Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Asbury Park Dance Festival, which will bring world-renowned companies, choreographers and dancers from the stages of Lincoln Center, Broadway, the Kennedy Center, Paris Opera, the Met and beyond, all in support of Arts Ed NJ. The event will take place on September 14 at the House of […]

The Nicholson Foundation has awarded the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey [VNACJ] a grant to expand mental health services at the community health center on Main Street. The $225,000 award adds the integrated behavioral health intervention model known as Cherokee Health Systems [CHS] to the center’s list of services, which includes dental, prenatal care, […]

At 7:30 a.m. Friday, Asbury Park will see the doors of Dino’s on Main Marketplace open for the first time. The market will offer mostly Italian items like fresh homemade ravioli, mozzarella, gravies, brick oven pizzas and preserves—but shop owner Dino LaSasso [shown above] loves food so much, he doesn’t want to be limited to only […]

Main Street restaurant Cotija Latin Flavors will hold its last dinner service on Saturday before restaurant owner Arturo Montoya  [shown above] will shut the doors and look for a new Asbury Park location. Turns out Montoya, 33, an Asbury Park transplant by way of Columbia, Belmar, Jersey City, Miami and Neptune couldn’t come to agreeable […]