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Thanks to a redbankgreen reader’s post on Facebook, we learned recently of this feel-good video shot in downtown Red Bank. It’s a message for Lifevestinside, an effort aimed at “increasingContinue reading "A SHINY, HAPPY, SHARING RED BANK"
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December 19th, 2011 @ 8am
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WEINBERG AGAIN DRUMS FOR A BUYER
A video listing for the Weinberg estate. Below, Max Weinberg at a Middletown planning board hearing in August. (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) [See update at bottom ofContinue reading "WEINBERG AGAIN DRUMS FOR A BUYER"
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December 16th, 2011 @ 12pm
HOPE SWINGS ETERNAL FOR BANDIERA
Bob Bandiera brings his all-star jinglebell-jam rock spectacular back to the Basie on Monday night with Hope Concert V. In an interview we did with Bob Bandiera a couple ofContinue reading "HOPE SWINGS ETERNAL FOR BANDIERA"
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December 16th, 2011 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: AMPING IT UP FOR THE TROOPS
Dead Bank brings its Grateful Dead salute to the K of C this Saturday as part of a matinee musicfest in support of the Wounded Warrior Project. Asbury Park mightContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: AMPING IT UP FOR THE TROOPS"
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December 15th, 2011 @ 9am
SEA BRIGHTER DISSED OVER GRAMMY NOD
Linda Chorney — seen here playing Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California” last July at the Count Basie — scored herself a Grammy nomination in what could prove to be theContinue reading "SEA BRIGHTER DISSED OVER GRAMMY NOD"
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December 13th, 2011 @ 10am
A SOLD-OUT STOP FOR HOLIDAY EXPRESS
Onstage guest The Grinch makes like The Boss as Tim McLoone and Holiday Express perform at a recent Town Lighting ceremony in Red Bank. The all-volunteer musical force returns toContinue reading "A SOLD-OUT STOP FOR HOLIDAY EXPRESS"
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December 13th, 2011 @ 7am
MAKING LIKE ROCKETTES ON SCHOOL STAGES
Santa and team prep for a grand entrance at Red Bank Catholic’s Holiday Dance Spectacular, going up tonight and tomorrow at the school’s Broad Street Auditorium. While throngs of shoppersContinue reading "MAKING LIKE ROCKETTES ON SCHOOL STAGES"
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December 9th, 2011 @ 10am
JOYOUS, MAJESTIC INDOOR VOICES, PLEASE
A 2010 performance of the Monmouth Civic Chorus, conducted by Mark Shapiro, at the First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank. It’s a local holiday tradition of which it’s been said, “ItContinue reading "JOYOUS, MAJESTIC INDOOR VOICES, PLEASE"
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December 9th, 2011 @ 7am
HONK IF YOU’RE FEELING DUCKY
Michael Genet as Bullfrog, center with the Froglets in the TRTC production of ‘Honk!” (Photo by T. Charles Erickson. Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK Old European superstition has itContinue reading "HONK IF YOU’RE FEELING DUCKY"
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December 7th, 2011 @ 7am
SWINGING INTO SINATRA AT A BASIE BASH
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Joe Muccioli (left) conducts the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra in the fifth annual Sinatra Birthday Bash event, Friday night at Basie’s place — an occasion that also marks the releaseContinue reading "SWINGING INTO SINATRA AT A BASIE BASH"
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December 6th, 2011 @ 9am
SIBLINGS PLAYING NICELY TOGETHER
Alina and Justin Zimmerman are Sibling Rivalry, and they continue making their Sunday night stand at the doublewide Downtown. Justin and Alina Zimmerman (ages 17 and 15 respectively, last weContinue reading "SIBLINGS PLAYING NICELY TOGETHER"
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December 2nd, 2011 @ 10am
AN INDIE CHRISTMAS, FOR JUST ONE NIGHT
Cast members of NOTHING FOR CHRISTMAS, director Sean Guess’s indie feature film that returns to Clearview Cinemas on White Street for two showings Thursday. Stroll past Red Bank’s Clearview Cinemas,Continue reading "AN INDIE CHRISTMAS, FOR JUST ONE NIGHT"
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November 30th, 2011 @ 3pm
SAVOUR THE HOLIDAY FLAVOUR
Jersey Shore guitar master Sonny Kenn provides the sonic spice as the Red Bank Flavour culinary campaign kicks off with a special holiday season smorgasbord benefit Thursday night at theContinue reading "SAVOUR THE HOLIDAY FLAVOUR"
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November 30th, 2011 @ 1pm
RED BANK PUTS PARKING DECK IN GEAR
The White Street lot is an “underutilized” asset and needs a garage, says Mayor Pasquale Menna. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A year after reopening of one ofContinue reading "RED BANK PUTS PARKING DECK IN GEAR"
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November 30th, 2011 @ 11am
LIBRARY HEAD ADDS NEW CHAPTER TO TALE
Eight-year-old Andrea John introduces herself to Mary Faith Chmiel at a meet-the-director event held at the library earlier this month. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Book-loving Red BankersContinue reading "LIBRARY HEAD ADDS NEW CHAPTER TO TALE"
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November 28th, 2011 @ 1pm
It’s a full-on sight-and-sound spectacular: the annual night-after-Thanksgiving Santa Claus train ride into Red Bank followed by the parade to Broad Street, the downtown light-up and the Holiday Express concert.Continue reading "SEASON OPENER"
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November 28th, 2011 @ 7am
HOLIDAY EXPRESS TO USHER IN THE SEASON
Scenes from the 2010 Holiday Express concert. (Click to enlarge) The newborn 2011 holiday season moves outdoors with a bang of a snare drum and a blast of white lightContinue reading "HOLIDAY EXPRESS TO USHER IN THE SEASON"
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November 25th, 2011 @ 10am
ANOTHER ‘DEAD ON’ ARRIVAL IN RED BANK
Multi-instrumentalist, session ace and educator Marc Muller (right) leads the latest edition of the DEAD ON LIVE project back to the Count Basie Friday night. (Photo by Brian Stratton) CallContinue reading "ANOTHER ‘DEAD ON’ ARRIVAL IN RED BANK"
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November 24th, 2011 @ 9am
BALDWIN & PAL: UNPLUGGED AND ELECTRIC
Alec Baldwin and Michael Cumpsty (right) join Two River Theater artistic director John Dias (left) for an “unscripted and unrehearsed” UNPLUGGED fundraiser at the Bridge Avenue artspace Monday night. ByContinue reading "BALDWIN & PAL: UNPLUGGED AND ELECTRIC"
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November 22nd, 2011 @ 11am
The cause was cancer prevention, and the nearly naked male and female models were there for educational purposes – swear! Go Naked and Check Yourself, a soiree thrown together byContinue reading "NEARLY NAKED FOR A GOOD CAUSE"
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November 21st, 2011 @ 8am
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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.
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.