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Category Archives: Literature

For decades, this is what library patrons curious about the upper floors have encountered. In what were once the demurely separate bedrooms of Mr. & Mrs. Sigmund Eisner, the Red Bank Public Library last year created two new second-floor reading...
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April 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The Boss of Bards, that is — poet, critic, translator, essayist, educator and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, whose international renown and Shore-guy cred surely make him the Springsteen of verse. (None of which begins to address that time...
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March 30th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's Red Bank oRBit takes it down to the Asbury Park Boardwalk, where a special screening of the documentary 'Dream of Life' brings Patti Smith to the stage of the Paramount Theater. There, the punk poet, rock icon and subject...
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March 27th, 2009 @ 7am
Where do you go to track the movements of your favorite superstar poets? Why, Red Bank oRBit, natch. Today on our sib site for arts and entertainment info, you'll find a mention of Maya Angelou and her lecture appearance this...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
To be sure, his annual arrival on the cultural scene is as reliable as the post-Thanksgiving markdown. But rarely have we seen old Ebenezer Scrooge quite so ubiquitous. The next few days will see not one, not two, but three...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 9am
Six days after police in Little Silver arrested a Red Bank man on drug possession charges, they arrested him again Wednesday after finding a loaded pistol and holl-point bullets in his impounded car, the Asbury Park Press reports today. From...
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November 7th, 2008 @ 7am
Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 8am
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
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
By TOM CHESEK "I first saw this play when I was 16 years old. It's what ruined my life!" The speaker? Robert Rechnitz, retired educator, author and founder of Red Bank's Two River Theater Company. The show in question? The...
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March 21st, 2008 @ 7am
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
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
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
Back in business. The hours of operation are, for now, limited — 1 to 5p, Monday through Saturday. There are still lots of loose ends for the staff to attend to as they relocate from temporary facility two doors away....
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January 22nd, 2008 @ 3pm
A refurbished room on the second floor of the library. The room was once a bedroom in the Eisner family home. Months overdue but not over budget, the renovated Red Bank Public Library will reopen at 1p next Tuesday, Borough...
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January 15th, 2008 @ 6am
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
New computers stand ready for public use. The problematic elevator is in the center background. [PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF STORY] The newly remodeled children's room of Red Bank Public Library is bright and colorful, taking cues from the...
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January 8th, 2008 @ 7am
The books are out of storage, free of dust and are being returned to their shelves. Now, all that remains is a short punchlist of renovation items, plus the logistics of getting the phones re-installed and the return of books...
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November 19th, 2007 @ 11am
Even from the perspective of non-fans of the game, this weekend's baseball show at the Two River Theater looks genuinely fascinating. The program calls for a full and wide-ranging schedule of baseball-themed readings ('Casey at the Bat,' anyone?), movies, speeches...
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August 9th, 2007 @ 7am
From beneath layers of paint and grime, a century-and-a-half-old mansion is emerging, soon to be open to the public for the first time in a generation. OK, the 'soon' part is relative, given that the project is a couple of...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 11am
Partyline
MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner films 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)
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 ...