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Monthly Archives: August 2012

UP A LAZY RIVER OR TWO WITH LEON REDBONE
Master of back-porch blues, song-sheet pop and hobo-camp folk music Leon Redbone pulls up a stool the Two River Theater Red Bank Sunday. By TOM CHESEK The seersucker suit andContinue reading "UP A LAZY RIVER OR TWO WITH LEON REDBONE"
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August 17th, 2012 @ 9am
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POST: ASHLEY DUPRÉ IS PRÉGGERS
Ashley Dupré on Broad Street, Red Bank in early July. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The post-courtesanship makeover of the once-infamous Ashley Dupré continues. Confirming for the NewContinue reading "POST: ASHLEY DUPRÉ IS PRÉGGERS"
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August 17th, 2012 @ 8am
UPSTAIRS AT BASIE, A LITTLE TOUGH ‘LOVE’
Dunbar Repertory Company presents Gail Wynn Huland El’s “dark comedy” GREEN HONEY LOVE in the Count Basie Theatre’s second-floor rehearsal space beginning tonight. By TOM CHESEK In a cubby ofContinue reading "UPSTAIRS AT BASIE, A LITTLE TOUGH ‘LOVE’"
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August 17th, 2012 @ 6am
A federal judge in Trenton has ordered the owners of the ‘Girls Gone Wild‘ pixelated-flesh empire to pay $3 million to a 27-year-old woman whose identity was misused in aContinue reading "WOMAN DEFAMED IN DUPRÉ VIDEO WINS $3M"
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August 16th, 2012 @ 4pm
MAN ARRESTED FOR FIGHT, HIT & RUN
The unidentified suspect being taken into custody by Little Silver police at Rumson Road and Riverside Drive in Rumson. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Little Silver police arrestedContinue reading "MAN ARRESTED FOR FIGHT, HIT & RUN"
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August 16th, 2012 @ 11am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Little Silver Police Department. July 3- Robert Meyer, 26, of Red Bank, NJ, was arrested following a motor vehicle stop for aContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: FOUR BURGLARIES REPORTED"
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August 16th, 2012 @ 6am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s photo: the former Douglas Auto Electric shop at the corner of Maple Avenue and West Bergen Place/Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank, which was in the processContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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August 16th, 2012 @ 6am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department. • 7/4/12 -Cpl. Waltz and Ptl. Reevey arrested Francis Luby, 19, Rumson, and charged him with Disorderly Conduct.Continue reading "NO FARE! CABBIE GETS STIFFED IN FAIR HAVEN"
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August 15th, 2012 @ 3pm
BANDIERA & BAND TAKE ON ‘SOLO’ BEATLES
Bandiera on the Run: Guitarist Bob Bandiera (at right) assembles the Jersey Shore Rock ‘N Soul Revue at the Basie Friday for a tribute to the post-Beatle careers of theContinue reading "BANDIERA & BAND TAKE ON ‘SOLO’ BEATLES"
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August 15th, 2012 @ 8am
DON’T TELL THEM THEY’RE NOT KIDS ANYMORE
At the top of the fifth, it was Rumson 13, Oceanport 11 at an over-40 slow-pitch playoff game Tuesday night at Patterson Park in Shrewsbury. (Click to enlarge)
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August 15th, 2012 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN BACKSTOPS OPEN-SPACE BID
Borough officials are eyeing this Third Avenue property as a potential parking lot for Fair Haven Fields, which is accessible via the backyard. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN BACKSTOPS OPEN-SPACE BID"
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August 14th, 2012 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN RINGS ITS BELLS FOR BIKERS
The annual Tour de Fair Haven raced into that century-old town Sunday, complete with tailgating spectators, a bike-themed house decorating contest and hard-charging professional cyclists. redbankgreen‘s Stacie Fanelli was there withContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN RINGS ITS BELLS FOR BIKERS"
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August 13th, 2012 @ 3pm
Two drivers were injured and traffic around the Little Silver train station was tied up for about an hour after two cars collided at rush hour Monday morning, police said.Continue reading "TWO INJURED IN LITTLE SILVER CRASH"
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August 13th, 2012 @ 12pm
TURNING HEADS, WITH THE TOWN AS CANVAS
Shay Guiod prepared to hang one of  Dumitru Gorzo’s paintings at the Two River Theater on Sunday, above, having installed another at Space Interiors on White Street, below. By TOMContinue reading "TURNING HEADS, WITH THE TOWN AS CANVAS"
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August 13th, 2012 @ 9am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of August 3 to August 10, 2012. This information is unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring onContinue reading "VANDALS EPOXY DOOR LOCK, DAMAGE BOAT"
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August 13th, 2012 @ 7am
OLD FRIENDS ROCK THE BLOCK
Generations of  former and present Red Bank residents gathered on Drs. James Parker Boulevard over Saturday for a block-party style “family reunion,” complete with street fair food, jewelry for sale andContinue reading "OLD FRIENDS ROCK THE BLOCK"
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August 13th, 2012 @ 5am
MORE SUMMER RAIN EXPECTED
Doomy clouds loomed over Fair Haven and Red Bank Friday afternoon as weather forecasts called for possible thunderstorms Friday night and Saturday, followed by sunshine on Sunday. (Click to enlarge)
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August 10th, 2012 @ 5pm
MAGAZINE SPOTLIGHTS RED BANK EATERIES
A screen grab of the article posted Friday. (Click to enlarge) Inside Jersey, the monthly magazine of the Star-Ledger, calls out Red Bank as one of ‘Jersey’s Dining Dozen’ inContinue reading "MAGAZINE SPOTLIGHTS RED BANK EATERIES"
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August 10th, 2012 @ 4pm
Antonio ‘Mingo’ Suarez-Perez, left, will not be eligible for parole. Co-defendants Samson Theodore ‘Freedom’ Hearn, center, and Eric Joel ‘Pun’ Figueras testified against him. The triggerman in 2009’s vicious double homicideContinue reading "KILLER OF TWO G ...
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August 10th, 2012 @ 12pm
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • JD Rockafellow, age 23, from South Avenue in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, arrested on August 7, 2012 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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August 10th, 2012 @ 10am
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SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...