Let them eat cake, delicious cake

Last week we gathered to celebrate the birthday of Chris Taillie, Shorefirian extraordinaire and all-around awesome person.

Here, Chris poses for the popular blowing-out-the-candles shot. The delicious cake was a confection courtesy of one of our local favorites, One Girl Cookies, and was a combination of the birthday boy’s choosing: vanilla cake, chocolate buttercream frosting and a filling of raspberry jam. Yum!

Here, Chris enjoys a slice with David, Jessica, Carrie, Mark, Brendan, & Kyle. Happy Birthday, Chris!

Ice Ice, Baby

Last night the Shore Fire staff braved the cold for a very special winter outing. Bundled up tight, we took to the ice at The Standard Hotel’s outdoor ice rink, right under Manhattan’s High Line park. With hot chocolate and cider aplenty (and a few strategically placed heat lamps), brave Shorefirians were either showing off, cheering from the sides, or holding on for dear life. See below for some fun pictures of a great time.

The Shore Fire staff (and some pint-sized guests) warm up after a long night of skating

Tyler Cannon and Anthony D'Amato warm up with some hot drinks

The Krausers and Andy Silva get ready to show off their skills

Elizabeth Lutz is laced up and ready to go

Madelyn Frascella skates a lap around the rink

Mark Satlof and Chris Brudzinski relax with some hot beverages

Marilyn Laverty skates like a pro

Josh Page takes an assist from a cone while Elizabeth Lutz and Tyler Cannon look on

Real Stars of Jersey Shore, Halloween stylin’

The Jersey Shore is crawling with artsy types. Our newly arrived OG neighbors Chris and Marc Zingarini are another great example. Chris was formerly with Goldman Sachs and is now owner of fashion forward pet boutique Doggie & Kitty Style in Haddonfield, NJ, but you can tell by her fantastic trousers what a rocker she is. Marc, who has been recognized by the publisher of the PA edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in his  practice specialty in PA, is a Trenton native and a Jersey guy at heart. He and Chris are the world’s second biggest Alejandro Escovedo fans (we at Shore Fire are #1) and love Neko Case, Bruce, and country music too.

Photo’d here: Chris Zingarini, Raul, and Marc Zingarini.

And Mango Laverty, featured in a K-9 copy outfit from Chris’ boutique Doggie & Kitty Style. Pumpkin mask courtesy of Martha Stewart’s Grandinroad collection.

A Real Star of the Jersey Shore

The real stars of the Jersey Shore aren’t Snooki and The Situation, they’re folks like the tremendously erudite and impossibly elegant NBC anchor Brian Williams, a Monmouth County homie of ours. Brian’s recent interview feature with Bruce was terrific, btw, both intelligent and fun.

Enjoying the autumn sunshine post-interview are me (Marilyn Laverty) and the awesome Mr. Brian Williams.

If you want to see the interview, here it is.

Happy Birthday to Rob

In this world of ever-evolving technology, we decided that birthdays here at Shore Fire needed a little upgrade. The always-cheerful birthday boy, Rob Krauser, was our test subject.

Instead of the traditional blowing-out-the-candles pic, check out Rob’s live-action candle extinguishing, and the utter beauty of the staff’s combined voices, in the first Shore Fire Birthday video below:

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That beautiful cake is a pistachio confection by the LES’s Sugar Sweet Sunshine.

Absolutely no one was embarrassed during the making of this film.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB!