CUPCAKES (& CHOCOLATE COVERED BACON) WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD: CONFECTIONS OF A ROCK STAR

“I have been going through 14 pounds of bacon a week and expect the summer to be even more. It is something you really have to try to believe how good it is. The awesome chocolate chip recipe is my dad’s – a little soft and the chocolate is gooey. We do not just put the dough in the oven and then they are done. It is the perfect cookie, if I can say that. I have been eating them since 1977 and so happy to finally share them with my customers.”

STATELY HOME 2013 SHOW HOUSE MORPHS HISTORY & STYLE: “THE BEST HOME YET”

Walking in to the new fantastical Stately Homes by the Sea mansion in Little Silver you feel the grand Great Gatsby-era living emanating from the trap-door bar and the silk-lined walls.  Listen closely and it is almost possible for the blue crystal chandelier to be shaking from the flappers dancing in the living room, rather […]

THE MAP YOU WANT IS HERE: #AsburyPark City Wide Yard Sale Benefitting @RescueRidge + @WOIRescue

Enabled for your smartphone here.  Also available in print in the May 2 issue of The Coaster – the area’s only award-winning weekly for 25 years – as well as on TheCoaster.net.

NJ’S FIRST LADY PRESENTS DONATION TO COASTAL HABITAT & HELPS REBUILD HOME

New Jersey’s First Lady, Mary Pat Christie, joined with Brookdale University student volunteers Friday to help repair a home damaged by Superstorm Sandy as well as announce a donation of $839,000 to Coastal Habitat for Humanity from the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund. Camp Evans in Wall has specifically been allocated $125,000 of the […]

“PAINT THE TOWN PINK” CAMPAIGN COMES TO AREA: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW

For the first time, Ocean Grove will become “Pink Grove” and Asbury Park will become “Asbury Pink” in May.  As well, you will see main streets with pink lines painted on them in “Pinktune,” “Pinktune Township” and “Pink by the Sea.” Thanks to the hard work of local volunteers and Meridian Health, the mammogram awareness-building […]

THIS IS THE LOGO YOU WANT TO SEE AT ASBURY PARK’S CITY-WIDE YARD SALE, SATURDAY, MAY 4

Next week, The Coaster and TheBPlot will publish the list of 40+ homes participating in Asbury Park’s City-Wide Yard Sale benefiting the companion animal rescue organizations Rescue Ridge and Wag On Inn.  Below is your first look at the signage that identifies the participating homes that will donate a portion of the sale proceeds to support the […]