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RBC STUDENT DOTH GIVE GOOD REPORT

Olivia Mullen ducked into a Red Bank store to get out of the wind so she could recite a bit of the Bard for redbankgreen earlier this week. By DANIELLE TEPPER As Olivia Mullen knows, the works of William Shakespeare are a fundamental component of any acting student’s growth as a performer. The Red Bank [...]

ASHLEY DUPRÉ SETS UP SHOP AND MOVES ON

Ashley DuPré embarked on a new life Monday with the opening of Femme by Ashley, her Red Bank swimwear and lingerie boutique, below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Can a Jersey Girl whose work as a 22-year-old prostitute helped derail a political career in spectacular fashion return home and remake herself as a [...]

BRIT FARCE JUMPS POND TO CAP TRTC SEASON

Susan Heyward stars as Winnie, the “nearly nine year old” central character in the comedy MY WONDERFUL DAY, by Alan Ayckbourn, below. By TOM CHESEK As the author of nearly 80 produced plays, he’s been a magnet for gleaming trophies, plaques and medallions that include the Tony, the Olivier and the Moliere Award, not to [...]

SPACE LEAVING WHITE STREET, UM, SPACE

Briggi Brandner plans to relocate her furnishings business to Deal. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A prominent space on White Street in Red Bank is available for rent with the planned departure of a furniture and design store. And stay tuned for some possible changes just down the block at Clearview Cinemas, which [...]

WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER TRAILER

The Trailer Park Boys, the Canadian cult cable sensations performing a bit of “community service” this Friday night at the Count Basie Theatre. By TOM CHESEK The last time the world heard from the Trailer Park Boys, the trio of petty criminals, backsliding lowlifes and substance abusers was more or less secured within their natural habitat: [...]

THEY GOT GAME, AND SO NOW YOU GOT GAME

Corey Wagner, left, and Patrick Finan are taking on the uncertainty of pickup games with a new web-based scheduling tool. (Click to enlarge) By MARY ANN BOURBEAU Looking to form a pickup hoops or softball game, but don’t have enough friends? Try Joinagame, a new social network for pickup sports based right here on the [...]

TRTC: ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH

A slew of classic characters from the pens of Shakespeare, Coward and Wilson and more will tread the boards of the Red Bank stage this season.  (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK “I feel like I’m having a dream,” the playwright and performance artist Lisa Kron said as she faced a capacity crowd at Two [...]

WEEKEND: PINKHATSYARDSALEFOODFEST

Red Bank becomes a bargainhunter’s paradise on Saturday. On Sunday: food, acres of food. (Click to enlarge) As the headline suggests, the weekend that awaits is jammed with the potential for good times. We’ve got the fifth Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, this one making a migration from fall to spring. We’ve got one of [...]

PAINTING, AND CLOTHING, THE TOWNS PINK

A profusion of pink explodes from local wardrobes this time of year, as evidenced by these pix from the 2011 Girls’ Night Out party in Pink Bank. (Click to enlarge) It started six years ago, in a place called Pink Bank. It quickly caught on in the nearby communities of Pink Haven (Fair Haven, that [...]

SOUL KITCHEN, BOOKSTORE IN GIVEAWAY

Cases of new books await distribution at River Road Books, above. Soul Kitchen, below, will serve as a giver site. (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER Book fans know that when they fall in love with a story, their immediate reaction is to tell someone so they, too, can fall in love with it. Remember [...]

RED BANK NAMED 3RD-BEST TOWN IN U.S.

The magazine’s ranking is based on cultural offerings in towns of 25,000 or fewer residents.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Smithsonian Magazine calls Red Bank the third-best small town in America in its May issue. On a list of 20 small towns towns rich in culture, the town came in behind only Great [...]

THEY’RE OFF TO SEE THE COUNT

Joe Ronga, Dan Peterson, Madelyn Monaghan and Joseph York are off to see THE WIZARD OF OZ, in the stage adaptation of the ultimate “road picture” going up this weekend from Phoenix Productions. It’s a winning strategy that’s served very well indeed: open in April with a family-friendly favorite; follow up in July with a [...]

STANDING UP FOR FOOD AND SONG

Several hundred visitors packed the lobby of the Two River Theater to sample the culinary offerings of more than a dozen Red Bank restaurants as the appetizer to a buffet selection of Broadway show offerings Monday night. Restaurant-promotion group Red Bank Flavour organized the event, which was billed as Broadway in Red Bank. (Click to [...]

…AND YOU CAN TELL ‘EM “JOE SENT ME”

Jazz scholar/ WBGO disc jockey Gary Walker and guitarist Vic Juris are among the special guests TALKIN’ JAZZ with Joe Muccioli, in the series that returns to the Count Basie’s Carlton Lounge for three Mondays beginning tonight.  Start Joe Muccioli to talking and he’ll tell you that “Jazz…grew up with America. It symbolizes American democracy.” “You [...]

DOWNTOWN RED BANK COMES OFF THE ROPES

The recent opening of Lucki Clover, above, in a Broad Street space vacated last September, is seen as one of many indicators of a strengthening comeback.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Without question, the losses have been significant. Over the past six months, as the global, national and regional economies have struggled to [...]


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