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Letter to Our Readers

August is peak vacation time, time to relax, enjoy the family and visit the many beaches spread up and down the “Jersey Shore”. Enjoy your daily visits to 2015 the beaches of your choice, then on your return home, instead of cooking after your “relaxing” day at the beach, stop at one of the many local restaurants participating in Venues NJ’s Beach & Dine program, have a bite and save some money! (Look for the Beach & Dine Participant logo Participant in this issue’s ads).

In this issue’s main editorial feature, our writers have again provided you with helpful hints for planning your daily beach visits. They have also listed many restaurants participating in our Summer 2015 Beach & Dine program where you can grab a bite and save on your meal by simply presenting your daily beach badge or parking stub.

And, after a day in the sun, where can go to feel as though you’re dining outdoors on a lovely stone patio, complete with an awning and trees, while enjoying the comfort of an airconditioned venue. Our writers might suggest the Game Time Bar & Grill, located within iPlay America in Freehold Township, where you can find all this, along with great food, cool libations, live entertainment. Read more in this issue’s Restaurant Profile feature.

It’s not always easy to keep large and diverse crowds entertained, but with one of the largest playlists around and a wealth of experience, The Ruckus are quickly making a name for themselves as a band that can play any genre. Check out this month’s Band Profile.

She’s a bartender, real estate broker, volunteer, all while maintaining a regular workout schedule. This is Maria Grazia “Mary Grace” Scifo, a veteran bartender currently pouring libations at tre, a newly opened restaurant in Freehold. Read more about “Mary Grace” in this issue’s Mixologist-of-the-Month feature. Then, if you’re in the area, stop in and let her mix you a refreshing drink.

Originally from Paterson, NJ, she became a probations officer in Newark and is now a standup comic with homes in Manhattan, NYC and Beverly Hills, CA. Our contributing writer Steve O would like you to meet Sunda Croonquist, this month’s Comic Relief personality.

Ok, we’ve set the landscape. Now get out there and enjoy the rest of the summer.

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Publisher’s Letter................................................................................4 Sports Bars & Quiz..............................................................................6 Pro Sports Schedules........................................................................8 Restaurant Profile.............................................................................12 Band Profile:.......................................................................................14 Mixologist............................................................................................16 Main Feature .....................................................................................18 Catering...............................................................................................20 BYO’s .....................................................................................................22 Libations .............................................................................................23 Two on the Aisle...............................................................................24 Comic Relief........................................................................................26 Dining Pleasures...............................................................................28 Happy Hours......................................................................................30 Where it’s happening! ....................................................................31 Concerts & Theater ..........................................................................32 Plugged into AC................................................................................33 Venues Cares......................................................................................34 The Last Word....................................................................................34 Graphics & Design Daria Kenny

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DETROIT ATLANTA NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

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EAGLES SUN, AUG 16 VS SAT, AUG 22 VS SAT, AUG 29 @ THU, SEP 3 @

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WHITE SOX WHITE SOX BOSTON BOSTON BOSTON TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO CLEVELAND CLEVELAND CLEVELAND TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO MINNESOTA MINNESOTA MINNESOTA CLEVELAND CLEVELAND CLEVELAND CLEVELAND HOUSTON HOUSTON HOUSTON ATLANTA ATLANTA ATLANTA BOSTON

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WASHINGTON WASHINGTON MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI TAMPA BAY TAMPA BAY TAMPA BAY COLORADO COLORADO COLORADO COLORADO PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH BALTIMORE BALTIMORE COLORADO COLORADO COLORADO PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA BOSTON BOSTON BOSTON PHILADELPHIA

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NASCAR - Sprint Cup Series

SAT, AUG 1 8:00 PM ET NASCAR XFINITY SERIES AT IOWA IOWA SPEEDWAY

SUN, AUG 2 1:30 PM ET NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES AT POCONO

POCONO RACEWAY

SAT, AUG 8 3:00 PM ET NASCAR XFINITY SERIES AT WATKINS GLEN WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL SAT, AUG 15 3:30 PM ET

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Quicken Loans National Robert Trent Jones GC Gainesville, Va. World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational Firestone CC Akron, Ohio Barracuda Championship Montreux G & CC Reno, Nev. PGA Championship Whistling Straits Kohler, Wisc.

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Almost Easy Band Club Night w/ SCE Event Horizon 9pm – 1am

Dine on the comfort o f our Outside Deck overloo king the Manasquan River

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MON – Family Fun Monday – ½ price Pizza & Pitchers (soda or domestic beer) All Day; Kids entertainment in dining room w/ DJ Jersey Joe 5PM – 7PM TUES – $2 Pints of Beer 3PM-7PM WED – Yuengs & Wings $5 ALL Day;

Club Night with DJ Adam @ 9 PM

Check out Where it’s happening! listings on PAGE 31 of this issue

THURS – “NO SHOWER” HAPPY HOUR 4PM-9PM

W/ DJ JERSEY JOE FRI – Beach Party w/ DJs 5pm – 9pm

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After the Reign

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Old Dominion & Outshyne

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$2 Coors Light and Miller Lite Alums.

Every Saturday

AUGUST Entertainment & Events Schedule

Sat 8/1 Mr. LoveJoy @ 2pm Denny Tsettos @ 9pm Sun 8/2 The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2pm B-Street Band @ 6pm SINdustry @ 9PM w/ Event Horizon & DJs

Fri 8/14 Uke & Drum @ 2pm Lost in Paris & DJ Tony Gia @ 9pm Sat 8/15 Mr. Love Joy @ 2pm DJ Encore & DJ Beatbreaker

Mon 8/24 The Best & Jay & Rob @ 2pm

Thurs 8/6 The Nerds & DJ

Sun 8/16 The Flying Mueller Brothers at 2PM B-Street Band @ 6PM SINdustry Night @ 9PM w/ Event Horizon & local DJs.

and DJ Freezie @ 9pm

Mon 8/17 The Best of Jay & Rob @ 2pm Sam Sims Band @ 8pm The Wailers @ 9pm

Tues 8/25 Opening Act (TBA) @ 7pm Kashmir: America’s #1 Live Led Zeppelin Show @ 9pm 21 & older only. Go online to jenksclub.com for $8 voucher

Mon 8/3 Jay & Rob @ 2pm Wed 8/5 Dylan Scott Derek Crider @ 7:30pm Free voucher tickets at jenksclub.com

Sat 8/8 Brian Kirk & The Jirks NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT @ 2pm, Go Go Gadjet & DJ Toro @ 9pm @ 10PM

EVENT HORIZON & LOCAL DJS HEAT UP

The Flying Mueller Bros @ 2PM

Thurs 8/13 The Nerds & DJ Kirk Lopez @ 9pm

Sun 8/9 The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2PM B-Street Band @ 6PM SINdustry Night @ 9PM w/ Event Horizon & local DJs Mon 8/10 The Best of Jay & Rob @ 2pm

Tues 8/11 Best of the Eagles: Eagles Tribute Band @ 9pm.

21 & older only. Go online to $3 Corona & Corona Light jenksclub.com for $8 voucher from 3pm – close Wed 8/12 After the Reign Opening Act Dave Hangley @ bar only @ 7:30pm Free voucher

Tues 8/18 The Gamblers & Mangos @ 7pm Marshall Tucker Band @ 9pm 21 & older only Go online to jenksclub.com for $8 voucher Wed 8/19 Old Dominion & Outshyne Kendal Conrad @ 7:30pm Free voucher tickets at jenksclub.com

Fri 8/21 Afternoon Entertainment @ 2pm, Event Horizon & DJ Prime @ 9pm Sat 8/22 Shorty Long @ 2pm

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Wed 8/26 Logan Mize Rachel Allyn @ 7:30pm Free voucher tickets at jenksclub.com Thurs 8/27 The Nerds & DJ Kirk Lopez @ 9pm Fri 8/28 Uke & Drum @ 2pm Burnt Sienna & DJ Tony Gia @ 9pm Sat 8/29 Brian Kirk & The Jirks @ 2pm DJ Toro @ 9pm

Thurs 8/20 The Nerds & DJ Kirk Lopez @ 9pm

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Sun 8/23 The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2pm B-Street Band @ 6pm SINdustry @ 9PM w/ Event Horizon & local DJs.

LIVE Kirk Lopez @ 9pm ENTERTAINMENT Fri 8/7 Devon Atherly @ 2pm @ 2PM Whiskey Fueled

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Yes, iPlay America has a bar & restaurant!

Would you like to feel as though you’re dining outdoors on a lovely stone patio, complete with an awning and trees and enjoying the comfort of an air-conditioned venue?

You can find this, along with great food, cool libations, live entertainment, even a luscious Brunch served Saturdays & Sundays, and so much more, at Game Time Bar and Grill, located within iPlay America in Freehold Township.

According to Dan Rappa, Food and Beverage Director, Game Time offers high quality food expertly crafted by Chef Joe Raiola, who holds the title of the Food Network’s “Chopped Champion Season 5.”

Although iPlay America, the indoor amusement theme park is always free to enter, patrons can choose to

dine at Game Time Bar and Grill exclusively or stay and enjoy the fun inside the theme park. Rappa describes the delicious fare as “an elevated, modern take on bar food.”

The restaurant is open for lunch, dinner, late night snacks and appetizers, and a hearty Weekend Brunch.

Game Time also offers tremendous sports viewing, perfect for favorite team “game times” with a cocktail or beer and appetizer. And, UFC fans are welcome to enjoy the live UFC broadcasts shown throughout the year.

Game Time Bar and Grill offers its patrons viewing on 20+ flat screen TVs and three large projectors.

Enjoy your meals or drinks in either the tavern-style bar area with its wooden floor and warm décor, high-top tables and live entertainment on Saturday nights, or in the dining room where patrons may dine on tables and chairs in the colorful “outdoor café,” with its stone patio flooring, describes Jackie Romano, Restaurant Manager.

And, if you’re looking for a venue that offers live music in the early evening as opposed to the usual 10:00 pm music start time in many local bars and eateries, look no further.

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Entertainment begins here at 8:00 pm with music from New Jersey cover bands who perform a range of styles, including rock, oldies, and country, among other genres.

There is music to please every musical palate.

Take in Happy Hour Monday thru Friday from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, when $3 Bud Lights, $4 Sangrias and House Wines and $5 House Cocktails are on tap. Choose from a new $5 Bites Menu that includes Fried Ravioli, Twin Cheese Burger Sliders, Bar Pie, Wings (six-pieces) Calamari, Nachos Pequenos, and Game Time Bar and Grill Homemade Potato Chips.

The restaurant offers tempting appetizers, including Pulled Pork Sliders with pickled jalapeno and sweet slaw, or Game Time Jumbo Wings with homemade Buffalo or BBQ sauce. Pair up your menu selection with one of Game Time Bar and Grill’s craft beers.

There are also numerous menu selections including Hand-Tossed New York-Style Pizza with various toppings and the Jersey Burger, an Angus burger with Black Forest Ham, fried egg and American cheese on a pretzel roll. The entrée menu includes the popular Coffee and Brown Sugar Rub Baby Back Ribs, with Applewood maple BBQ sauce, cold slaw and fries or the rich Macaroni and Cheese with Andouille sausage, Granny Smith apples and panko.

The restaurant is family-friendly as well,

with a Kids Menu which includes Hot Dogs, Mac and Cheese, Grilled Cheese, Pizza and Sliders.

Weekly specials include “Brew & Cue” on Mondays -two free games of pool with the purchase of a Beer Tower and one free game of pool with the purchase of a Beer Flight; Tuesdays bring two-for-one bar pies; Wednesday nights are poker night with $3 Miller Lite Drafts; and football night on Thursdays.

Patrons can enjoy $3 Bud Light Drafts and $3.50 Bud Light bottles and a $5 Bites Menu during all NFL games. Friday night at Game Time is “After Dark” with Late Night Happy Hour from 10:00 pm to midnight.

Visit Game Time Bar and Grill on Saturday night and be treated to live entertainment -- and $3 Bud Light Drafts (promotions are subject to change without notice).

A special treat is the Saturday & Sunday Brunch from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. Start with a Fresh Berry Parfait, with seasonal fresh berries, vanilla yogurt and fresh granola; or Black Bean Hummus and Chili Dusted Tortilla chips. Little

diners can choose Chocolate Chip Waffles, Scrambled Eggs and Bacon or Mini Chicken and Waffles. Menu selections are plentiful and include Chicken and Waffles, Southernfried boneless chicken, waffles and maple country gravy; Crab and Avocado Omelet, Game Time Steak and Eggs, a 12 ounce N.Y. strip steak with two eggs, and Game Time potatoes.

A variety of Titos Bloody Marys are on hand for $6, including a BLT Bloody Mary, with celery, applewood smoked bacon, fresh lime. Or try the $4 Mimosas.

So, take the kids for a family dinner, meet up with friends for a drink, or enjoy all the sports you can handle at Game Time Bar and Grill, with its upbeat atmosphere, high quality food and great entertainment!

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It’s not always easy to keep large and diverse crowds entertained, but with one of the largest playlists around and a wealth of experience, The Ruckus are quickly making a name for themselves as a band that can play any genre.

The Ruckus has only been playing shows together for a year, though the connections within the band are a lot older. They are made up of Dave Stefanic on vocals, Ralph Mercuro on guitar, Paul Velez on bass and Roman Dino on drums. Stefanic and Mercuro had been in a band together prior to forming the Ruckus and when his long-time friend Dino became available they decided to play together just for fun. When Mercuro’s cousin Velez entered the mix they knew they had something special and decided to form The Ruckus.

The Ruckus doesn’t just try to make a connection with the crowd when they’re on stage. During breaks they’ll make rounds throughout the crowd to make sure everyone is enjoying the show and if they find out there’s a celebration going on, that is celebrated on stage too, making the whole show a big party. “A lot of bands will talk about their fans, but we talk about our friends,” Stefanic asserts.

They also connect with everyone by playing a wide array of music, adding hiphop and dance to the popular top-40 tracks and classic cover band staples. By including nearly every genre, it guarantees if one patron doesn’t like a particular song or style, one he or she does enjoy is coming up quickly.

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to add another dimension to their repertoire, adding horns and keyboard to the background whenever it is called for. “It’s almost like having a fifth band member in a way,” describes Velez.

By using the sampler and adding a wider variety on genres than most, The Ruckus can play for the whole crowd. Even if they are taken out of their comfort zone as musicians, if it’s what the crowd wants to hear, they’ll play it.

Being as new as they are, The Ruckus is still working on getting into more venues, though they have already become regulars at a few places.

They consider Woody’s Roadside Tavern in Farmingdale to be their home base, but they also play the Boardwalk Bar & Grill in Point Pleasant, Ryan’s Pub in Monroe Township and The Roost in Cream Ridge. Mercuro has been the one hitting the pavement after work looking for bookings and when he finds an opening they do not disappoint. “Every place that we’ve been to by the end of the night they’re opening up the book and saying how about again next month,” says Mercuro.

His work and the band’s performances have paid off, as they are booked

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through the rest of the year with one to two shows every week.

There’s not too many nights you can go out and hear Eminem, Luke Bryan and Van Halen all in the same set. It helps that everyone in the band likes different music, but appreciates all of it and the year of rehearsing together before playing their first show didn’t hurt at all either.

Their playlist is so extensive, they can play 50 songs four nights in a row and never perform the same one twice. There is, however, one song in particular they noticed always get the whole crowd involved and singing. “The most satisfying song we play especially when the room is full is ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ by Simple Minds,” said Mercuro. “The whole room sings along with us that particular song seems to get it and I don’t know how many other bands play that song, but that seems to be the one where everyone is involved.”

They also know they have a responsibility to the venue that fits in between an entertained audience and their success. Amused guests means good business for the bar, which means another trip back. “You can be the best band in the world, but if people aren’t filling that register up the venue is not going to invite you back,” says Velez. “We try to make sure that everybody is involved, whether it’s the band, the establishment or the people that are coming to see us,” he adds.

“Everybody’s involved and everybody’s having a good time.”

Visit TheRuckusNJ.com for music samples, playlist and schedule, and give the band a like at facebook.com/theruckusnj.

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Scifo still works as a real estate broker but says “in today’s economy tending bar is what pays my bills.”

The bartender maintains regular physical workouts, something she’s done since she was in her 20s. She has also worked as a personal trainer. “I am very athletic. I started working out because I liked the way it made me look, but it hooked me because I loved the way it made me feel,” she emphasizes.

“When I feel the aches and pains, I’d rather it be from working out and not from aging,” she quips.

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Maria Grazia “Mary Grace” Scifo works as a bartender and a real estate broker, and still finds time to do volunteer charity work with the Freehold Elks.

The veteran bartender, a resident of Old Bridge, began bartending in a catering hall 25 years ago, learning her craft on the job. She says the job gave her a great foundation for mixing drinks that appeal to those in their 20s to those in their 90s. After two years, Scifo moved to pubs and lounges to enjoy more interaction with people.

In her spare time Scifo enjoys riding a motorcycle with her boyfriend. “We incorporate our love for riding and our sense of charity with The Freehold Elks,” she says with a smile.

“Over the years I worked in a number of diverse in North Jersey, to a trendy lounge in SoHo, and The couple participates in various charity runs venues from Heartbreakers in Neptune, the Tiki bar now ‘Tre’ in Freehold Borough, where I feel at home,” with the Freehold Elks, and also enjoys spending time volunteering at the Elks Camp Moore, for at the Original Oyster in the Highlands, an Irish pub she expresses. special needs children in Haskell, NJ.

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MIDDLETOWN MJ’s 732-918-9700

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MARLBORO Crown Palace 732-780-8882

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Fireside Grill 732-780-7900

River Rock Restaurant & Marina Bar 732-840-1110

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BELMAR Veggie Works 732-280-1141

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The first entrance applause occurs before even the overture begins. Riotous clapping is occasioned when a bright point of light travels and the O overNthe ceilingB Rcurtain O of the A Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York where the push-button, button-pushing musical “Finding Neverland” opened.

This little light, you see, is pretty much guaranteed to elicit a Pavlovian response from anyone familiar with the story of “Peter Pan” in its various incarnations Said light equals Tinker Bell, the temperamental fairy who requires your applause to stay alive.

As with many a Broadway musical these days, “Finding Neverland” — which features a book by James Graham and soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy — is based on a popular film. That would be the 2004 biopic about the playwright J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, which starred Johnny Depp.

The stage version of “Finding Neverland” is no replica of the film, though it might have been better if it were. Instead, it heightens the screenplay’s sentimentality, tidy psychologizing and life-affirming messages by thickening their syrup and corn quotients in ways presumably

on the

deemed palatable to theatergoing children and their parents.

It takes an id to create a Neverland. At the beginning Dbearded, W Scottish-born A Y hero our is a successful and fashionable playwright suffering from writer’s block and an unhappy marriage to a superficial socialite.

Then one day in Kensington Gardens, he meets four enchanting little boys, the Llewelyn Davies brothers. He happily joins in their rambunctious games of pretend, which testify to the philosophy, later expressed in song, that “the world is so mysterious and wild/when you start to see it through the eyes of a child.”

The spectacle of a strange man playing in the park with pink-cheeked kids usually sets off alarm bells, at least in this era of the Amber Alert. But not to worry. Mr. Morrison, in a determinedly neutral performance, has been divested of any hints of sensuality.

What’s more, those boys have a mother, Sylvia, a widow with a bad cough and an inner child who immediately gravitates to Barrie, to whom she says, “I think to have faith is to have wings.” And from romping with Sylvia

and her sons, Barrie will discover that playtime can inspire a play.

Thus is born the work that will guarantee his immortality, as well as theater’s most enduring portrait of arrested development.

But there’s always sugar in the shadows, even in that climactic fantasy sequence when Captain Hook materializes to tell Barrie to get in touch with his dark side. “Unleash me!” he instructs Barrie. And our hero loosens up enough to tear open his shirt, center-stage, and, in the second act, to finally share a kiss with Sylvia.

Barrie’s evolution is set to a score that brings to mind the songs that accompany animated adventure films and are favored by contestants on “The Voice” and “American Idol Every song — the titles include “Circus of Your Mind” and “We’re All Made of Stars” — vaguely reminds you of some recording

you have heard in the background of your life.

How can you hear the wail of a penny whistle without thinking of Celine Dion bewailing the titular ship’s sinking in “Titanic”?

It may well be the show’s lack of freshness accounts for its appeal. “Finding Neverland” was a sellout in Cambridge, and it’s already doing boffo box office here. When Barrie says he’s working on a new and surprising play, his producer, Frohman, responds that he doesn’t like surprises.

“I said I wanted something new,” he says.

“New does not necessarily mean different.

Think of it like — a new penny. It looks and feels the same as an old penny, right? It’s just — shinier.” By this criterion, “Finding Neverland” might well be a Charles Frohman production.

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Comic Relief

by Steve Ortlieb

Selena Coppock Sunda Croonquist

I recently had an entertaining two hours speaking with Sunda Croonquist.

Sunda is bi, coastal that is.

She and her lawyer husband have homes in both Manhattan and Beverly Hills. Sunda has been honing her stand-up skills for a number of years now, and this after an unlikely start as a probation officer in Newark, NJ. In fact, her unlikely start goes even deeper than that. Sunda is from Paterson and is the daughter of a Swedish father and African-American mother.

by Steve Ortlieb

debut at “Don’t Tell Mama” in New York City. The stunt. When people say, “Any publicity is good rest is history! publicity,” trust me: it’s not. Ironically, I’m contacted to study improv comedybyfurther and itforwas improv that media outlets mother-in-law advice!

V-NJ: Of all the funny stuffreally you’veled done and are still me to standup. I did improv for years and doing, it seems like the real life stuff isI just always thesickV-NJ: And, what’s the advice? eventually got of working with other people, best. Your mother-in-lawwhich sued you?!

This me is great, makes sound like a total curmudgeon, I know.

SC: Use earplugs! Don’t listen, just get through it tell us about it. and ifhave you keep your mouth shut, you might still be Stand up is very tough. You to be able to take SC: I had always writtenrejection. jokes aboutHow’d her andyou my handle in the will! your first bomb, unless father-in-law. They were you’re at my debut the performance one comic who’s never experienced that? (and were in my act, then) and in fact, I even did V-NJ: You and Mike Marino (profiled in the June issue) just finished filming a pilot together. my routine on national television when Jerry Lewis 2015 The rejection is definitely hard and it’s something that What’s it about and when can we see it? (At press held his MDA Telethon. After she lost--the lawsuit everyone even my Icomedy idols -- have experienced at time, no date was set for the pilot.) saw her, put my arms around herpoint. (which she always some Early on I think that I wanted the audience hated!) and I said: “Ruthie, knowme, you which didn’t want toI like can be dangerous territory, especially to do this to me.” To which she replied: “The hell I You have to be confident and for female comedians. didn’t!

Oh yes I did!

I did not like what you wrote adly, Selena Coppack’s aBostonian and doesn’t feel entitled to be up there with the microphone and about The funny the to figure out -- how to just own understand that the only real teams to root forme areininyour blog!” that tookpart meabout a while whole story that nobody knows is that I had written NY and NJ. I jest of course (kinda, sorta). Coppack has the stage and trust myself more. I think of standup as private blog on Myspace and because of my been performing stand up for eight years aand her new like training a dog -- if you get out there and you’re inability to grasp the virtual world of the book, The New Rules For Blondes, launches in April. confident and in control, the audience is with you.

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But if you exude a sense of nervousness or you seem Internet, I thought it was private and I hit the they’ll eat you alive. I’ve been doing standup Were you “the funny one” growing up? “public” button! It wasinsecure, awful! She wasn’t on for about eight years and even now sometimes I’ll have Myspace but her best friend’s daughter saw it, a show where I can sense that certain people in the and mailed it to her in Brooklyn. Now I SC: This hysterical premise is based on Mike Marino’s I come from a very funny home and myprinted older itsister audience aren’t completely on board with me and it had a‘the history of the family not being sold on the family business. I play his sister, a spoiled “guidette,” Laurel is a comedian, too. So I wasn’t really funny makes me feel nervous, but I know to just plow through idea ofa lot my of husband bringing home a girl with married to a Jewish guy who has a daughter who’s one’ at home so much as Laurel and I spent it and keep on going and eventually I’ll hit on a joke or a “deep tan” but they all dove in. Ruthie always in the principal’s office. She relies on Mike time writing musicals in our bedrooms, such choreographing reference that wins them over. sued and sadly passed away. Shortly before she because her husband is non-confrontational but strange dance numbers, and watching “Saturday Night that’s just an excuse because she’d rather Mike Live” since age 7. I think that my parents and oldest Is this a means to an end?

“SNL”, sitcoms, head writer-handle her problems so that she can take care of sister Emily are super hilarious, too. But yes, I’ve always what’s your goal? her business which is basically being pampered on been a bit of a ham and really interested in comedy and a daily basis. It’s a great premise for me because performing.

I definitely don’t think ofit standup asofa my means anasend mirrors part life astowell Mike’s. Being Venues-NJ: Sunda, let’s start with your and I think that comedians who do are pretty miserable raised by an Italian “step-father” who owned a Along those lines, did you do all the school productions? background. Former Miss NJ contestant, BA reward or else you’re crazy sausage company makes it easy for me to play Where’d you grow up? Or rather, if you’re anything like people. It has to be its own in criminal justice, parole officer, married to a to do this thing. But as far as my goal, mine is pretty the role. I know more about pasta fagioli and me, where were you raised? lawyer and a mom. How did you end up doing broad: I’d like for my comedy braciole(performance, than most Italianswriting) I know! Sunday Sauce is stand-up comedy? to pay for my life. I don’tmore know exactly how that Meatballs. will my reality than Swedish With my I grew up outside of Boston and I did all of the school shake out, but I’d like my job toname, be what I loveyou’d to do, maiden Croonquist, think it would be growing up at--aI chance absolutely loved performing and Sundaplays Croonquist: It was meeting which is write and perform comedy.

I have a book the other way around! thethat excitement rehearsing and being in shows. I did at a party I met JackieofMason.

I was cracking coming out in April (The New Rules for Blondes, from theater in Boston (at the Boston jokes some about professional all of his fans and my wisecracks It Books/HarperCollins), which I hope will open up new sheI became disinherited my husband from the will Theater--now gone) in high school went Baked to another level. He asked meand if I was a died, opportunities for me. It’s a collection of humorous essays but that wouldn’t have been so bad had she not This “comedy chameleon” even had time to found the interested in“No! singing, too. I actress!” went toHecollege in upstate comedian and I said I’m a ‘serious’ celebrating and subverting the blonde stereotype, but disinherited herthe grandchildren. I often think that LA School of Comedy and written a book (with Chef NY where majored and didn’t do any of said, “You need to Igo onstage!”inMyEnglish husband, then it’s for readers of all hair colors. after she wrote them out that she felt badly and Nir Weinblut), Kosher Soul Food. For more on Sunda, playssaid, on “Ya campus; but I was in the only co-ed a cappella boyfriend, know, Sunda...If Jackie Mason the stress contributed to her mysterious death. just type her name into Google and you’ll find many group on campus (the Hamilton Hamiltones) tells you you’re funny... maybe you are!” College With that She was found dead in her apartment in Brooklyn. A links. and the improv troupe.

Chicago their encouragement, I took a classAfter with school Stephen I moved to sad story indeed but even sadder is the fact that the Rosenfield at The American Comedy Institute and then got my first paid booking one week after my suit prompted the attack that this was a publicity

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Venue Listings APPLEBEE’S / TINTON FALLS 14 Park Rd., Tinton Falls 732-935-1158 APPLEBEE’S / WALL 2007 Rt. 35, Wall 732-280-3676 BIG ED’S B•B•Q 305 Route 34, Old Bridge 732-583-2626 BIG SHOTS SPORTS BAR 780 Rt. 1 North, Woodbridge 732-750-5050 BLUE MOON 114 S. Bway, S. Amboy 732-525-0014 BLUE ROCK CAFE 522 Amboy, Rd., Cliffwood Beach 732-583-7699 BRASS RAIL 80 Rt. 79, Matawan 732-290-8400 BRICKHOUSE 979 Cedarbridge, Brick 732-279-3743 BUFFALO WILD WINGS / BRICK 2770 Hooper Ave., Brick 732-475-7645 BUM ROGERS 2207 SW Central Ave., Seaside Park 732-830-2770 BURLEW’S SEAFOOD & STEAK 59 West Front Street, Keyport 732-497-0500 THE CABIN 984 Rt. 33, Freehold 732-462-3090 CJ MCLOONE’S 560 Shrewsbury Ave., Tinton Falls 732-758-0800 CAFÉ LUNA 3679 Rt. 9N, Old Bridge 732-965-5490 CLADDAGH IRISH PUB 297 Bay Ave, Highlands 732-291-0099 COLTS NECK INN 6 Rt. 537 - 732-462-0383 COURT JESTER / FREEHOLD E. Main St., Freehold 732-462-1040 DONOVAN’S BAR & GRILL 1900 Rt. 70, Manchester 732-657-0006 THE DOWNTOWN 10 W. Front St., Red Bank 732-741-2828 DUBLIN HOUSE 30 Monmouth St., Red Bank 732-747-6699 FIRESIDE GRILL 133 Rt. 79, Marlboro 732-780-7900 GENERAL SALOON 1194 Englishtown Rd.Old Bridge 732-416-8628 GUSTO’S GRILL 1050 Rt. 18N, East Brunswick 732-651-2737 IVY LEAGUE Rt. 9N, Howell - 732-370-2206 JACK’S GOAL LINE 149 Brighton Ave., Long Branch 732-870-8800 JAKEABOB’S 910 Union Ave., Union Beach 732-264-3730 LANDMARK TAVERN 117 N. Broadway, South Amboy 732-721-6812 LA RIVIERA 113 Main St, Matawan 732-566-8400 MALONEY’S PUB 117 Main St., Matawan 732-583-4040 MARKET YARD GRILLE 18 E. Main St., Freehold 732-431-3220 MARTELL’S Boardwalk, Pt. Pleasant 732-892-0131 MCLOONES @ FAVORITES 3 Lafayette Rd., Fords 732-512-5025 MCLOONE’S PIER HOUSE 1 Ocean Pl., Long Branch 732-923-1006 METROPOLITAN CAFÉ 8 E. Main St., Freehold 732-780-9400 MEDITERRANEAN CHATEAU 27 Freneau Ave. (Rt. 79),Matawan 732-780-9400 MJ’S MIDDLETOWN 1005 Hwy 35N, Middletown 732-796-1400

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River Rock – On the Beach: Beach Party w/ DJ 5pm-9pm; Kenny Schafer 6pm-9:30pm Inside: Professional Duo 4pm-7pm SATURDAY, AUG. 08 Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – 9 South GameTime – Under Pressure @ 8pm Jenk’s Club – Brian Kirk & The Jirks @ 2pm; GoGo Gadjet & DJ Toro @ 9pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; JoBonanno & Godsons River Rock - On the Beach: Jimmy & Gene 2:30pm-5:30pm Inside: Event Horizon & DJ Adam @ 9:30pm; DJ Jeff Scott Gould @ 10pm SUNDAY, AUG. 09 Blue Moon – Jazz Jam 3pm-7pm Jenk’s Club – The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2pm; B-street Band @ 6pm Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30 River Rock - On the Beach: On The Side 4pm-7pm; Predator Dub Assassins 6pm-9pm; MONDAY, AUG. 10 Jenk’s Club – The Best @ 2pm Martell’s - Triple Play @ 2pm; Mike Dalton Band Park East – Bingo w/ Bacardi Ardi TUESDAY, AUG. 11 Blue Rock Café – 80’s Night w/ DJ Sway Fireside Grill – Trivia Night Jenk’s Club – Best of the Eagles Tribute Band @ 9pm Martell’s - Mike Dalton @ 2pm; Dr. Cheeko River Rock - On the Beach: Mark Burg 4pm-7pm WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 The Cabin – Poker Night GameTime – World Tavern Poker @ 6pm Jenk’s Club – After the Reign @ 9pm Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - No Standards @ 2pm; RPM River Rock - On the Beach: Erik Bovino Pianist 4pm-7pm THURSDAY, AUG. 13 Blue Moon – Blues Jam @ 8pm Blue Rock – DJ Jenk’s Club – The Nerds & DJ Kirk Lopez @ 9pm Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Jamie Brown @ 2pm; Soul Cruisers Park East – Trivia 7pm-9pm; Beer Pong Tournament @ 9pm River Rock - On the Beach: Danger Box 6pm-9pm FRIDAY, AUG. 14 Blue Moon – Live Music Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – SSV 5pm – 8pm; The Amused @ 10pm Jenk’s Club – Uke & Drum @ 2pm; Lost in Paris & DJ Tony Gia @ 9pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Hold On Tight @ 2pm; The Nines

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River Rock - Beach Party w/ DJ 5pm-9pm; Inside: Steve Johnson 4pm-7pm; Undisputed & DJ Adam @ 9:30pm SATURDAY, AUG. 15 Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – Rock Bottom @ 10pm GameTime – Just Push Play @ 8pm Jenk’s Club – Mr. Lovejoy @ 2pm; DJ Encore & DJ Beatbreaker @ 9pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s – Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; Big Bang Baby Paramount Theater - Mike Marino River Rock - On the Beach: Juggling Suns 2:30pm-5:30pm Inside: DJ Infamous @ 10pm SUNDAY, AUG. 16 Blue Moon – Jazz Jam 3pm-7pm Jenk’s Club – The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2pm; B-street Band @ 6pm Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; JoBonanno & Godsons River Rock - On the Beach: Altered States Project 5pm-8pm; Predator Dub Assassins 6pm-9pm; MONDAY, AUG. 17 Jenk’s Club – Jay & Rob @ 2pm; The Wailers @ 9pm Martell’s - Triple Play @ 2pm; After the Reign Park East – Bingo w/ Bacardi Ardi TUESDAY, AUG. 18 Blue Rock Café – 80’s Night w/ DJ Sway Fireside Grill – Trivia Night Jenk’s Club – The Gamblers & Mangos @ 7pm; Marshall Tucker Band @ 9pm Martell’s - Mike Dalton @ 2pm; Pat Roddy River Rock - On the Beach: Mark Burg 4pm-7pm WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19 Blue Moon – Cigars in the Courtyard The Cabin – Poker Night GameTime – World Tavern Poker @ 6pm Jenk’s Club – Kendal Conrad @ 7:30pm; Old Dominion& Outshyne @ 9pm Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - No Standards @ 2pm; RPM THURSDAY, AUG. 20 Blue Moon – Blues Jam @ 8pm Blue Rock - DJ The Cabin – Bike Night w/ Tommy Baz Jenk’s Club – The Nerds & Kirk Lopez @ 9pm Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Jamie Brown @ 2pm; Soul Cruisers Park East – Trivia 7pm-9pm; Beer Pong Tournament @ 9pm River Rock - On the Beach: Rainbow Full of Sound 6pm-9pm FRIDAY, AUG. 21

Blue Moon – Live Music Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – NRG @ 5pm; Good Fellas @ 10pm Jenk’s Club – Event Horizon & DJ Prime @ 9pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Hold On Tight @ 2pm; Peat Moss & the Fertilizers River Rock - Beach Party w/ DJ 5pm-9pm; Inside: Guns 4 Hire 4pm-7pm; Fuzzpops & DJ Adam @ 9:30pm SATURDAY, AUG. 22 Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – Twice As Good @ 10pm GameTime – Lavender Steel @ 8pm Jenk’s Club – Shorty Long @ 2pm; Garden State Radio & DJ Tony Gia @ 9pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; Overload River Rock - On the Beach: Jay & Rob 2:30pm-5:30pm Inside: Nicole & Denise 4pm-7pm; DJ Dante @ 10pm SUNDAY, AUG. 23 Blue Moon – Jazz Jam 3pm-7pm Jenk’s Club – The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2pm; B-street Band @ 6pm Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; Steal the Sky River Rock - On the Beach: Predator Dub Assassins 6pm-9pm; MONDAY, AUG. 24 Jenk’s Club – The Best of Jay & Rob @ 2pm Martell’s - Triple Play @ 2pm; Branded Park East – Bingo w/ Bacardi Ardi TUESDAY, AUG. 25 Blue Rock Café – 80’s Night w/ DJ Sway Fireside Grill – Trivia Night Jenk’s Club – Kashmir: Live Led Zeppelin Show @ 9pm Martell’s - Mike Dalton @ 2pm; Dr. Cheeko River Rock - On the Beach: Erik Bovino Pianist 4pm-7pm WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26 The Cabin – Poker Night GameTime – World Tavern Poker @ 6pm Jenk’s Club – Rachel Allyn @ 7pm; Logan Mize @ 9pm Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - No Standards @ 2pm; RPM River Rock - On the Beach: Gene Walk 4pm-7pm THURSDAY, AUG. 27 Blue Moon – Blues Jam @ 8pm Blue Rock – DJ Jenk’s Club – The Nerds & DJ Kirk Lopez @ 9pm

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Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Jamie Brown @ 2pm; Soul Cruisers Park East – Trivia 7pm-9pm; Beer Pong Tournament @ 9pm River Rock - On the Beach: Enjoy The Band 6pm-9pm FRIDAY, AUG. 28 Blue Moon – Live Music Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – Frankie 5pm – 8pm; NRG @ 10pm Jenk’s Club – Uke & Drum @ 2pm; Burnt Sienna & DJ Tony Gia @ 9pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Hold On Tight @ 2pm; Johnny Drama River Rock - Beach Party w/ DJ 5pm-9pm; Inside: Half-Brothers 4pm-7pm; Daddy Pop & DJ Adam @ 9:30pm SATURDAY, AUG. 29 Blue Rock – Live Bands The Cabin – Eddie Testa Band GameTime – Nine Deeez Nite @ 8pm Jenk’s Club – Brian Kirk & The Jirks @ 2pm La Riviera – Live Music & DJ Market Yard Grille – Live Music Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; Hold On Tight River Rock – On the Beach: Johny Moon 2:30pm-5:30pm Inside: Trane Stevens 3pm-7pm; DJ Infamous @ 10pm SUNDAY, AUG. 30 Blue Moon – Jazz Jam 3pm-7pm Jenk’s Club – The Flying Mueller Brothers @ 2pm; B-street Band @ 6pm Martell’s - Dr. Cheeko @ 12:30; Mike Dalton Band River Rock - On the Beach: Lisa & Wendy 4pm-7pm; Predator Dub Assassins 6pm-9pm; Inside: Wayne & Cat 4pm-7pm MONDAY, AUG. 31 Jenk’s Club – The Best of Jay & Rob @ 2pm Martell’s - Triple Play @ 2pm; Radio Nashville Park East – Bingo w/ Bacardi Ardi

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Sunday, Aug. 09 Summer Slaughter Tour: Arch Enemy, Born of Osiris & Veil of Maya Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ

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Thursday, Aug. 20 The Psychedelic Furs & The Church State Theater New Brunswick, NJ

Sunday, Aug. 23 Hippiefest: The Family Stone, Rick Derringer & Mitch Ryder Count Basie Theatre Red Bank, NJ

Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ

Sunday, Aug. 16 The Avett Brothers Stone Pony Asbury Park, NJ

Wednesday, Aug. 19 Boney Jones Count Basie Theatre Red Bank, NJ

Thursday, Aug. 20 Gladys Knight & The O’Jays

Count Basie Theatre Red Bank, NJ

Friday, Aug. 24 Under the Sun: Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra & Uncle Kracker Stone Pony Asbury Park, NJ

Thursday, Aug. 27 Eric Burdon and The Animals & Edgar Winter Group State Theater New Brunswick, NJ

Thursday, Aug. 27 Chase Rice Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ

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Atlantic City Saturday, Aug. 15 Borgata Darius Rucker

Friday, Aug. 07 Borgata Jerry Seinfeld

Saturday, Aug. 08 Tropicana KC & The Sunshine Band

Sunday, Aug. 16 Atlantic City Beach Maroon 5, Norah Jones & Matt McAndrew

Saturday, Aug. 08 Golden Nugget Stafford Brothers

Thursday, Aug. 20 Harrah’s Peaches & Herb

Sunday, Aug. 09 Resorts Soul Jam Saturday, Aug. 22 Borgata Santana

Wednesday, Aug. 12 Tropicana Kevin & Caruso: Madame Houdini

Saturday, Aug. 23 Borgata Jeff Foxworthy

Friday, Aug. 14 Borgata Bill O’Reilly & Dennis Miller

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Bring the entire family for an evening of fun while donating to a very worthwhile cause. Enjoy a bounce house, balloon animals, face painting, Sandy Notifications taco truck, virgin frozenHurricane bar, DJ …and much more!

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The process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product or a place in the minds of consumers.

Whether consumer, business proprietor or entrepreneur, you are affected and effected daily by the process known as “branding.” As a consumer, when you shop, you make a decision before you buy: are you looking to save money or are you looking to purchase the best known product? When you go out for an evening, are you heading “just anywhere” or to a venue with a good reputation?

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Likewise, when you consider building the reputation of your venue, are you the place to be known as “the least expensive in the area”, “the place to be seen”, or are you the establishment known for offering “the best value in town”?

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