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Actor and playwright Frank Ingrasciotta performs his Off Broadway solo show BLOOD TYPE: RAGU at Middletown Arts Center on November 15 as part of a new series of Savor the ArtsContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: A THREE-DAY TASTE OF ITALY"
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November 14th, 2014 @ 6am
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RED BANK: FAITH, COFFEE AND CANDOR
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Press release from Monmouth Reform Temple Ever wonder how it is that so many different religions all expect to heal the world on only their own terms? Every religious denominationContinue reading "RED BANK: FAITH, COFFEE AND CANDOR"
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November 14th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: THE BRIGHT SIDE OF ARTHUR
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King Arthur (Michael Chartier) is attended to by the Laker Girls in MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, the very silly musical opening at the Count Basie Theatre this weekend, as the season-cappingContinue reading "RED BANK: THE BRIGHT SIDE OF ARTHUR"
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November 13th, 2014 @ 12pm
RUMSON: FUN AT THE (BOOK) FAIR
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Rumson PTO Book Fair attendees — and Clifford the Big Red Dog — enjoy a conch shell concert by Forrestdale School Music Teacher John Lebitsch, during the recent event. PressContinue reading "RUMSON: FUN AT THE (BOOK) FAIR"
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November 13th, 2014 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER, LINCROFT: HOLIDAYS NOW
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Real live reindeer are present and accounted for, as Sickles Market inaugurates the season with a Holiday Open House event on Friday, November 14. Ask anyone whose job it isContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER, LINCROFT: HOLIDAYS NOW"
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November 12th, 2014 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: MUCH MORE ADO, AT RBR
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Benedick (Patrick Monaghan, Little Silver) kneels before his Beatrice (Katherine Kennedy, Avon), as the Red Bank Regional VPA drama majors rehearse their lead roles in the school production of Shakespeare’sContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: MUCH MORE ADO, AT RBR"
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November 12th, 2014 @ 6am
RUMSON: TEATIME WITH REBECCA, THAT DOLL
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American Girl character Rebecca Rubin invites kids ages 6 and up to a special Tea Party at Rumson’s Congregation B’nai Israel. As the Jewish Daily Forward put it in 2013,Continue reading "RUMSON: TEATIME WITH REBECCA, THAT DOLL"
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November 11th, 2014 @ 3pm
SHREWSBURY: SAY CHEESE… AND MUSH!
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Images of Alaska — and of the people and dogs who call it home — are on display at a reception for Little Silver lenswoman Kim Levin. Animal lovers andContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: SAY CHEESE… AND MUSH!"
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November 11th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: A CORKER OF A BENEFIT, FOR RBPL
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Susan Haugenes — pictured here jamming with hyperlocal luminaries The Haven — entertains during a Tuesday night Wine Tasting Benefit for the Red Bank Public Library. (Photo by Kim Levin)Continue reading "RED BANK: A CORKER OF A BENEFIT, FOR RBPL"
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November 10th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK OPENS BASKETBALL TRYOUTS
The Borough of Red Bank’s Parks and Recreation Department has announced a partnership with Jersey Fusion Basketball to present a Sports Performance Training (SPT) program for Red Bank boys andContinue reading "RED BANK OPENS BASKETBALL TRYOUTS"
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November 10th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY
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One of rock’s truly stand-alone (even stand-on-one-leg) figures returns to Red Bank this Sunday, as Jethro Tull mastermind Ian Anderson delivers both The Best of Tull and his most recentContinue reading "RED BANK: MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY"
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November 8th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SLINGING MUD, SPLASHING PAINT
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The custom stoneware pottery creations of Red Bank’s Lauren Bellero are on display and sale, with the paintings of Donna Gratkowski, when the annual Mudslingers Art Show returns to Bellero’sContinue reading "RED BANK: SLINGING MUD, SPLASHING PAINT"
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November 7th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE STAGE
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Rumson-based Songbird and dynamic entertainer Lisa Sherman reclaims the Basie stage this Saturday, for a boundary-busting sonic salute to DECADES OF DIVAS. Once or twice each month, you’ll find herContinue reading "RED BANK: SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE STAGE"
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November 6th, 2014 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER GETS FALL MAKEOVER FROM RBR
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Taylor Cuozzo of Little Silver, an art major at Red Bank Regional’s Visual and Performing Arts Academy, is shown painting a giant pumpkin on the window of Groomingdales’ pet salonContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER GETS FALL MAKEOVER FROM RBR"
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November 6th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: MCC CELEBRATES MCM
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Monmouth Conservatory of Music exec director Vladislav Kovalsky (right) is the special guest, as Dr. Ryan Brandau and the Monmouth Civic Chorus  celebrate MCM’s golden anniversary with a Saturday afternoonContinue reading "RED BANK: MCC CELEBRATES MCM"
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November 5th, 2014 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: EMPOWERING THEATER, AT RBR
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Red Bank Regional Visual and Performing Arts Academy graduate Ashley Marinaccio (left) looks on as RBR junior and creative writing major Mya Nunnelly performs her own poetry, during a recentContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: EMPOWERING THEATER, AT RBR"
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November 4th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: BAREFOOT AND BLINDFOLDED
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The Two Man Group of Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood flips Red once again when the guys from WHOSE LINE retake the Count Basie stage for another go-round of impishlyContinue reading "RED BANK: BAREFOOT AND BLINDFOLDED"
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November 4th, 2014 @ 5am
RED BANK: READY FOR PRIMETIME
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The cast of finalists from Season 11 of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE take to the Basie boards for a touring extravaganza this Wednesday, November 5. The days whenContinue reading "RED BANK: READY FOR PRIMETIME"
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November 3rd, 2014 @ 12pm
Now that Lunch Break is one step closer to reaching their $5 million goal toward their “Step Up to the Plate” capital campaign for Lunch Break,” the Red Bank-based nonprofitContinue reading "RED BANK: MILLION $ LUNCH BREAK CHALLENGE"
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November 3rd, 2014 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: A MOVIE MONDAY MULTI-CULTI
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Aida Foch and Jean Rochefort star in THE ARTIST AND THE MODEL, one of a series of recent foreign films screening for free, Mondays in November at Middletown Library. TheContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: A MOVIE MONDAY MULTI-CULTI"
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November 2nd, 2014 @ 12pm
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.
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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
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SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.