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She writes, she directs, she sings: Suzanne Sweeney leads her actors in warm-up vocal exercises before a recent rehearsal for this weekend's show. By LAURA KOSS Sitting alone in an otherwise empty auditorium, Suzanne Sweeney watches from the fourth row...
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March 18th, 2009 @ 6am
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We may be on the verge of spring, but at the Two River Theater Company, winter's got one more hand to play. Today's edition of oRBit has the details on Melissa Arctic, the springtime musical adapted from Shakespeare's classic The...
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March 16th, 2009 @ 6am
Breaking on the crest of today's news in Red Bank oRbit.... We've got an exclusive on a new series of summertime surf movie nights to be presented by Michael Boylan of Red Bank's own Stokaboka outdoors in the parking lot...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 6am
A fine art exhibit of "Spraypaint SurrealiZm" and a concert featuring Israel's hottest reggae/klezmer/jam band? It's just another day of illuminating finds at Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's companion site for arts and entertainment. Today's edition takes you to McKay Imaging...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
When Jackie Martling enters an establishment of mixology, the scatology hits the fans, as the Joke Man breaks down all resistance with his patented blend of good cheer and appalling taste. The longtime Howard Stern sidekick comes to Monmouth County's...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 5am
Phoebe Ryan's much-anticipated — at least in the hallways of Red Bank Regional High, where she's a senior — pass through the American Idol machinery may not have proved as Tivo-worthy as her admirers wished. The 17-year-old Rumson resident's Idol...
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March 6th, 2009 @ 6am
John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert — and Shad Kunkle? Well, why not? Today, Red Bank oRBit, talks to one of the rising stars of Second City, the legendary comedy troupe that spawned all of those...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 6am
So what's a Momix Remix? It's a look back at more than 25 years worth of invention from the atelier of celebrated choreographer Moses Pendleton and his Momix Dance Theater company. A Momix performance finds human bodies exploring new and...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 7am
Chubby's owner Mike Gilson pleaded his case, but got little sympathy from the governing body, including Council President Art Murphy, below. First, there was the October 2007 donnybrook outside Chubby's Waterside Café that took cops from several towns to quell...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Today in Red Bank oRBit, we've got something special for your post-Valentine's hangover: our own interview with Hollywood legend Robert Wagner, known for everything from the original Titanic to TV's Hart to Hart, and even the Austin Powers franchise. Wagner...
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February 17th, 2009 @ 5am
How about a paper explaining that thing on His head? Download that dictionary app into your iPods, Brucies. The second installment of "Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium" is coming to Monmouth University in September. If it's anything like the...
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February 13th, 2009 @ 11am
Today's Red Bank oRBit has a tantalizing peek behind the curtain at 'Mary's Wedding,' the new play that you've no doubt seen advertised on posters and flyers all over town but had never heard of. The Two River Theater Company...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 5am
Following previews, 'ReEntry' is now fully underway at at Red Bank’s Two River Theater, and today's Red Bank oRBit salutes it with an admiring review. The play, by Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez, weighs the costs of war through the...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 9am
Ledger Live, the Star-Ledger's charmingly slapdash video newscast, was in Red Bank last night to see if there was any hint of Springsteen fever on the debut of the rocker's new album, 'Working on a Dream.' Show host Brian Donohue...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 2pm
Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Something called the Men’s Expo and Texas Hold ‘em Tournament parks its snorting hog outside Convention Hall tomorrow, bringing the musky scent of Axe Body Spray to the seabreeze-kissed timbers of Asbury Park this non-Super weekend. Among the attractions: exhibits...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Where in the world is the Red Bank International Film Festival? After a three-month postponement from its usual October slot on the calendar, the festival's website still reports that "the invasion has been rescheduled" to this coming weekend. But no...
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January 20th, 2009 @ 6am
Making her first-ever appearance in Red Bank tomorrow night: comic Kathleen Madigan, the pint-sized scourge of pompous pols, Larry King and optimists in general. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit — the pint-sized scourge of boredom in these parts —...
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January 16th, 2009 @ 10am
For a drab time of year that's supposed to be all about recharging the post-holiday batteries, there sure are a lot of interesting people passing through this patch of earth we call the Green, all but commanding attention. If you...
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January 14th, 2009 @ 12pm
Fans gather at the Stash for a 2006 appearance by Kevin Smith. Filmmaker Kevin Smith is closing the Los Angeles version of the Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash store, according to reports. As reported on News Askew, the official...
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January 6th, 2009 @ 7am
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.