AFTER 40 YEARS, SALON ZOOMS OUT OF RED BANK; JAMIAN’S HITS 25 YEARS

From behind the chairs at Zoom Hair Studio on Monmouth Street, brother and sister styling team Marie Carini and Joe Mocci have seen styles from mullets and big hair to blowouts and bobs rise into fashion, fade away, and maybe even come back again.

Now, after 40 years in the brickface storefront, they’re making their own switch to a lower-maintenance, simpler approach to the business itself.

That means packing up the Red Bank location and moving to a smaller space in Shrewsbury. 

“It’s time. We’re at the age where I’d just like to step back a little bit,’ Carini tells Churn. “We like what we do. I would just like to work a little less.”

Marie and Joe Carini, siblings and business partners for four decades. (Photo by Brian Donohue)

That means the need for a bit less space than the storefront the business has called home since 1986. Their staff is coming with them, Carini said.

They’ve been in the space longer than the town’s ban on neon signs has been in existence, as evidenced by their trademark red glowing display over the door. 

“It’s not like we want to leave Red Bank, we don’t,” she said. “We love our neighbors.”

The new location will be at 1026 Broad Street, Suite 34, Shrewsbury.

The smaller suite they’ve found there is the kind of place “where all the cool kids go now” Carini joked. 

Speaking of those neighbors, two doors down at 79 Monmouth, there’s a bit of anti-Churn news: Jamian’s Food and Drink will celebrate its 25th anniversary with two special shows this weekend. The Haven plays on Friday March 27 and  Matt O’Ree Band rocks the house on Saturday March 28.

Owner Jamian LaViola originally opened the location as Echo in 2001 before rebranding to Jamian’s in 2008.