From a surprise performance from Bruce Springsteen with Southern California’s Social Distortion to an intimate meet and greet with Jack Johnson at Danny Clinch Transparent gallery and Blondie’s power packed performance, the inaugural Sea.Hear.Now festival brought Asbury Park to capacity, in more ways than one. “I’ve got to share this with my dad,” one concert […]

TEDxAsburyPark Open Mic returns next month on the historic Paramount Theatre stage, located at 1200 Ocean Ave. Now in its sixth year, the open call invites anyone with a good idea worth spreading to share their stories, via a five-minute talk, slideshow, rant, comedy routine, song, dance, experience, or performance art. This year’s theme will […]

A call to creatives with a story to tell or an idea worth spreading is now open. Applications are being accepted for the Sixth Annual TEDxAsburyPark conference, returning May 19 at the Paramount Theatre on the Asbury Park Boardwalk. This year, the theme is passion. “Passion grows directly from our audience, speakers, ideas, and organizers,” […]

A 53 foot double-expandable trailer that houses a museum-like display of notable Jersey natives is en route to the boardwalk outside of Convention Hall. On Friday and Saturday, the Asbury Park boardwalk will host the “mobile museum” [photo at right] — an extension of The New Jersey Hall of Fame [NJHOF] —  as it kicks […]

The future of the three surface parking lots in the city’s waterfront redevelopment area should be determined by the next city council meeting on April 17, city manager Terence Reidy said at last night’s meeting. “I don’t know what the exact final plan is going to be,” Reidy said, “but [it will incorporate] the type […]

Boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette may shut down Convention Hall if it cannot continue its use of three surface parking lots in the city’s waterfront redevelopment area, said Gary Mottola, president of property investments for the group, yesterday. Madison Marquette is asking the city to acquiesce to several requests in order for the redeveloper to continue […]

Picking up where they left off before Hurricane Sandy, Tim McLoone and his band “The Shirleys” reopened McLoone’s Supper Club Saturday night with the last two songs they played before the October 29 storm shut down the Asbury Park boardwalk. “So where were we?” joked McLoone [at top] as he sat down at the piano […]

The boardwalk restaurants that remain closed — Stella Marina, Cubacan and Langosta Lounge — can reopen in January when all storm-related repairs will be complete, according to Gary Mottola, president of investments for boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette. There was thought of rushing to finish the work before the end of the year, said Mottola [above […]

Despite the ferocity of Hurricane Sandy, the restaurants and businesses on the Asbury Park boardwalk can reopen next month — depending on the availability of replacement parts to fix electric systems damaged by the storm. That’s the assessment of Gary Mottola, president of investments for Madison Marquette, the boardwalk redeveloper. “All in all, we fared […]