Jamie Aderski

Interview with @Slate about a funny lil' TikTok I made slate.com/business/2024/…

@MegsOMalls 😆I would never be so bold

Parents across the U.S., many of whom rely on summer camp for childcare, are facing challenging choices as prices rise. @NancyChenNews shares tips on how families can cut costs this summer.

@mayorbusch @GovMurphy This is such exciting news!

Today, we’re proud to announce our vision for the Forum Theatre is closer to reality. With the expected help of a cultural arts tax incentive statute that Borough officials were directly involved in crafting, signed by @GovMurphy after passing both legislative houses, Metuchen’s iconic theater will roar back to life in 2026. Once completed, the Forum will be a vibrant & flexible community space that will be more active & host more artistic, cultural, social & community events than ever before including everything from film, concerts, plays, & dance performances to comedy, conventions, lectures & other public events. This tax incentive program, which allows NJ-based companies to purchase tax credits, has existed for years but this expansion allows the funding used to purchase the credits to support community arts projects such as these. This morning, I took the Governor, @SpeakerCoughlin, @MiddlesexCntyNJ Commissioner Director Ronald Rios and DEVCO President Chris Paladino on a tour of the Forum & we discussed its importance to our community & extraordinary history. We all recognize that its revitalization will provide an overwhelming boost to the Borough’s flourishing arts scene. Investment opportunities like these are catalysts for broader economic development in communities throughout New Jersey because they help attract visitors & businesses to places like Metuchen. The Borough first acquired the Forum in July 2019 because we were committed to ensuring that it would always remain a theater. Time had not been kind to the Forum & swift action was necessary. Out of concern that we might lose it forever, Middlesex County provided a $3.5 million grant to cover the purchase price and help us dig in to the real work of determining what it would take to resuscitate the Forum in an economically viable way. The goal has always been to vigorously pursue the creation of a Metuchen Arts District, with the Forum as the centerpiece, and to do so without our residents incurring significant costs or unnecessary debt. Importantly, the Metuchen Arts District will also eventually include the adjacent abandoned gas station property which the Borough is actively engaged in the process of acquiring. When the pandemic hit in 2020, many performing arts spaces like the Forum revealed their substantial economic vulnerabilities. Instead of cowering in the face of those concerns, we doubled down on the importance of ensuring the theater’s future viability. With the help of the County grant, we focused on ensuring that the Forum’s business operations would survive any possible economic downturns by hiring an arts consultant to gather extensive public input and seek advice from experts from throughout the arts industry on its best uses. This work helped us focus on considering the kind of space that will be most successful in Metuchen. Public art spaces like the Forum are pivotal for communities like ours. They bring people together, they serve as spaces for creativity and self-expression, they are cultural & educational hubs, & of course, they can have a powerful economic impact on downtowns like ours. They belong to all of us. Over the next few months, we expect to hold a public input session for residents to provide us with their feedback on various elements of this project that is so important to so many of us. We knew from the moment we acquired the Forum that reopening it would take time, not only due to the theater’s structural issues or the pandemic, but because projects like these require vision, innovation, collaboration, methodical planning, patience, & as demonstrated today, extraordinary intergovernmental partnership. We have spent countless hours exploring the business operations & financial sustainability of the Forum. This, among so many other reasons, is the reason that this announcement is so exciting. With the anticipated help of this new program, our finish line is in sight and we are just starting to hit our stride.

This silly comedy sketch I came up with went viral 😳#TikTok #viral #JLo tiktok.com/t/ZTLr1h29a/

I wish I at least did my hair 😆 mother.ly/news/viral-tre…

America Ferrera wins best dressed. Don’t @ me if that’s still a thing because I’m right. #Oscars2024

I miss going to places where you could just get a cheese plate. Sorry, I’ve been drinking. #Oscars2024

@KimberlyDinaro I sold that blazer (but she looks great)

Me, modeling everything I bought at the Williamsburg Buffalo Exchange for my roommates in 2014

Please give @JohnCena an honorary Oscar for that bit. #Oscars

Happy Honda Days! Gentle reminder that Whole Foods’ annual cheese sale is on—a very merry Cheesemas to us all!

My heart goes out to all the morning show hosts that are forced to do awkward “skits” for Halloween today. None of us should have to go through this.

The hold that Jardiance commercial has on my kids is unreal.

Finally! It’s happening.

4 y o: “I need to marry a Prince.” Me: “Why?” 4 y o: “So I can get more money!” 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’ve failed her.

This NJ Transit train smells like Forever 21. #TheErasTour

96% of all Radiohead songs scratch an itch in my brain I didn’t know I had.

@sam_jackel 😂 noted.

@jamieaderski Yikes, don’t eat that, it’s probably not safe.

The Cronut turned 10. Wow I feel old.