Roger Matthews

On Saturday, April 30, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey held its largest fundraising event of the year at Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit. Art & Soul, VACNJ's first in-person gala since 2019, raised a record-breaking $296,000 to support the Art Center's powerful arts programming.

Following the resounding success of the virtual opera Death by Life, treating the subjects of long-term incarceration and systemic racism, Cerise Jacobs and her activist opera company White Snake Projects have announced their third live virtual world premiere opera since the beginning of the pandemic. 

Beverly Hills Jewelers Layna & Alan Friedman are no strangers to custom designs, but when approached by Roger Matthews, boyfriend (now fiance) of Jersey Shore's Jenni 'JWoww' Farley, to design an engagement ring, the design concept needed to be big and bold. As Layna Friedman stated, 'A woman never brings back a diamond for being too big.' The end result of months of planning with Roger was a cushion-cut diamond that's more than 5 carats surrounded by 2.5 carats of pink and white diamonds in a hand-made 18 Kt. white-gold setting...and of course was accompanied by a skydiving proposal and acceptance by Jenni.

Famed Jersey Shore cast member, Jenni 'JWoww' Farley, was sighted at BODIES... The Exhibition inside Luxor Hotel & Casino Thursday, September 1.