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Friday marks the second night of the four-night event. What: Second annual Sea Bright Firemen's Fair. Where: The former Peninsula House parking lot, 1099 Ocean Ave. When: Began Thursday and runs through Sunday. Hours are 6p to 11p Friday; 6p...
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May 15th, 2009 @ 6am
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Today's Red Bank oRBit tourbus offers up an exclusive chat — yes, it's a talking bus — with a true living legend of show business: Uncle Floyd Vivino, fabled farouk of local cable and UHF broadcasts, and a man who...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a close look at High School Reunion: The Musical, the latest original show by local-kids-made-good Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. They're the Emmy-nominated TV writers and producers who return to Monmouth County...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 10am
Fans of women's basketball take note: a semi-pro league has established a new team that will use the Salvation Army gym in Red Bank as its home court. The Jersey Fusion is one of the latest members of the Women's...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 9am
Scenes from last year's post-parade picnic on Centennial Day, the precursor to Saturday's Red Bank Day. (Click to enlarge) At the picnic that followed the parade for Red Bank's Centennial last year, Mayor Pasquale Menna was telling everyone he wanted...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 8am
Over on our sib site Red Bank oRBit, a special week of musically minded coverage climaxes today with a lookahead at three days' worth of sublime sounds from all imaginable corners of the local tunescape. Beginning with a big Pink...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's Red Bank oRBit has a first look at Private Lives, the latest (and last of the season) production at Two River Theater. As you'll see, it's an old warhorse of the British stage — Noel Coward wrote and originally...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 7am
You've read all those stories about the legendary and long-gone Upstage club, but do you ever wonder where your favorite Shore musicians get together these days to talk music, make connections and just jam on whatever tune comes to mind?...
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May 6th, 2009 @ 7am
Having already whetted your appetite with features this week on Martin Short, Roger McGuinn, Paint the Town Pink, M Shanghai String Band and the return of the Red Bank International Film Festival, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit fires up...
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May 1st, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit gets a running start on the coming weekend with a focus on two major events. One is the Count Basie Theatre's annual Benefit Concert and Gala — a swell, street-closing affair for which the...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Instead of razing and rebuilding, Chubby's will get a sprucing-up aimed at attracting a more mature crowd. Chubby's Waterside Café, the increasingly trouble-plagued Red Bank night spot that has been stymied by the economy in its plans for a wholesale...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Theater Week of Sorts soldiers on in Red Bank oRBit as we take a look today at a new production of the hard-hitting drama A Soldier’s Play going up this weekend at the Performing Arts Center at Brookdale Community College,...
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April 17th, 2009 @ 6am
It's still Theater Week of Sorts over on our satellite site Red Bank oRBit, and today we drop in on the Monmouth Players, a 56-year-old troupe that's been up to some interesting things way out in the "old, weird" precincts...
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April 16th, 2009 @ 6am
Theater Week tramps on over at Red Bank oRBit, with a look at THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, the latest musical extravaganza staged by Red Bank's own Phoenix Productions at the Count Basie Theatre. It's a thoroughly modern move for the Phoenix,...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 8am
Theater Week of Sorts continues in today's Red Bank oRBit with a look at The Housewives of Mannheim, the new show at New Jersey Rep in Long Branch, and its "real housewives" of 1944 Brooklyn. We talk to playwright (and...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 6am
Today's Red Bank oRBit offers up a double feature that spotlights the return of a local classic and a coming-attractions trailer for one of the most highly anticipated sequels in cinema-buff circles. First, we finally get around to answering the...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 1pm
Tuesday's Red Bank oRBit brings you an update on the kids from Rockit! For Kids, the Red Bank-based classic rock conservatory whose students have been leaving parents, professional musicians and even Rockit commander Bruce Gallipani "blown away" with their rapidly...
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April 7th, 2009 @ 5am
The dean of NJ stage critics — the Star-Ledger's Peter Filichia — has seen the future of regional theater, and her name is Isabel Wallace. As reported in today's Red Bank oRBit , the 9-year old fourth-grader from Little Silver...
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March 26th, 2009 @ 9am
Today's Red Bank oRBit brings news of a real treat for fans of Billie Holiday. Holiday Express/The Shirleys/Springsteen vocalist Layonne Holmes (right) takes the spotlight at Rumson's David Burke Fromagerie this Friday night only in a jazz-combo salute to the...
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March 25th, 2009 @ 7am
As the music director for The Downtown, Chris Masi is responsible for wrangling seven nights and two stages worth of live entertainment every week at the Red Bank hotspot. So it's understandable that the expanded and reimagined club's one-year anniversary...
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March 19th, 2009 @ 9am
Partyline
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(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.