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Category Archives: Music

Red Bank oRBit delivers another carload of entertainment goods today, with a particular focus on actor and Red Bank native Peter Dobson's sort-of debut as a filmmaker. He'll be showing a 15-minute, compressed version of a yet-to-be-made feature film set...
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November 21st, 2008 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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We Are Scientists, just one offering on a busy calendar of entertainment options this weekend. An entertainment cornucopia disgorges its goods this weekend, and Red Bank oRBit has the details on what's happening where. Among the offerings: • Rasputina, a...
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November 20th, 2008 @ 8am
Few rock bands of the 1980s put as much guitar, bass, drum and vocal muscle into their music as the Blasters, a crisp foursome outta Downey, California. On Friday, three-fourths of the original Blasters come to Asbury Park with their...
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November 18th, 2008 @ 10am
Here's a new video showing the work done on the interior of the Count Basie Theatre during the $8 million sprucing up of the Red Bank showcase this summer. The video consists of still photos taken every 15 seconds from...
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November 18th, 2008 @ 7am
They've long had dual residences just a dozen miles apart, in Rumson and Colts Neck. Now, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have added the keys to a place in Florida to their key rings. Since June, Monmouth County's most famous...
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November 12th, 2008 @ 6am
This weekend's local entertainment offerings include two note-perfect explorations of the vast Beatles repertory. The first, scheduled for tonight at the Two River Theatre, is by a band of local musicians with a taste for off-the charts Fab Four stuff...
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November 7th, 2008 @ 10am
Somehow, over a 50-year career, jazzman Mose Allison has never made it to this part of the Jersey Shore. But he'll be here this week, with a stop at Tim McLoone's Supper Club in Asbury Park Thursday night. Such an...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 11am
An original music video made by and starring students at the Red Bank Middle School has reached the finals of a contest promising $25,000 worth of educational technology to the winner, redbankgreen has learned. From photo/art/culture teacher Chris Ippolito: We...
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October 31st, 2008 @ 11am
All costumed up and wondering where Halloween revelers will be mingling tonight? Check out Red Bank oRBit for guidance. The lineup includes a Halloween Extravaganza/metal tribute to the Bee Gees (those are the culprits, called Tragedy, at right); costume parties...
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October 31st, 2008 @ 7am
In conjunction with tonight's reopening of the Count Basie Theatre after four months in mothballs, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit contains a two-fer: • We've got an interview with a Mark Eaton, a 15-year Capitol Steps veteran (and former...
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October 30th, 2008 @ 12pm
There was a lot of neck-craning as several hundred visitors took tours of the newly resplendent Count Basie Theatre Wednesday night. A security guard recalled bits of dried plaster sprinkling his hair during a concert by the rock band Kansas....
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October 30th, 2008 @ 6am
The aisle stanchion on row U, left; a view of the hall from the balcony, right. (Photos by Jim Willis) After four months in dry dock, it's back to the high seas of entertainment for the Count Basie Theatre Thursday...
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October 29th, 2008 @ 6am
Eighth-graders Michelle Reyes, in white, and Anisa Abella watch the RBMS video at Monday night's council meeting. This time last year, the kids at the Red Bank Middle School were jamming on a video entry for a contest that might...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Yes, folks, that's him: Peter Tork, the manically cute Monkee grown older and wiser. Forty years later, he's still at the music game, and tonight steers some variant of the Monkeemobile into the lot at Long Branch's Brighton Bar. That's...
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October 17th, 2008 @ 7am
Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
A judgment of that size could hit home at the Bongiovanni residence on the Middletown side of the Navesink. A Boston-area man has filed a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Major League Baseball and TBS over a song he...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 6am
'The Laramie Project' is back in Monmouth County — minus, so far, any hint of the outrage that made it a hot topic last year in Ocean Township. That's when the high school principal and the district superintendent tried putting...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 6pm
Mark Mahon of Lincroft soaks up some rays while laying down some twang at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank yesterday. We've got a fine fall day on tap today, according to the National Weather Service, with mostly sunny skies...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 7am
Almost totally obscured by scaffolding all summer, the view from the BasieCam this morning reveals a made-over performance space as it nears completion. (Click to enlarge) Taking a major step in its against-the-clock interior renovation project, workers at the Count...
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October 6th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit heralds the return to the Shore of loud popsters Dramarama, of 'Last Cigarette' fame, and scans the entertainment horizon to also find • dramatic torment on a local stage (not exactly date night material,...
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
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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 ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.