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BACKSTAGE AT THE

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YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

Savor seafood in Belmar

If you love seafood, youll want to stop by the 29th annual
New Jersey Seafood Festival, where you can sample delicacies
like lobster, clams, oysters, calimari and yes, even shrimp.

JAMES J. CONNOLLY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Willie Nile celebrated 35 years of making music by headlining The Stone Pony in Asbury Park on June 5. Above, Nile
works through songs during the soundcheck. Below: Nile performs at the keyboard. See a photo gallery at APP.com.

JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE

Bug out
in Toms
River

Sample
wine in
Lakewood

If you like insects, youll

want to stop by the
Bugsmuseum, where you
can learn about and even
touch bugs.

Enjoy the best that New

Jersey vineyards have to
offer at this two-day festival
that features samplings
from the states wineries.

ore than seven hours before showtime, Willie Nile and his bandmates pulled up outside
The Stone Pony in Asbury Park. It was Friday, June 5, and that night, Nile and his three

bandmates would be celebrating his 35th year as a recording artist on the Ponys legendary stage. By the
time Nile and his band began to play, shortly after 10

All this and more inside! 2A

p.m., the club would be crowded with more than 700

fans, including dozens who pushed up against the stage

Happy hour

to get as close as possible to the musicians. It feels

Moores Tavern and Sports Bar: Freehold, $2.25 Bud Light

pints; $3.50 Heinekin/Heinekin Light 12 oz.
bottles; $4 house varietal wines; $5 sangria
and Orange Crush drinks; $6 Stoli cocktails; $7
black & blue lemonade; 1-5 p.m.

See BACKSTAGE, Page 6A

To see a behind-the-scenes video,

scan the QR code or visit

Mulligans Restaurant & Grill:

Farmingdale; $2 Coors Lite, Bud Lite
and Miller Lite (CBM) bottles, $1.50
CBM pints; $1 CBM mugs; $3 Corona
Lite bottles; $4.25 Corona Lite well
drinks; $0.50 off other beers and
drinks; 4-6 p.m. at bar only.

APP.com

Dead fin whale reported off N.J. coast

DAN RADEL
@DANIELRADELAPP
POINT PLEASANT BEACH A pair of Point Pleasant
Beach commercial fishermen working about 18 miles
east of the Manasquan Inlet spotted a dead 40-foot
whale floating on the surface.
I saw it on the horizon. We were making a tow at the
time for flounders, said Capt. Dennis Lovgren of the
78-foot dragger Kailey Ann. It was very white in color
but there wasnt much deterioration to the body.
Bob Schoelkopf, executive director of the Marine
Mammals Stranding Center in Brigantine, identified

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the whale through photos as a fin whale, which is an

endangered species.
No determination of the cause the whales death has
been made, but Schoelkopf said most likely it was
killed by a ship strike. The whale was reported to Coast
Guard Station Manasquan, which issued a broadcast to
mariners on VHF Channel 16 to alert them of the potential danger of collision with the 40-foot carcass.
Lovgren spotted the whale between 2 and 3 p.m.
Wednesday and called over Capt. Tom Anderson of the
commercial boat Amber Waves.
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off most drinks; 4-7 p.m.