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04 July 2012
07 September 2011
27 July 2011
Raffle Auction - a much better title
*UPDATE* - This whole shebang is being held at Langosta Lounge and NOT moving to Porta National Park like the poster says. Don't forget - festivities begin at 6. Hope to see you there!
My friend Patrick is part of a team who are going to stand-up paddle the 26.5 miles around the island of Manhattan August 12th.
August 3rd there is a fundraising event at Langosta Lounge in Asbury Park. I'm posting this info on my blog in the hopes that you will decide to donate to Patrick and help raise money for a good cause.
Like the flyer says, the auction has some great prizes including a 30-minute massage by me!
Come down and check out the event - have fun while embracing your inner do-gooder with minimal effort! See you there!
My friend Patrick is part of a team who are going to stand-up paddle the 26.5 miles around the island of Manhattan August 12th.
August 3rd there is a fundraising event at Langosta Lounge in Asbury Park. I'm posting this info on my blog in the hopes that you will decide to donate to Patrick and help raise money for a good cause.
Like the flyer says, the auction has some great prizes including a 30-minute massage by me!
Come down and check out the event - have fun while embracing your inner do-gooder with minimal effort! See you there!
09 December 2009
Holiday Art Show & Party @ Parlor Gallery
I'm showing some photos at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park...
I'm not sure I'm able to make the opening, but if you get a chance to stop at the gallery, please do check out my work (and the work of all the other artists).
These are the pieces...
I'm not sure I'm able to make the opening, but if you get a chance to stop at the gallery, please do check out my work (and the work of all the other artists).
These are the pieces...
12 October 2009
29 April 2009
It's finally warm enough to fire up the grill!
Last weekend, the 25th and 26th of April, had unseasonably warm, Summer-like temperatures. It was kind of crazy how it went from barely Spring straight into weather you'd find in mid-July.
Saturday the 25th we and a bunch of friends went to see Thomas Campbell's "The Present" at the Paramount Theatre. It's one of the best surf movies I've seen in a long time and our friend Jon wrote a nice piece about it on his expn blog.
After the movie a few of us went back to our house and had the first official BBQ of the season. Jon cooked up a bunch of veggie burgers and tofu dogs, I cracked open a bottle of Vino Verde for me and Dana and we sat around on beach chairs laughing and having a good time.
I love warm weather.
Saturday the 25th we and a bunch of friends went to see Thomas Campbell's "The Present" at the Paramount Theatre. It's one of the best surf movies I've seen in a long time and our friend Jon wrote a nice piece about it on his expn blog.
After the movie a few of us went back to our house and had the first official BBQ of the season. Jon cooked up a bunch of veggie burgers and tofu dogs, I cracked open a bottle of Vino Verde for me and Dana and we sat around on beach chairs laughing and having a good time.
I love warm weather.
12 February 2009
hooies
Tini Flowers - handmade with love in Asbury Park.
Flower and feather hair accessories - including hair ties, clips and barrettes.
New Spring 2009 Collections of Hooies by Tini Flowers.
More images and hopefully a website to come soon.
Flower and feather hair accessories - including hair ties, clips and barrettes.
New Spring 2009 Collections of Hooies by Tini Flowers.
More images and hopefully a website to come soon.
09 February 2009
A bit of my Saturday night
In an earlier post I mentioned that Parlor Gallery, formerly known as Crybaby, was having an opening - here are a few images from Saturday evening's festivities.
I caught Jenny going outside for a smoke... Bad Jenny.
I caught Jenny going outside for a smoke... Bad Jenny.
07 February 2009
Another way to look at it
Sunday, 1 February 2009 - out walking on a sunny Sunday... A 55-degree respite from the bone-chilling, cold Dirty Jersey winter we've been having.
06 February 2009
Rejuvenation
What was once called Crybaby Art Gallery has been reborn.
It will now be known as Parlor Gallery.
You may find Parlor Gallery at 717 Cookman Avenue - Asbury Park, NJ 07712.
In celebration of their regeneration and transformation there is an opening this Saturday, 7 February 2009, from 7 to 11pm for the show GLAMOUR BOMB.
The show features work by the following artists:
Alessandra Exposito
Adam Wallacavage
Suzanne Rader
Peter Mixzuk
Rebecka Sexton
Robert Melee
Matt Okpych
Andy Pawlan
Jeff Schaller
Brad Hoffer
Don Harger
Porkchop
Jeff Hand
Niagara
Jill Ricci
Please come out and support your local artists and art patrons.
It will now be known as Parlor Gallery.
You may find Parlor Gallery at 717 Cookman Avenue - Asbury Park, NJ 07712.
In celebration of their regeneration and transformation there is an opening this Saturday, 7 February 2009, from 7 to 11pm for the show GLAMOUR BOMB.
The show features work by the following artists:
Alessandra Exposito
Adam Wallacavage
Suzanne Rader
Peter Mixzuk
Rebecka Sexton
Robert Melee
Matt Okpych
Andy Pawlan
Jeff Schaller
Brad Hoffer
Don Harger
Porkchop
Jeff Hand
Niagara
Jill Ricci
Please come out and support your local artists and art patrons.
28 January 2009
21 July 2008
catchin' a feature or two
Sunday evening we went to the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park to see two surf films - Bustin' Down the Door and Surfwise, hosted by the Jersey Shore Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
Even cooler was, Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew and Shaun Tomson, two of the stars of the first movie, Bustin' Down the Door, were there to introduce the film and then do a post-feature Q+A. (I even got Rabbit to sign our copy of his book - he seemed pretty chuffed that we owned and read it!)
Rabbit and Shaun had a HUGE impact and blazed THE trail to what is known today as professional surfing. It's really quite incredible when you think about what they did. Even if you're not a surfer or into surfing, it's still a compelling movie to watch from an historical and cultural stand point.
Surfwise is an interesting film about the Paskowitz family, headed by Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz and the family's VERY unconventional way of living. The entire family, all 11 of them (yes, you read that correctly 11) lived and traveled in a 24-foot camper. The film chronicles what it was like growing up in America in the 60s and 70s in such a unique way. To quote the movie's site, "The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn’t run out of frontiersman."
Here are the trailers to both movies, so you can judge for yourself.
BUSTIN' DOWN THE DOOR
SURFWISE
Even cooler was, Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew and Shaun Tomson, two of the stars of the first movie, Bustin' Down the Door, were there to introduce the film and then do a post-feature Q+A. (I even got Rabbit to sign our copy of his book - he seemed pretty chuffed that we owned and read it!)
Rabbit and Shaun had a HUGE impact and blazed THE trail to what is known today as professional surfing. It's really quite incredible when you think about what they did. Even if you're not a surfer or into surfing, it's still a compelling movie to watch from an historical and cultural stand point.
Surfwise is an interesting film about the Paskowitz family, headed by Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz and the family's VERY unconventional way of living. The entire family, all 11 of them (yes, you read that correctly 11) lived and traveled in a 24-foot camper. The film chronicles what it was like growing up in America in the 60s and 70s in such a unique way. To quote the movie's site, "The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn’t run out of frontiersman."
Here are the trailers to both movies, so you can judge for yourself.
BUSTIN' DOWN THE DOOR
SURFWISE
07 July 2008
r.i.p.
I meant to post about this the other day. I'm a little slow on the up-take, what can I say?
The Asbury Park fortune teller, Madam Marie, who became a figure of rock ’n’ roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, died on Friday (27 June 2008).
Madame Marie is pictured here, in a 2004 Asbury Park Press File Photo, waiting for a client at her boardwalk Temple of Knowledge.
Her obit, courtesy of the Asbury Park Press:
July 2, 2008
Madam Marie, 93, passes away
Made famous by Springsteen
By MICHAEL RILEY
STAFF WRITER
It was one line from a Bruce Springsteen song that made the boardwalk fortuneteller world famous. And now, Madam Marie has passed away.
Marie Castello, who had told fortunes since the 1930s and became famous for her presence and predictions on the Asbury Park boardwalk, died Friday, her great-granddaughter, Sally Castello said Tuesday. Family members attended morning services Tuesday, Castello said.
She was such a part of the Asbury Park boardwalk; she was the longest-running tenant, according to Gary Mottola, president of investments for developer Madison Marquette, the lead partner in a joint venture with Asbury Partners to restore or rebuild the boardwalk's entertainment buildings.
"She's an Asbury Park tradition," Mottola said. "We felt that honoring her by lowering the Convention Hall flag to half-staff is the right thing to do."
The psychic reader and adviser was 93. She became known worldwide from Bruce Springsteen's homage to her in his 1973 song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)":
"Did you hear the cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do."
"That was just The Boss," said Asbury Park Deputy Mayor Jim Bruno. "She was never arrested. But Springsteen turned her into an icon."
Bruno remembers his own run-in with the psychic.
"I was a 12-year-old kid. And I don't remember what I was doing, but I remember her chasing me away from her shack," he said. "Her death is a real loss."
It also was somewhat unexpected.
"She really wasn't sick. She just wasn't feeling well," Castello said. "She was very, very strong until the day she died."
Madam Marie bragged that she had told the fortunes of everyone from Judy Garland to Springsteen himself. Legend has it that she told Springsteen he was going to be a success. Springsteen later joked that she told all the musicians that.
Springsteen, though, never forgot Madam Marie.
"He always comes by to say hello," she told Asbury Park Press columnist Bill Handleman in May. "He knows where he came from."
Marie Castello closed down her regular seer operations on the boardwalk in the mid-1990s after a drop-off in business. She continued telling fortunes in Ocean Township.
However, Sally Castello is one of the family members who still does readings at the Madam Marie booth not far from Convention Hall on the boardwalk.
"The booth will always be there," Marie Castello told Handleman. "The Temple of Knowledge, that's a landmark, that's nostalgia. They'll never tear it down."
In that interview, she also said she saw better times ahead for Asbury Park.
And she would know. As she told Handleman: "I've seen it all."
Maybe she did.
Gary Froonjian, a former Middletown resident who moved to Florida but is operating a mobile espresso bar on the boardwalk this summer, sought her services once.
"After a fun night at the Stone Pony, I staggered in there one time," Froonjian recalled.
"I can't remember what she told me. It had to be 28 years ago," he said. But he added that he found the experience "very, very eerie."
The Asbury Park fortune teller, Madam Marie, who became a figure of rock ’n’ roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, died on Friday (27 June 2008).
Madame Marie is pictured here, in a 2004 Asbury Park Press File Photo, waiting for a client at her boardwalk Temple of Knowledge.
Her obit, courtesy of the Asbury Park Press:
July 2, 2008
Madam Marie, 93, passes away
Made famous by Springsteen
By MICHAEL RILEY
STAFF WRITER
It was one line from a Bruce Springsteen song that made the boardwalk fortuneteller world famous. And now, Madam Marie has passed away.
Marie Castello, who had told fortunes since the 1930s and became famous for her presence and predictions on the Asbury Park boardwalk, died Friday, her great-granddaughter, Sally Castello said Tuesday. Family members attended morning services Tuesday, Castello said.
She was such a part of the Asbury Park boardwalk; she was the longest-running tenant, according to Gary Mottola, president of investments for developer Madison Marquette, the lead partner in a joint venture with Asbury Partners to restore or rebuild the boardwalk's entertainment buildings.
"She's an Asbury Park tradition," Mottola said. "We felt that honoring her by lowering the Convention Hall flag to half-staff is the right thing to do."
The psychic reader and adviser was 93. She became known worldwide from Bruce Springsteen's homage to her in his 1973 song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)":
"Did you hear the cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do."
"That was just The Boss," said Asbury Park Deputy Mayor Jim Bruno. "She was never arrested. But Springsteen turned her into an icon."
Bruno remembers his own run-in with the psychic.
"I was a 12-year-old kid. And I don't remember what I was doing, but I remember her chasing me away from her shack," he said. "Her death is a real loss."
It also was somewhat unexpected.
"She really wasn't sick. She just wasn't feeling well," Castello said. "She was very, very strong until the day she died."
Madam Marie bragged that she had told the fortunes of everyone from Judy Garland to Springsteen himself. Legend has it that she told Springsteen he was going to be a success. Springsteen later joked that she told all the musicians that.
Springsteen, though, never forgot Madam Marie.
"He always comes by to say hello," she told Asbury Park Press columnist Bill Handleman in May. "He knows where he came from."
Marie Castello closed down her regular seer operations on the boardwalk in the mid-1990s after a drop-off in business. She continued telling fortunes in Ocean Township.
However, Sally Castello is one of the family members who still does readings at the Madam Marie booth not far from Convention Hall on the boardwalk.
"The booth will always be there," Marie Castello told Handleman. "The Temple of Knowledge, that's a landmark, that's nostalgia. They'll never tear it down."
In that interview, she also said she saw better times ahead for Asbury Park.
And she would know. As she told Handleman: "I've seen it all."
Maybe she did.
Gary Froonjian, a former Middletown resident who moved to Florida but is operating a mobile espresso bar on the boardwalk this summer, sought her services once.
"After a fun night at the Stone Pony, I staggered in there one time," Froonjian recalled.
"I can't remember what she told me. It had to be 28 years ago," he said. But he added that he found the experience "very, very eerie."
16 April 2008
a little something of my own for a change
Obviously I haven't posted anything of my own in a while... So here's a photo I like. It's Youth Brigade at the Lanes, late last year.
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