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Monthly Archives: August 2014

BASIE NAMES FIRST VANGUARD AWARDS
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Steve Van Zandt, seen here outside the Count Basie Theatre in 2008, is one of the inaugural recipients of the Basie’s Vanguard Awards honoring lifelong devotion to the arts inContinue reading "BASIE NAMES FIRST VANGUARD AWARDS"
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August 6th, 2014 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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SHREWSBURY: GROWING COMMUNITY ROOTS
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Eileen Olson and Carla Fiscella discuss the day’s bounty in the Shrewsbury Community Garden. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON In its third year, the Shrewsbury CommunityContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: GROWING COMMUNITY ROOTS"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 3pm
Former New Jersey Devils player Jim Dowd once again brought his high school all-star hockey face-off to Red Bank Sunday night. A fundraiser dubbed ‘Hometown Heroes,’ the game saw theContinue reading "RED BANK: HOCKEY ALL-STARS BRING HEAT"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 1pm
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Alexandra Sarna, age 24, from Carr Avenue in Keansburg, NJ, arrested on July 24, 2014 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: POLICE BLOTTER"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BACK TO THE FEATURES
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It’s “everybody out of the water” and up onto the lawn, as ‘Jaws’ returns to Riverside Gardens for a Tuesday night showing. The original ‘Back to the Future’ materializes onContinue reading "RED BANK: BACK TO THE FEATURES"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 11am
Liz Stahl, Mary Ellen Dowd, Chris Lombino and Tom Smith – friends who met in a theater group –  were all set for the July 8, 2014 movie screening inContinue reading "CLIPPINGS: MOVIE IN THE ROUND"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: ‘APPETITE’ SATISFIES HUNDREDS
[slideshow_deploy id=’92048′]At this weekend’s three-day ‘Appetite‘ extravaganza at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, hundreds of visitors feasted on food, wine, beer and culinary wisdom. Susan Ericson’s food blog,Continue reading "RED BANK: ‘APPETITER ...
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August 5th, 2014 @ 8am
LITTLE SILVER PIVOTS ON $1.5M TURF PLAN
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The ballfields at Sickles Farm Park will remain grass for now. Below, audience members passed around a turf sample.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Little Silver isn’t readyContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER PIVOTS ON $1.5M TURF PLAN"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 7am
REFORM TEMPLE WELCOMES NEW RABBI
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Pictured left to right are Monmouth Reform Temple’s new Rabbi Marc Kline (center) with his wife Lori Bernard and the MRT President Jay Wiesenfeld of Lincroft.  Press release from MonmouthContinue reading "REFORM TEMPLE WELCOMES NEW RABBI"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 6am
Press release from Red Bank Family Eyecare On Thursday, June 5, Dr. Erin Curtis and Red Bank Family Eye Care hosted a benefit for the Boys and Girls Clubs ofContinue reading "RB FAMILY EYECARE SENDS YOUTH TO CAMP"
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August 5th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: RALLO REPOSITIONING BASIL T’S
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The exterior’s already gotten a facelift and one is underway inside at Basil T’s, soon to reopen as Birravino, says owner Vic Rallo Jr., below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: RALLO REPOSITIONING BASIL T’S"
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August 4th, 2014 @ 3pm
RB, FH: A NIGHT OUT, A BITE OUT OF CRIME
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A demonstration of driving with “Drunk Goggles” is part of the programming in Red Bank, as police departments in two local boroughs invite kids to take part in the NationalContinue reading "RB, FH: A NIGHT OUT, A BITE OUT OF CRIME"
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August 4th, 2014 @ 12pm
Coming up at Monday night’s meeting of the Little Silver borough council: a presentation on the possibility of installing artificial turf at Sickles Field. The recreation committee is slated toContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER MULLS ARTIFICIAL TURF"
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August 4th, 2014 @ 9am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of July 24 to July 31, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: CAR BURGLARIZED, THEN STOLEN"
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August 4th, 2014 @ 6am
COMMUNITY Y TEENS HELP KIDS NEAR AND FAR
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Community YMCA members Aisha Bhoori of Middletown and Sahar Akbarzai of Old Bridge are coordinating a school supply drive through the YMCA to help give kids in Red Bank andContinue reading "COMMUNITY Y TEENS HELP KIDS NEAR AND FAR"
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August 4th, 2014 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: MONUMENTAL MOVIE MONDAYS
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John Goodman, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Bob Balaban and Bill Murray ARE The Expen…check that, THE MONUMENTS MEN, as Middletown Township Public Library hosts a month-of-Mondays worth of recent HollywoodContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: MONUMENTAL MOVIE MONDAYS"
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August 3rd, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MORE ON THE MENU AT ‘APPETITE’
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They came for the wine with local restaurateur Vic Rallo and stayed for the food trucks, beer and make-your-own bloody Mary’s Saturday at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre, hosting itsContinue reading "RED BANK: MORE ON THE MENU AT ‘APPETITE’"
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August 3rd, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF…
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The Beatlemania Stage Show — featuring Lucien Nocelli, Lincroft’s answer to Lennon— returns for its annual benefit concert at Two River Theater this Sunday afternoon, August 3. The original LadsContinue reading "RED BANK: BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF…"
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August 2nd, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BACK ON THE BLOCK
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The Red Bank Community Block Party returns for the annual West Side neighborhood reunion with a slate of events that include a Friday night preview and a Saturday night after-party.Continue reading "RED BANK: BACK ON THE BLOCK"
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August 1st, 2014 @ 1pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A ‘SECRET’ SALAD
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The dried cranberries made this salad from Fairwinds Deli in Fair Haven pop. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON Looking for a healthy, tasty lunch, PieHole’s wanderingContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A ‘SECRET’ SALAD"
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August 1st, 2014 @ 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 ...