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Don't look now, but it's Music Week over at our sister site Red Bank oRBit. Actually, do look now, because today and every day this week we'll be bringing you tips and tweetable tidbits pertaining to what our editor calls...
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May 4th, 2009 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Having already whetted your appetite with features this week on Martin Short, Roger McGuinn, Paint the Town Pink, M Shanghai String Band and the return of the Red Bank International Film Festival, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit fires up...
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May 1st, 2009 @ 6am
Mandolin player and (Rumson-Fair Haven grad) Richard Morris can claim no credit for arranging this Saturday's appearance of the M Shanghai String Band in Atlantic Highlands, though he's a member of the Brooklyn-based urban-bluegrass band and a resident of neighboring...
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April 29th, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit follows up Monday's Martin Short interview with a virtual visit to Roger McGuinn, the founder of The Byrds and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose mastery of traditional folk music is matched only...
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April 28th, 2009 @ 6am
Instead of razing and rebuilding, Chubby's will get a sprucing-up aimed at attracting a more mature crowd. Chubby's Waterside Café, the increasingly trouble-plagued Red Bank night spot that has been stymied by the economy in its plans for a wholesale...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit pays tribute to the talented men who in turn pay tribute to some of the most iconic figures in showbiz history. First, we introduce you to Frank Ferrante, a non-household name who nonetheless has...
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April 22nd, 2009 @ 4pm
The cheerful looking gent with the facial tattoos and the snake on his shoulder is Jon Davies, who once upon a time led a local combo by the name of The Secret Syde. The editor of Red Bank oRBit calls...
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April 21st, 2009 @ 3pm
Theater Week of Sorts soldiers on in Red Bank oRBit as we take a look today at a new production of the hard-hitting drama A Soldier’s Play going up this weekend at the Performing Arts Center at Brookdale Community College,...
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April 17th, 2009 @ 6am
Theater Week of Sorts continues in today's Red Bank oRBit with a look at The Housewives of Mannheim, the new show at New Jersey Rep in Long Branch, and its "real housewives" of 1944 Brooklyn. We talk to playwright (and...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 6am
Believe it or not, Ripley, the rock vixen you see pictured here is none other than Lani Ford, familiar to a few as the traffic reporter for TV's Good Day New York, here in her guise as frontwoman for the...
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April 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa outside the Count Basie Theatre last May. Almost three years after Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa went shopping at the Antique Center of Red Bank to help dispel rumors of a split, a West...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 1pm
Tuesday's Red Bank oRBit brings you an update on the kids from Rockit! For Kids, the Red Bank-based classic rock conservatory whose students have been leaving parents, professional musicians and even Rockit commander Bruce Gallipani "blown away" with their rapidly...
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April 7th, 2009 @ 5am
Today's Red Bank oRBit shines a spotlight on Woody Guthrie, the folksinger-songwriter-painter-author whose legacy looms ever larger as we all reacquaint ourselves with the subtleties of those official Hobo Signs. The artist, who died in 1967, is the subject of...
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April 3rd, 2009 @ 7am
As promised, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a closer look at this weekend's Johnny Cash-related movie and concert event going on at the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park — scene of that hard-to-believe 1980s interlude when...
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April 2nd, 2009 @ 11am
Cherryholmes bring family-style, down-home bluegrass to West Long Branch Friday night. Theirs is one of the more remarkable stories of finding redemption and art through grief. We're talking about Cherryholmes, the eponym of a family of pickers and fiddlers from...
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April 1st, 2009 @ 9am
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
The dean of NJ stage critics — the Star-Ledger's Peter Filichia — has seen the future of regional theater, and her name is Isabel Wallace. As reported in today's Red Bank oRBit , the 9-year old fourth-grader from Little Silver...
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March 26th, 2009 @ 9am
Today's Red Bank oRBit brings news of a real treat for fans of Billie Holiday. Holiday Express/The Shirleys/Springsteen vocalist Layonne Holmes (right) takes the spotlight at Rumson's David Burke Fromagerie this Friday night only in a jazz-combo salute to the...
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March 25th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's Red Bank oRBit has a look at a couple of hard-touring entities who've habitually made the road their home as they hit the local area this week on their latest cross-continent jaunts. Stan Ridgway you probably know as the...
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March 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
As the music director for The Downtown, Chris Masi is responsible for wrangling seven nights and two stages worth of live entertainment every week at the Red Bank hotspot. So it's understandable that the expanded and reimagined club's one-year anniversary...
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March 19th, 2009 @ 9am
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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 ...