Roxy’s Best Of… Newark, New Jersey

The Best of Newark, New Jersey, from art and culture to kid stuff to restaurants and shopping

Monthly Archives: December 2008

A Holiday Treat: NJPAC Promotional Codes for Giselle, Cirque Eloize, and Golden Dragon Acrobats — Deadline Extended to December 30th

By: Roxy on 12/18/08 @ 9:26 pm

If you’re like me, with less than a week until Christmas, you may have made a list and checked it twice, you may even have it divided into suitable gifts for naughty and nice, but you haven’t purchased and wrapped your gifts for everyone on the list….particularly if you’re still lacking the inspiration to surprise [...]




Paths to Impressionism Exhibit Draws to a Close at the Newark Museum, See It Before January 4, 2009

By: Roxy on 12/17/08 @ 11:21 pm

While I was waiting for my regular New Jersey Transit train to New York City at the station in Bernardsville, NJ, I happened to notice a billboard promoting Paths to Impressionism, an exhibit of French and American landscape paintings from the Worcester Art Museum, at the Newark Museum.  The exhibit is drawing to a close, but you [...]




Think NJPAC for the Holidays… and Save with NJPAC Promotional Codes on Giselle, Cirque Eloize, and Golden Dragon Acrobats

By: Roxy on 12/14/08 @ 4:08 pm

Over on my Roxiticus Desperate Housewives site, I’ve been running a weekly feature called Roxy Saves, where I’ve gathered promotional codes from online retailers and made suggestions for unique and inexpensive holiday gifts. Here at Roxy’s Best Of… I’ve been more focused on the “bricks and mortar” holiday savings available from our wealth of [...]




Ghost of Girl Scout Future: London and Her Brownie Troop Aspire to a Girl Scout Sleepover at NJPAC

By: Roxy on 12/8/08 @ 8:16 pm

This past weekend, London and her Brownie troop celebrated the Ghost of Girl Scout Past, joining Daisies, Brownies, and Girl Scouts from the Mendham, NJ area for an old-fashioned Christmas caroling event out in front of Kings supermarket on Mendham’s annual Holly Walk.  While the girls were belting out holiday favorites like Frosty the Snowman and the Twelve Days of [...]