Recapping the Bruce Springsteen Center’s Intimate, Raucous 2026 American Music Honors
04/23/2026
The hottest ticket in town on Saturday night? The campus of Monmouth University.Packed into the 700-seat Pollak Theater in West Long Branch for the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music’s fourth annual sold-out American Music Honors, guests were treated to an intimate, often impromptu evening
‘Widow’s Bay’ Was Inspired By a Haunted Jersey Shore House
04/23/2026
Dense fog creeps through the dark, sleepy island of Widow’s Bay. A distinct sense of foreboding sets in—this is no mere weather event.“It’s a haunt!”At least according to Wyck, a grizzled island local. He believes the place is cursed, and he’s not the only one. A missing man is presumed to be “taken
Inside the New Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music Coming to the Jersey Shore
04/23/2026
The new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music opens June 7 at Monmouth University. Rendering: Courtesy of the BSCAM/COOKFOX ArchitectsAt first glance, the striking new $50 million, 30,000-square-foot Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, its immense glass windows glinting on a corner of
Exclusive: Bruce Springsteen Opens Up About His New Center for American Music
04/23/2026
Buy our May 2026 issue here. Cover photo: Danny ClinchDays before embarking on the E Street Band’s Land of Hope and Dreams tour, Bruce Springsteen sat down with New Jersey Monthly—for the first time in our magazine’s 50-year history—to discuss his newly expanded Bruce Springsteen Center for American
NJ’s 2026 North to Shore Festival Lineup Revealed: Janelle Monáe, Bouncing Souls, Sublime & More
04/23/2026
New Jersey’s annual North to Shore Festival has announced its summer lineup. From June 13 to June 28, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will host musical performances, comedy shows and more, highlighting Jersey artists and global talent alike in Newark as well as at venues in Asbury Park

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