A groundbreaking app that will help you navigate the city whether you are a local or resident offering you insights into restaurant specials, pet friendly establishments, events and more! Download the app at https://www.heybuki.com/newport-rhode-island/
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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.I’m Christon and joining me today is Buki representative John Muggeridge.Great, thanks for having me.Absolutely, well I like to call him Mr. Muggs.So, you can do that too, I think? You’d accept that?Anytime, Anytime.So JohnJohnWhat is a Buki?Buki is an app that’ll provide you a mobile experience throughout Newport. Giving you information that you might need or want to help navigate the city whether you’re a resident or whether you’re a visitor.It’s really a very handy thing to have and it’s a free download.You have different sections?Yeah, yeah, the app is kind of structured with a look like Instagram.So you scroll up, it’s got a photo with a little bit of information.Across the top there are channels.What are some of the favorite channels?Well the mansion’s Channel is a big one.There’s a lot of information about the mansions,if you’re visiting the mansionsThere’s a channel for Fort Adams.To learn a little bit more about the history of the fort.in addition to like going to their concerts,and their eventsand their events and things.There’s a special channel for people from Newport.Which is all about pets.MmmHmmmm….. everybody’s FavoriteThere’s all sorts of pet friendly things,pet supplies, there is a pet boarding service.If you want to take a night out without your dog.They can put the put your dog up for the evening.There’s a lot of different ways to use the appIncluding dining other things to do.Like Restaurants and suchYeah, it’s all in there.That’s fantastic, Thanks so much for telling us all about Buki.How can people download this app? Where do they go?They go to www.LetsBuki.comIs it LetsBuki.com? Love it.Here is the visual.That little guy is Buki.and this is a dog?Buki is a dogOkay now, where did the name Buki come from?Originally?… Honest to god, I can’t tell you.It’s secret guys, its secret…If you can find out, please let me know.I have seen the dog in person, he’s very cute.What is it? English bull dog…?Ah Man… I don’t know…We’ll look it up and we’ll report back.We will get back to you.Named after an actual dog that the owners have, and the dog talks.WOW…so this is like a talking dog app.It’s communicating with you through the app, Buki talks, Buki Speaks.Well thanks so much for sharing that with us today. Download this app atLetsBuki.comAgain, its a free download. We’d love to get you downloaded.We’d love to get the feedback from you and what you like and what you don’t like.If you need to get a hold of me, get a hold of Christonand she can certainly hook you right up.I’ll put you a link in the bio.That works for me !Alright right ! Thanks so much!Thank You Christonand we look forward to seeing you onNewport Living and Lifestyles
Innovate Newport is welcoming the community. CJ Barone is an inspiration to many with fervor and drive. Serving as an electrical engineer at The Naval Undersea Warfare Center since 2001, CJ also launched Empire Tea and Coffee in 2004. Members of Innovate Newport now have access to Empire Tea and Coffee’s products inside the café . Learn how CJ got connected to this project and is helping the Innovate Newport business residents plan for their presentations, seminars and events.
Special thank you to collaboration, videography and editing of Cooper Hammond Films @composedbycoop
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Cheers! CJ Barone here with Empire Coffee and Tea. What 14 and half years now?14 and ten months!Just about that, yeah!Also, an engineer.Electrical EngineerAt NUWC?At NUWC.Thank you so much for running two businesses right here out of Newport.You are also affiliated with Innovate Newport. Tell us a little bit about how you got involved.Sure, Absolutely. Back when this was first announced,I reached out to Joe Nicholson and folks at the cityto talk about how we are interested in supportingcommunity activities / community events.Knowing that they wanted to put a cafe in here, I wanted to make sure that we could support them.We provide the equipment and the coffee in the co-working cafe.Excellent coffee it is! Cheers!You are also supporting with food in some aspects for their meetings, events and such.For today we are catering the ribbon cutting.We brought in a “make your own” parfait bar.We did some bagels, hummus, tabbouleh.Biscuits with honey butter.We have provided with different catering options when they have had different events in the past.Grilled chicken sandwiches, salads and things like that.If you are in town and you want to have a meeting space or a presentation,you can do that here and also have Empire Tea and Coffee cater it!Yes!Alright! Thanks so much!
Drum rolll pleeease …. and the picture of the month winner for hash-tagging themselves #MidtownOysterBar & #NLandL is @veltri.jen via Instagram ! pass the good word ! The $100 gift certificate and bottle of Syltbar Prosecco is waiting for her at Midtown Oyster Bar
Special Thank you to Midtown Oyster Bar and participants and the participants who hash-tagged themselves in September!
@SharonForster and @EricaChristine @ItIsClaire @StaceyMills @TylerBernadyn @shapsbrightidea @harrywgraham @veltri.jen
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Hi everybody, I’m Christon with Newport Living and Lifestyles and joining me today is Ann Sullivan.
Hi everybody. So today you may be familiar with Midtown Oyster Bar.
We are going to be drawing the photo of the month for anybody who is hash-tagged
#MidtownOysterBar or #NLandL which stands for?
Newport Living and Lifestyles
So you may be familiar that we did an interview with Charlie Holder of Midtown Oyster Bar at the beginning of the month
Which was released September 5th. If you haven’t seen that video, you have to check it out after
We announce the winners for this month. So
We printed all of the pictures where people have hash-tagged themselves
And we’re going to go through them
one by one and talk to you about what we like about each one of them so that you are familiar with
Why we chose the winner ready?
Okay, here we go. I know so this one was by Sharon Foster and Erica Christine
It looks a little funny because it was a video and they posted a video the day of our shoot
So the day we shot the Midtown Oyster Bar video (They wanted to be the first one.) That’s right. They were
So they were the first ones it was super cute and they really liked that (Look at those two girls) because they posted
Hanging with Miss Erica at the Midtown moisture bar waiting for the film crew to get here.
They will be filming Midtown Oyster Bar through Newport Living and Lifestyles. ( I love that one. They are super excited to be there. )
Well, I want to give a big cheers really quickly because we’re allowed to have a glass of wine while we are filming today.
Okay Hoda!!!
Today we’re gonna pretend to be Hoda and Kathy Lee and drink wine on camera!
Cheers Everybody!
Cheers!
We have to wet our wet our whistle a little bit ( it helps.) Yeah exactly.
We see a bunch of people are coming on and joining us today. So hi everybody. Good afternoon
Yeah, so tell us a little about yourself Ann. Alright, my name is Ann Sullivan
I’m really happy to be here with my good friend Christon. I lived in Newport for five years
I don’t think there is a more spectacular
area in all of the United States.
You have 400 square miles of oceanfront. How could you go wrong with that? I think it’s gorgeous.
Today is 70 degrees, gorgeous, beautiful Indian summer here in Newport.
So if you haven’t visited yet, come. If you haven’t been to Midown Oyster Bar, come. They are great food , great people and you got this beautiful face!
And joining me with your beautiful face. Thank you for the compliments, I’ll take them all day long
In fact I’d like to record them and then I put them on my alarm
So I can wake up in the morning and hear all your amazing comments.( She’ll just loop this every morning
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. ) I love it, I’ll take it, right?
Oh should we get started with the next one? We really like this one?
yes, that’s why I was posted by it is Claire? @itisiclaire, it is I Claire!
Is she an English Major? A poet and we didn’t know it?
This one on is a picture of all the oysters that they chose. ( looks so good) Yummy Yummy
We really like that one and thank you so much for hash tagging #MidtownOysterBar in that one. ( This is tough already
and we are just getting started. ) I know that one is delicious. I know I think we are gonna need to get some oysters…
( or whatever I see on this page!)
Lobster tacos with mango salsa posted by Stacey Mills who is a good friend of mine. (That looks amazing)
Yep, so she posted #MidtownOysterBar
#NewportBuzz, #HungryRhody. #WhatsUpNewp # Foody #Foodyheaven and all kinds of stuff!
It’s a great photo Stacy Mills. Look at all those comments. Those are yummy those are fabulous
I love those ! (yummm.. ) The list goes on and on. We’re gonna be really full after this.
Okay, this one was toast … toasted, okay
CHEERS!
How about every time I say toasted we just drink. ( I like it and does it count when I say it too? ) YES! ( perfect ! )
All right ! and does it count when you say too?
(Sure does! )
TOASTED!
We have a peanut gallery back there, by the way! ( Hi Peanut Gallery! )
CHEERS!
Okay, ( and by the way the wine here is very delicious and what are you drinking? )
I am having a white wine spritzer Pinot Grigio ( and this is Pinot Noir ) mmm….
TOASTED! TOASTY!!
Okay next photo
posted by
Tyler Bernadyn ( I like this, I like this ) Hi Tyler. We love you Tyler
yes, this is a really cool retro poster that he posted and he wrote, ” this is everything ” and he actually
hash-tagged #NLandL and #MidtownOysterBar
( so he knew to do that perfect! )Yeah
( Tyler, I see this as your next tattoo, just sayin. Putting it out there )
Very retro (92 likes on that one too.) Oh, yeah, 92 likes, that’s great!
Oh! We should mention that. okay, perfect. Good idea, Good idea. Okay this one we loved
But it didn’t actually qualify because it was posted before ( Awe, Look at these cuties )
The September 5th requests to post, but it’s a video and you have to check this out. It’s
@shapsbrightidea ( I like it ) I’m going to show it to you
It’s a video and I just loved it and you recognized some of the comments on here. ( I did.
I think the comments are really cute. It says basically they’re the norm they’re composed
But Marissa is always out of control and Ryan is always out of control
But that’s what brings us together and that’s why they love each other. That is the sweetest thing.
Couple’s you can have fun together and love each other and be goofy) Yes , exactly
( I want to know who their orthodontist is, look at those teeth! Those teeth are amazing !)
Go to their page @shapsbrightidea Actually you can go to #MidtownOysterBar and check out their video.
Yeah, so… OH! another one by Tyler Bernadyn. ( Tyler !) Yes he is really going with this! I love it ! It’s a really great
photo of the second floor, right upstairs. Oh, no wait, it is right over here.
It has a certain name. The Burgee Bar! The Burgee Bar! This is the Burgee Bar!
(How did they get the name Burgee Bar? )
Because it has the burgee flags
It’s really cool, it’s never this empty, I don’t know, he must have been before hours ( or after hours or before hours
I don’t know. It’s usually full of people. ) ( Including Tyler behind the bar ! )
(We should have drawn him on there. A little stick figure with a little head. )
He would live that! ( with his little hat. He always wears his hat. Oh , we should have done that. ) Poor Tyler….
( You’re in for it now! We can’t draw! )
This is beautiful. ( That’s what we need to order. )Yeah. We’re gonna order one of everything after this.
We’ll need it. So this guy @harrywgraham
He’s posting the most beautiful pictures of food here.
Now it might have been mentioned that he may be a chef here ?
( Maybe ? ) okay, we’re thinking that it might be possible. (Did we decide that he has an Instagram account so we can follow him? )
He does! yep! All of his pictures are really beautiful.
Somebody says brighten the camera, I don’t know how….
Maybe we should just turn our face like that, is that better? ( Like this?)
Is that Good? (Is that good? )
Sorry, we’ll get closer…
( I don’t want to touch it ) No, I don’t want to touch it either.
So guys, great photos @harrywgraham, (That’s beautiful. That is a beautiful picture ) Yeah, he has a lot,
So check out his Instagram page, but you can just go to #MidtownOysterBar and all those are there.
so, okay this one my favorite one because it was
from a shoot that I did with Charlie. I have to … OOP! Don’t throw it away!! Okay, check that out. That’s so fun!!!
That is a real live video shoot here… Everybody look so happy…
( We know this can’t win number one, but she is always
number one in our lives. ) Oh I will take that, Thank you Ann.
(Always number one in our lives. ) I just got to get her liquored up, that’s all….
( That helps , A lot )
( You got to get her, Toasted ! )
Oh ! CHEERS!
I’ll take it. Okay. I hope that you guys can see it. Okay. This one was super fun. Go ahead , you tell the story.
( We’re gonna put this up on the camera and I’m sure everyone will recognize it)
But I didn’t !! (First person to post the name of this little character and I’ll give you a hint
It’s on the Pirates of the Caribbean
Who is it? )
Who is it? We can’t hear you. You gotta speak up!
Peanut gallery ? Anyone ? Anyone ?
( Dave Jones ! )
David Jones? Davey Jones, (Davey Jones ) okay, Do you know where this picture was taken?
( Where was it taken? ) it was taken recently last weekend at the
Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, so they had this big display out with their oysters and this huge octopus out there
It was a lot of fun. I hope that you guys made it out there.
That’s a great let us know by commenting., if you guys made it out to Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival.
So that’s a great photo. ( I Iove this so cute ) mmmhhhmmm.. it’s fun
( Charismatic. I love it )
Now a couple people from our peanut gallery back here that you can’t see , they’re back there making fun of us.
They chose this photo ( Beautiful photo, it’s making one of them very hungry right now )
It is a great motive the lobster roll there
roll there. Yeah, super good. This one got 72 likes. ( Read the comments , that’s great! ) Ok
This was posted by @tinygirlhugeappetite
(Love that ) I feel yeah, I do. Okay. So this one says give me a lobster roll and I’m a happy girl !
You give me any food I’ll be happy.
(TOASTED! )
CHEERS!
Okay, how’s your what are some of these comments bring them on camera watch it
Oh, oh you can bring people on camera
I don’t know. No, I can’t bring anyone on camera. Sorry, but
Okay. So this is we are down to our very last two and then we’re yeah
Then we’re gonna announce what the winner actually gets to win. So this one’s really special because
couple just got married this week this weekend that they posted this so they came here to celebrate
their wedding
at Midtown Oyster Bar. ( I love that they chose Midtown Oyster Bar to come and have
a specific memory that will last a lifetime and then they tag themselves for this event! )
What did you say earlier?
Making Magic at Midtown. (I did say that ) That’s brilliant. I love that. I think that should be a new hashtag.
( Oh!? ) Yes. ( Charlie ?! ) Charlie?!
Charlie Holder get down here! Making Magic Memories Happen…
( Making Magic Memories happen) Ok I love it. (At Midtown ) #MakingMagicMemoriesHappenAtMidtown
Tell us what your thoughts are, please, in the comments
( That is the sweetest. ) Okay so that was a really nice one. ( That one is really sweet, I love that one )
So should we announce the winner now?
( I think we should… Ready? )
Okay, this one we loved for many different reasons. ( You have to turn the camera ) We have to turn the camera? ( Oh! it’s sideways…… )
( We’re getting a note saying that we have to turn the camera. ) I don’t know if we’ll both be in it if we do that.
( I don’t know, what do you think? )
So that’s what they’re saying! (okay, turn the camera )
Is that better?! ( Is that better ?! ) Do we get some thumbs ups ? Do we get some thumbs ups ?!
*Had to start live again, Facebook cut the live feed..*
Now we are really cozy…We had to space out there for a second cuz apparently we didn’t know what we were doing
But we’re back now with Newport Living and Lifestyles, and now we’re super cozy.
Yeah, so apparently we have to have the camera profile. We didn’t know. ( We didn’t know. Sorry guys )
So, how are we doing now? Are we good ?Are we good? ( Are we better? )
Okay! Perfect ! Yay!
So we were just talking about all of the people that posted and hash-tagged
themselves at #MidtownOysterBar and hash-tagged themselves #NLandL and we’re picking winners of the photo
contest to win a local gift of the month ( and the question is before we do that,
do we need to go back and show any photos while Christon…. okay Vanna… )
While you were talking I just thought I would do something fun.
( Do we have to go back and show you guys any photos at all, because we understand the camera was a little wonky,
so just let us know. We’re watching you right now on our live feed. ) Yeah. Yeah, what are they saying?
Okay, good, ( Okay. All right ) So we can tell you what our top three photos were. (Let’s go back and review )
Oh Bridgette Soby says hi! Michael Murray’s got the martini glass there. Hi guys.
(Let’s just go back and review the top ones. ) Okay , Lets just review the top four.
All right, let’s do this one first. Okay. Yeah, this one with super super great, loved it. And what was the name?
( Davy Jones ) frommmm ( From Pirates of the Caribbean. )
Caribbean ( or Caribbean. ) Yeah, yeah, yeah ( or Caribbean. ) Tomato – Tomato…! eh… who cares eh?
So we loved this one this one got 58 likes
It was posted 6 days ago
And this was from the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival and I recognize it because I was there.
Let us know if you guys were at the Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival and saw this. ( That’s a great photo )
Yeah, so that’s one of the top of the four.
This one was highly liked as well
( Yeah, I’m so hungry ) Looooobsterrrrr roooolllllll……
Everybody loved the lobster rolls
72 likes posted by @tinygirlhugeappetite. ( I love that name, by the way. ) ( There’s like a whole lobster in there )
It’s a lot of lobster and you know what looks really good about it? It’s not too mayo’ey ( I actually don’t see any mayo at all )
No… ( It’s fresh! )
( And you know what? They have the ultimate lobster roll bread too) – yummy yummy
Okay, I gotta stop looking at that because we’re gonna get one.
(Here is our cute photo that we love. ) We love this one because this couple got married
September 7th and they posted here at Midtown Oyster Bar September 10th. ( And what do we say the new hashtag should be? )
( Making Magic Memories at Midtown. #MakingMagicMemoriesAtMidtown )
That’s awesome. That’s going to be the
newest, bestest hashtag, yet!
So #MakingMagicalMemoriesAtMidtown. ( I love it. ) I love it too. (I love it ) New hashtag !
okay, so… ( Awe, look at this crew!
This is really nice because The Salve Regina reunion is this weekend and I love the fact that this picture was taken )
Yeah, so a little bit about why we like this photo
It is a mother and two daughters
celebrating together here at Midtown. You can see a picture of all the food you can see pictures of the water with the label of
Midtown and I think that it really just
emphasizes the people, the food
the
memories that people are making here. ( I think it epitomizes the new hashtag we just came up with. )
That’s right! absolutely!
( I mean look at this food, it looks tremendous!
And they’re here making memories, it’s the sweetest and look just how adorable they are. )
( And whatever they ordered it needs to be on this table right now. ) Yeah !
Hey! They have the octopus! Oh my gosh. I love that. Check it out. Do you see the octopus down there?
Yummy. That’s one of my favorite dishes here. (Here ya go ! ) If you haven’t a seen the interview with Charlie Holder and myself
on Newport Living and Lifestyles. You’ll have to go watch that, after you’re watching us today. So this was posted by belt
@veltri.jen If you go to a hashtag #MidtownOysterBar
you can see all of the photos that we have chosen from today and we have chosen ….
Drum rollll…..
We have chosen this one as our number one favorite pick of the month ( Yay! ) Yes and
we are going to be reaching out to
@veltri.jen and she will be the winner of a
$100 gift certificate to Midtown Oyster Bar and
included is a
bottle of Prosecco by Syltbar and a little bit about this.
( So this is organic
Prosecco ) Yes ( and by the way for those that don’t know this , this is actually vegan. Who would know?
I don’t even know… ( I had to google that ) I didn’t even know that Posecco was not vegan, honestly. ( Right? Right! )
So this is low calorie, low sugar and it’s supposed to be really helpful for you and a bunch of us tasted it
recently, maybe, more than once and its super good.
( Basically, you can drink all day and loose weight and you don’t even have to go running, perfect! )
Yeah , the runner over here. I’m still working on my run….
Yeah
So congratulations to the winners ( Yes Congratulations!) Keep on hash tagging #MidtownOysterBar
Hashtag NLandL. We are also going to be doing a gift of the month every month.
So make sure that you hashtag NLandL in everything that you do and
You may qualify to win a local gift of the month. ( I love it. ) Thanks Ann for joining me today. It was a lot of fun!!
( No Thank you ! )
Toasty! ( Toasty! )
Cheers everybody!
Thank you Hoda!
Signing off for now until next time. Look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles.
