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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Who knew the answer to last week’s puzzler?
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July 23rd, 2009 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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MAN BITES TUBE STEAK
In honor of National Hot Dog Month, redbankgreen tips its trucker’s cap today to the men and women of the The Green who work the roller grills and ‘dirty water’Continue reading "MAN BITES TUBE STEAK"
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July 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
ON TAP: MASTER PLAN CHANGES
The Fixx, on West Front Street, is the only licensed nightclub in Red Bank. Officials plan to address the fuzzy distinctions between ‘lounge’ and ‘nightclub’ in borough ordinances. A raftContinue reading "ON TAP: MASTER PLAN CHANGES"
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July 22nd, 2009 @ 7am
‘JUST PAINTING A HOUSE’
Property owner Ray Rapcavage says he’s not interested in creating a parking lot for postal service employees on the site. But he hasn’t ruled out a farm market. What’s upContinue reading "‘JUST PAINTING A HOUSE’"
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June 30th, 2009 @ 9am
THROWING MUD ON MONMOUTH
The one-named artisan Tito brings his fourth-generation skills to Red Bank and Long Branch this weekend. (Click to enlarge) In from Spain this weekend is a potter best known simplyContinue reading "THROWING MUD ON MONMOUTH"
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June 26th, 2009 @ 10am
IN oRBit: DINING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit offers up a story that you can say has been months in the making — our guide to outdoor dining in the borough of RedContinue reading "IN oRBit: DINING OUTSIDE THE BOX"
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June 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Scene’s from Thursday night’s Sunset Luau on the Navesink fundraiser at the Atrium at Navesink Harbor on Riverside Avenue in Red Bank. The event, formerly known as the Tiki Party,Continue reading "LUAU UNDIMMED BY LEADEN SKIES"
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June 19th, 2009 @ 7am
WILL THE JAZZ & BLUES FEST RETURN IN 2010?
Large crowds turned out Saturday and Sunday after Friday night’s rainout. But construction of a new Marine Park bulkhead, below, could force the festival to relocate next year. Really, inContinue reading "WILL THE JAZZ & BLUES FEST RETURN IN 2010?"
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June 11th, 2009 @ 10am
'The Godfather,' a chicken dish from the low-carb section of the menu. Stores and other businesses may still be slinking out of Red Bank in the dead of night, but there are signs of economic strength, too. The latest is...
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May 29th, 2009 @ 11am
Pizza Fusion plans to take over the vacant space at left and the storefront now being vacated by Sole Solution, right. A Florida-based organic pizza chain that uses recycled Coke bottles in countertops and makes deliveries by hybrid car is...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 8am
A mix of pix from some of Saturday's events: the Nathan J. Williams Craftsmen Club's motorcycle rally on Drs. Parker Boulevard; Red Bank Community Day at Count Basie Fields; and the Relay for Life overnight fundraiser at Red Bank Regional....
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May 18th, 2009 @ 8am
The event was born of last year's centennial event and picnic at Count Basie Fields. What: Second annual Red Bank Day, four hours of food, music and neighborliness, followed Sunday by tours of historic homes in the borough. Where: Count...
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May 15th, 2009 @ 11am
Lenny, er, Stew Goldstein of Monmouth Meats. There are only so many old-style, independent butchers left in Red Bank. There's Ralph 'Johnny Jazz' Gatta on Shrewsbury Avenue, of course, working the chopping block for some 60 years. The guys at...
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May 13th, 2009 @ 10am
Scenes from last year's post-parade picnic on Centennial Day, the precursor to Saturday's Red Bank Day. (Click to enlarge) At the picnic that followed the parade for Red Bank's Centennial last year, Mayor Pasquale Menna was telling everyone he wanted...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 8am
An average 1,000 shoppers stock up on vegetables, fruit, pies and crafts every Sunday at the Red Bank institution, one of the state's largest farm markets. Freshly supplied with approvals to build a parking garage/office building, the owners of the...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 8am
You've read all those stories about the legendary and long-gone Upstage club, but do you ever wonder where your favorite Shore musicians get together these days to talk music, make connections and just jam on whatever tune comes to mind?...
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May 6th, 2009 @ 7am
Buona Sera's outdoor dining arrangement on Maple Avenue, as seen from the corner of Monmouth Street. They're back, this time with the blessing of the Red Bank mayor and council. We're talking about new outdoor tables at Buona Sera Ristorante,...
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May 4th, 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
Sure beets store-bought: Wendy Weiner in her vegetable garden. When Wendy Weiner moved to Little Silver from Hunterdon County a little more than a year ago, she hoped to plant a back yard vegetable garden. But the yard didn't get...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 7am
Thanksgiving at Lunch Break was on Branches Catering in 2008. On Monday night, the West Long Branch facility hosts some three dozen restaurants to raise funds for the Red Bank soup kitchen. This long-overdue edition of Done Good — a...
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April 24th, 2009 @ 6am
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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!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...