Rick Mellerup

Shows Include ‘Top Hat,’ ‘42nd Street’ and ‘West Side Story’

The Grunin Center for the Performing Arts at Ocean County College is hosting the Southern California-based band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Swing music isn’t dead, thanks to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The band has been described as a “contemporary swing revival band.” If you check out some YouTube videos you’ll discover it’s super […]

The Stafford Township Arts Center will host two holiday season shows this winter that will likely become audience favorites. Surely the Atlantic City Ballet performance of “It’s a Shore Holiday” will brighten the start of your holiday season. It will be performed at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 1 at the STAC in Manahawkin. Tickets are $35 for adults and […]

The Stafford Township Arts Center will host the tribute band Forever Simon and Garfunkel at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. Tickets are $60 for orchestra seating and $50 for seats in the mezzanine. They may be purchased online at stacnj or by calling 1-718-423-8394. Simon and Garfunkel certainly had much success in the 1960s, winning seven Grammy Awards. They […]

Christmas isn’t the only late-autumn and early-winter holiday. There was Thanksgiving, and of course New Year’s will cap off the season, although some would say Super Bowl Sunday has become the last major holiday of the early winter. And let’s not forget Hanukkah, the eight-day festival of lights, which begins on Dec. 25 this year. And Kwanzaa begins on Dec. 26. […]

The Little Egg Harbor Board of Education unanimously approved the first reading of a revised policy regarding the student use of cellphones and other electronic devices at its November meeting. Shortly into the meeting, during the board work session, board member Laura Erber, head of the policy committee, gave some background. “The policy committee met on the 12th, just two […]

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(Supplied Photo) The Stockton University Performing Arts Center is pulling a few Christmas chestnuts out of the fire as it completes its 2024 season.

Surflight Theatre and the Stafford Township Arts Center are both hosting musical double-headers on New Year’s Eve, both paying homage to the music of the 1950s and mostly early ’60s. The former will present a Surflight staple, the Rave-Ons, led by Todd Meredith, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $45 and may be purchased online at surflight.org. You […]

Winter officially begins on Dec. 21, so it’s time to look at some winter weather forecasts for the 2024-25 season. Let’s start with the official government forecast, courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “This winter, NOAA predicts wetter-than-average conditions for the entire northern tier of the continental U.S., particularly in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes Region, […]