SOMAPSO Pod - Week of December 21, 2023

What’s happening the week of December 21, 2023.

We’re in the final stretch of the holiday season! Next week we will be taking a little break from the weekly podcast to drop our annual Clip Show that Chrissy is stitching together! (You’ll still get a weekly email in your inbox, though!)

We rewind to Luna Stella, Handmade Holiday, City Workshop, coffee at Perch, and Village Wine Shop. We’re looking forward to the South Orange Holiday Market, Jazz at Lorena’s, [mma] project at Village Hall, and happy hour at Botanica Boutique. Three things with Love Actually, Bud and Leaf Delivery, and Family Connections.

Have a great winter break everyone! 

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOPAC, Holidays, kale and wine, mma
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of December 14, 2023

What’s happening the week of December 14, 2023.

This week on the pod: an unexpected amount of butter!

We rewind to all the art markets, Dickens Village, Porta Rossa, shopping, and the holiday spirit. We’re looking forward to Handmade Holiday, Holiday Sip and Shop on Ridgewood Row, SO Holiday Market, Springfield After Dark, Swingtown, SO Jewish Comedy Night, and a Picasso lecture. Horse and dragon rides? Jam in the Loft? 

Three Things with another Into Rum Library, the Co-Lab, an art gallery, and Save the Clock Tower! SOPAC Thing to Know featuring The Brit Pack—get your discount code for tix!

It’s cookies for breakfast season, and we’re ready for it!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOPAC, Holidays, The Brit Pack, butter, jam
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of December 7, 2023

What’s happening the week of December 7, 2023.

We are barreling into the holiday season and this week is bursting at the seams with holiday fun!

We rewind to the Artful Living opening reception at SOPAC, NJ Transit problems, and Botanica Boutique grand opening. We’re looking forward to all the holiday markets—South Orange Downtown, 1978 Art Mrkt, WNTR on Springfield Ave, Artful Giving at SOPAC, and Ceramic Pop-Up at Clay—Durand-Hedden gingerbread houses, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, Christmas with the Celts, menorah lightings, and Stress-Free Holidays. 

Three things with SO Downtown Elf Chase (mmm… minty), wine delivery, and Sunday Pie Shop at General Store Shops and Cafe.

This episode is brought to you by elf pie and the letter Z.

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOPAC, Holidays, Deez Townz, Elf Chase
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of November 30, 2023

What’s happening the week of November 30, 2023.

It’s officially the holiday season and after a week off, boy, do we have a lot to cover! 

We rewind all the way back to the Pie Bracket ChamPIEonship, Mapso Follies, General Store Shops and Cafe reopening celebration, Ridgewood Row, and Small Business Saturday. 

We’re looking forward to Artful Living, Artist Salon #2, Botanica Boutique ribbon-cutting, Burlesque at The Order, Dickens Village, Designer Bag Bingo, pet portraits, and winter crafts. Three things with the SO Co-Lab, Gingerbread House competition, banned books free library, and coat drives.

SOPAC Thing to Know is back with a discount code for Christmas with the Celts on Dec 10.

This podcast may have been produced by a bunch of raccoons in a moose suit. We’ll never tell!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettMapso Family Follies, Pie Bracket, SOPAC, Northern Exposure
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of November 16, 2023

What’s happening the week of November 16, 2023.

Welcome to this week’s pie-cast, erm, podcast!

We rewind to the happy hour at Botanica Boutique, Maplewood Record Fair, Evolving art exhibit at 1978, and Jamie Novak’s Organize class.

We’re looking forward to The History of the Pregnancy Test with Karen Weingarten, Edited book event, Mapso Family Follies, Sadies’ LBD event, Nate Sullivan at Fox and Falcon, Cranksgiving, Love My Park, and the All My Friends dance party at Osteria del Corso.

While we’re on vacation, don’t miss the Small Business Saturday street fair in South Orange, Maplewood Vintage Show, and Stephen Whitty presents Independence Days.

Three things features a volunteer opportunity, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and a new local business. Plus - a pie bracket update! Go vote in our Instagram story!

Not to put too fine a point on it, but make a little birdhouse in your soul and remember, we’re off next week. While your waiting for us to return on 11/30, you can go listen to some bonus eps!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettMapso Family Follies, Sweet Vermouth, Thanksgiving, Pie Bracket, Cranksgiving, Birdhouse in Your Soul
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of November 9, 2023

What’s happening the week of November 9, 2023.

Rich and creamy, sweet and spicy — Let’s do the show!

We rewind to SOMA Studio Tour, Artie’s crostini, Pickett’s happy hour, voting, Ukraine Update lecture, Botanica Boutique, and Sweet Vermouth merch. We’re looking forward to Sharp Shooters Cheese Class, The Lenape–Their Legacy and History in NJ, the Great Storage Cleanout, OLS Tricky Tray, Maplewood Record Fair, Chat GPT discussion, and the MAPSO Family Follies!

We’ve got Pie Things to Know this week with Christmas tree pre-orders at General Store and pies, pies, pies! Get your Thanksgiving preorders in, and check out the newly opened Sunday Pie Shop. 

And VOTE in our Thanksgiving Pie Bracket on Instagram! What will be the locally-made favorite pie? We’re pitting eight unique locally-made pies against each other and you get to help pick the winner! Starts Friday!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOMA Studio Tour, Mapso Family Follies, Maplewood Library, Sweet Vermouth, Thanksgiving, Pie Bracket
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of November 2, 2023

What’s happening the week of November 2, 2023.

It’s Studio Tour weekend, y’all! Grab yourself a warm cup of SOMAPSO and get comfortable for this week’s episode!

We recap spooky season and discuss which giant spiders are the scariest, the Noiré grand opening, Diwali Fest, and the Maplewood Village Halloween Parade.

We’re looking forward to the Unveiled art exhibit and Studio Tour (surprise!), the [solo] project at Village Hall with Mike Choi, South Orange Crush at SO Elks First Fridays, John Oates at SOPAC, Trivia Night at Fox and Falcon benefiting Jespy House, and gingerbread house workshop at Durand-Hedden House.

Three things to know with the Gen-Wealth Group coat drive, Maplewood Library digital device clinics, a Mapso Family Follies Update, and Sweet Vermouth merch!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOMA Studio Tour, Mapso Family Follies, Maplewood Library, Sweet Vermouth
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of October 26, 2023

What’s happening the week of October 26, 2023.

It’s the spookiest week of the year and we kick things off with ghost stories and skeletons. 

We rewind to the Adult School Decades Dance Party, Boss Molly, Manufacturer’s Village, and Two Guys Who Sell Cake. 

We’re looking ahead to General Store Shops and Cafe Halloween Party, Noiré Dispensary Grand Opening, Jack the Ripper, the Repair Cafe, the Maplewood Library Book Sale, Rocket Improv, Unveiled, Dia de la Muertos, and the Halloween Parade (whew! that’s a lot!). 

Three things with a new record store, Mapso Family Follies, MAPSOScary, SOPL air Pods contest, and NEW SWEET VERMOUTH MERCH!!

Are we just three mice in a rat costume The world may never know. Enjoy spooky week everyone!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOMA Studio Tour, Mapso Family Follies, Maplewood Library, Halloween, Sweet Vermouth, MAPSO Scary
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of October 19, 2023

What’s happening the week of October 19, 2023.

With a chill in the air and goats on our backs, we are ready to tell you everything that’s happening this week!

We rewind to Art Walk & Music Fest, 14c, Wild Ginger Thai food, Porta Rossa, and True Salvage Cafe.

We’re looking forward to the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School Decades Dance Party, Soultown to Motown, Painters in the Park, Village Hall Oktoberfest, Little Shop of Horror with Ordinary Kids NJ, Goatober Goat Yoga, Local Author Day, and the Critical Mass Bike Ride.

Three things (plus) with leaf collection, voting lines, CHS marching band and Lauryn Hill, and the Maplewood Library time capsule.

If you want us, you can find us at the Into Rum Library or the Little Shop of Harbors.

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettMaplewood Art Walk & Music Fest, SOMA Studio Tour, Mapso Family Follies, Maplewood Library
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of October 12, 2023
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of October 12, 2023

What’s happening the week of October 12, 2023.

Pop open your trunk and grab some loose change and candy dots, because there is a lot happening this week!

We rewind to 1978 open gallery hours, South Orange Community Day, Manet/Degas lecture with Janet Mandel, Belly, and tiny planes. 

We’re looking ahead to Maplewood Art Walk & Music Fest, Hola Fest, 14c, Carnival Dogs with Mike Choi, Journaling and Yoga, and the Watershed Literary Event. 

Three-ish Things with voter registration, Trunk or Treat, Socktober, MAPSO follies, and a new business.

This week’s episode is sponsored by the SOMA Studio Tour, Nov 4 & 5 across Maplewood and South Orange.

SOMAPSO: the perfect podcast to listen to while darning socks.

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettMaplewood Art Walk & Music Fest, SOMA Studio Tour, Hola Fest, Socktober, Belly
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of October 5, 2023
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of October 5, 2023

What’s happening the week of October 5, 2023.

We did some stuff last week, and we will be out and about this week—come find us!

We rewind to our fabulous evening at the Village Hall and SOPAC to see Pedrito Martinez, the Manet/Degas lecture with Janet Mandel, and Springfield Avenue After Dark at General Store Shops and Cafe.

We are looking ahead to the Bra Fit event, Pet Pride March, Pottery Slam at Durand-Hidden House, and the Craft Beer Tasting. Plus, Chrissy will be at the South Orange Community Day—pop by and see her!

Three Things to Know with the SOM Adult School dance party and even more MAPSO Scary goodness!

This week’s episode is sponsored the SOMA Artists Studio Tour. Visit artist’s studios across Maplewood and South Orange on Nov. 4 and 5. More info at studiotoursoma.com

Remember: don’t give your gremlins tequila after 7 pm and check out our fab bonus episode all about the MAPSO Family Follies.

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettVillage Hall, MAPSO Scary, tequila, Sweet Vermouth, Craft Beer Tasting
SOMAPSO Pod - BONUS: MAPSO Family Follies with Tori Chickering

Get your hula hoops, bassoons, and tap shoes ready because the MAPSO Family Follies are coming!

Tori Chickering joins us to tell us all about the Follies, a community talent show open to anyone in South Orange, Maplewood, and the surrounding communities.

Where did the idea come from? How can you audition? When is the show? What is Tori looking for in a Muppet husband? These questions and more are answered in this bonus SOMAPSO episode!

 
Bonus EpCatherine DelettMuppets, MAPSO Follies, Tori Chickering
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of September 28, 2023

What’s happening the week of September 28, 2023.

Join us as we shelob our way into October with leg-crafted spider webs and a little boogie--oogie-oogie.

We rewind to Ban This art exhibit at 1978 Arts Center, Perch grand opening, a drive down the GSP, and a teaser for our interview with Tori Chickering.

We’re looking forward to Pedrito Martinez (meet us at the Village Hall Pump House at 6pm!), the Mapso Book Fest, Banned Books Week events, Special Mushroom Hike, South Orange Downtown Fall Festival, and the Manet/Degas lecture series.

Three things with an Alzheimer’s fundraiser, Oakland Road Art Club Adult Costume-Making workshop, Outer-Borough Deli, a call for vendors, and—drum roll please—information about the infamous MAPSO Scary house decorating contest!

I hope we didn’t shelob things up too badly… and stay tuned for our bonus episode with Tori Chickering coming this weekend!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettPerch Home, Village Hall, Amy Sedaris, Shelob, MAPSO Scary, MAPSO Follies, Tori Chickering
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of September 21, 2023

What’s happening the week of September 21, 2023.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the events on the SOMAPSO calendar…

We rewind to Superfine, Rock Spa Club, Coda, and Rocky Horror Picture Show with Ordinary Kids NJ.

We’re looking ahead to Ban This art exhibit, Pre-Halloween Spooktacular, Whiskey and Sugar, Lightning Brook Clean Up, Dance in the Loft, Kegs and Eggs, Pet Pride March, and the Oktoberfest Beer-Pairing Dinner at Pickett’s.

Three things with another bra collection, Avenue Pub, Noiré, Trash Pandas, and Asado (again!)

Plus, more info about our pre-Pedrito Martinez meet-up.

Join our Raccoon Party and a fish taco and let’s go!

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSuperfine, Oktoberfest, Raccoons, Code, Village Hall, Rock Spa, clean up
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of September 14, 2023

What’s happening the week of September 14, 2023.

Giant skeletons, talking burgers, and gin, oh my!

We rewind to the Framing Mill, Ariyoshi, and Oysterfest, with an official recap sent by organizers. Who won the burger bash? We tell you! 

Looking forward to the latte art showdown at The Order, Full Circle art opening at SOPAC, Monday Night Music Bingo at Osteria del Corso (and pizza!), Lucky 7s night at Fox and Falcon, and Local Heroes at Pickett’s. 

Three things with Scratch Taco + Asado, Painters in the Park, and a CHS reunion. 

If you're coming to the pre-Pedrito meet-up, we tell you where we’ll be. 

As Sweet Vermouth sings: One more sip of gin and then we’ll go…

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettOysterfest, Asado, Sweet Vermouth, Framing Mill, Spooky Season, giant skeleton
SOMAPSO Pod - Week of September 7, 2023

What’s happening the week of September 7, 2023.

It’s hot enough to drink a frozen White Russian and, if our inceptioning works, we might just!

We rewind to Porchfest, Honey and Hive, Broadway in the Park, and Tea & Tunes ribbon-cutting. We revisit our crossover episode with MAPSO Podso — have you listened yet? This week, we are looking forward to the Community Health Fair, South Orange Elks Back to School Dance Party, Apple Cider Making at Durand-Hedden, the South Orange Food Stroll, and the Taylor Swift Singalong Party. Plus, a clip from Oysterfest founder, Grace Miller — it’s going to be a great evening at Oysterfest this year!

Three things with bras, workouts, drag queen story hour, and solidarity. Our final SOPAC Thing to Know with a Soultown to Motown (not Moletown) discount code.

 
Weekly PODCatherine DelettSOPAC, Porchfest, Broadway in the Park, Kids in the Hall, Tea & Tunes, Mapso Podso, Oysterfest, Moletown