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ROCK SCHOOL DOES A RED BANK ENCORE
Workers took down the Summit Music signs and  prepped the Monmouth Street building for School of Rock signage last month. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "ROCK SCHOOL DOES A RED BANK ENCORE"
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August 17th, 2011 @ 1pm
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RED BANKER HOLDS TILLER FOR CLEARWATER
Think global, act local: Middletown-based band The Wag is among the Shore area acts taking the main stage at the 36th annual Clearwater Festival, scheduled for August 20. (Photo courtesyContinue reading "RED BANKER HOLDS TILLER FOR CLEARWATER"
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August 8th, 2011 @ 9am
Accompanied by a pair of StreetLife performers, a feeble-voiced Steven Galapo proposed to his girlfriend, Nathalie Salem, on Broad Street in Red Bank Saturday night. Did she say yes? PlayContinue reading "POPPING THE QUESTION"
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August 1st, 2011 @ 4pm
SCAT SIGNING
A Red Bank employee updates the borough message board at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard on Monday to tout the free Comcast Jazz in the Park series atContinue reading "SCAT SIGNING"
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July 19th, 2011 @ 2pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Even our Wheregulars were nowhere to be found over the past holiday week, as we got not one response to last week’s Where Have I Seen This? Perhaps the answerContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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July 7th, 2011 @ 6am
CLEMONS RECALLED AS A TRUE ‘BIG MAN’
Clarence Clemons, right, backs up Stormin’ Norman Seldin, behind the piano, at the Lock, Stock and Barrel in Fair Haven sometime in the late ’70s. (Photo courtesy of Norman Seldin;Continue reading "CLEMONS RECALLED AS A TRUE ‘BIG MAN’"
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June 22nd, 2011 @ 9am
‘MAGIC WAS HAPPENING’ AT BIG MAN’S WEST
Clarence Clemons playing at Big Man’s West in Red Bank in an undated photo courtesy of Lewis Bloom Photo. The Monmouth Street space is now home to a gym. (ClickContinue reading "‘MAGIC WAS HAPPENING’ AT BIG MAN’S WEST"
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June 20th, 2011 @ 1pm
JAZZFEST SETS SUMMER ON A COOL SIMMER
Les Paul’s Trio, featuring bass ace and songbird Nicki Parrott, returns to Two River Theater for Summer JazzFest. You won’t find a sign over the door. In fact, you won’tContinue reading "JAZZFEST SETS SUMMER ON A COOL SIMMER"
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June 20th, 2011 @ 8am
VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR KABOOM SHOW
The summerlong Lunch Music series at Riverside Gardens Park kicked off Wednesday. Volunteers are needed at the event to help raise money for Kaboom fireworks. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; clickContinue reading "VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR KABOOM SHOW"
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June 2nd, 2011 @ 6am
DOING LUNCH (AND LIFE) WITH MUSIC
The Andreach-Chrepta Jazz Duo returns as opening act for LunchMusic, the plein-air performance series running every Wednesday in June. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) In the week when a newly reduxContinue reading "DOING LUNCH (AND LIFE) WITH MUSIC"
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June 1st, 2011 @ 6am
A LEANER, MEANER CUT OF RIBEYE
Alone in an idealized Red Bank of the mind, Tim Cronin models a new look and readies a new edition of The Ribeye Brothers for a Memorial Weekend wingding atContinue reading "A LEANER, MEANER CUT OF RIBEYE"
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May 24th, 2011 @ 10am
FIREMEN’S FAIR: SKYLINE VIEW INCLUDED
The rides and games are staged and ready for the Sea Bright Firemens’ Fair. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Sea Bright Firemen’s Fair, ifContinue reading "FIREMEN’S FAIR: SKYLINE VIEW INCLUDED"
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May 19th, 2011 @ 6am
BRINGING ‘BREL’ ALIVE AND KICKING TO TRTC
Jacques Brel, the one-of-a-kind songsmith whose works were adapted, translated and brought to a whole new audience with the revue JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS.Continue reading "BRINGING ‘BREL’ ALIVE AND KICKING TO TRTC"
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May 16th, 2011 @ 8am
TRTC’s NEXT SEASON: 8 SHOWS, NO WAITING
Artistic director John Dias, below, and the Two River Theater announced the lineup of shows for the 2011-’12 season Monday night. (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK The onstage ensembleContinue reading "TRTC’s NEXT SEASON: 8 SHOWS, NO WAITING"
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May 3rd, 2011 @ 6am
‘BEATLES’ HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE
The Beatlemania Stage Show — co-starring Lucien Nocelli of Lincroft (right) as John Lennon — rolls up to the stage of Red Bank’s Two River Theater for a fab fundraiserContinue reading "‘BEATLES’ HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE"
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April 27th, 2011 @ 9am
RUBBER STAMP NO. 2: BASIE AL FRESCO
Count Basie Theatre’s Executive Director Numa Saisselin at Monday night’s planning board meeting. Below, a rendering of the patio addition. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "RUBBER STAMP NO. 2: BASIE AL FRESCO"
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April 26th, 2011 @ 8am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Crusty Fungus is sort of a schizoid bunch. As Billy Deyback and bandmate K2NUH, both of Middletown, cranked out cover songs and originals on Broad Street Thursday,Continue reading "SPRING 2011: CRUSTY BUSKING ON BROAD"
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April 22nd, 2011 @ 2pm
BOOM TOWN BASH IS A BIG-TENT TICKET
The annual KaBoom!  fundraiser culminated in a fireworks preview outside the Monmouth Boat Club in 2008. This year’s edition will be at Hovnanian HQ. Whether you love it — orContinue reading "BOOM TOWN BASH IS A BIG-TENT TICKET"
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April 21st, 2011 @ 7am
WHEN HARRY SALLIES FORTH IN RED BANK
A renaissance guy in Red Bank: Harry Connick Jr. makes his first-ever two night stand at the Count Basie this week — and the man from NOLA might stand aContinue reading "WHEN HARRY SALLIES FORTH IN RED BANK"
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April 19th, 2011 @ 6am
COPS: JEWELRY THIEF HIT BON JOVI MANSION
A gate to the Bon Jovi mansion, as seen in 2008. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Turns out the 21-year-old accused of burglarizing four Navesink River Road homes overContinue reading "COPS: JEWELRY THIEF HIT BON JOVI MANSION"
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April 15th, 2011 @ 2pm
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!