.”

Joe Jonas visits Staten Island to pitch CW show and local up-and-comer

Pop singer Joe Jonas paid a visit to Staten Island Tuesday, apparently to scout talent for the new CW show “The Next,” in which Jonas, Nelly, Gloria Estefan, and John Rich each choose an up-and-coming artists to work with as mentors, from cities around the U.S.

Their hand-picked candidates, one per mentor per city, are ambushed by their soon-to-be leaders, get surprised with an offer to join the show, and remain under the stars’ tutelage for 72 hours before performing live onstage at a major city venue. 

The New York performance and show taping will be held tonight at the Paramount Theater in Huntington. Performers will be competing for a recording contract with Atlantic Records, with Jonas, Nelly, Estefan, and Rich as their judges.

‘Big Brother’ evicts JoJo Spatafora from the house

Big Brother evicted JoJo Spatafora and determined its third Head of Household during Thursday night’s broadcast of the fourteenth season’s second live eviction show.

JoJo, a 26-year-old bartender from Staten Island, NY, was evicted from the Big Brother house via a 5-1 vote after being placed on the chopping block by newbie houseguest Frank Eudy, the season’s second Head of Household. 

Marcus Browne’s boxing mission crystal clear at Summer Olympics

While Marcus Browne joined most of the United States contingent in participating in the pageantry of the opening ceremonies in London the other night, the 21-year-old Clifton resident and light heavyweight boxer will quickly need to focus on the task at hand if he’s to have a successful and lengthy run in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The brackets were drawn for the boxing tournament yesterday at ExCel, the venue that will host the bouts, and Browne’s first-round opponent is a hard one — 20-year-old Australian Damien Hooper, the second-ranked amateur light heavyweight in the world. The bout is Monday, at approximately 10:45 a.m. New York time. The boxing competition is being broadcast on CNBC and the NBS Sports Network (formerly Versus). It is unclear which channel will show the Browne fighht.

The Forgotten 5th: Five Stories making Staten Island Headlines: Snooki to appear, Lady Gaga Music Video, Wu-Tang & the Gap, Occupy Wall St. Cop disciplined, & S.I. Tech ranked #1 

1) Snooki is set to make an appearance at the Staten Island Mall on Saturday to pimp her new sunglasses line, but not everyone is pleased with it.  New York State Sen. Diane Savino and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who both represent Staten Island, issued a statement expressing their “disappointment” with the mall for scheduling Snooki’s appearance, according to a report from the Staten Island Advance.  “While we understand the notion that promotion is an essential part of business, especially during these tough economic times, we are dismayed by the message that this event sends to young women all over Staten Island and beyond,” the statement reads. “The actions set forth by Snooki in her reality show ‘Jersey Shore’ should be neither emulated nor celebrated.”

                                          

2) Staten Island Technical High School has been one of our borough’s top success stories. What it has accomplished during the past few years should have Staten Islanders beaming with pride.  But now, the students, faculty and administration at Staten Island Tech all deserve extra praise for being ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the best high school in New York City in the fields of science and mathematics.

3) NYPD Deputy Inspector and Staten Islander, Anthony Bologna, was disciplined Tuesday for pepper-spraying two female protesters in the notorious YouTube video seen around the world.  The NYPD found that Bologna violated departmental guidelines and docked him 10 vacation days, or the equivalent amount of pay, police sources said.

4) The jeans-and-tees emporium The Gap has paired up with musicians before but now the chain’s starting to return the favor for certain musicians and iconic people of note by placing them on t-shirts—and among those luminaries immortalized in 100% cotton form is none other than Staten Island’s own Wu-Tang Clan.


5) After multiple reports of Lady Gaga recently doing a photo-shoot on the Staten Island ferry, she returned to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center to film a music video for “Marry the Night,” MTV News has confirmed.  MTV News caught up with the CEO of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, where the video was shot on Monday, to get some details about the “Marry the Night” visuals. “We found both her and her crew to be easy to work with and low-key,” Lynn Kelly told us. “I think we would have expected a lot of drama, and the truth is, she is probably the most down-to-earth person. It was endearing. She was friendly and kind.”

THE FORGOTTEN 5TH - FIVE STORIES MAKING STATEN ISLAND HEADLINES With help from reality TV shows, the borough’s deteriorating image takes a personal toll STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island may not be the forgotten borough anymore — but some say its new reputation is even worse.  The borough’s national celebrities — the catty women married to career criminals on “Mob Wives” and the hard-partying beach bums of “Jersey Shore” — have sculpted an image of vacuous bubbleheads that Islanders say they confront regularly in social and workplace environments. READ MORE: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/with_help_from_reality_tv_show.html Meet the Original JWoww and Snooki  The first time Brianna and Gabriella DeBartoli made plans to meet for this article, they canceled on account of a hangover. “Hey so my sister is, um … detoxing?” Brianna wrote over Facebook that morning. “And can’t leave the house.” It was Mother’s Day. This is the sort of introduction you’d expect from two sisters first delivered to the world screaming, sobbing, slapping, carousing, clubbing, and cursing on Perez Hilton’s trash-culture site last fall. On October 6, 2010, the Queen of All Media posted an “Exclusive!” video of Bridge & Tunnel, a reality series about Staten Island kids for which MTV filmed 12 episodes, but execs inexplicably canceled a month before its long-incubated premiere. READ MORE: http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-07-27/news/mtv-bridge-tunnel-original-jersey-shore/ Tracy Morgan & Sugar Hill Gang perform on Staten Island After Tracey Morgan’s gay joke controversy, he still went on to headlin the infamous St. George Theater on August 6th while hip hop lovers headed to Tappen Park in Stapleton on August 2nd to see ‘The Sugar Hill Gang’ in a free concert, which was a part of the Summer Stage series in all five boroughs. Great Kills Little League wins NY State Title In the hierarchy of Little Leagues in the youth baseball hot-bed of Staten Island, Great Kills isn’t a powerhouse. South Shore Little League sent a team to the Little League World Series inWilliamsport, Pa., just two years ago and Mid-Island was there in 2006.  Great Kills is knocking on the door of immortality now, though.  Aftera wild, 6-5 comeback win over Fayetteville-Manlius on Monday, the 11- and 12-year-olds from Great Kills American were crowned New York State champions for the first time in the Little League’s 59-year history. Port Authority pulling a fast one with toll hikes for 3 Staten Island bridges The typical Staten Island driver will pay $12 for the privilege of using the Goethals and Bayonne bridges and the Outerbridge Crossing as soon as next month, if the Port Authority has its way. The whopping hike is part of a menu of breathtaking increases the cash-strapped bi-state agency announced yesterday for the three crossings. Tolls also would spike on the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and on the George Washington Bridge. Motorists with E-ZPass who cross onto the Island during peak hours — constituting the majority — would see the toll rise from $8 to $12. The tariff at other times would be $10, but the daily off-peak windows would narrow. Participants in the Staten Island bridges plan who make the requisite 20 monthly crossings using E-ZPass would pay $6, up from $4. But it’s those unfortunates who fork over cash who would absorb the biggest pasting, with an 87.5 percent hike, to $15. That toll would be one of the highest anywhere in the country *BONUS STORY* No love for Staten Island from Nike An all-white new leather series from Nike features embroidered outlines of each New York City “borough” they represent on the left heel and the name of the borough on the right and each has a different-color tongue label and laces. 

While there’s a “Queens” “Brooklyn” “Bronx” and “Harlem” version of the shoe, there’s no “Staten Island” version available. The hot shoes went on sale Friday at the Nike Sportswear store in Soho.

”Since when is Harlem a borough and why are there only four boroughs?” Assemblywoman, Nicole Malliotakis wondered.
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THE FORGOTTEN 5TH - FIVE STORIES MAKING STATEN ISLAND HEADLINES

With help from reality TV shows, the borough’s deteriorating image takes a personal toll

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island may not be the forgotten borough anymore — but some say its new reputation is even worse.  The borough’s national celebrities — the catty women married to career criminals on “Mob Wives” and the hard-partying beach bums of “Jersey Shore” — have sculpted an image of vacuous bubbleheads that Islanders say they confront regularly in social and workplace environments.

READ MORE:

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/with_help_from_reality_tv_show.html

Meet the Original JWoww and Snooki 

The first time Brianna and Gabriella DeBartoli made plans to meet for this article, they canceled on account of a hangover. “Hey so my sister is, um … detoxing?” Brianna wrote over Facebook that morning. “And can’t leave the house.” It was Mother’s Day.

This is the sort of introduction you’d expect from two sisters first delivered to the world screaming, sobbing, slapping, carousing, clubbing, and cursing on Perez Hilton’s trash-culture site last fall. On October 6, 2010, the Queen of All Media posted an “Exclusive!” video of Bridge & Tunnel, a reality series about Staten Island kids for which MTV filmed 12 episodes, but execs inexplicably canceled a month before its long-incubated premiere.

READ MORE:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-07-27/news/mtv-bridge-tunnel-original-jersey-shore/

Tracy Morgan & Sugar Hill Gang perform on Staten Island

After Tracey Morgan’s gay joke controversy, he still went on to headlin the infamous St. George Theater on August 6th while hip hop lovers headed to Tappen Park in Stapleton on August 2nd to see ‘The Sugar Hill Gang’ in a free concert, which was a part of the Summer Stage series in all five boroughs.

Great Kills Little League wins NY State Title

In the hierarchy of Little Leagues in the youth baseball hot-bed of Staten Island, Great Kills isn’t a powerhouse. South Shore Little League sent a team to the Little League World Series inWilliamsport, Pa., just two years ago and Mid-Island was there in 2006.  Great Kills is knocking on the door of immortality now, though.  Aftera wild, 6-5 comeback win over Fayetteville-Manlius on Monday, the 11- and 12-year-olds from Great Kills American were crowned New York State champions for the first time in the Little League’s 59-year history.

Port Authority pulling a fast one with toll hikes for 3 Staten Island bridges

The typical Staten Island driver will pay $12 for the privilege of using the Goethals and Bayonne bridges and the Outerbridge Crossing as soon as next month, if the Port Authority has its way. The whopping hike is part of a menu of breathtaking increases the cash-strapped bi-state agency announced yesterday for the three crossings. Tolls also would spike on the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and on the George Washington Bridge.

Motorists with E-ZPass who cross onto the Island during peak hours — constituting the majority — would see the toll rise from $8 to $12. The tariff at other times would be $10, but the daily off-peak windows would narrow.

Participants in the Staten Island bridges plan who make the requisite 20 monthly crossings using E-ZPass would pay $6, up from $4.

But it’s those unfortunates who fork over cash who would absorb the biggest pasting, with an 87.5 percent hike, to $15. That toll would be one of the highest anywhere in the country

*BONUS STORY*

No love for Staten Island from Nike

An all-white new leather series from Nike features embroidered outlines of each New York City “borough” they represent on the left heel and the name of the borough on the right and each has a different-color tongue label and laces. 

While there’s a “Queens” “Brooklyn” “Bronx” and “Harlem” version of the shoe, there’s no “Staten Island” version available. The hot shoes went on sale Friday at the Nike Sportswear store in Soho.

”Since when is Harlem a borough and why are there only four boroughs?” Assemblywoman, Nicole Malliotakis wondered.