Daily Archives: March 25, 2012

New Jersey KISS Expo 2012 set for September 15

Posted on by

njKISSexpo.com

The final date and location are now set for the 2012 New Jersey KISS Expo! Our move to the New Jersey Exposition Center will make this our permanent location for many years to come! This amazing facility is the premier place of it’s kind in the entire state – it offers size, service and flexibility like no KISS Expo has ever had. The New Jersey KISS Expo has always been the largest gathering of KISS fans at any expo and people from all over the country as well as the world will enjoy all it has to offer.

The date has been moved to September 15, 2012. The shift from spring to fall was made after careful analysis showed this would be the optimum time to place an event of this kind.

We are still putting together the details and all announcements of events and special guests will be posted at njKISSexpo.com as they become available.

 

KISS fan retools bathroom in band’s honor

Posted on by

Jill Halpin | Observer & Eccentric

Bill Bresler

There are legions of followers of the 1970s-era glam rock-and-roll band KISS.

And then there is Rick Hoffman.

You can call Hoffman, a longtime Canton resident, a fan, but that would be an understatement at best. He is, in his very own words, “the number one KISS fan in the world.”

In fact, Hoffman is such a KISS enthusiast that he has devoted a room in his house to the band. He decorated and customized the room: a half-bath on the first floor of his home that has become a shrine to KISS lead singer Gene Simmons and his band mates. It is a sight to behold, complete with a special-order black sink, black toilet and, of course, black light.

However, the black light is not the only light in the room. The bathroom features multiple lighting options including a red light and a regular overhead light as well as customized murals and specially designed handmade plaques featuring busts of KISS band members.

And that is only the beginning.

KISS logo

There is also the etched mirror with the distinctive KISS band logo, the “KISS Army” logo above the light switch and the clock resembling the cover from KISS’ Destroyer album, not to mention Simmons’s face in his classic pose — tongue out — on the back of the sliding door.

Continue reading →