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RED BANK: PORCHFEST ROCKS TOWN
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RED BANK: Porchfest goes off "flawlessly," says Portman, as more than 80 musical acts draw audiences at 22 homes across town.
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October 10th, 2022 @ 10am
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RED BANK: PORCHFEST TO FILL EARS & HEARTS
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RED BANK: More than 70 acts on 21 porches over five hours: here's your guide to the town's first-ever Porchfest music festival.
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October 6th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: STOMPIN’ THRU THE WEEKEND
RED BANK: Omega Train debuts a song in praise of our "old downtown," which just so happens will be stomping this weekend. Here's the outlook.
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September 23rd, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: ‘HAIR’ AUDITIONS SLATED
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RED BANK: Phoenix Productions to hold auditions for its autumn production of 'HAIR.'
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July 1st, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: PORTMAN READY FOR MAYOR’S MIC
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RED BANK: Mayoral favorite Billy Portman is even more the entertainer than we knew, with movie roles and a 'filthy" rap record in his past.
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July 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FAMILIES PACK DRAG READING
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RED BANK: Drag Queen Story Hour draws a packed room of rapt toddlers and parents as supporters stand at library entrance.
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June 28th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: SLURS HURLED AT EVENT ATTENDEES
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RED BANK: Protesters shout "pedophile" and other slurs at attendees of library's Drag Queen Story Time.
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June 22nd, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER TAPS DOWNTOWN PRO
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RED BANK: RiverCenter taps a downtown-management professional with extensive experience in New York and New Jersey as executive director.
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May 23rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HONOR PARKERS
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RED BANK: Fortune Center to unveil exhibit honoring three history-making African-American men of medicine with the shared name of James Parker.
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May 17th, 2022 @ 9am
RED BANK: PHOENIX TO ‘ROCK’ AUDITIONS
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RED BANK: For its production of 'School of Rock - the Musical," Phoenix seeks four triple-threat young performers. Audition info here.
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May 9th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BASIE, PHOENIX TO MERGE
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RED BANK: After a 30-year working relationship, Basie Center and Phoenix Productions plan to merge, the arts organizations announced Tuesday.
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February 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: POLICE ACCOUNT DISPUTED
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RED BANK: Family members contest police suggestion that Robert Bruce might have been living in the storage unit where his body was found Friday.
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January 4th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MAN FOUND DEAD IN STORAGE UNIT
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RED BANK: Robert Bruce, borough man widely known for his role on the 'Comic Book Men' reality show, found dead in document storage unit, police said.
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January 2nd, 2022 @ 1am
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HOST VIEWING PARTY
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RED BANK: Fortune Center to host viewing party for debut of 'The Gilded Age,' a new HBO series featuring the center's namesake, T. Thomas Fortune.
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December 20th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: HOLIDAY EXPRESS ROLLS AGAIN
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RED BANK: Bundled against the cold, hundreds cheer return of Holiday Express for Christmas season kickoff. Check out redbankgreen's photos.
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November 29th, 2021 @ 3am
RED BANK: LOCAL TREE SPRUCES UP PARK
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RED BANK: Riverside Gardens Park gets its Christmas tree, this year a 30-foot spruce from the front yard of a home right in town.
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November 22nd, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: CHRISTMAS TREE WANTED
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RED BANK: RiverCenter issues annual call for a donated Christmas tree for display in Riverside Gardens Park.
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October 19th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: JON STEWART SELLS SECOND HOME
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RED BANK: With a deal to sell the second of two adjacent homes overlooking the Navesink River, Jon Stewart appears to have ended his time in town.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: THOUSANDS PACK OYSTERFEST
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RED BANK: Ideal weather puts thousands in a partying mood as Oysterfest returns after a pandemic-skipped year. redbankgreen has beaucoup pix.
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September 27th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: SUN TO SHINE ON OYSTERFEST
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RED BANK: After skipped year, Guinness Oyster Festival set to return with sunshine in forecast Sunday. Here's what you need to know if planning to attend.
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September 24th, 2021 @ 7am
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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 ...