Weekend Picks: Our Gift To You
December 13, 2007
Back to back snowstorms? No problem. Dig out and escape the holiday stress-- Our friends at Radiance MedSpa (www.radiancenj.com) in Hackensack are offering NJ My Way readers $50 off any treatment!
The spa specializes in non-invasive beauty treatments—lip plumping, facial peels, wrinkle reduction. You can also bring in your teenager for skin care treatment…and we think that if you manage to drag in the husband he will love how he feels after a facial, or how their Arasys treatment compliments his hours in the gym. Simply mention NJ My Way when you book the appointment.
Maybe you’ll feel so great you’ll want to have your cake and eat it too. Do it at the Gingerbread House Contest Sunday, 3 p.m., at the Burlington County Historical Society (http://08016.com/bchs.html) in downtown Burlington.
Or maybe you’ll want the free hot cocoa and cookies for merrymakers who donate toys at warm, gorgeous Gladstone Tavern (www.gladstonetavern.com) in Gladstone, which is holding its second annual Holiday Toy Drive Sunday 4-7 p.m. They’re having Clydesdale carriage rides and a choral group—along with their acclaimed seasonal menu.
You can enjoy a tour of downtown New Brunswick in a horse drawn carriage as well. The free carriage rides leave Friday and Saturday night from the Hyatt and the Heldrich, details on www.newbrunswick.com .
Elsewhere, performances at college campuses help get you into the spirit of the season.
At Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium, it’s the Holiday Pops show by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (www.princetonsymphony.org) with the New Jersey Tap Ensemble (www.njtap.org) and the Princeton High School Choir (http://phs.prs.k12.nj.us/Choir). Saturday, 3 p.m.
Also on Princeton’s beautiful campus, the world renowned American Boychoir (www.americanboychoir.org) sings Christmas classics Saturday at 8 p.m in the University Chapel and Sunday at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.
Up Rt. 27 and On the Banks of the Old Raritan, New Jersey Opera Theater’s Young Artists Program perform holiday music of different cultures at Rutgers’ Zimmerli Museum (www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu) in New Brunswick. The concert is Sunday at 3 p.m.
Another Christmas concert for a worthy cause: the New Jersey Youth Chorus performs at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts (www.mayoarts.org) in Morristown for the benefit of BD Diabetes Center for Children at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
Or…go hear the New Jersey Chamber Singers (ww.njchambersingers.org) perform Handel’s Messiah at All Saints Episcopal Church in Bay Head, Saturday at 4 p.m.
Yes, go down the Shore. It's even nicer under a blanket of fresh snow!
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