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RED BANK: BACH’IN AROUND THE XMAS TREE
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RED BANK: The Monmouth Conservatory of Music's holiday show this Saturday will feature an unusual guest: jazz pianist and vocalist Sandy Sasso.
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December 14th, 2016 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: HOLIDAY SHOWS ROCK THE BASIE
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RED BANK: Darlene Love brings a "Souled Out Christmas' to the Basie Friday, followed Saturday by Brian Kirk and his big holiday show.
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December 12th, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: STEWART CREW COMING TO TOWN
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RED BANK: Contributors to the Jon Stewart project in the works for HBO are slated to offer an evening of comedy here Thursday. Will Stewart himself show?
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December 5th, 2016 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: CAN WE TALK JOAN RIVERS?
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FAIR HAVEN: Vanity Fair writer brings her new Joan Rivers biography to River Road Books for a "can we talk?" session Wednesday night.
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November 28th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: AN EXPRESSWAY TO WINTER
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RED BANK: Wizards of Winter, featuring members of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, bring soaring harmonies to the Basie Saturday.
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November 25th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: SETZER JUMP-STARTS BASIE LINEUP
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RED BANK: The Brian Setzer Orchestra turns the ignition key on the holiday season with a rockabilly-fueled show at the Basie Monday.
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November 18th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: RETURN OF THE GREAT PRETENDER
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RED BANK: What started out as a solo record for Chrisse Hynde became the first Pretenders' LP in nearly a decade. She brings it and the band to the Basie.
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November 14th, 2016 @ 3pm
RED BANK: VAN ZANDT LINEUP TO ROCK BASIE
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RED BANK: Steven Van Zandt to pick bands for four concerts to raise funds for a massive $20 million Count Basie Theatre expansion.
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November 14th, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK: GHOSTLY, AND PARTLY TRUE, TALES
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RED BANK: New book, "13 Ghostly Tales and Yarns of the Navesink River," mines newspaper archives and local lore for stories of hubris and eerie comeuppance.
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October 28th, 2016 @ 4pm
RED BANK: STEVE MILLER BAND JETS IN
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RED BANK: The Steve Miller Band jets in for a show at the Count Basie, its only New Jersey stop on the current tour.
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October 28th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: DEAD ON LIVE AT THE BASIE
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RED BANK: The Dead walk the earth, or at least the Count Basie boards, in the personae of Marc Muller's meticulous tribute band, Dead On Live.
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October 27th, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MORGAN PICKS UP THE PIECES
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RED BANK: Back on the road after a limo crash that killed a friend and seriously injured him, Tracy Morgan is slated to do two shows at the Basie Friday.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: YES MEN RETURN, BUT NOT AS YES
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RED BANK: The music of prog-rockers Yes comes to the Basie Wednesday, courtesy of veteran Yes men Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman — aka ARW.
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October 24th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: JAMIAN’S HOSTS ‘COMIC BOOK MEN’
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RED BANK: Jamian's Food and Drink will host a season-six premiere party for "Comic Book Men," the cable show set in Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash.
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October 21st, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FRAMPTON COMES UNPLUGGED
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RED BANK: Peter Frampton does it in the raw with an acoustic career retrospective from the Count Basie stage Tuesday night.
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October 17th, 2016 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: HAUNTED HOUSE CREAKS OPEN
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LINCROFT: An eek-spanded edition of Brookdale's Haunted Theater goes up for the first of three big weekends starting Friday night.
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October 13th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: A BOATLOAD OF WOOD & HISTORY
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RED BANK: A gleaming wooden yacht that has hosted American presidents, and that a borough man bought cheap at auction, will be on display Saturday.
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October 11th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: FREE SHOW BY ARMY FIELD BAND
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RED BANK: US Army Field Band to stage a free concert at the Count Basie Theatre.
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October 7th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: STEWART GOODYEAR AT THE BASIE
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RED BANK: Pianist Stewart Goodyear helps the New Jersey Symphony open a good new year at the Count Basie Saturday night.
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October 6th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: O’REE OF LOTSA FAITH
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RED BANK: Bon Jovi and occasional road sideman Matt O'Ree put on simultaneous shows just doors apart Saturday night.
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September 29th, 2016 @ 12pm
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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 ...