Help Clean OUR Beaches!

Here is a link with information about the 2010 NJ beach cleanups.  Every year, before and after the beach season, NJ sweeps its beaches clean.  Help out!

  Here are a few links I found to music concerts in New Jersey

• Fun New Jersey
• Coast to Coast Tickets
• Free Summer Concerts

Summer Festivals

    I dug around and found some festivals going on in southern Jersey this semester:

• Spring Camp Jam in the Pines
• Highland Park Street Fair and Craft Show
• Cape May Boardwalk Craft Show
• Juried Art and Craft Show Atlantic City Outlets
• Promenade Art Show
• Long Beach Island Festival of the Arts
• Collingswood Crafts and Fine Art Festival
• Monmouth County Fine Arts Festival

Atlantic City

    After looking over the map I literally just made, it occured to me I haven’t really been to the Jersey shore since starting this blog.  And coincidences be damned, a friend just called me up wondering if I wanted to take a trip to Atlantic City where a mutual friend of ours, a girl I haven’t seen in years, is having her 21st birthday party.  So of course I said “hell yea” and told him to pick me up on the way.  Anyhows, check back in a week or so for some pictures and stories of drunken escapades in New Jersey’s finest municipality.

Map of Places I’ve Been

    I’ve been all around southern New Jersey these past couple of months, taking trips to all sorts of different destinations that it is beginning to become a task keeping track of where I have been.  So to help visualize exactly where and what I’ve seen I’ve put together an interactive map:

Broadway Theatre in Pitman

    It was a gorgeous afternoon in southern New Jersey today, so with the anticipation of spring on my skin I decided I’d have a walk around Pitman.  Granted to say, I was pleased: the smell of fresh Italian food from Mama Marie’s combined with the classical jazz echoing into the street from an antiques shop made me wish to explore all the little town centers in south New Jersey.  Pitman’s a small borough with a population of roughly 9,000, but if you walk the 300 or so yards of Broadway Ave that are sidewalked, you’ll appreciate the quaintness.  This sidewalked stretch offers a number of unique shops and plenty of cafes, restaurants and pizzarias.  Most importantly this is where the Broadway Theatre resides.

    The Broadway Theatre in Pitman has a number of upcoming shows I thought I’d share:

• To Kill a Mockingbird  is playing from March 12 till April 3
• My Way, based on the book by Todd Olson, is scheduled from April 30 till May 22.  The play features 50 Frank Sinatra songs.
• Joseph and the Technicolored Dreamcoat.  I saw this play featuring Donny Osmond (my mom’s a huge fan) at the Windmill Playhouse a while back.  Check back for a review, I might just have to buy a ticket.  It starts July 16 and continues until August 7.
• Lost in Yonkers, a Tony Award Winning play, is on from September 10 till October 2.
• The King and I, a classic, on stage starting October 29 and ending November 30

What really caught my eye was the sign for The Ultimate Elvis Concert.  I’m going to get some more information about this one since, being an Elvis fan, I can see this being a great drunk-sing-a-long.  Anyhows, it’s not just a single Elvis impersonator, they have two: Doug Church and Jim Barone.  The show takes the stage 7:30pm on the night of Saturday April, 24.  A little steep, I don’t know: tickets are $40 at the box office.

    Box office hours for the play house are as follows: Monday-Thursday 5pm-7pm; Friday and Saturday 6pm-8pm; Sunday 12pm-2pm.  The telephone number is 856-384-8381.  The address for the Broadway Theatre is 3 South Broadway, Pitman NJ. 

Bad Night

    I justed got jumped, for a cigarette.  As an important travel tip: don’t visit Glassboro.  Appartently in this neighborhood of tobacco desparate guidos, a half pack of Camel filters is a noble cause to kick a man in the head. 

    I called the police as soon as I was sure the craven assholes had abandoned a view of me.  The Glassboro Police did a great job: after eight minutes of giving the operator directions the cops showed up in six. 

    The Po’s had me give them a description of the stalk, scramble and beating gifted to me. 

    They called an ambulance whose sole purpose was to  provide me icepacks. 

    I was then driven home by a serviceful officer, and now I’m headed outside to enjoy, along with an icy Bud Light, the single tasty boegie I was able to recover from my savage assault.  

    May the Universe betray you beasted, guilted, dumbtopped dullards; and may those sticks provide you the deservedly agonizing death with which you prescribed yourselves.

Winter Water Parks?

I ran into this site the earlier and I thought I should post it.  It’s an indoor water park just off 295 in Mt. Laurel.  So yes, you can visit waterparks in the winter.  The place is called Cocokey, it’s connected to a Marriot Hotel.  I think they want people to look at it more as a resort than a one day trip.  I haven’t been there myself, so if anyone could fill me in on some details, ere I venture over, that’d be great.

Trip To TrenTon

    I got the call from my mechanic the other day and as soon as the snow cleared out I hitched a ride home with my roommate.  I picked up my car and left this morning with the intention of checking out the New Jersey State Museum but, when I got there, I found the parking garage was closed. 

    This wasn’t all too bad though; there is plenty to do in Trenton’s Capitol Complex.  If you walk down West State Street you will come across the Thomas Edison State College, the State House, the WWII Memorial, the State Library and the State Museum which now has a planetarium apparently.  Right around the corner from all of this is the Old Barracks Museum, a Masonic Temple and another War Memorial.  I suggest parking in the Hotel and Public Parking garage on South Warren as it is considerably cheaper than the other parking lots and garages I passed: I paid $4 for two hours.

•     The Old Barracks Museum, on the aptly named Barracks Street, is open daily from 10am-5pm.  For the walk-in tours adults will pay $8, seniors and students $6, and kids who are under five get to waltz in free of charge.  If you are traveling in a group of fifteen or more you need to set up a reservation ahead of time by calling 609-396-1776 (the number is a coincidence, I assure you).  The museum offers a number of different group tours that you can look into by visiting their website  http://www.barracks.org/activities/group-tours.html.

 

• The New Jersey State Library is open for the perusal of its collection, which boasts 185,000 non-fiction titles, Monday through Friday from 8:30-5.  It used to be open on Saturdays until budget cuts crept up; it has always been closed on Sundays.  The primary goal for the New Jersey State Library is to provide library resources to the New Jersey State government–which is why it is literally right next to the state house, but they do welcome all of you avid civilian readers.  You can visit their site here at http://www.njstatelib.org/.

 

•  The New Jersey State Museum, which I will definitely get to sometime soon, has a shit ton of things to do and see.  If you check out their website, http://www.state.nj.us/state/museum/index.htm, it is readily apparent you could easily spend an entire day there.

 

• If you are a Freemason, or just intrigued about how much they actually did do establish our country, they offer free tours of their lodge daily.  Visit their sight to find out the times as they are different each day: http://www.mercer50.com/2009_patriots_week.htm (for patriotic fervor, crank the volume on your computer, its hard to hear the music).

Hey, everyone.  My name is D.B. and I am, a bit of a wanderer.  I can’t stay in one place for very long, but at the same I have buckled myself down at Rowan University while I get my degree in Journalism.  So, to relieve some of the anxiousness in my limbs, I have decided to keep a blog about interesting places to visit in Southern New Jersey.  Each weekend I will venture from campus to a museum, park, monument, festival, or whatever it may be that I feel like experiencing at the moment.  Of course, if anybody has been anywhere recently that completely blew their minds, let me know.  I am always looking for interesting places to visit.