David Menzies

Jan 15, 2025 | nj.com | David Menzies

Mario Benitez is the comedian behind the multifaceted podcast “Saturday Gigantic.” The New York City native (via the upper west side) will be hosting the latest of the Frog Boyz Presents shows over in his hometown Saturday Jan. 18, with the Frog Boyz themselves -- Bergen County natives Jesse VandenBergh (and West New York resident) Sean Newman -- part of Sketch Team 6, along with standup from comedians Katie Boyle and Nat Townsend.

Jan 13, 2025 | icas.com | David Menzies

Lord Braid has granted a backdated administration order against a company operating care homes after it was discovered that the previous administration had been extended invalidly. This is the second opinion issued by Lord Braid in recent weeks connected with extended administrations, and both have involved issues concerning notices given to creditors.

Jan 8, 2025 | nj.com | David Menzies

Jersey City rapper IllPadill’s latest album, “The 48 Laws of PowderHh,” finds the underground rapper in coke-rap territory. Hip hop is a complicated genre, with many sub-genres people come to for different reasons. Coke-rap reflects capitalism at its most contradictory.

Dec 23, 2024 | nj.com | David Menzies

The culmination of the annual Chieffo Family Toy Drive didn’t attract the odd news camera the way it usually does, not with drone sightings being all the rage, but in Nutley, Mike Chieffo’s event attracted many residents on their street and people from all over Essex County. Having a Malcolm X Shabazz High School Band performance was just one reason to show up.

Dec 18, 2024 | nj.com | David Menzies

Nelson Morales, AKA Constant Flow, is a big reader of history. It’s one of the ways he tries to make sense of a world that as of late feels, he says, like it’s hard to pin down where the ground is beneath his feet. On the album cover of “Surus,” his fourth album released this year, Morales is pictured looking at a stuffed elephant discarded somewhere in the Palisades of Jersey City; in that elephant, he saw something that resonated deeply for him.