Person-to-Person
Jersey
City’s
VAL EMMICH
Multi-talented artist engulfs himself in the arts
ou may know Val
Emmich as an actor,
I live in the
musician or even
a writer, and this
Heights section
Jersey City husband
of Jersey City.
and father is “proud
My two main local hangs are
and lucky to still be able to have
Modcup (excellent coffee)
a career making various forms of
and Fox & Crow (a bar
Downtown
art,” he says.
that serves top-notch burgers
“I used to try to keep all my
there are
interests separate. For example,
and has a swanky back lounge
great
when I was first coming up in
for live music).”
restaurants
like
Porta,
the music world in the late ’90s
Orale and Razza.
and early aughts, actors with
Mainly, though, I’m a
bands weren’t taken seriously, so
homebody. Cooking,
I passed on a lot of acting opportunities.
Now that stigma has gone away and I’m
watching TV, reading
older, I realized I was missing out,” he
and writing are my
says. “I sort of celebrate being a hyphenmain pastimes.”
ated person. I try to do whatever feels
organic at the time and that keeps life
interesting.”
And what could be more interesting
With