New Jerseyans seem to be programmed to hit the Parkway and head to the Shore every summer. But when my mom told me on the phone yesterday that that's where she was driving, my reaction was "you're going WHERE?!?" Count me as one Jersey Girl who bucks migration to the taffy, the boardwalk, and the sand.  I'll take the lake any day.

It’s two revivals in one.

“Hair,” the rock musical that revolutionized Broadway 40 years ago, is opening Friday as the first event held inside Asbury Park’s newly refurbished Carousel House, the boardwalk landmark that for decades sat empty and falling apart like much of this Shore town.

Asbury Park was in full summer mode last weekend.

It’s high summer, those hot days in mid-July, halfway between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The Jersey Shore is, of course, full of activity.