Category Archives: Festivals

A mix of pix from some of Saturday's events: the Nathan J. Williams Craftsmen Club's motorcycle rally on Drs. Parker Boulevard; Red Bank Community Day at Count Basie Fields; and the Relay for Life overnight fundraiser at Red Bank Regional....

This weekend brings the annual Garden State Film Festival to various points around Asbury Park, and today's oRBit has the rundown on the movies, the brand-new venues, first-look features and the special events, including a tribute to occasional Shore resident...

Some say the root problem is parking, while others say it's an imbalance in the store mix in favor of high-end goods and services. But whatever they identify as the cause of Red Bank's economic woes, downtown merchants agree that...

Location: Max Bernstein's home in Fair Haven. Occasion: Bernstein's annual Fat Tuesday party, a come-what-may affair that this year featured a live band in the living room; a guest appearance by Elvis; tarot readings; an aerialist's performance in the chilly...

Thousands of Red Bankers and visitors packed Broad Street on Friday night for the annual night-after-Thanksgiving gleefest that kicks off the holiday season hereabouts. Bagpipers led a parade into town from the train station. Holiday Express laid down its R&B-flavored...

Some scenes from the annual Street Fair held in downtown Red Bank Sunday. Email this story

You've seen the teaser logos for about eight months. Well, the countdown is finally over. Today, redbankgreen marks its first significant expansion with the launch of Red Bank oRBit, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the local arts,...

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...

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...

Runners in the 2007 race take the first turn, at Broad Street and East Bergen Place. Below, a runner celebrates a mighty finish. Upon his passing in 1993, Dr. George Sheehan was eulogized by President Bill Clinton as "the Philosopher...

Back in March, redbankgreen was the first to tell you about a nascent project called the Tri-City Arts Tour, a big-tent sort of event under which the artizens of Red Bank, Asbury Park and Long Branch would join forces for...

When Long John Hunter wants to go canoeing, his owner, Susan Fick, takes him canoeing. redbankgreen spotted Fick and Hunter — a Great Dane and therapy dog at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune — during what Hunter surely must...

For a while there Saturday, it looked like here-we-go-again time at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, which has wrung itself out from late spring downpours more than once in the past. But an early afternoon rain lasted less...

Festival spokesman Ira Rosen, left, arrives at Marine Park this morning to take the wraps off the 22nd edition of the Red Bank Jazz & Blues blast in Red Bank. OK, so what about the weather? As previously noted, the...

The view from behind the drum kit as Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 festival. By TOM CHESEK There was the year the heavens opened up and harpist Rod Piazza, faced with a potential washout of his headline set,...

The beachfront borough can now lay claim to its own fair. BY SUE MORGAN As a volunteer at the annual Oceanport Lions Strawberry Fair, Steve Spahr would wonder why the beachfront community he grew up in and still worked in...