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“Hoboken Talks”: Meet Diane Stiglich, artist, author and home decor maven
August 10, 2021 @ 12:00 am
The Hoboken Museum is now offering a weekly live-streamed program, “Hoboken Talks,” featuring interesting personalities, on Thursdays at 7 pm. Viewers are encouraged to chime in with comments on YouTube and Facebook.
On August 12, “Hoboken Talks” welcomes Diane Stiglich, long-time Hoboken resident and proprietor of Luna Rosa, the home decor shop at 1218 Washington Street [check out her style sensibility on Instagram]. Stiglich is also an accomplished artist who has opened her studio on the annual Artists Studio Tour in years past, and is a devoted practitioner of the martial arts. She published a book in 2016, “Have You Seen CindySleigh?” (Poets Wear Prada). Learn more about her artwork at dianemstiglichartist.com.
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Past episodes may be replayed any time on YouTube. Recent guests have included Steve Zane, chair of the Hoboken Historical Commission; popular children’s entertainer, Ron “Polka Dot” Albanese; landscape business owner and former Museum Board President Valerie Hufnagel; Father Vinny Fortunato of St. Ann’s Church; artist, teacher and community activist Liz Cohen Ndoye; artist Lou Carbone; actor Douglas Taurel; restaurateur Dave Carney; NJ poets Joel Lewis and Danny Shot; Bob Drasheff, who served the City of Hoboken in various roles over 25 years under five separate administrations; The Little Grocery owner, Neamet Elsayed, who came to the U.S. from Egypt as a professional soccer player and became a sought-after chef and restaurateur; Todd Abramson, music DJ, talent booker and former co-owner of the legendary Maxwell’s nightclub at 11th and Washington; Bill “Mr. Ocean Liner” Miller, who shared his love of Hoboken, teaching at Hoboken High School, and his vast knowledge of the glory days of ocean liner travel; former Trustee, historic preservation activist and gardening enthusiast Terry Pranses; poet Roxanne Hoffman, who runs the literary press “Poets Wear Prada”; former Hoboken Museum educator Maria Lara; Lisa Rigoux-Hoppe, who just celebrated 20 years of working in the development office at Stevens Institute of Technology; and entrepreneur and fourth generation Hoboken businessman, Greg Dell’Aquila, owner of the Mission 50 coworking space.
Our first guest was Mark Singleton, realtor and active volunteer in local nonprofits such as the Hoboken Shelter, interviewed by Museum Collections Manager Rand Hoppe, who also serves on the Shelter’s board. Other guests have included 1970s Hoboken photographer John Conn; poet Danny Shot, who organizes cultural events across multiple art forms; often with another guest, artist and gallerist Issa Sow; photographer Chris Lopez, who spoke with Bob Foster about a project to document the arson waves that shook Hoboken in the 1980s; and Stevens Institute archivist Leah Loscutoff, who spoke about Hoboken’s founding family, the Stevens.
The variety of guests’ experience says a lot about Hoboken’s diversity: journalist and social media maven Victoria Moyeno is a fourth-generation Hobokenite who spoke about her vivid memories of growing up in a large family in Hoboken. Contemporary local rock ‘n’ roller Karyn Kuhl was interviewed by writer, bon vivant and volunteer extraordinaire, Jack Silbert; and Rand Hoppe interviewed Lois Dilivio about their experience producing literary art zines about Hoboken’s thriving art scene in the 1980s-90s.