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Category Archives: Entertainment

LINCROFT: A HOME FOR FOLK AT EARTH ROOM
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LINCROFT: Earth Room concert series continues with a twofer by accomplished young songwriters Kirsten Maxwell and Matt Nakoa.
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March 8th, 2017 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: TWO RIVER PLANS ADDITION
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RED BANK: Two River Theater files for major expansion of its backstage operations to allow for building large stage sets, costume creation and rehearsals.
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March 7th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: BASIE PIMPS STAGE TO PRESS
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RED BANK: Commerce intrudes on a once-inviolable sanctuary as the Basie sells stage-naming rights to the Asbury Park Press.
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March 6th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: FORMER STAIR FACTORY REFRAMED
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RED BANK: The art collector who created Detour Gallery is now turning a former West Side stair factory into a frame shop.
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March 3rd, 2017 @ 11am
RED BANK: MOMIX IN THE MIX AT BASIE
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RED BANK: The return of the quirky dance troupe MOMIX signals a week of eclectic entertainment at the Basie.
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March 3rd, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: HORNSBY, SKAGGS & HOT SARDINES
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RED BANK: The Basie's musical roots are showing with concerts this week by Bruce Hornsby-Ricky Skaggs, and the Hot Sardines.
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February 27th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: TWO WAYS TO MAKE ‘MERRY’
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RED BANK: Two River Theater offers two different takes on Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' beginning with a Saturday night preview.
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February 24th, 2017 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: A HOOTENANNY IN CHURCH
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LITTLE SILVER: A monthly bluegrass show brings a handful of old-time-music performers to Embury United Methodist Church this Sunday.
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February 16th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: CRIME VICTIM RIDES MEDIA WAVE
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RED BANK: Media maven Brian Donohue goes wide in search for prized surfboard stolen from his driveway here Saturday night.
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February 15th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ONCE AGAIN, IMPROV IN A JAM
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RED BANK: Improv Jam troupe's jamming, but in a jam, again, faced with losing its space in the Count Basie Performing Arts Academy.
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February 10th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: A VALENTINE IN MUSIC AND DANCE
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RED BANK: The New Jersey Symphony dances into February with a Friday night valentine to the Great America Songbook at the Basie.
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February 8th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: STEWART CREW RETURNS
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RED BANK: As they did in December, writers for Jon Stewart's hush-hush new show are slated to offer a night of standup and improv here this week.
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February 6th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: ‘PRODIGIES’ AT ST. THOMAS PIANO
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RED BANK: Thirteen-year-old piano prodigy Adam Jackson inaugurates a new series of classical music concerts at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
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February 3rd, 2017 @ 2pm
MIDDLETOWN: PLAYERS DISH UP FINE ‘DINING’
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MIDDLETOWN: Monmouth Players take it into A.R. Gurney's engagingly experimental ensemble comedy 'The Dining Room" for six performances.
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February 2nd, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: TRIBUTES TO CARPENTERS & MORE
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RED BANK: Tribute acts rule the Count Basie Theatre stage with upcoming salutes to the music of The Carpenters and stars of the 80's.
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January 30th, 2017 @ 6am
RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN SELLING MANSION
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RUMSON: Springsteen selling his little-used mansion here to a couple who own a house just two doors away, property records indicate.
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January 20th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: BASIE SHINES ON GLOBAL STAGE
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RED BANK: Ticket sales soared 76 percent at the Count Basie in 2016, making it the top-grossing theater in New Jersey and 24th globally, Pollstar reports.
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January 9th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: BANDIERA AND ‘HOPE’ AT BASIE
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RED BANK: Bobby Bandiera brings ninth annual Hope Concert to Basie Friday, promising a rocking and soulful show studded with stars.
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December 21st, 2016 @ 8am
RED BANK: KENNY ROGERS TO MAKE LAST STOP
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RED BANK: A last-ever Count Basie concert by Kenny Rogers brings well-roasted holiday chestnuts and Gambler's guest Linda Davis.
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December 19th, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: JOY TO THE EARS
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RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: In separate shows Saturday, the Monmouth Civic Chorus and Shrewsbury Chorale herald the holiday season with classic songs.
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December 15th, 2016 @ 3pm
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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 ...