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SPRINGSTEEN DOC PUTS RED BANK AT CENTER STAGE
Hulu's new Bruce Springsteen documentary follows him across the globe, but keeps Red Bank rehearsals sessions front and center. (click to read)
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GROWIN’ UP WITH SPRINGSTEEN, OFF BROAD
RED BANK: The untold story of the coffeehouse that had a lifelong impact on local teens while helping to launch the career of an 18-year-old singer named Bruce Springsteen.
SANDY HOOK: SPRINGSTEEN BUSTED FOR DWI
SANDY HOOK: Springsteen facing DWI and other charges from November arrest that came to light three days after his Super Bowl commercial for Jeep.
RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN SELLING MANSION
RUMSON: Springsteen selling his little-used mansion here to a couple who own a house just two doors away, property records indicate.
RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN TOSSING KEYS TO FOYE
Bruce Springsteen signs autographs outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in 2009. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) [UPDATE: Monmouth County records show the deed to theContinue reading "RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN TOSSING KEYS TO FOYE"
MIDNIGHT MADNESS II FOR BRUCE BUFFS
The trailer for THE PROMISE. Below, the E Street Shuffle, which pays sonic homage to Springsteen as Jack’s Music hosts a midnight release event for the new Springsteen box basedContinue reading "MIDNIGHT MADNESS II FOR BRUCE BUFFS"
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa outside the Count Basie Theatre last May. Almost three years after Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa went shopping at the Antique Center of Red Bank to help dispel rumors of a split, a West...
How about a paper explaining that thing on His head? Download that dictionary app into your iPods, Brucies. The second installment of "Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium" is coming to Monmouth University in September. If it's anything like the...
Ledger Live, the Star-Ledger's charmingly slapdash video newscast, was in Red Bank last night to see if there was any hint of Springsteen fever on the debut of the rocker's new album, 'Working on a Dream.' Show host Brian Donohue...
Bruce Springsteen returned to the Count Basie Theatre last night for an unbilled appearance at the venue he helped refurbish last year. That presumably multiplied the local-boy-makes-superstardom megawattage already on the stage in the t-shirted form of Jon Bon Jovi,...
They've long had dual residences just a dozen miles apart, in Rumson and Colts Neck. Now, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have added the keys to a place in Florida to their key rings. Since June, Monmouth County's most famous...
Himself, at the Count Basie Theatre in May. The NFL has confirmed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. The show had been rumored since a report...
Bruce Springsteen's people are denying the Rumsonian rock star will alight on Denver's Invesco Field before or after Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech Thursday night. The Rocky Mountain News, which cited "multiple sources" in reporting yesterday on Springsteen's purported plan...
Bruce Springsteen signs autographs outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in May. Report outta Denver today says Shore-based popstars Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi will play at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, bookending Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance...
Today's edition of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit features a report that Springsteen & Co. will command the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Also in oRBit: • A look-ahead at some terrific events coming down in the next...
Springsteen signs autographs before last night's show. Bruce Springsteen gave fans something to gush about last night, according to the accounts we've seen so far. His show with the full E Street Band at the Count Basie Theatre included complete,...
Gettin' the band back together... Gone are the days when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would do two shows a night at what was then known as the Carlton Theatre and the Monmouth Arts Center. But word that...
Obama supporter Bruce Springsteen. Throwing another log on the should-entertainers-endorse fire today is Rumsonite/Colts Necker Bruce Springsteen, who's getting behind Sen. Barrack Obama's presidential bid. In a statement posted today on his website, Springsteen says Obama "speaks to the America...
By TOM CHESEK The gavel's come down; the auction is closed; and when all's said and done, the Boss is gonna buy Basie a new pair of shoes, and then some. Meantime, 400 seats have become available for the May...
Himself. In response to questions posted by a redbankrgreen reader earlier this week, management at Count Basie Theatre Foundation, which is organizing Bruce Springsteen's solo acoustic show May 7, sent us the following this morning. About 1,000 seats are being...
Partyline
FEELING LOW?
This very, very, very low-riding Lincoln Continental (due in part to multiple flat tires) sits in contrast to the elevated super jacked Chev ...
CURB YOUR ROADRUNNER
The newly completed mural on the side of taco-lovers mecca International Mexican Grocery at 82 Shrewsbury Avenue features a woman with a roa ...
CURB YOUR SNOWMAN
These two forlorn characters, left on the curb of the parking lot on Wallace Street just east of Broad Street, are in for some serious miser ...
SANTA AND SMILES LIGHT THINGS UP
Holiday Light Fun with the Holiday Express and Santa. Downtown Red Bank (photo by Partyline contributor Adam Kaplan)  
SWIMMING RIVER SUNSET
Recent sunset from Swimming River Park on W. Front St. with the shoreline of Red Bank in the background.  (photo by Partyline contributor T ...
RED BANK, RED CHAIR, ORANGE SKY
A Red living room chair sits on the shore of the Swimming River as the sun sets Sunday. (photo by Brian Donohue)
BROAD STREET GETS LITTY
Turn up the sound to hear the crowd’s countdown to the annual tree lighting. 🎄🌟✨ Santa, The Grinch, a dog dressed as the Grinc ...
SOGGY PICKLE
Several days after a rain, the new pickleball/tennis courts at East Side Park are still partially under water.  Partyline contributor Craig ...
BLACK FRIDAY HITS JACK’S
It’s not even 8am and there’s a line outside of Jack’s Music Shoppe down to Starbucks. Music fans are parked there for  ...
👀 THANKSGIVING EVE FESTIVITIES IN FULL SWING
It wasn’t even 10PM and there was a packed house at Red Rock on Wharf Ave. Blocks away on Monmouth Street, an equally impressive line ...
EARLY THANKSGIVING AT ELSIE’S
Elsie’s Thanksgiving Sub is almost as iconic as Elsie’s itself. On special for $10.99. It even has the cranberry sauce.
MONDAY MORNING QB
The license plate frame on this car parked in a lot in town reflects the sentiment perhaps many who plan fantasy football feel on a November ...
BRING THAT SHEET RIGHT IN HERE
A construction worker waits while a crane sends a stack of sheet rock up to the third story of the new apartment building being built at 120 ...
ELUSIVE SHADOW “MURAL” APPEARS
This pic is a little tricky because it only appears during a sunny day. It is next to 117 Monmouth St in an empty lot awaiting construction. ...
RED BANK FARMERS MARKET: ONE LAST WEEK
Fabulous weather to visit the RB Farmer’s Market Sunday. The market closes for the season after next weekend. (Photo by Partyline cont ...
RED BANK SUNRISE
View of the sun rising over Red Bank Friday morning taken from the docks at Swimming River Park. (photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim ...
HAWKISH OUTLOOK
A normally skittish species, this red-tailed hawk allowed humans to walk directly under the light pole on which it was perched in the aftern ...
ARMLESS MAILBOX GUARDIAN
This character was seen guarding the mail atop a mailbox on River St.
YOU LOSE YA SHOES?
A pair of size 12 blue Italian-made Bugatchi shoes were left next to the trash can at Peters Place and Broad Street. Slightly worn, but stil ...
HOLIDAY EXPRESS KICKS OFF SEASON
Holiday Express rolled into Red Bank on Saturday to celebrate the start of the holiday season at Lunch Break, the nonprofit that provides me ...