Rent a floating tiki bar
Last summer, visitors to Long Beach Island might have noticed something out of the ordinary while making their way over the causeway: floating, straw-topped tiki bars crisscrossing Manahawkin Bay.
The boats are from Cruisin Tikis Long Beach Island, a franchise of a Florida-based business that started when its founder, an engineer, combined two things he enjoys: a tiki bar and a boat. I saw the boats originally in Key West in 2018, said franchise owner Mike Bishop, who owns the Long Beach Island boats with his fiancée, Paige Meelheim. I thought it would be cool to bring it to the Jersey Shore.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (May 12, 2021)
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Performing virtually during last year s Cape May Music Festival are, from left, Bay Symphony Orchestra conductor Jed Gaylin, flautist Susan Rotholz and New York Chamber Ensemble artistic director Eliot Ballen. This year s fest will start with a virtual concert but then move to live performances starting Memorial Day weekend.Photo courtesy of Cape May MAC
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♦ The 32nd annual Cape May Music Festival begins 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, May 13, with a free virtual concert prerecorded and presented by Cape May MAC, the New York Chamber Ensemble and the Bay Atlantic Symphony. A live Q&A will follow the performance.
Beach Plum Farm, and you’ll want to make time
to check it out on your way to the beach. Visit with a host of wandering chickens, gather provisions for your beach house or pack a picnic to be enjoyed from your beach blanket. This is also a good place to buy gifts for foodies back home.
140 Stevens St.; 883-327-6268, beachplumfarmcapemay.com.
The ocean beckons
By now, you’re probably saying, Didn’t I come here for the beach? You have some choices here – you can head into Cape May proper and spend the day on the Atlantic, where you will be close to amenities and the promenade if you are someone who likes to people watch and stroll. Or you can head to the end of the peninsula and spend the day at Cape May Point. Parking is available at the Cape May Lighthouse, where you will also find bathrooms, a nature center and a bird-watching observatory, or on the street. There is no swimming on the portion of the beach nearest the lighthouse, but you can find beach access sever
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Several live, on-location musical events will feature women artists this Mother’s Day weekend:
♦ South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange is bringing its stage back to life on Friday, May 7, with a concert by singer-songwriter and New Jersey native Dana Fuchs. The show will be limited to 100 audience members in the theater, but also will be streamed live online.
♦ Broadway veteran Kelli Rabke will premiere her new cabaret show, “Tiny Giants Petite Powerhouses from Garland to Gaga,” at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown with performances 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8. As indicated by its title, the show will pay tribute to “small-in-stature” women vocalists, including Edith Piaf, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, the singers whose names are incorporated in the show’s title, and others. (Rabke,
Officials haven't revealed all the changes and additions going on at the Lehigh Valley Zoo over the next seven to 10 years, but they did say lions aren't part of the plan.