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The scene on Broad Street at the 2006 edition of the event. By TOM CHESEK There was that friend of ours who found a shrink-wrapped, never-played, original 1963 pressing ( released the day JFK was shot) of the Phil Spector...
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July 23rd, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and pianist-singer Tony DeSare photographed at River's Edge Café, where they'll be returning this weekend as part of the Summer Jazz Café series. By TOM CHESEK Maybe it's that seventh string on his guitar; a custom-crafted...
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July 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Whoa, flashback: John Easdale of Dramarama headlines the bill at the annual Dunesday event this Saturday at Donovan's Reef. By TOM CHESEK Less than a year ago, the mood around Donovan's Reef had a touch of doomsday about it. The...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 11am
Here's Noises Off star Glenn Jones (center) celebrating art and life with director Gary Shaffer (right). At left is actor Michael Kroll, who's not in this show, but a frequent cohort of the others nonetheless. (Photo by Lauren Morris) By...
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July 11th, 2008 @ 12pm
The great Bucky Pizzarelli makes himself at home in River's Edge on July 25-26, with a pair of evening concerts and a free all-ages jazz workshop. By TOM CHESEK So, whaddaya hear from the Mooch? Last time redbankgreen caught up...
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July 10th, 2008 @ 7am
With the city of Chicago as a backdrop, Two River Theater brings the Illinoise during a three-weekend film festival that kicks off Friday with Ferris Bueller and friends. By TOM CHESEK We hear Chicago's lovely this time of year. But...
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July 9th, 2008 @ 10am
Kristie Koehler-Vuocolo is one of five members of the Chicago-based Neo-Futurists who will make themselves at home around Red Bank as they bring their show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, to Two River Theater this month. By...
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July 8th, 2008 @ 6am
Adrienne Barbeau, pictured with hubby Billy Van Zandt and her books. The famed "scream queen" turned horror author will appear at a local signing on Thursday. By TOM CHESEK As the archetypal fox of the drive-in and the video store,...
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July 7th, 2008 @ 12pm
Joyce Diamond, in red, leads a visitor during an unstructured social dance in the park last week. About a year and a half ago, Joyce Diamond discovered the joys of Argentine tango. "It captured my heart," she says. "I couldn't...
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July 7th, 2008 @ 8am
A cocktail sunset frames a 2007 concert in the park... By TOM CHESEK Of all the things that make Red Bank Right Now different from Red Bank Back Then, few of them are as in-your-face as Riverside Gardens. Twenty years...
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July 4th, 2008 @ 2pm
Maybe it was the price of gasoline, but most observers agreed this year's KaBoom crowd in downtown Red Bank wasn't quite as teeming as it's been in recent years. Still, last night's fireworks show was a blast, as befits the...
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July 4th, 2008 @ 4am
A glimpse of the 2007 show via an alley on West Front Street. For some reason, clicking on the KaBoom fireworks website starts a song that features "let it rain" as a refrain. There wasn't some other middling Springsteen anthem-to-partying...
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 12pm
The view from Victory Park in Rumson last year. Hey, it was bound to get out anyway. For the second year in a row, Rumson will be home to a spectacular July 3 fireworks display to rival that of its...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 4pm
Tim McLoone at a charity event in 2006. Always in motion, he's seemingly everywhere this week. By TOM CHESEK He's the man who explains, as he tickles the ivories in a cable commercial for the Rum Runner, his Sea Bright...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 11am
Eight-year-old Maddy Ward writes her name on the wall of the theater this morning as a four-month renovation got underway. The scaffolding was up and an access hole had already been cut in the lobby wall as the Count Basie...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 10am
By TOM CHESEK Well, that was certainly the summer that was: the season of beach badges, clam shooters and Met meltdowns is barely a week old, but over at the Count Basie Theatre it's a time to shut off the...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 10am
The Fab Faux put a faux finish on the Count Basie's season of shows at Saturday's sold-out fundraiser. By TOM CHESEK Heading into a four-month, multimillion-dollar refurbishing, the Count Basie Theatre pulls the plug on summer shows this weekend with...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 8am
John Astin, haunted by his famously macabre characterizations Gomez Addams and Edgar Allan Poe. The actor visits the area this week for a pair of special appearances. (Recent photo by David Colwell) By TOM CHESEK Who wouldn't want to be...
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June 25th, 2008 @ 7am
The facade of the small building next door to the theater was the last piece to go; now there's just a hole in the ground. (Facade photo courtesy of Wendy Spencer) A small, ivy-swaddled office building that stood next door...
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June 19th, 2008 @ 6am
Jimmy Vivino appears in Red Bank Thursday night. By TOM CHESEK Guitarslinger extraordinaire Jimmy Vivino can appear to be everywhere at once. You know him from his standing... er, sitting... gig with The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with...
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June 18th, 2008 @ 8am
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KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
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)