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ART AND ABOUT: FEELING IN THE PINK
Clockwise from top left: Andrea “Pinky” Adubato and Lauren Bellero; a Labradoodle portrait by Pinky; a textured box creation by Bellero. By TOM CHESEK The “fall back” days of NovemberContinue reading "ART AND ABOUT: FEELING IN THE PINK"
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November 8th, 2010 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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TRTC SPINS A TALE OF ‘ONE COMMUNITY’
By TOM CHESEK Some pig. Some spider. Some weekend. Even the most industrious of arachnids has nothing on the folks over at the Two River Theater this Friday, Saturday andContinue reading "TRTC SPINS A TALE OF ‘ONE COMMUNITY’"
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November 3rd, 2010 @ 9am
BASIE STARTS BRISK MONTH WITH BUSY WEEK
Not bad for an 84-year-old. Red Bank’s venerable Count Basie Theatre, which had its opening on November 11, 1926 as the Carlton Theatre (featuring The Quarterback, starring silent screen studContinue reading "BASIE STARTS BRISK MONTH WITH BUSY WEEK"
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November 1st, 2010 @ 10am
TRTC ‘LIKE HOME’ FOR ‘OPUS’ DIRECTOR
Director Matthew Arbour oversees an ensemble cast that includes a COSBY SHOW veteran as the play OPUS begins its run this week at Two River Theater. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "TRTC ‘LIKE HOME’ FOR ‘OPUS’ DIRECTOR"
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October 26th, 2010 @ 8am
EMPTY STORE FOR FULL HOUSE? A FAIR TRADE
The vacant storefront at 12 Broad will spotlight products that reflect fair-trade principles this weekend. (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK It’s probably been several generations since there was suchContinue reading "EMPTY STORE FOR FULL HOUSE? A FAIR TRADE"
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October 21st, 2010 @ 9am
A HEAPING HARVEST OF GOOD DEEDS
Clockwise from top left: Village People chief Felipe Rose, Blondie bombshell Debbie Harry, funk bassmaster TM Stevens and  actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan are the honorees at the Monmouth County ArtsContinue reading "A HEAPING HARVEST OF GOOD DEEDS"
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October 20th, 2010 @ 1pm
RED BANK’S A GHOST TOWN FRIDAY NIGHTS
Shroud of tourin’: Lantern and staff in hand, Red Bank Ghost Tours guide Bill Normyle leads his group through the streets of downtown. By TOM CHESEK The packed and popular publicContinue reading "RED BANK’S A GHOST TOWN FRIDAY NIGHTS"
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October 15th, 2010 @ 7am
PHONE PRANKER DIALS UP THE BASIE
Standup comedian, radio personality and phone-prank specialist Roy Wood Jr. keeps up with the latest tech, as the Last Comic Standing Live! tour brings him to New Jersey for theContinue reading "PHONE PRANKER DIALS UP THE BASIE"
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October 14th, 2010 @ 11am
ART AND ABOUT: SOME GRIEF, SOME JOY
Works in multiple media — created by anonymous young participants in the Children’s Art Therapy Program at Riverview Medical Center — are spotlighted for one week only at McKay ImagingContinue reading "ART AND ABOUT: SOME GRIEF, SOME JOY"
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October 13th, 2010 @ 6am
JAZZ ARTS ACADEMY’S IN SWINGIN’ SESSION
Veteran jazzman and Hammond B3 ace Radam Schwartz works with teen musicians at the Count Basie Theatre as part of the Jazz Arts Academy program that kicks off this weekend.Continue reading "JAZZ ARTS ACADEMY’S IN SWINGIN’ SESSION"
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October 8th, 2010 @ 2pm
DINE DOWNTOWN: THE FIXE IS IN, AGAIN
Dish is one of nearly 30 Red Bank restaurants joining in, as the townwide Dine Downtown promotion returns every Tuesday and Wednesday in October. (Photo by Peter Lindner. Click toContinue reading "DINE DOWNTOWN: THE FIXE IS IN, AGAIN"
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October 5th, 2010 @ 5am
‘APPAREL’ A CUSTOM FIT FOR TRTC
Stacey Sargeant commands the stage as Esther in INTIMATE APPAREL, the drama that continues its limited run through October 10 at Two River Theater. (Photos by T. Charles Erickson) ByContinue reading "‘APPAREL’ A CUSTOM FIT FOR TRTC"
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October 1st, 2010 @ 8am
A BRAND NEW DAY, OVER AT TRTC
Two River Theater Company inaugurates its first season of mainstage productions under new artistic director John Dias  when INTIMATE APPAREL opens tomorrow night. By TOM CHESEK For Red Bank’s TwoContinue reading "A BRAND NEW DAY, OVER AT TRTC"
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September 28th, 2010 @ 7am
A DO-GOODER’S GUIDE TO THE WEEKEND
Images by Shrewsbury resident and official Monmouth Park photographer Bill Denver remain on display this weekend, as the Meridian Health Steeplechase returns the great steeplechase meet tradition to the greaterContinue reading "A DO-GOODER’S GUIDE TO THE WEEKEND"
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September 24th, 2010 @ 7am
SHUCK & AWE: OYSTERFEST SLIPS INTO TOWN
Sunday, foody Sunday: 2U, billed as the “World’s 2nd Best U2 Show,” headlines the outdoor stage at the first-ever Guinness Oysterfest in Red Bank on Sunday. (Photo ©Rob English) ByContinue reading "SHUCK & AWE: OYSTERFEST SLIPS INTO TOWN"
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September 21st, 2010 @ 5am
TWO ON THE AISLE IN RB’s THEATER DISTRICT
Stacey Sargeant stars in the season opener INTIMATE APPAREL at Two River Theater, one of a pair of high-profile productions going up on Red Bank stages in these final daysContinue reading "TWO ON THE AISLE IN RB’s THEATER DISTRICT"
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September 17th, 2010 @ 7am
BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS
Riders assemble for the start of last year’s Tour de Fair Haven. The straightaways and sidestreets of the greater Green have been thinned — just barely — of peak-season traffic.Continue reading "BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS"
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September 15th, 2010 @ 8am
BASIE DOC A ‘CLEAR’ TRIBUTE TO RBC GRAD
Video footage, shot in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars by former Marine lieutenant (and Red Bank Catholic graduate) Mike Scotti, forms the core of SEVERE CLEAR, the documentary feature screeningContinue reading "BASIE DOC A ‘CLEAR’ TRIBUTE TO RBC GRAD"
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September 1st, 2010 @ 7am
JOSEPH: 1 LEGEND, 1 COAT, MANY COLORS
Jody Joseph — just being Jody in this case — brings her tribute to Janis Joplin and Stevie Nicks to the Brookdale PAC stage for an ambitious encore, even asContinue reading "JOSEPH: 1 LEGEND, 1 COAT, MANY COLORS"
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August 27th, 2010 @ 8am
THE ART WALK: BACK TO FRONT
A scene from last December’s temporary gallery installation on Front Street, with Emily Asher Neiman visible behind the counter. She didn’t make her pronouncement with the pomp of General DouglasContinue reading "THE ART WALK: BACK TO FRONT"
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August 25th, 2010 @ 8am
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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 ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.