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I don’t know about you, but this time of year always leaves me a bit torn. On one hand, there’s the temptation to resist the commercialization of another greeting card holiday. On the other, there’s a sweetness in all the little excuses to show a little extra love—to ourselves, our families, our friends, and our communities.
Do we head out for a romantic dinner or stay in for a cozy night of comfort food and conversation? Do we buy a card or write a heartfelt note? For me, the answer is usually somewhere in between—finding the balance between meaningful gestures and simple acts of affection. We all arrive at different answers based on our personalities, but what’s common to us all is the chance to show the people around us that we care.
And this February, we’re inviting you to take that love one step further—by loving local . It’s not just about supporting local businesses, although that’s a big part of it. It’s about appreciating what’s near, what’s familiar, what’s right in front of us. Whether it’s the neighbor you haven’t seen in a while or the local shop that makes your community feel like home, there’s a lot to celebrate.
As we shift from the cold, quiet days of January to the anticipation of spring, we hope this issue inspires you to take a moment to connect—with those you share a home with, the friends nearby, and the local businesses that make your community thrive.
“Love Local” isn’t just a catchy slogan—it’s a reminder that sometimes the most meaningful connections are right where we live. So why not grab a cup of coffee at Offshore then head home for a cozy game night with the family? Or perhaps pick up a bottle of wine and some cheese, and enjoy a laid-back movie night in your own living room.
It’s easy to get caught up in the rush of life, but we believe there’s something truly special about taking time to appreciate what’s around us. This month’s issue is full of stories that celebrate the heart of our community, from local businesses to the people who make it all happen.
Our hope is that you’ll find inspiration here to love your local community just a little bit more this month—and carry that love with you all year long.
Happy February!
February 2025
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inside the issue
Departments
A Labor Of Love
For Maggie Fischer, home is where the art
A Way With Words
Robert Pinsky’s love of language has taken the Long Branch native to literary heights Brushing Up On Her Skills
Get to know up-and-coming artist Rayane Moura Oliveira
Singer-songwriter
Maggie Fischer, Long Branch’s Arts Director, kicks her feet up while relaxing in a chaisestyle shopping cart chair designed by artist Roddy Wildeman in front of a piece of art made by Lisa Bagwell from debris found on beaches.
Andrea Phox
Labor of Love
For Maggie Fischer, home - the Jersey Shoreis where the art is
ARTICLE BY BERNIE AUGUSTINE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREA PHOX AND LONG BRANCH ARTS CENTER
A seagull, made by Lisa Bagwell from debris found on the beach, is featured in the 'Upcycled' show
On a bitingly cold December morning, with sun shining through the two-story windows of the old bank on Broadway, the warmth radiated from the walls of the Long Branch Arts and Cultural Center in the form of winter scenes created by local kids from pre-K through elementary school. There were snowmen, Santas, evergreens and more.
Maggie Fischer, Long Branch's Arts Director, kicks her feet up while relaxing in a chaisestyle shopping cart chair designed by artist Roddy Wildeman in front of ‘Upcycled’ art made by Lisa Bagwell.
“It looks like a refrigerator,” Maggie Fischer said, perfectly describing the room dotted with artwork from children of all ages, and from all corners of the city. “It’s adorable.”
“Even if it’s scribbles from a 4-year-old, that still looks interesting to me. I like that.”
Fischer exudes an infectious enthusiasm for the art on the walls that she is tasked with adorning. There is genuine appreciation in her voice when she speaks of the collections inside 577 Broadway, where, as the city’s arts director, she discovers, amplifies and celebrates art from amateurs and professionals alike.
“I think the mayor (John Pallone) and everyone in administration in the city has a passion for the arts and wants to see arts flourish here,” Fischer said when describing the mission she is a part of.
Exhibits at the Art Center will often weave art and local history together
“Our neighbors have established art scenes already and people go there for art shows and music events. Long Branch does have that, but we want to have more of it. To be a destination where art lovers come, that’s the goal.”
Achieving that goal is a labor of love, so to speak, for Fischer. An Oakhurst native, she studied fine art at Marymount Manhattan. Following a one-year post-grad detour to Columbus, Ohio – she helped develop school arts programs for AmericaCorps while she was there – Fischer returned home. “You know, when you grow up here, it’s hard to leave here,” she said of the Jersey Shore, which is where she worked on her own art, and taught art classes, before ultimately landing the role as the city’s arts director in 2024.
Since she stepped into the position, Fischer has had the opportunity to develop an identity for the arts center while also ideating collections and putting out calls for artists who are up to the challenge of creating work based off a pitch from Fischer. ‘Upcycled,’ for example, featured works created out of cardboard and other used materials. There’s also a push for awareness; the center is open MondayFriday from 8:30-4:30 p.m., but it does occasionally open its doors for weeknight shows and exhibits.
“People will walk in sometimes and say ‘Oh, I’ve never been here before, I just wanted to stop in.’ That’s the goal, for people to come in and hang out,” Fischer said. “Bring their sketchbook. We have sketchbook mornings every Tuesday, from 10 to 11 a.m., and that’s just kind of an open art hour. That has become a really nice group of people. They all became friends. They bring their own projects and hang out for an hour or two. It’s nice, I’d like to do more things like that, where it’s a community space where people can come and go casually on top of the stuff that we normally have.”
“Our neighbors have established art scenes already and people go there for art shows and music events. Long Branch does have that, but we want to have more of it.”
The next step for Fischer will focus on expanding the reach of the center. Exhibits and shows – which can range from art installations to lectures and musical performances – will be staples at the center itself, but having a presence outside of its current four walls is a goal for her.
“Ideally this would be the space where all of the exhibits happen. This would be the central place where you would know ‘Ok, this month, this exhibit is happening, let’s go’,” Fischer said. “From there, pop-up galleries. Whether that’s a local business, or an outdoor space. A temporary exhibit (maybe in storefront windows) something to create a buzz.”
“I kind of want to push the envelope of taking it to the next level. It makes you think differently, that’s the purpose of art."
She has some ideas, but is still in the planning stages of how to get to that point. So for now, it’s curating exhibits and returning to some of her own work; Fischer, a mom to 8 year old Aiden Brown, recently started painting again, and finds herself more inspired now than she has been in years.
Working with artists like Roddy Wildeman, Carla Valentino, Lisa Bagwell, Jason Stumpf and, of course, the next generation of creators, will do that for a person.
“We want to get them in here, and those kids will know, ‘Oh, I’ve been to the arts center before.’ And they’ll tell their mom, ‘There’s an event there; I want to go see that;,” Fischer said. “They’ll grow up with an art and cultural experience. And I feel like that is the best part of this show. That kids will know this space now. They know that they had artwork in it. So when they come back and see an exhibit, they’ll think ‘Oh, my art was in here, too. I can be in this world, too’.”
Right there on a refrigerator that everyone can see.
Maggie Fischer has been the city's arts director since January of 2024. Fischer earned her degree from Marymount Manhattan College, where she studied fine art. Her own work explores texture, movement, shape, and the cycle of natural decay and renewal, mainly through abstract textured paintings. You can stay on top of the happenings at the arts center by following them on Instagram @longbranchartscenter
“I kind of want to push the envelope of taking it to the next level.”
Visitors take a moment to appreciate some of the work at the 'Upcycled' show.
Maggie Fischer and Aiden Brown
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A WAY WITH WORDS
ARTICLE BY LAUREN LOVALLO | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC ANTONIOU & GABRIELA HASBUN
ROBERT PINSKY’S LOVE OF LANGUAGE HAS TAKEN THE LONG BRANCH NATIVE TO LITERARY HEIGHTS
He’s the only person in history to serve three terms as U.S. poet laureate.
Bruce Springsteen called him the “voice of the Jersey Shore.”
But ask Robert Pinsky about his prolific career, and he’ll say he’s just a guy who happens to be good with words.
In fact, words have always been his thing.
“It’s like the kid who just picks up a ball and is good at playing with the ball, or the kid who sits at a piano and it works out,” said Pinsky, who was born and raised in Long Branch and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From an early age, Pinsky’s mind could — and often, would — turn words inside out, something he likened to a “slightly annoying bad habit, like biting your fingernails or jiggling your foot.” He enjoyed the sounds and infinite potentials, and the melodies of sentences. Nothing was ever just a word to Pinsky, it was a plaything.
Those playthings led him to poetry, which in turn led him to a fruitful career, and national and worldwide acclaim.
And yet, for many years, Pinsky refused to call himself a poet. It’s an unusual admission, but one that made sense to Pinsky.
“I was very impressed by something Robert Frost said, along the lines of ‘poet’ is something someone else should say about you,” said Pinsky, who is also a literary critic, essayist, author, and Boston University professor. “It’s too great an honor, it’s too great a thing, for you to say yourself that you are a poet.”
As it turns out, Pinsky is not easily dazzled by titles, prizes or accolades. What means the most to him is sharing his love of words with the masses.
“The title ‘poet laureate,’ I respect it, I honor it, I don’t want to be silly about it, but it is not as important as the Favorite Poem Project, which it enabled,” said Pinsky, referring to the effort he launched in 1997 during his first term as poet laureate, to encourage public appreciation of poetry.
The project — a collection of short video documentaries showcasing everyday Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love — is now a permanent part of the Library of Congress archive of recorded poetry and literature, and remains active to this day.
“You can see a construction worker reading Walt Whitman, and talking about Whitman,” said Pinsky. “A glassblower reading a poem by Frank O’Hara. A Cambodian American high school student doing a Langston Hughes poem. A Jamaican immigrant doing a Sylvia Plath poem.”
It’s a project that remains close to his heart, just like his former hometown, which inspired his autobiography “Jersey Breaks.”
Putting the book together “wasn’t easy,” said Pinsky, but he “decided at some point it was going to be very much about my home, and the Shore.”
He harkened back to an interview he did a few years ago, with State of the Arts, a cornerstone program of NJ PBS.
“Somebody asked me if I have any poems about Long Branch. I said, ‘all of my poems are about Long Branch’,” Pinsky recalled.
“And in a sense, I mean that I’ve been writing that autobiography through my whole writing life, because if I write about culture, history, food, patriotism, or despair, it’s always related to my early life experiences as a small child, as a high school kid…so to do the prose, it was an extension of something I had been doing all my life as a poet.”
But what about that Springsteen endorsement, which is emblazoned on the front cover of “Jersey Breaks”?
It’s a story Pinsky tells nonchalantly. The pair were connected while attending the 2010 WAMFest, a festival for words, art and music, held annually at Fairleigh Dickinson.
“They put us together, and we got along very well. Our work has a lot in common … and he was kind enough to write that blurb.”
Boiled down, Pinsky’s passion for poetry can be summed up succinctly.
“Poetry is a body art,” he said. “It feels good to just say certain words.”
We’ll take his word for it.
Robert Pinsky served as the U.S. poet laureate under President Bill Clinton from 1997-2000. He received his B.A. from Rutgers before earning both his M.A. and PhD from Stanford University. Pinsky taught at Wellesley College and at the University of California at Berkeley before joining Boston University, where he is a distinguished professor in the creative writing program. In addition to ‘Jersey Breaks,’ Pinsky has published several books of poetry, including ‘Jersey Rain,’ ‘Gulf Music,’ ‘At the Founding Hospital,’ and ‘The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems,’ which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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RAYANE MOURA OLIVEIRA
Brushing Up On Her Skills
Get to know up-and-coming artist Rayane Moura Oliveira
ARTICLE BY LAUREN LOVALLO PHOTOGRAPHY BY LONG BRANCH ARTS CENTER
Q: WHEN DID YOU START PAINTING?
RO: I started in third grade. In eighth grade, that's when I started to really get into it (and) understand the concept behind painting. I just understood that whatever I set my mind to, I could do.
Q: WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT ART?
RO: The experience, the processes. It’s getting to connect with a piece, and convey something. That’s what really touches me, and to have people look at (a piece) and try to interpret it or try to apply it to their own lives.
Q: DO YOU HAVE ANY FAVORITE ARTISTS?
RO: Frida Kahlo. I think she is really who got me into wanting to convey my emotions; her story is so tragic, and the fact that she used that to go out and express herself through painting, I felt like I could connect with that.
Q. WHAT ABOUT LONG BRANCH INSPIRES YOU?
RO: The beach. When I was learning about poetry, I just wanted to connect (my experiences) with something that felt meaningful to me. The beach and art played a part in that. I get a lot of comfort from going on walks, and just nature.
HER OWN SOUND
Imagine sitting in a theater, all of 7 years old, and having an experience that was so visceral that you knew right then and there what it was you wanted to do for the rest of your life.
ARTICLE BY LAUREN LOVALLO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM BALDINO & DENTON SCHMIDT
It’s probably a familiar feeling. Plenty of us thought we had it all figured out in the first grade. We’d be teachers or doctors, football players or movie stars. Only a few realize that dream and see it through.
Singer-songwriter Carlotta Schmidt is manifesting her dreams, and winning over new fans
“For me, being a musician isn’t a choice, it’s just who I am. It’s my calling.”
Carlotta Schmidt is doing that.
“I saw these high schoolers playing at the Count Basie Center for the Arts. I said to my parents, ‘I want to do that’,” Carlotta Schmidt recalls. “That was kind of like a core memory, it kind of started my desire to perform live.”
It was also the beginning of her musical journey. Fast-forward one year and she was standing on that very stage, performing in front of thousands of people. A decade later, Schmidt is as committed now as she was at 7, when she told her parents what she wanted to do and ran with the opportunity.
“For me, being a musician isn't a choice, it's just who I am,” said Schmidt. “It's my calling.”
FINDING HER VOICE, AND HER WAY
With a decidedly folk-rock and jazz vibe — Schmidt counts Indigo girls, Ella Fitzgerald, Brandi Carlile, guitarist Joe Pass, Carole King, and Fleetwood Mac among her inspirations — Schmidt’s talent is earning admirers, and can even claim a voice that influenced her as a fan.
Last year, Schmidt was one of 11 people selected to perform alongside Carlile and the Grammy-winner’s band at the Mothership Weekend music festival in Miramar Beach, Florida.
“I’m typically not a very nervous performer, generally speaking. It has to be a high-pressure situation,” said Schmidt, who sang Carlile’s “Dreams.”
That experience — singing in front of a crowd of thousands next to one of her idols — was a “nerve-wracking performance in the best way possible,” one a grateful Schmidt called all too quick, but awesome.
“Singing with Brandi Carlile was beyond special, it was a dream come true,” said Schmidt. “Not only is Brandi one of my favorite singers, but she's doing what I want to do as a professional musician. She worked super hard to get where she is, which I find inspiring. … (The experience) is something I will never forget. And on top of all of that, Brandi and her band were really nice and supportive.”
Carlotta performing with her band, Carlotta Schmidt and the Bold, at the 2024 Fourth Wave Fest.
“Having local support fuels me. … The whole local scene; the fans, the musicians, the whole music community, and the great venues are all part of the amazing support network this area offers.”
SUPPORT SYSTEM
It was one of the biggest moments of Schmidt’s career thus far. But ask anyone in Long Branch who has seen her take the stage, and they’ll tell you there’s nothing surprising about Schmidt getting her flowers. In fact, hometown support abounds from local music legends like Sandy Mack, who Schmidt shouts out for introducing her to several other “amazing” musicians, including her bandmates. She’s also grateful for regular gigs at places like 21A on Broadway.
“Having local support fuels me in every way imaginable,” said Schmidt. “I'm thankful and glad that people in the Jersey Shore and Asbury Park area like my music and want to support me. This includes not only the people who come out to my shows, but also includes the musicians and organizations I've worked with throughout my career. … The whole local scene; the fans, the musicians, the whole music community, and the great venues are all part of the amazing support network this area offers to me as a musician.”
Schmidt continued: “Being able to pursue my dreams as a professional musician means the
world to me. I'm so thankful that I have such a supportive family and friends backing me up. And I'm so thankful to have the resources available to me to be able to pursue my craft. …I love what I do and I hope I can do it for the rest of my life. I'm sure going to keep working hard at it.”
As for what’s next, Schmidt is planning to follow up her self-titled debut album with her sophomore album soon; she's due to return to the recording studio this year.
Schmidt, alongside her manager Heather Bedenko, are also gearing up for the second annual Fourth Wave Fest, a day of music featuring women-led bands. The event — which will take place at House of Independents in Asbury Park on March 9 — raises money and awareness for 180 Turning Lives Around, a nonprofit organization that helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Carlotta Schmidt can be found on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram (@carlottaschmidt_ music) and Facebook. For the latest, visit carlottaschmidtmusic.com. For more on Fourth Wave Fest, visit fourthwavefest.org
Carlotta Schmidt takes in a Brandi Carlile show in Miramar Beach, Florida.
Carlotta Schmidt was drawn to music at a young age.
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French 75
ARTICLE BY CITY LIFESTYLE STAFF
This is a drink that can make any occasion feel special
If you're looking for elegance in a glass, this is the drink for you. The French 75 is a four-ingredient cocktail that really delivers on the concept of "less is more."
ingredients:
• 1½ oz. gin
• ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice
• ¾ oz. simple syrup
• 2 oz. Champagne
• Lemon twist for garnish
assemble:
Aside from popping your bottle of Champagne and opening the gin, the only real “work” to do here is making the simple syrup, and its name gives away how easy it is to make. Take a cup of sugar and a cup of water and simmer until the sugar crystals are fully dissolved and the two ingredients become one. You won’t need the full cup, but it won’t be a waste; the syrup keeps nicely in the refrigerator for up to a month.
Once that is done, combine the gin, syrup and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain the mixture into a flute, top with the Champagne and finish with the lemon twist for garnish.
Cheers!
next level:
If you enjoy this cocktail, here’s a tip: it adapts extremely well as a punch that will truly wow your guests. We particularly like the recipe from Epicurious - Google “French 75 punch Epicurious” to get it - which calls for upping the ingredients and bringing a fun presentation with a floating ice block that is filled with citrus slices.
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FEBRUARY 2025
A SELECTION OF UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS
FEBRUARY 14TH
Valentine’s Karaoke
Nip N Tuck | 8:00 PM
Unleash your inner crooner (or rock star), muster up some courage and belt out some of your favorite tunes at the beloved dive bar. Bring some friends, or maybe make some new ones.
FEBRUARY 15TH
A Bronx Tale:
One-man show starring Chazz Palminteri
Pollak Theater | 8:00 PM
Before he was Sonny in A Bronx Tale , Chazz Palminteri was a Bronxbred actor trying to make it in show business. Everyone knows how this story ends; Palminteri didn’t waste his talent. This performance showcases that talent. Tickets start at $65 and can be purchased at monmouth/edu/mca
FEBRUARY 21ST Monks Pond
The Whitechapel Projects | 6:30 PM
Experience this evocative, live musical event and sound bath, which features meditative dark ambient, drone, post-rock, doom, and soundscapes. The show will also include a heart-opening cacao ceremony, hand-poke medicine tattooing, and live sacred geometry painting. Guests are encouraged to bring a meditation cushion or pillow to sit on. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased through www.whitechapelprojects.com.
