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Designer Claire Thomas Transformed a Former Woodworking Shed Into a Guest House The copper kitchen will blow your mind. By Lauren Jones Clare Thomas The challenge was this: How do you take an empty box and turn it into a getaway that even your in-laws will love? Once a woodworking shop and music studio, this accessory dwelling unit behind a home in Venice Beach needed to be transformed into a guest cottage. The owners, Lacey Uhlemeyer, a world traveler and documentary filmmaker, and Ren...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (March 3, 2021) Updated Mar 03, 2021; not to the public just yet. Shuttered since the outbreak of the pandemic last March, the 260,000-square-foot facility on the Wildwood Boardwalk is unlocking its doors to host Spirit Brands “The Return” cheerleading competition on Saturday, March 6. However, only participants, judges and coaches will be allowed access and a maximum capacity of 150 will ...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Feb. 17, 2021) Updated Feb 22, 2021; The Watchung Arts Center will host a “Big Easy Mardi Gras” virtual celebration on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. The Mardi Gras Band will return after last year’s sellout performance with band leader and bassist Thaddeus Exposé, vocalist Arlee Leonard, pianist Brandon McCune, drummer Gordon Lane, trumpeter Michael Green and clarinetist Marty Eigen The ...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Feb. 10, 2021) Updated Feb 10, 2021; Posted Feb 10, 2021 Fort Lee-based Nai Ni Chen Dance will present a "Year of the Golden Ox" Chinese Lunar New Year celebration online from Feb. 11-13.nianichen.org Facebook Share A pair of New Jersey-based dance troupes are celebrating this weekend’s holidays with online performances: ♦ Nai Ni Chen Dance Company of Fort Lee will present a series of se...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 27, 2021) Updated Feb 01, 2021; A pair of New Jersey-based theater companies will be debuting online productions over the next week spotlighting important women in history: ♦ East Lynne Theater Company will present Stephanie Garrett reading “Lynching, Our National Crime,” a speech Ida B. Wells delivered at the National Negro Conference (forerunner to the NAACP) in New York City in ...

The Kitchy Kitchen forgot password | register OESTE PINK ROOM TOUR Hey guys! I’m so excited to share the pink room, or what I like to call Genie’s Bottle at Oeste—my latest design project with my good friend Yayo.  I grew up watching a lot of Nick at Nite and as a small girl I thought Genie’s Bottle was the most epic room of all time, so I really wanted to recreate something like that here, but with an Oeste twist. When Yayo and I were talking about it, we thought of Luis Barraga...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 20, 2021) Updated Jan 27, 2021; On Monday, Jan. 23, 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali died at the age of 84. On Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, the Ridgewood-based First Flight Theatre Company will bring him back to life with a virtual performance of “Salvador,” the Rick Young short play imagining the waning years of the eccentric Spanish artist’s life. The production will be performe...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 13, 2021) Updated Jan 13, 2021; ♦ The Theater Project is seeking entries for its 19th annual Young Playwrights Competition and, to serve as an incentive of sorts, the Union-based professional theater company will re-stream four of last year’s winning plays online 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday. The contest is open to New Jersey high school-aged residents. Deadline to enter the 2021 com...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 6, 2021) Updated Jan 06, 2021; Dreams, in a sense, are virtual happenings. This year, so is Dreamcatcher. The professional repertory theater ensemble based out of the Oakes Center in Summit is in the process of finalizing its new online season, starting with “In With the New,” an online fundraiser gala scheduled for live streaming 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10. The live event will feature p...

Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Dec. 30, 2020) Updated Dec 30, 2020; First Night Morris County, for one, was planning to celebrate its 29th year of offering an alternate “alcohol-free and substance-free celebration of arts and culture” with live events throughout downtown Morristown on New Year’s Eve. Instead, it will aim its efforts toward the internet with “First Night Reimagined,” a virtual celebration beginnin...