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Buona Sera's plan to expand into the space now used by Fins and Feathers was approved by the Planning Board earlier this week. It doesn't have a single parking space to offer its customers, but Buona Sera Ristorante has gotten...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Amanda McKean outside Zebu Forno in Red Bank. Amanda McKean spent two years as a toddler fighting leukemia. Thirteen years later, she’s a high school junior organizing an event at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional to for pediatric cancer awareness. Tomorrow night,...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 10am
Joe Piscopo at Retromedia Sound Studios with Joe Muccioli, left. We spotted Joe Piscopo trolling the rainy streets of downtown Red Bank earlier this week. Hunched over the wheel of an enormous black vehicle with a license plate that proclaims...
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November 30th, 2007 @ 12pm
The Star-Ledger reports that moptopped singer and would-be beverage industry litigant Bon Jovi will headline a Dec. 21 concert at the Count Basie Theatre that for the last two years has seen Bruce Springsteen play. Though he's not mentioned on...
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November 26th, 2007 @ 2pm
Friday night's Holiday Express concert and tree-lighting event on Broad and Monmouth streets featured bagpipers, hot chocolate and a wandering Mrs. Claus amid the throngs of people bundled up against temperatures in the mid-30s. Click to enlarge individual shots. Email...
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November 26th, 2007 @ 6am
"It," of course, is the holiday season, which starts hereabouts on Friday evening, not long after the leftovers from Thanksgiving have begun to chill in the fridge. This is one of Red Bank's big events, drawing thousands of townspeople and...
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November 21st, 2007 @ 12pm
Yo, yo, check it out. A hastily made rap video by bunch of students at Red Bank Middle School has advanced to the final five in a nationwide contest that will land the winning school $15,000 worth of classroom technology....
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November 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
In 1973, punk rock progenitor Lou Reed made an album called 'Berlin.' Arranged as a narrative suite of songs, it was dark and decadent, mixing imagery of drug and spousal abuse against a sonic background that ranged from Teutonic bombast...
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November 3rd, 2007 @ 12am
Or maybe they're brown. Let's just say the headshot at the left is not exactly the most trustworthy. But never mind that. Joe Piscopo, faux lounge lizard turned actual jazz singer, is returning to Red Bank, following a pair of...
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October 26th, 2007 @ 7am
First of all, this is not Radiohead redux. In case you missed the news, the British rock band last week released its newest album priced solely on what fans decide how much they'll pay to download it. Now, the Count...
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October 19th, 2007 @ 11am
A series of fistfights outside Chubby's Waterside Cafe on West Front Street early Saturday morning escalated into a near riot, with Red Bank police calling in backups from seven nearby departments and one officer ending up injured, Capt. Steve McCarthy...
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October 15th, 2007 @ 4pm
The New York Times has picked up on the story of pop star Bon Jovi's legal efforts to flush a cold caffeinated beverage called Mijovi. Bon Jovi contends that the Mijovi name and the marketing tagline "itsmilife" infringe on his...
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September 11th, 2007 @ 12pm
Musician, sports commentator, restaurateur and marathon man Tim McLoone is featured in today's New York Times, which calls him "the voice of New Jersey." Now, before any Sinatra, Springsteen and Jon Bovi fans blow an artery, it's not meant to...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 2pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just two weeks after a controversial go-ahead for Sea Bright officials to try to buy Donovan's Reef, negotiations have come to a halt. Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams tells redbankgreen today that the sellers have rejected the borough's...
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August 23rd, 2007 @ 3pm
Even amid a summer-long crackdown on underage drinking at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel, two concertgoers in their twenties died last night from a combination of booze and drugs, authorities say. The deaths came amid "mayhem" at the all-day,...
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August 17th, 2007 @ 1pm
[THIS IS AN UPDATE OF AN EARLIER POST] Part-time Rumsonite Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may be reuniting for a tour in support of a new album, titled 'Magic,' to be released in Oct. 2, the Associated Press...
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August 16th, 2007 @ 10am
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August 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting the death Monday of Frank 'Terry' Magovern of Rumson, an early friend, fan and supporter of Bruce Springsteen and other Asbury Park musicians. From the story: In the 1960s and '70s, Magovern managed bars...
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July 31st, 2007 @ 7pm
She's long been a force on her native island of Jamaica, and had a chart-topping hit there with "Oh Me Oh My" some years back. Cabaret singer Karen Smith doesn't have much of a profile in the States, but she's...
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July 28th, 2007 @ 12pm
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July 26th, 2007 @ 3pm
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PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.