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RED BANK: BASIE EXCITES THE APPETITE
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Scenes from the 2013 inaugural ‘Appetite’ event, which returns to the patio and stage of the Basie this weekend. (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge) Its famous stage hasContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE EXCITES THE APPETITE"
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July 31st, 2014 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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BATTER UP, FOR FREE RB SUMMER CLINICS
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From press materials by Red Bank Parks and Recreation  Red Bank boys and girls who are interested in sharpening their baseball and softball skills still have time to register forContinue reading "BATTER UP, FOR FREE RB SUMMER CLINICS"
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July 30th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: THINK GLOBAL, ACT RE-LOCAL
The trailer for ‘In Transition 2.0,’ a documentary screening at Red Bank Public Library Thursday evening. If you’re the sort of person who’s been looking for a hyper-local way toContinue reading "RED BANK: THINK GLOBAL, ACT RE-LOCAL"
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July 30th, 2014 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: DINOSAURS OF ROCK RETURN
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Photographer, naturalist and New Jersey history expert Walter Choroszewski goes looking for fossils — and finds more than one kind of classic rock — when he visits the Middletown LibraryContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: DINOSAURS OF ROCK RETURN"
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July 29th, 2014 @ 12pm
RBR SUMMER SLAMMERS PREP FOR SEPT.
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Students at Summer Slam, the month-long high school transition program for rising freshmen at RBR, participate in a hula-hoop dance courtesy of the Community YMCA. Press release from Red BankContinue reading "RBR SUMMER SLAMMERS PREP FOR SEPT."
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July 29th, 2014 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: LETTERS FROM SUMMER CAMP
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Area high school athletes play in front of top college coaches, as Red Bank Regional Girls Basketball coach James Young conducts the sixth annual Maroon and White Basketball Camp, beginningContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: LETTERS FROM SUMMER CAMP"
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July 28th, 2014 @ 2pm
RED BANK: A BAND OF BEETHOVENS
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The largest rhythm-keeping force in the free world, the US Army Field Band deploys to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre on Monday, for a free public concert. InContinue reading "RED BANK: A BAND OF BEETHOVENS"
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July 27th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: INTIMATE AND UN-IRONIC ALANIS
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Serial Grammy winner Alanis Morisette returns to the greater Green this Sunday, for an unplugged concert at the Count’s place. To music fans that have helped her move more thanContinue reading "RED BANK: INTIMATE AND UN-IRONIC ALANIS"
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July 26th, 2014 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: A PICK TO CLICK AT PARKER’S
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Vintage berry-picking baskets await fulfillment, as the historic Parker Family Homestead invites the community to a second session of blackberry gathering fun in Little Silver. While we’re not suggesting thatContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: A PICK TO CLICK AT PARKER’S"
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July 25th, 2014 @ 12pm
A JAZZY SUMMER MUSIC CAMP IN RED BANK
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Aspiring young musicians will get a chance to learn with the pros, during a Summer Music Camp program that commences August 4 in Red Bank. (photos by Roberto Muolo) PressContinue reading "A JAZZY SUMMER MUSIC CAMP IN RED BANK"
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July 25th, 2014 @ 6am
‘LITTLE BUCS’ WANTED FOR RBR PRESCHOOL
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Preschoolers learn and play inside the fully equipped Child Development classroom at Red Bank Regional High School. The school is currently accepting preschool-age children for the Little Bucs program, whichContinue reading "‘LITTLE BUCS’ WANTED FOR RBR PRESCHOOL"
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July 24th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: SURFING FOR SIDEWALK DIAMONDS
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It’s the 60th annual edition of a local  favorite – and the organizers of the Red Bank Sidewalk Sale have a special stroll down memory lane built in to thisContinue reading "RED BANK: SURFING FOR SIDEWALK DIAMONDS"
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July 24th, 2014 @ 5am
RED BANK: NOW YOU HAS JAZZ
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Vocalist Maggie Worsdale fronts the Sweet Whiskey Band in a set of “Songs Under the Influence,” Friday and Saturday at Two River Theater. (photo by Roberto Muolo) April may beContinue reading "RED BANK: NOW YOU HAS JAZZ"
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July 23rd, 2014 @ 12pm
RBR GRAD WINS CLARINET CONTEST
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Red Bank Regional 2014 graduate Matthew Rosen recently returned from Oklahoma as the winner of the prestigious National Clarinet Competition at the University of Oklahoma. Press release from Red BankContinue reading "RBR GRAD WINS CLARINET CONTEST"
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July 22nd, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: LIGHTHEARTED PSYCHIC AT BASIE
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“Medium Next Door” Maureen Hancock makes her Count Basie Theatre debut Thursday night. You needn’t possess a sixth sense, second sight, or psychic gift to divine that live appearances byContinue reading "RED BANK: LIGHTHEARTED PSYCHIC AT BASIE"
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July 22nd, 2014 @ 6am
RBR HOSTS SIXTH ANNUAL GIRLS’ B-BALL CAMP
Beginning Tuesday, July 29 and continuing through Thursday, July 31, Red Bank Regional High School will host its sixth annual Maroon and White Team Girls’ Basketball Camp. As many asContinue reading "RBR HOSTS SIXTH ANNUAL GIRLS’ B-BALL CAMP"
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July 22nd, 2014 @ 6am
SANDY HOOK: A HAVEN FROM WIND AND TIDE
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The Haven takes it to the Hook Wednesday evening as part of a freebie triple-header bill of bands on the beach. While the Sandy Hook peninsula has soldiered on throughContinue reading "SANDY HOOK: A HAVEN FROM WIND AND TIDE"
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July 21st, 2014 @ 5am
LUNCH BREAK TAKES IT DOWNTOWN FOR GALA
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Retired Ranney School headmaster Dr. Lawrence Sykoff, Ed.D. — seen at right jamming with Tim McLoone and Holiday Express — leads his band, the Docs of Rock, to the DowntownContinue reading "LUNCH BREAK TAKES IT DOWNTOWN FOR GALA"
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July 18th, 2014 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: A SEEGER SESSION, AMONG FRIENDS
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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Jim Scott —seen at right accompanying his friend, the late Pete Seeger — hosts a singalong tribute to the late folk music master Saturday evening atContinue reading "LINCROFT: A SEEGER SESSION, AMONG FRIENDS"
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July 18th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: WREMBEL BY THE RIVER
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French-born “Gypsy Jazz” guitarist Stephane Wrembel is the star of this week’s edition of Summer Jazz Cafe, Friday and Saturday at Two River Theater. The comparisons to the legendary gypsyContinue reading "RED BANK: WREMBEL BY THE RIVER"
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July 17th, 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
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.