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Letter to Our Readers

It’s here: Summertime! In our State of New Jersey, we are blessed with approximately 125 miles of coastal shores spreading from the Bayshore area down to Cape May. If you visit any of our beaches along the shore today, you will find clean sands and magnificently clean surf.

In this issue, our writers have put together a brief, but helpful guide to assist you in planning and enjoying a complete experience as you make your daily visit to our shores.

Take a few minutes to review and read our Beach & Dine main feature. Then head to the beach and plan on visiting a local restaurant on your return home.

And speaking of restaurants, here’s one that has “a little bit of everything” for patrons, according to its owner. Sunday sports tailgate parties, upbeat live music on weekends, pool & darts and hearty tavern food. This is the Blue Rock Cafe in Cliffwood Beach. Read more in this month’s Restaurant Profile, then make a point of stopping by. It’s worth the visit.

Good music never dies … even after a 20 year hiatus. The group Colossal Street Jam has come back without missing a beat. The band originally formed back in 1989 and played together until 1994. During those five years they packed the Fastlane in Asbury Park and became the house band at the Stone Pony. Today, the band is together again and rocking the Shore area. Read more about them in this month’s Band Profile.

For those of you who look forward each month to learning about our female selection for Mixologist-of-the-Month, we have a surprise for you. In this issue, our writers have chosen a male bartender. Meet Chris Lyon, a mixologist who pours libations at River Rock Restaurant & Marina in Brick. This “jack of all trades,” as Chris is known by many, is a veteran bartender has worked as bar bouncer, bar manager, bar promoter and still manages to squeeze in a part-time career as a professional poker player.

To wrap things up, our “comic scribe”, Steve O introduces you to a standup comedian who has been honing his craft for more than ten years and has become an internet sensation, thanks mostly to YouTube. Read about Matt Bridgestone in this issue’s Comic Relief feature.

As I said in my opening line, “It’s Summertime!” Armed with the information our writers have provided, get out there and enjoy yourselves. Thank you.

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Publisher’s Letter................................................................................4 Sports Bars & Quiz..............................................................................6 Pro Sports Schedules........................................................................8 Restaurant Profile.............................................................................12 Band Profile........................................................................................14 Mixologist ..........................................................................................16 Catering ..............................................................................................18 Main Feature .....................................................................................20 BYO’s ................................................................................................... 22 Libations .............................................................................................23 Two on the Aisle ..............................................................................24 Comic Relief .......................................................................................26 Dining Pleasures ..............................................................................30 Happy Hours......................................................................................34 Where it’s happening! ....................................................................35 Concerts & Theater...........................................................................36 Plugged into AC ..............................................................................37 Venues Cares......................................................................................38 The Last Word....................................................................................38 Graphics & Design Daria Kenny

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njoy a fantastic Sunday sports tailgate party with free food, hear upbeat live music on weekends, play pool or darts, chow down on some hearty tavern food and enjoy all of it from a restaurant view that overlooks Raritan Bay. This is the Blue Rock Cafe in Cliffwood Beach, which according to owner Billy Parker, offers “a little bit of everything,” for patrons.

Parker had been leasing the Blue Rock Cafe for about 12 years but purchased the property in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the area destroying the restaurant and everything in it.

Using the frame, which was all that remained of the building after the storm, Parker gutted what was left of the restaurant, and started from scratch to build it up. He put in new floors and walls and purchased all new equipment. Keeping the exterior of the building the same, Parker made numerous changes to the restaurant’s “If you’re out on the boat you can dock your boat in one of our boat slips and come in and have something to eat and drink,” he suggests, saying that there is no charge for the boat slip docking. “The boat slips are just for my customers,” he adds. “I don’t rent them out.”

Sports lovers will be able to view their favorite games on the 22 inside TV screens as well as the eight outside TV screens on the outdoor wooden deck overlooking the water.

The Blue Rock Cafe welcomes people of all ages, from children to adults. “We have families come here, we have couples, the young and the older,” says Parker.

“It’s a melting pot. We welcome everyone.”

The restaurant offers daily lunch specials from $6.99 and offers nightly menu specials as well. Monday nights are Crab Night ($13.95), and also feature $5.99 Steamers. Tuesdays are Lobster Night ($13.95), plus $5.99 Mussels Marinara. Wednesdays are Ribs Night ($13.95), with a $5.99 special on Steamed Roasted Clams. Thursdays are Steak Night ($13.95) that also offers $5.99 Jumbo Wings.

And fresh seafood is available all day and all night at the Blue Rock Café.

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interior. He dressed it up, added all new furniture and accessories, decorated it in a fitting nautical theme and lined the restaurant walls with cool sports memorabilia -- then reopened for business.

“There used to be two rooms here, a bar and a dining room. We now have one big room which opened up the place. We have two bars inside and a bar and tables outside for outdoor entertainment. We also have a stage inside for live entertainment,” Parker describes.

This family-friendly eatery/sports bar offers all major sports packages, in addition to a night club with live entertainment and DJs on weekend, and is a great place to enjoy hearty foods, refreshing libations, daily lunch specials and nightly dinner specials as well.

There are even boat slips for “dock and dine.”

Those who wish to partake in libations with their meal or appetizer can enjoy $2 pints of beer seven-days-aweek.

Patrons can also enjoy $2 dollars pints of beer, house drinks, shot specials and a DJ on Tuesdays which is 80s and 90s night. On Wednesday nights a beer pong tournament is on tap and offers $2,000 in cash prizes. And, there is no entry fee for the tournament. Also on tap on Wednesdays are ½ price wine by the glass.

Visit the Blue Rock Café on Thursday nights and enjoy 23-ounce domestic drafts for $2 along with DJ entertainment.

And if music is your thing, stop in on Fridays and Saturdays where guests are treated to entertainment from live bands or DJs. And, there is never any cover

charge for the great entertainment here at the Blue Rock Café.

Visit this popular eatery Monday through Friday between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm to partake in Happy Hour with both drink and appetizer specials, including $7.99 bar pies.

“We have a Sports Tailgate Party every Sunday, starting at 11:00 am, rain or shine, with hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage and chicken and there is no charge for the food. You just pay for your drinks,” Parker says. “We turn on all the grills and BBQ. We have been doing this for years.”

The Blue Rock also provides a spectacular fireworks show every July Fourth.

If you have a celebration coming up, Parker and The Blue Rock Café will be happy to help you plan your event with take-out catering or a private room for your party.

Whether it is “date night,” a family dinner, a special party or a get together with friends, the Blue Rock Cafe will become a favorite destination.

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The Wonder Bar. The guys pulled a great crowd so they began writing new material and decided to give music making a full-time shot again. “We’re a little bit older, but we’re a lot wiser and it’s definitely been a nice surprise, the reaction to everything we’ve been doing,” Potts relates.

Recently reformed after a 20-year hiatus, Colossal Street Jam has come back without missing a beat and is once again tearing it up around Asbury Park. Consisting of Gene Potts on lead vocals, Sal Marra on guitar, Tony Flora on bass, and George Papa on drums.

The band originally formed back in 1989 and played together until taking an extended hiatus in 1994. But in those five years they would pack the Fastlane in Asbury Park and became the house band at the Stone Pony, performing there weekly. “Back then being 19, 20 years old, it was awesome, we had a great time,” recalls Potts. “We did Thursdays for a while then we moved up to Sundays and we just played our own material.” They would occasionally play in New York and Philadelphia, but Asbury was always considered the home of Colossal Street Jam. They put out a record in 1993 that garnered some interest from a few labels, but nothing stuck and when they felt they had hit a wall in 1994 they decided it was time to pursue other projects.

Their writing style has changed in two decades as they now write shorter and catchier songs than they did before. In the ‘90s they were more of a jam band and all their songs were open ended. They have recorded five new songs which have been released on ReverbNation to positive reviews; re-energized, they are working on more songs, so everything they play is new even though they have a backlog of songs from their original run. They made 100 CDs of their new work, all of which were sold in less than a week.

The summer isn’t booked for Colossal Street Jam, though they each continue to work on other projects, but they still meet up every other week to rehearse and write new material while they await confirmation on a few national acts as well. Potts is busy in the summer playing with the Guns 4 Hire Acoustic

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Once all their other projects slow down after the summer rush, look for Colossal Street Jam to add more shows and complete a new album. They’re thrilled to be back making original music once again so make sure to keep an eye out for when their schedule opens up.

Be sure to like Colossal Street Jam on Facebook for any updates and head over to reverbnation.com/colossalstreetjam to listen to and buy their latest hits.

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Chris Lyon has been called a “jack of all trades,” by many. The phrase fits since this veteran bartender has worked as bar bouncer, bar manager, bar promoter and still manages to squeeze in a parttime career as a professional poker player.

Lyon, who tends bar at the River Rock Restaurant & Marina in Brick, has been mixing up drinks there for years. Starting in 2001 as head bouncer when the eatery was the Marina Grill, he became a bartender there in 2006 and in 2007 he took on the position of bar manager. He left the field from 2009 to 2011 to try his hand at professional poker playing full time.

“I’ve been playing poker since I was a kid,” Lyon says. “I did well when I went full-time with it in 2009.

The first year I played in Atlantic City I managed to pay off my house. Although I made money the second year, it wasn’t enough so I decided to go

back to bartending and play poker part-time in 1000 tournaments in Atlantic City and has played Atlantic City.” cash poker as well. It seems that “#winning” should Over the years, Lyon has participated in over be Lyon’s own tagline. “Poker is quick easy money,” he relates, adding, “I went to AC last week at 9:00 am., picked up a quick $600, and was on my way back at 1:00 pm.’”

He plays poker about three or four times a week either online or in Atlantic City, adding that he is glad online poker is now legal in the state. “Makes it easier,” he emphasizes. With the online game, he can also play poker at home.

“I know how to minimize my unluckiness,” Lyon says of his poker playing. “That’s the key to the game. I think I’m better than everybody so they need to be lucky to win. So I try to minimize their ‘X’ factor so I can win more. I read people well and over the years I’ve learned how people will react to things. And, I know the game. You go with what you’re good at.”

Lyon says he is three classes shy of earning his bachelor’s degree at Montclair State University and admits he didn’t complete the program in financing because he realized he “loved the night life,” and couldn’t see himself behind a desk.

All he learned, however, comes in handy now and will serve him well if at some point he may indeed open his own business.

Right now though, Lyon is still able to “live the nightlife” when he plays poker, no matter what time of the day or night it is.

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Party Hearty The month of July starts off with the celebration of Independence Day (July 4th). It’s the perfect time to get together with family & friends for BBQ’s, picnics, etc. As host, you should enjoy these outdoor activities along with everyone else.

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“Fun you live.

O Home” N knows B where R O A Granted, it’s unlikely that many details of your childhood exactly resemble those of the narrator of this extraordinary musical, which pumps oxygenating fresh air into the cultural recycling center that is Broadway.

Yet this impeccably shaded portrait of a girl and her father, appearing at the Circle in the Square Theater, occupies the place where we all grew up, and will never be able to leave. That’s the shifting landscape where our parents, whether living or dead, will always reign as the most familiar and elusive people we will ever encounter.

Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s fine graphic novel of a memoir, with an incisive book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and heartgripping music by Jeanine Tesori, “Fun Home” might be described as a universal detective story. Set in three ages of one woman’s life, it tries to solve the sort of classic mystery that keeps grown-ups in analysis for decades: Who are these strange people who made me?

The focus of that question here is an especially knotty case. Meet Bruce (Michael

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Sounds like the stuff of a pulpy Lifetime movie, doesn’t it, or of a choked-up, closure-seeking best seller? But while “Fun Home” is likely to keep you wet-eyed, it is also wryly and compellingly clear eyed — or as clear eyed as hindsight allows, when it’s your own family you’re scrutinizing.

The focus keeps changing in “Fun Home,” as do the time-stopping frames of the woman whose memory we inhabit.

That’s Alison (Beth Malone), a 43-year-old graphic artist who is using her pen to draw her past into perspective. The objects she sees in the rearview mirror are both closer and farther away than they appear.

She has two vital accomplices in this

task: the child and the college student she once was. These earlier versions of Alison kept journals, trying to make sense of a world that felt slightly off-kilter for many reasons, including her own nascent attraction to other women.

The adult Alison is seen peering over the shoulders (literally) of her former selves, wincing at what she was. She also conjures up the carefully restored, old house where she lived with her brothers and the Oberlin College campus, where she fell in love with a fellow student named Joan and the lonely drawing desk where Alison works to give shape and substance to her ghosts.

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Mr. Cerveris, an unforgettably fierce Sweeney Todd in John Doyle’s 2005 revival, rises to the challenge of the show’s toughest role. Bruce isn’t just a man with a double life, but a character shaped with love and exasperation, recrimination and guilt by Alison’s recollection of him. As played

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In this production, the audience becomes, more than ever, part of the part of the Bechdel family circle and for better or worse (for me, it’s for better) ….. we’re home.

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by Steve Ortlieb

Selena Bridgestone Coppock Matt

This month we’re highlighting local comedian Matt Bridgestone. Matt’s been working on his craft for more than 10 years and has become something of an internet sensation, in large part through YouTube. And never let it be said that Bridgestone is a man of very few words -- as you shall read.

by Steve Ortlieb

was hosted by John Mulrooney. It was all stand- Cuisine” in South Amboy. How did that come about? up comedy and you would get to see about five : I wasand on craigslist one day that and came across togo study improv comedy further it was improv comics per show. I used to to school and do all MB: this restaurant that was looking for really ledthem me up. to standup.

I did improv for years and new ideas to the routines for people and crack I was in there. went and saw the place and eventually just agot of people working with Iother people, 10 at the time so I think I get a pass on Ibeing jokesickget was blown away by how nice it was.

They also had which makes me sound like a total curmudgeon, I know. thief. this upstairs room that they never used. I started Stand veryattough. be able I wrote my up firstisjoke nine You doinghave showstothere and to sawtake a lot of potential. My rejection.

How’d you handle your first bomb, unless and I remember it. Here it brother lent me the money to fix it up and turn it you’re the oneNintendo comic who’s experienced that? is: So I’m playing into never a real club. and I hear, “Matthew, stop the club a beautifulthat process because playing Nintendo,isit’sdefinitely time Building The rejection hard and it’s was something it was literally created by comedians.

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Early clean, install a stageespecially and lights and much attended Rutgers, right? Where and have any fun. listenedcan to bepaint, to like me, Iwhich dangerous territory, more.have I get to suchbea warm feelingand there because of it. when do you think you got the Eddie Richard You for Murphy female and comedians. confident comedy itch?

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My brother and NJ. I Ijest course the stage and also trustgotmyself more. I think of standup as 15th I got Vinny from “Jersey Shore” hosting. That October 30th, mischief night, 1978, been performing stand up for eight years and her new me into Carlin, which like George training a dog -- if you get out there and you’re should be a trip. in Brookdale hospital Brooklyn.

Brookdale launches was is when book, The NewinRules For Blondes, in April.

I realized that comedy could make you confident and in control, the audience is with you. just ranked the most dangerous hospital in New think also. Bill Hicks tookBut thatifconcept to the anext you exude senseI also of nervousness or you seem was lucky enough to have started a comedy York. Then I went to public school in Canarsie. I level for me, and he is myinsecure, all-time favorite. they’ll eat you alive.

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Someone’ schools practiceso themuch “no child left behind” from the inner it and keep on going and eventually I’ll hit on a joke or timebut writing musicals ourchild bedrooms, program, my school had thein“no left at Ichoreographing went there, my family was the only poor left.them Message reference thatJews wins over. him on Facebook, under Matt Bridgestone, strangeI dance numbers, and watching Night all” program. moved to New Jersey when I was “Saturday That meant that about 90% of the people there or email him at battbridgestone@hotmail.com.

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Quaker Steak & Lube

1036 Cedar Bridge Rd. 732-255-5823

Riverwatch

799 Rt. 70…732-920-8900

HOWELL

18 E. Main Street…732-431-3220

Metropolitan Café

8 E. Main Street…732-780-9400

Park 33

618 Park Ave.…732-761-1300

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Pearl of the Sea

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Wine Loft

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357 Rt. 9 S…732-536-0207

Spargos Grille

130 Rt. 33…732-294-9992

The Sycamore Grille @ Knob Hill

1 Shinnecock Drive 732-792-9909

MANCHESTER

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1900 Rt. 70 732-657-0006

21 S. Hope Chapel Road 732-367-3333

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Brioso’s

Nonna’s

190 Rt. 9 N…732-536-9050

Rosalita’s

180 Rt. 9 North, Marlboro, NJ 732-617-0099

Sam Vera

476 Rt. 520…732-834-9889

43 Rt. 35 S…732-775-9517

Pete & Elda’s

96 Woodland Ave.…732-774-6010

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74 Main St.…732-566-0267

Café Luna

133 Rt. 79…732-780-7900

3857 Hwy 516…732-607-1115

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305 Hwy 34 Na…732-583-2626

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3679 Rt. 9 N…732-965-5490

845 Hwy 34 732-566-6220

Café 34

Hwy 34…732-583-9700

La Riviera

113 Main Street 732-566-8400

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Pine Tavern

Rt. 34 & Cottrell Rd. 732-727-5060

69 Broad Street 732-747-6969

Tommy’s Coal Fired Pizza 2 Bridge St. 732-212-1700

Zebu

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132 East River Road 732-530-2882

Salt Creek Grille

1178 Rt. 35 @ Village Mall 732-671-8900

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520 Rt. 33 W 732-446-8500

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1647 Rt. 35 N…732-531-7555

414Rt. 35 S…732-892-6000 300 Ocean Ave, 732-899-0569 308-310 Boardwalk…732-892-0131

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14 Park Road 732-935-1158

MJ’s

1213 Sycamore Ave. 732-542-3131

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Shogun Legacy

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SEA GIRT

1411 Rt. 36 732-264-5222

597 Washington Blvd.

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2007 Hwy 35 732-280-3676

Four Winds

1310 Jefferson Ave. 732-223-9579

Basil T’s

2207 SW Central Ave. 732-830-2770

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CJ McLoone’s

1969 Rt. 34 South 732-449-6696

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Big Shots Sport Bar

Shadowbrook

Chris Michaels

183 Riverside Ave.…732-842-5990 50 Maple Street…732-530-5858

The Downtown Street

10 W. Front…732-741-2882

Dublin House

30 Monmouth Street 732-747-6699 6 Linden Place…732-224-8699

Melting Pot

2 Bridge Ave.…732-219-0090

New Corner

22 E. Front Street…732-530-1007

Savanna

10 Bridge Ave.…732-741-6333

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2031 Rt. 71 S 732-449-2636

Piero’s

709 Arnold Ave.…732-295-0709

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St. Stephen’s Green

1 E. Church Street 732-976-1300

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1005 Rt. 35 N 732-796-1400

101 Old Mill Road 732-449-1800

1536North Bay Ave. 732-286-9888

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The Mill

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Jenks Pavilion

Hwy 35 & S Union Sq. Mall 732-842-1115

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3843 Rt. 9 N…732-591-0333

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Black Trumpet

4 Bingham Ave. 732-933-9272

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500 Rt. 35 S…732-758-0058

25 Whitehead Ave. 732-257-1100

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27 Freneau Ave (Rt. 79) 732-758-0800

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Blue Moon

114 S. Broadway 732-525-0014

Landmark Tavern & Cafe 117 N. Broadway 732-721-6812

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780 Rt. 1 North 732-750-5050

40 Oakwood Ave. 732-634-5355

Rugs & Riffy’s

493 Rahway Ave. 732-636-3747

The Shannon Rose 855 St Georges Ave. 732-636-6100

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