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IN THE AIR: FREE MUSIC, MOVIES AND MORE
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ON THE GREEN: FREE movies in the park. FREE music on the sands, streets and docks. FREE Shakespeare on the grass. All in the midsummer's evenings ahead.
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July 18th, 2017 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RBR GRAD INTERNS WITH LOCAL SURGEON
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LITTLE SILVER: After interning with a Shrewsbury-based surgeon, RBR grad Chase Hintelmann enters Johns Hopkins University as a pre-med student with a talent for tap dance.
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July 18th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: ARTISTS REUNITE AT OYSTER POINT
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RED BANK: Four artists who assemble 'now and then' on the walls of the Oyster Point Hotel return with a new show this week.
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July 17th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOODIES WALK THE WALK
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RED BANK: Some 30 in-town eateries make for a strolling smorgasbord when Food & Wine Walks return to the borough business district Sunday.
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July 14th, 2017 @ 1pm
RED BANK: URBAN INDUSTRIALIST AT DETOUR
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RED BANK: Artist Ron Haywood Jones brings his "Urban Industrial Futuristic Cave Paintings" to the walls of Detour Gallery, starting with a Saturday opening.
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July 14th, 2017 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: The summer theater project at CBA's Henderson Theatre partners with the Premier troupe for a production of 'Footloose' that opens Friday.
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July 12th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LOCAL STARS ON THE ‘WEST SIDE’
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RED BANK: Actors from Middletown and Rumson appear as star-crossed lovers when 'West Side Story' returns to the Basie, courtesy of Phoenix Productions.
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July 12th, 2017 @ 6am
LINCROFT: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S MERRIMENT
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LINCROFT: It's Shakespeare the way the Bard intended it, as A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM goes up in the open air this Thursday, on the lawn at Brookdale CC.
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July 11th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: OH THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS
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RED BANK: Come in costume as your favorite character from GREASE, as the summer-nights musical kicks off a new season of Tuesday movies at Riverside Gardens.
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July 10th, 2017 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN SCHOOL HONORS MARINE
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FAIR HAVEN: Knollwood School grad Matt Valko of the USMC becomes the newest member of the active service added to the school's Wall of Honor.
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July 7th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK:CLASSIC CAR SHOW RETURNS
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RED BANK: Back for a 15th year, the Red Bank Firefighters Classic Car Show commandeers the White Street municipal lot this Sunday.
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July 7th, 2017 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR HONORS IB GRADS
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LITTLE SILVER: Graduates of Red Bank Regional's International Baccalaureate program get a leg up on their college careers.
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July 7th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: ‘CAFÉ SOCIETY’ JAZZES TWO RIVER
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RED BANK: The Samba Jazz East project opens the Summer Jazz Café for another season of candle-lit cool this Friday and Saturday.
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July 6th, 2017 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR SOURCE HONORS ITS OWN
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LITTLE SILVER: Two recently passed officers of RBR's program The SOURCE are honored with memorial scholarships, awarded at the annual reception.
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July 6th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: CYMCA NAMES NEW LEADERS
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RED BANK: The nonprofit Community YMCA names a new Chairperson of the Board and other officers at its annual meeting.
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July 6th, 2017 @ 5am
MIDDLETOWN: Take a stroll through the township's historic heart, with a free guided tour of the old Village of Middletown this Saturday.
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July 5th, 2017 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: Power-pop purveyors the Wag shake a tail for the first in a new series of free concerts at the Municipal Dock Thursday.
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July 5th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: JAZZIN’ THE PARK IN JULY
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RED BANK: The big-band blare of the Mike Kaplan Nonet sounds the fanfare for a new season of Thursday evening Jazz in the Park free-for-alls.
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July 3rd, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MUSICAL FIREWORKS FOR THE 4TH
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RED BANK: A free riverside concert by the NJ Symphony Orchestra and a 'Liberty Extravaganza of patriotic music on Tower Hill herald Independence Day interlude this Sunday.
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June 30th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: UNCLE EBENEZER’S PHISH DISH
RED BANK: Phish tribute band Uncle Ebenezer is the musical catch of the day at Jamian's Friday.
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June 29th, 2017 @ 6am
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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 ...