Comedian Mike Marino will return to Surflight Theatre on Sunday, Aug. 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and may be purchased online at surflight.org, by phone at 609-492-9477, or at the box office, located at 201 Engleside Ave. in Beach Haven.

Now, New Jersey’s official state food is the northern highbush blueberry. Its official state flower, bird, tree, bug, animal, fish, reptile and microbe – yes, microbe – are respectively the violet, eastern goldfinch, red oak, honeybee, horse, brook trout, bog turtle and streptomyces griseus.

Yes, the Garden State, like most states, has an official just about everything.