One week from today, the Kula Café will celebrate its first anniversary operating out of Asbury Park’s Springwood Center. Anniversary festivities include an open house featuring top New Jersey jazzmen from 4 to 6 p.m. followed by the spring start-up of Thursday night live blues from 7 to 10 p.m, according to a news release from café […]

Thursday night, Feb. 6, marks the last time Al Holmes and the Tribe will play Kula Café’s “Deep Blue Blues Night” before the band takes its winter break, according to a release from the café owners. Since last summer, front man and guitarist Holmes has played beside bassist Gene Boccia and drummer Al Johnson [shown above] […]

The second annual silent charity auction for Interfaith Neighbors’ Kula Café takes place this evening from 7 to 11 p.m. at the 709 restaurant in Point Pleasant Beach Al Holmes and the Tribe will shift their Thursday night “deep blue blues” set, which usually takes place at the Café, over to the Point Beach restaurant for […]

The Business Development Center [BDC] will host a series workshops aimed to get business owners better grounded in the ever-expanding world of internet technology beginning this month at the Kula Café. The BDC is headquartered in the Springwood Center and is owned by Interfaith Neighbors. The center provides training to the area’s prospective entrepreneurs in the form […]

The sounds of deep blues music have returned to the west side of Asbury Park, once the city’s stronghold of influential blues, soul and jazz music. Kula Café, located in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue and owned by Interfaith Neighbors, now hosts “Deep Blue Blues Night” on the first and third Thursdays of each month. […]

Kula Café has successfully graduated and placed their first group of students in Asbury Park restaurants. Situated in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue, the restaurant is both a community café and a job training program. Local youth who face “profound obstacles to employment,” like lack of education and having children of their own, are […]

Interfaith Neighbors will host a job fair Wednesday morning at the Kula Café at the Springwood Center [above] from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The fair is for local residents interested in applying for a crew member position with waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial’s summer experience team, according to an email from Tiffany Miller, a spokesperson […]

A new community restaurant is opening on Monday and the general public is invited to partake in the festivities. Kula Café will offer food at low prices [including pork sliders, pictured at right] and serve as a training ground for unemployed and underemployed adults. The participants will learn how to work in the restaurant industry, […]