Category Archives: MIDDLETOWN

Motorists took advantage of bridge-opening intervals to get out of their cars and look at the dolphins feeding in the Navesink just west of the Oceanic Bridge Sunday evening. Except for the river itself. the bridge is the only publicly...

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...

The Peer Players include (front row, left to right): Tiffany Lewcyk, Stephen Bucco, Forrest Burdett, Katie Kroeper; (middle row) Joseph Kim, Samantha Aurelio, Sara Howard, Christina Lennon, Allison Cloonan, Leah Sugerman, Elizabeth Coulter; (back row) Melissa Cloonan, Danny Cassidy. By...

Dining al fresco on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge, under the admiring watch of nearby boaters, were these two members of the pod. (Click to enlarge) Maybe they got bored just shuttling back and forth in the Shrewsbury...

If they show up, don't feed 'em. So says this NOAA sign posted on the pier at Marine Park in Red Bank. rebankgreen has been following up — fruitlessly, thus far — reports that the dolphin pod that has transfixed...

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,...

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...

In the zone: arrive early, or forget about it. Click map to enlarge It's New Jesey's biggest and most spectacular fireworks display, and with it comes a Jersey-scale traffic jam. Make that two traffic jams — the second one being...

Last week's 'Where' was too dam easy for six readers. They recognized it right away as the Shadow Lake spillway on Hubbard Avenue in the River Plaza section of Middletown. If you don't know it, the structure has the words...

By TOM CHESEK Picture this: a summer event with your choice of first-come/first-served seating. No parking lot shuttle queues or "parent daycare" zones. No turnstile patdowns. No confiscated cameras, water bottles, umbrellas or Pringles packs. And best of all, no...

The temporary deck of the bridge was erected in 2004. Four years after its deck was replaced with a temporary metal structure, the West Front Street Bridge is again facing shutdown — this time so a permanent replacement can be...

An Eatontown man was arrested in Long Pond, Pa. on Saturday in connection with last week's robbery of a Bank of America branch on Route 35 in Middletown, the Asbury Park Press reports. Authorities are now waiting to see if...

Dishad Husain directs and stars in Viva Liberty, one of four shorts in the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cinefest at Middletown Township Public Library. By TOM CHESEK A couple of evenings a week at Neelam Exotic Indian Cuisine —...

Investigators now have doubts that a one-armed man taken into custody as a suspect in a Middletown bank robbery late this morning is the guy they're looking for. "We had a car pulled over, but we're not sure if the...

Members of the Monmouth Civic Chorus during a 2007 rehearsal. By TOM CHESEK "The idea came to me back in 1987, during the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge," says composer Richard Pearson Thomas on the...

Eric McMahon's over-40 mug. By TOM CHESEK One's a newlywed who's apparently still in that somewhat sick-making "public displays of affection" mode. One's a salt-'n-pepper suburban dad to three growing daughters. One's a lifelong lothario whose "single" schtick is starting...

Max Weinberg, at right, on the set of 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien.' The real estate market may be plummeting, but Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen and Conan O'Brien, is hoping for some magic as he plans to sell...

Middletown's tax assessor may be benched for 15 days this summer for failing to submit the township data on time to Monmouth County officials, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the article: Should the state Division of Taxation sign off...

Maybe you've seen her, or someone you're pretty sure was her, at the Antiques Center, a vaguely Garbo-esque figure picking among the lamps and jewelry. Or perhaps you've spotted her at the Red Bank post office; that had to have...

By TOM CHESEK With his luxurious mane of silver hair, his Continental bearing, and his years of training in the most formidable academies of the former Soviet Union, Vladislav Kovalsky could be said to embody the very image of the...