Arts & Entertainment
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•November 8, 2024
Stafford’s Holiday Wonderland and Christmas Market Has an Addition This Year
Jason Hazelton and the crew in the Stafford Township Recreation Department all agree that Heritage Park is the right place for the annual Holiday Wonderland and Christmas Market, slated for Saturday…
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•November 8, 2024
Harvey Cedars Police Foundation Toy Drive
As the holiday season approaches, the Harvey Cedars Police Department and its nonprofit affiliate, the Harvey Cedars Police Foundation, will host their fourth annual “Fill A Patrol Car” toy drive.
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•November 8, 2024
Barnegat PBA Plans Toy Collection Drive
Barnegat Township PBA Local 296 will hold a toy drive Sunday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at American Legion Post No. 232 on Route 9 in Barnegat.
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•November 8, 2024
Beach Haven CAP Rings in the Holidays
On Saturday, Dec. 7, Beach Haven Community Arts will hold a holiday program and tree lighting ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Long Beach Island Historical Association Museum in the borough.
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•November 8, 2024
Barnegat Rotary Announces Holiday Activities
The Rotary Club of Barnegat is requesting monetary donations to be used for its annual Christmas Elf Program.
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•November 8, 2024
There’s a Full Stocking of Holiday Shows in the Area This December
The holiday season brings shopping and gifting, decorating, carol singing, big, sometimes huge, dinners, family gatherings, special church services and Masses, and parties. It also brings a spate of…
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•November 8, 2024
Barnegat Announces Tree Lighting, Decorations Contest
Barnegat Township rings in the holidays with special events at the Frederick Watts Gazebo Park on Saturday, Dec. 7 from noon to 5 p.m.
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•November 8, 2024
Seasonal Shows Light Up the Grunin Center for the Arts
’Tis the season to visit the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College for a stellar lineup of holiday shows. The month of December at the facility includes productions of “A…
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•November 8, 2024
Friends Seek Donations for Fall Bazaar
The Friends of the Stafford Library are seeking donations for a fall bazaar on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 22 and 23, in the lower level meeting room. Friday hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday…
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•November 8, 2024
Get in the Holiday Spirit at Tuckerton Seaport
The Tuckerton Seaport is the perfect place to enjoy the holidays while being surrounded by the history and culture of our area. There’s an abundance of festive family activities and attractions to…
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•November 8, 2024
Holiday Program Has International Flair
“Celebrate the Season Around the World” is a family-friendly get-together at the LBI Historical Association Museum in Beach Haven on Saturday, Nov. 30 from noon to 4 p.m.
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•November 8, 2024
Games Make for a Very Merry Holiday
The winter holidays are the most wonderful, and the busiest, time of the year. Amid the decorating, baking, shopping and wrapping, there’s always a gathering or two with family and friends – and what…
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•November 8, 2024
The Christmas Season Begins in August in the Philippines
It’s amazing how the English language can change. For example, the term GOAT now stands for Greatest Of All Time athletes such as Tom Brady. But it used to mean the cadet who finished last in his…
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•November 7, 2024
Local Troubadours Take Over Sold-Out Lizzie Rose
While the music world mourns two significant losses within 10 days – first, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and now composer, arranger, songwriter and producer Quincy Jones, who was a legendary…
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•November 7, 2024
Mural By Maritime Artist David Macomber Anchors Interior of Jetty Flagship Store
Stop into the Jetty flagship store on East Bay Avenue in downtown Manahawkin to see the latest mural by painter David Macomber, whose distinctive style is often characterized as “fun and playful”…
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•November 6, 2024
Ponder Mortality at Death Café
The next local meeting of Death Café, a gathering to eat cake, drink tea and discuss the taboo topic of death, is Monday, Nov. 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Barnegat Friends Meeting House on East Bay…
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•November 6, 2024
Library Sponsoring Toiletries Drive This Month
This holiday season, there’s a simple way to bring joy to children and teens in need throughout Ocean County. Be a part of the Ocean County Library’s Sparks B.F.F. Reading Club Fall Toiletries Drive…
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•November 6, 2024
Bring Tissues for Musical Production ‘Last Five Years’ at Forked River Presbyterian
“The Last Five Years,” a musical by Jason Robert Brown, will be revived on Broadway next spring, starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren.
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•November 6, 2024
Learn About Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Unwanted wetness is the worst. Attend a talk titled “Living With Pelvic Floor Dysfunction” with urogynecologist Dr. Laurie Kane that will cover bladder leaks, overactive bladder, pelvic floor…
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•November 6, 2024
Putt for Toys Tourney Joins Effort to Help Families at Christmas
For several decades, the Stafford Township recreation department and PBA Local 297 have partnered to deliver toys and other gifts to families in need during the Christmas season, and it’s become a…
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•November 6, 2024
Eat, Play, Have Fun at Surf City Firehouse
Game day isn’t reserved just for the weekends. Or for football fans. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the Women’s Auxiliary of the Surf City Volunteer Fire Co. and EMS is turning the term upside down and hosting…
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•November 6, 2024
‘Assisted Living: The Musical’ Is So Nice Grunin Center Is Presenting It Twice
Ocean County College’s Grunin Center for the Arts will be hosting “Assisted Living: The Musical” at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10.
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•November 6, 2024
El Salvador Refugee Gives Virtual Talk
The chance to reunite with his parents after years of painful separation brought 9-year-old Javier Zamora 3,000 miles from El Salvador to the Unites States, with perils that defied his imagination…
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•November 6, 2024
Stafford Township Arts Center Hosting Beach Boys Tribute Band
Fans of The Beach Boys will have fun, fun, fun ’til their daddies take their T-birds away starting at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9 at the Stafford Township Arts Center.
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•October 31, 2024
I Love You Like Food, Says Painter-Author in New Art Book for All
They say the way to a human heart is through the stomach, and prolific painter Dawn McDonnell of Manahawkin has published a book to prove it, with a dozen pairings of artwork and poetic prose, titled…
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•October 31, 2024
Learn Something New in November at Tuckerton Seaport
As the cooler months settle in and shore locals find more time on their hands, the Tuckerton Seaport offers a multitude of opportunities to keep busy learning something new, all while staying…
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•October 31, 2024
As It Cools Down Outside, Warm Up at Lizzie Rose
The cold of fall is beginning to settle in, but the Lizzie Rose Music Room in Tuckerton is heating up with a diverse, fiery November lineup. In fact, most of November’s scheduled shows are nearing…
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•October 31, 2024
Three Comics Will Talk About Marriage, Being Single and Babies at Surflight
Surflight Theatre will be hosting a special Comedy Night fundraiser benefiting the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Co. at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9.
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•October 30, 2024
A Neil Diamond Tribute and a Patriotic Symphony Concert at Stockton
The Stockton University Performing Arts Center will soon be hosting two musical acts, “The Neil Diamond Experience” and a special Veterans Day concert by the Bay Atlantic Symphony.
