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Among the records broken at the Two River Theater in its smash 'Macbeth' run: most students attending one of its plays. Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd In evils to top Macbeth. Well,...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Sebastian Garcia, Spiro Galiatsatos and Kaitlyn Kurkemelis in "tick, tick... BOOM!" By TOM CHESEK That insistent ticking you hear at the outset of the musical "tick, tick...BOOM!" is explained away by its central character as "the sound of one man's...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 11am
The white building at far right and other property is available for a community center, says Rev. Terrence K. Porter. The push for the creation of a Red Bank community center has a new element to it: an offer of...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 11am
The second floor is off-limits for now at Ashes Cigar Club. Turns out the Internet Café wasn't the only joint in town to come under the scrutiny of Red Bank safety inspectors in recent weeks. Ashes Cigar Club was shut...
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February 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Visiting actors would stay rent-free at 81 Shrewsbury Avenue under a plan pitched by Two River Theater founder Bob Rechnitz. "Everybody loves the Two River Theater," says Red Bank Zoning Board vice chairperson Lauren Nicosia. But the board's reviews aren't...
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February 8th, 2008 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK The news has at least two generations of local residents disappointed and disgusted, but the Internet Café is "throwing in the towel," says owner Joe Cullity. In the wake of an incident that saw a recent show...
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February 6th, 2008 @ 7am
By TOM CHESEK It's not uncommon for a stage troupe to throw some local kids in with a cast of more seasoned professionals whenever the script calls for a couple of young performers. The more hometown kids in the show,...
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February 1st, 2008 @ 7am
Actor-director-administrator-set decorator-artistic director Lori Renick readies the detail-intensive set of 'Blithe Spirit' for Saturday's opening at Monmouth Players. (Photos courtesy of Diana Moore) By TOM CHESEK It's a busy Monday evening at Middletown's Navesink Library, and Lori and Paul Renic ...
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January 31st, 2008 @ 9am
By TOM CHESEK Anyone know exactly what's going down down at the Internet Café? It seems that dozens of ticketholders to an all-ages rock show last Friday night were refused admission to Red Bank's grooviest grotto, leaving a lot of...
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January 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Check out the new commercial for the Monmouth County SPCA in Eatontown, produced by Red Banker and self-styled "multimedia darling" Judie Luszcz. In an email to redbankgreen, graphic artist Luszcz gives props (OK, we admit we have still no idea...
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January 28th, 2008 @ 9am
A review in today's Jersey section of the New York Times of the Two River Theater Co.'s 'Macbeth' takes note of the over-the-top spillage of blood. It's a production, writes reviewer Naomi Siegel, that "oozes, drips and squirts forth a...
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January 27th, 2008 @ 11am
Each year, the Buccaneer Booster Club at Red Bank Regional High School gives out thousands of dollars in scholarships to graduating seniors and grants to teachers. The organization, which functions as the school's parent-teacher organization, also raises money for academic...
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January 24th, 2008 @ 10am
Something curious followed the publication of last week's 'Where.' All the readers who got the location wrong thought they'd seen our Superman image downtown on Broad Street. A Time to Kiln, Ricky's Candy, Cones & Chaos, Jay and Silent Bob's...
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January 24th, 2008 @ 7am
By TOM CHESEK It's the local, live-theater equivalent of a blockbuster movie opening. Illuminated by star power, ablaze with spectacular stage effects and drenched with enough hemoglobin to drown the lamps of Transylvania, "Macbeth" is coming to Red Bank. Shakespeare's...
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January 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Herbert Holzberg By LINDA G. RASTELLI The 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol envisioned for everyone appears to have arrived, somewhat late in life, for Sea Bright resident Herbert Holzberg. A veteran of two wars and owner of a successful...
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January 11th, 2008 @ 7am
When Retromedia Sound Studios owner John Noll invited redbankgreen over to meet the wife & husband singer-songwriters Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart last month, our first reaction was, "Who?" Past visits to the studio have introduced us to the somewhat-well-known...
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January 4th, 2008 @ 11am
Nicole Atkins and the Sea at Jack's Music earlier this month. Among rising global acts such as Arcade Fire and Amy Winehouse, Neptune singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins finds her major-label debut LP "Neptune City" in the top 10 of the year...
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December 28th, 2007 @ 8am
Sea Bright's proposed oceanfront skatepark caught some air earlier this month, when Monmouth County came through with a $153,000 open space grant. Now, says Mayor-elect Maria Fernandes, comes the trick of raising the remaining $214,000 in estimated costs and clearing...
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December 28th, 2007 @ 8am
Mayor Pasquale Menna may live to regret his pledge to axe borough health benefits for himself and future mayors. Last night, in what appeared to be an off-the-cuff retort, Menna said he would run the George Sheehan Classic, a somewhat...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
By TOM CHESEK New York has its late and lamented CBGB; Memphis its Sun Studio; Detroit its original Hitsville USA; and Asbury Park a converted disco by name of the Stone Pony. In New Orleans, it's the legendary J&M Music...
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December 14th, 2007 @ 8am
Partyline
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 ...