SOMAPSO Pod

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.

Links:

SO Downtown Elf Chase

Clay Studio

Every Christmas Story Ever Told

Botanica Boutique

Christmas with the Celts

Merch

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, Design 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!

Links:

Christmas with the Celts

Three Daughters Bakery

Sunday Pie Shop

Durand-Hedden House Gingerbread Competition

The Order

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!

Links:

Jamie Novak - Decluttering

IM Isabel Martin - tennis pouches

Ridgewood Row Fall Open Market

Cranksgiving

Birdhouse in Your Soul

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!

Links:

Sweet Vermouth Merch

Maplewood Library

Mapso Family Follies

Botanica Boutique

Sunday Pie Shop

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!

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!

Links

Studio Tour

Two Guys Who Sell Cake

Dia de la Muertos

Repair Cafe

Brainiac Records

SOPL Air Pods contest

Sweet Vermouth Merch

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.

LINKS:

Maplewood Library Time Capsule Suggestion Form

Decades Dance Party

Ordinary Kids NJ

Mapso Family Follies

SOMA Studio Tour

MAPSO Podso

Boss Molly Bourbon

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.

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

LINKS

Maplewood Art Walk & Music Fest

SOMA Studio Tour

MAPSO Family Follies

Hola Fest

Taylor Swift Eras Tour Movie

Belly in Boston

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.

LINKS FROM THE SHOW:

Craft Beer Tasting

SOM Adult School Decades Dance Party

SOMA Studio Tour

Live Love Lens 

Free Depression Screening

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!

LINKS:
MAPSO Family Follies
The Painted Pup by Lara Tomlin
VC (Tori) Chickering
Maplewood Memorial Park Conservancy
The Swedish Chef