Posted in Asbury Park, Asbury Park lifestyles, tagged Asbury Park boardwalk on September 12, 2019|
Paul Goldfinger. Asbury Park Boardwalk. Undated ©
ELLA FITZGERALD (With Ellis Larkens) from her album Songs in a Mellow Mood. The song “What is There to Say” was written by Vernon Duke (music) and “Yip” Harburg (lyrics) for the 1934 Ziegfeld Follies. Duke was a Russian immigrant who also wrote serious “classical” music.
Posted in Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park history, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Chicago on Blogfinger on September 6, 2019|
Main Street (Rt 71). Asbury Park. September 5, 2019. Paul Goldfinger ©. Number please? Click on the photo.
CHICAGO: “Call On Me.”
Posted in Asbury Park, Nocturnal Asbury Park, tagged Photo: Nocturnal Asbury on September 4, 2019|
Paul Goldfinger ©; September 2, 2019. Paul Goldfinger ©
THE SHIRELLES (Music by Carole King)
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents, tagged 3 Little Maids From School, Taka Restaurant on July 29, 2019|
Taka, Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park. Paul Goldfinger photo. July, 2019.© click to enlarge.
If you would visit Cookman Avenue on a Saturday night, you would see many college age girls dressed up for bar hopping and fine dining. They might travel with guys, or they might walk about in groups of three or four.
4 little maids from school. Paul Goldfinger photo on the boards in Asbury Park. ©. Say. “Hi Mom.”
So here is a song from the Mikado which addresses such a group:
D’OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY: From the Mikado.
Posted in Art, Asbury connection with Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Casino Gallery. Asbury Park on June 6, 2019|
Casino Gallery #3. Asbury Park. Paul Goldfinger © Blogfinger.net
BØRNS “Past Lives.” from the album Dopamine”
Posted in Art, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Asbury Park boardwalk on October 29, 2018|
Paul Goldfinger ©. October, 2018. Click to enlarge.
THE BIRD AND THE BEE
“I’m Into Something Good” (From the movie Valentine’s Day)
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park lifestyles, Asbury Park news on Blogfinger.net, Blogfinger Presents, tagged The Hotel Asbury in Asbury Park on October 15, 2018|
The lobby bar at The Asbury is the Soundbooth where you can hear live music every night. All photos by Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net. Re-post from July 21, 2016. © Click on the music below and then return here.
Check in here or visit the juice/coffee bar. Get a snack and sit down and relax. No pressure. © Paul Goldfinger photo ©.
The nocturnal Asbury. July 2016. Paul Goldfinger ©
One time, in Paris, we wanted to walk through the lobby of the Hotel George V, a very ritzy famous place. But we were not allowed to even walk in the front doors. Some hotels are fussy about non-guests coming in. But the new Asbury Hotel at Kingsley and 5th Avenue, near the ocean by the Paramount Theater, is just the opposite.
Architect Anda Andrei (looking at us) was guiding a photo-shoot in the lobby. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©
The designer/architect Anda Andrei wants her new hotel to be full of life and to be welcoming. Steve Valk and I took a tour of her new Asbury Park establishment and we found out that they want the public to come in and visit: have a coffee, listen to live music, sit at the bar, do your homework, or chat with the staff.
Be sure to check out the roof top space called “Salvation” where the views are spectacular in all directions. It is particularly impressive at night.
The eastward view from Salvation (not the mystical place; it is a wonderful rooftop lounge and bar.) Paul Goldfinger photo ©
Roof top lounge and bar. Photo from the NY Times July 5, 2016 by Tony Cenicola © See link below.
You can also watch classic or cult movies at the roof top garden called The Baronet, a tribute to the old Asbury Park theater which was torn down a few years ago.
Rooftop garden “The Baronet” where you can watch movies every night. © Paul Goldfinger photo.
In the lobby you can have casual food like a sandwich or something from the juice bar or the coffee bar. Steve and I ordered cappuccinos, and they were very good.The lobby bar area is called the “Soundbar” and it is beautiful and functions as a music venue.
More relaxation space on the ground floor. Paul Goldfinger photo
In fact you will marvel at the functional and gorgeous design features. Every night there is live music in the lobby, and you can just walk in and sit down. The staff is welcoming and very proud of their hotel.
If you are from Ocean Grove, do not fail to walk or bike or even drive (there are parking meters) to the Asbury. You will be impressed and you will enjoy yourself even if you don’t rent a room…but then again….
Paul Goldfinger, Travel Editor @Blogfinger.net
THE HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO: “J’Attendrai”
LINK: Click on this NY Times article below.
Here is a link to a Blogfinger article in response to the Times piece above:
Posted in Asbury Park, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Ain't misbehaven in Asbury Park on June 10, 2018|
Asbury Park Boardwalk. c. 2014. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to see that three’s not a crowd. Re-posted from 2016.
BILLIE HOLIDAY AND HER ORCHESTRA. From the Woody movie Celebrity
Posted in Art, Asbury connection with Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Blogfinger Presents on November 4, 2017| 4 Comments »
Paul Goldfinger © Bond Street. A. Park. October, 2017.
There seems to be a fondness for spontaneous art appearing throughout the hip city of Asbury Park. You can see it on walls in the Casino, on the boardwalk and around the artsy neighborhood of Cookman Avenue and its side-streets–even painted on windows and doorways. Art is especially beautiful when it is part of the everyday life of the people.
It reminds me of the work of Seward Johnson, the sculptor of ordinary folks, whose work is often found in public places:
Carl Hoffman of Ocean Grove helping this Princeton student prepare for SAT’s in Palmer Square. The boy is by Seward Johnson. Blogfinger photo © 2015
Ocean Grove can use some public art to liven up the place. The town has no significant outdoors art displays for the public to enjoy. It is wonderful when one can walk down a street and come across an art show of some sort, and Asbury seems committed to bringing their city to life with art.
Paul Goldfinger ©. The Casino belongs to A. Park.
AP Boardwalk 2016
Indie 184 2015. Asbury Boardwalk. Blogfinger photo.
Here’s a link to our article last year about Seward Johnson’s work in Spring Lake:
Seward Johnson in Spring Lake, 2016.
BRUNO MARS:
Posted in Art, Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Blogfinger Presents, tagged The ShowRoom in Asbury Park on April 5, 2016|
The ShowRoom Cinema on 707 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park: “Due to overwhelming demand, the first installment of our Art and Architecture in Cinema series returns April 10th and 12th at 1pm. Tickets on sale now at http://www.theshowroomap.com and the Cinema box office.”
YO-YO MA AND TON KOOPMAN with the AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA. Bach’s “Air (Suite iii)”
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged A bright future in Asbury Park, James Taylor on Blogfinger on February 19, 2016|
A. Park near the RR tracks. By Paul Goldfinger © Feb. 18, 2016. Click to enlarge.
JAMES TAYLOR “Another Day”
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Photograph by Prosper Belizia, tagged Asbury Park development along Wesley Lake on August 13, 2015| 2 Comments »
Asbury Park facing Wesley Lake. By Prosper Bellizia, Blogfinger staff. 8/12/15. © Click to enlarge
If you live in Ocean Grove along Lake Avenue, you see the Asbury Park skyline every day, so that evolving vista is of great concern. It affects Grovers who live there, not only because of the physical appearance but because of the growing night life that creates noise and music.
Prosper Bellizia, who took the photo above says, “Renovation has begun on the expansion of Lake House Music Academy into the vacant building next door. When it is completed it will eliminate the last piece of vacant property on west Lake Avenue in Asbury Park. ”
The big beer hall over there has been attracting very large crowds, and North End residents in OG complain about the loud music, even though the proprietors promised, when they were proposing the project, to keep that noise down.
AMY WINEHOUSE:
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, tagged Asbury Park Zombie photographs, ASbury Park zombies, Zombie Walk in Asbury Park 2013 on October 7, 2013| 10 Comments »
The Asbury Park Zombie Walk, 2013. All photos by Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge image.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Saturday, October 5: A huge crowd of walking dead (aka “undead”) slogged around the Asbury Park boardwalk to the delight of thousands of spectators and each other. The parade is all about the costumes, but most participants had a common theme of half-dead creatures with bloody clothes and gaping wounds. The roll playing usually included a menacing, stoned persona and a theme where you could be a bride, a nurse, a weird child, a butcher, a nun, etc. Some acted out little plots such as eating a body part or having a reunion of shipwreck victims.
But that was it—milling around and doing ghoulish shtick. However, it was a unique happening, and participants and observers were having fun. Crowds cheered from the upper decks of boardwalk restaurants. Many wandered into the Casino and heard a deafening loud rock duo while some others spilled out into the Grove.
For Blogfinger, we had our own Zombie competition, trying to find a photographic sampling of particularly compelling Zomboid characters. Just click on any one and then follow the arrows or click on a photo. You can enlarge a photo by clicking on the arrow in the lower right hand corner. Then click it again to go back. There is an X at the upper left of each photo to take you back here. If you want to comment, please use the regular Blogfinger comment button, not the one at the bottom of each image.
They didn’t have much music at the Walk, but here are two tunes to set the mood while you view the photos.
“This Joint is Jumpin'” By the cast of Ain’t Misbehavin with Nell Carter
