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The Grand Opening of Man Cave and Consignment Shop-NJ Editorial Photographer

I got to shoot this grand opening for The Register News. There’s another new shop in town! Man Cave & Consignment Shop, located on 15 Park Street in Bordentown, NJ, 08505! This place has a lot to offer to, I think, everyone. He also has specialty sodas that you cannot find anywhere. I’m super excited about this place and I can’t wait to see what happens next!

I covered this for The Register News.



 
Randy Now, the owner of Man Cave & Consignment Shop, and Steve Tozzi stand on either side of a portrait of John Lennon signed by the photographer, Richard Avedon.  Richard Avedon is one of my favorite photographers! Steve Tozzi is the man behind the documentary documentary film “Riot on the Dance Floor: The Life and Times of Randy Now and City Gardens”. http://citygardensnj.com/index.htm
 

 
Mary Mindas, Randy Now’s wife helps out with the free food that was offered at the grand opening of Man Cave & Consignment Shop.

 
Jet Weston sings with Fred Stucky on lead guitar and Michael Massimino on the upright bass.

Jet Weston and His Atomic Ranch Hands http://www.myspace.com/jetweston

 
“Oatmeal Joe” Murray on bass while Jet Weston sings on rhythm guitar, and Fred Stucky on lead guitar.

 
Michael Massimino on the upright bass.

 
Jet Weston sings on rhythm guitar, Michael Massimino on the upright bass, Joe Mekler on drums, Fred Stucky on lead guitar and Bud Angelotti on the petal steel guitar.

 
Fred Stucky on lead guitar, Michael Massimino on the upright bass and Joe Mekler on drums.

Jet Weston finished up a song.
Jet Weston and His Atomic Ranch Hands http://www.myspace.com/jetweston

Debbie Driber stands up to the mike to sing a Patsy Cline song with the band playing.

Fred Stucky on lead guitar sings a solo.

 
 
Moot Davis gets up and sings a few songs with the band during the grand opening of Man Cave and Consignment Shop. http://www.mootdavis.com/

Governor Chris Christie At The Roebling Town Hall Meeting-NJ Editorial Photographer

I was asked to photograph Governor Chris Christie at the Roebling Community Center for his Town Meeting.  He started off with a speech and then started by taking questions from the audience and answering them.  
Some of these images were published in The Register News, one of the many papers published by http://www.centraljersey.com.

 
 
NJ State Governor Chris Christie at the Roebling Community Center’s Town Meeting.
 
 
Former Assemblyman Joseph Malone.

 
Republican NJ State Senator Diane Allen listening to NJ State Governor Chris Christie at the Roebling Community Center’s Town Meeting.

 
Here the Governor is going back and forth with William Brown, calling an the Iraq War vet and former Navy SEAL and 2nd year law student at Rutgers Camden, who interrupted him at a town hall meeting an “idiot’. To see the the full footage and article to go with it click here.
 
 
Here is Lawerence Paynter of the AFL-CIO, Construction and General Laborer’s Union Local 172 of South Jersey, asking NJ State Governor Chris Christie a question at the Roebling Community Center’s Town Meeting.

 

FLORENCE: It’s budget and blunt Jersey talk for Christie

DATE POSTED: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:15 PM EDT
By Amber Cox, Special Writer
 
FLORENCE — A couple of firsts emerged as the township hosted Gov. Chris Christie at the recent town meeting at the Main Street Community Center to highlight his accomplishments over the past two years and promote his proposed budget.
Mayor Craig Wilkie pointed out it was the first time a governor ever visited Florence, not counting Gov. Richard Hughes who lived here at one time or Gov. Christine Whitman whose helicopter touched down here on her way to somewhere else.
 
It was also the first time a governor called a Navy SEAL veteran an idiot.
 
The Fireman’s Hall, with a capacity of 500 people, was filled March 8 with local, county and state residents to hear the governor make a case for his budget.
 
Gov. Christie, again, said he plans to cut income taxes by 10 percent over the next three years.
   ”We are not raising taxes, we’re cutting spending,” he said. “My budget this year is smaller than the budget in 2008.”

Gov. Christie also referred to what he is doing in Trenton as “turning Trenton upside down.”
”I’m going to Trenton now to turn Trenton upside down,” he said. “We have turned Trenton upside down.”
Gov. Christie added that although his job can be trying he doesn’t complain, especially because it was part of the deal he made with his wife before he became governor.

”I don’t complain about this job, not only because I’m afraid of my wife, and I am, but also because I love this job,” Gov. Christie said. “People say to me all the time, ‘your job must be tough,’ and I say, ‘no tougher than your job.’ The only difference between my job and your job, my job I’m reviewed every day on the front of the paper. Every one of you works hard.”

Gov. Christie repeatedly told the crowd that he is proud to be governor of New Jersey where he was born and raised.

The governor’s Jersey roots showed up when he got into a heated argument with a Mount Laurel resident during the question-and-answer period.

William Brown, a former Navy SEAL and second-year law student at Rutgers-Camden, politely at first, asked Gov. Christie to explain his support of the proposed merger between the Rutgers Camden Campus and Rowan University.

Mr. Brown asked the governor to consider nontraditional students like himself that are proud to call Rutgers home before deciding the merge the two schools.

Before the argument got heated Gov. Christie tried to explain that current Rutgers students would graduate with a Rutgers degree no matter what, however Mr. Brown was not satisfied with that answer and began interrupting the governor.

”You’re taking opportunities away,” Mr. Brown said. “Nobody at Rutgers wants it.” Gov. Christie said he wants to do this to provide a bigger and better university for people and added that Mr. Brown does not speak for everyone at Rutgers University.

After Mr. Brown continued to interrupt the governor’s answers, Gov. Christie moved on to the next questioner, but not before calling Mr. Brown an “idiot.”

”And let me tell you, after you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear end’s going to end up thrown in jail, idiot,” he said. Mr. Brown was soon removed from the meeting by Florence Township police officers.
 

   ”You know, I tried to be patient with the guy, the governor said after the man left. “Every time I tried to answer, he started yelling over me again. Damn, man, I’m governor, could you just shut up for a second?” There were no second thoughts his part on Monday when he was asked about his Jersey-type outburst during a visit to Bordentown Regional High School. He was there to discuss education reform, ”I have absolutely no regrets,” he said. “Just because he was a Navy SEAL doesn’t give him the right of be a jerk.”At the end of the town hall meeting Gov. Christie reminisced about his mother and said she always told him to be himself.

”Because then tomorrow, you’re not going to have to remember who you pretended to be yesterday,” he said. “That’s great advice.”

 

 

Tinya Cagle Inspirational/Gospel/Soul Musician-Deirdre Ryan Photography – NJ

This past President’s Weekend, I had the pleasure to photograph Tinya Cagle an Inspirational/Gospel/Soul musician and singer. I shot her on location at Hebe’s Music in Mt. Holly, NJ. Tinya was going to perform for a live audience …