Event: Fourth Annual Ridgewood Music Fest Features Local Bands, Fine Food and Free Admission

Looking to spend a nice weekend outdoors this fall?

The Ridgewood Guild is holding its 4th Annual Music Fest on September 10, 2017 from  1pm to 7pm in Memorial Park at Van Neste Square in downtown Ridgewood, NJ rain or shine. Bring your lawn chairs, sit back and listen to a variety of great local bands. Admission to the event is free. When you're hungry, take a stroll around the park and visit the tables of many of your favorite local restaurants which will have food for purchase. There's also a Beer and Wine Garden for adults. Also see what Plein Air Painting is, done by the Ridgewood Art Institute.

Zoochie Band Announces Fall 2017 Lineup, Opening for Drake Bell Band of Drake and Josh at Stanhope House, On The Border, Mexicali Live and More

Libby Kallins of Zoochie

Rock/Jam/Groove Band Zoochie out of New Brunswick, NJ  has announced their lineup for the fall. This emerging band. lead by vocalist Libby Kallins, has  a wordly sound with its use of different genres.

All appearances will have originals included mixed in with popular covers. The band recently debuted its new single Running Water which will be played at future concerts. Here's their schedule. Check back for updates as more shows are added.

Expect their first EP out late 2017.

Listen to their original song "I'm The Only One" here:

Movie Review of Ingrid Goes West - An #AllTooReal Depiction of Generation Me

Movie Review by Kelly A. Byrne

A week ago, my buddy who works in comedy took me to see a movie I knew almost nothing about. It was getting great reviews, so in I went, blind as a bat, to see Ingrid Goes West starring Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olson, Wyatt Russell, and Billy Magnussen. Directed by Matt Spicer. What a time it was. 

A quick logline;  A young woman, Ingrid, who has just suffered the loss of her mother moves west to Los Angeles to pursue and befriend an Instagram model who lives the “perfect” life. Anyone who has interacted with social media knows the fraudulent nature of it. It’s the sliver of life that everyone wants you to see – even strangers. When Ingrid can no longer make life work for herself at home, she takes the $60K her mother left her and travels to the land of perfect Instagrams and model living: Venice Beach, California. Ingrid Goes West was an expert satire and commentary on the way the under-30 generation is addicted to technology and social media; how they love the semblance of living a certain way, but cannot truly commit to or claim any single style or habit because they are always onto the next thing. The movie is a genius mockery of and serious warning to those trying to impress the masses through exploiting pop-lifestyle, as well as the lemmings who follow.

Interview: Soap Star Natalia Livingston of General Hospital and Days of Our Lives Now Starring as Liza Park in Tainted Dreams and Owner of Her Own Business - Learn What Inspires Her

Natalia  Livington is an Emmy-award winning actress, producer and also a business owner. From her days in soaps as a member of the Quartermaine clan Emily Bowen Quartermaine on General Hospital to her time at Days of Our Lives as Taylor Walker, Natalia has also produced, acted in commercials and also film. In this interview she talks about her new role as Liza Park on the Emmy-nominated Tainted Dreams now streaming on Amazon, her new role as owner of the www.ActorBoutique.com business in Atlanta and how her inspiration can be yours too. 

Event: Special 1Act Play Is Title of Off Broadway Production about Sexual Abuse: Nann Gill Stars in This Ann P. Meredith Production

Empowering Women Everywhere Host and Producer of the award winning movie Collar, Nann Gill, a native New Yorker to star Off Broadway in "SPECIAL 1Act Play" by Ann P. Meredith, which will be a part of the awesome NYSUMMERFEST's Theatre Festival at The Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenue), NYC 10001 with Performances on August 3rd @ 9:00pm, 4th @ 6:15pm and 6th @ 8:30pm. "SPECIAL 1ActPlay" is a Labor of Love and Passion and speaks to anyone who has experienced sexual abuse.