Category Archives: PieHole

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...

Is it the end of the line for the last beachfront bar in New Jersey? By LINDA G. RASTELLI The owners of Donovan’s Reef in Sea Bright have signed a contract to sell the oceanfront nightclub for $5 million, redbankgreen...

Chris Covert is fond of the 'goofball' approach to art, bringing a loosey-goosey attitude to choosing his subjects and often settling on celebrities who tickle his funny button. He likes stand-up comics, and will knock off a portrait of one...

We here at redbankgreen weren't the only ones who did a double-take on opening last Sunday's New York Times Magazine to page 39. "Is that who we think it is in the full-page patient testimonial for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...

Last Friday, the 25 students of the West Side Christian Academy in Red Bank took a field trip to Eastmont Orchards in Colts Neck for some apple-picking. Over the weekend, the apples they selected were transformed into more than a...

A lawsuit brought by a Tinton Falls man over mislabeled tuna fish has resulted in a cornucopia of canned foods for a Mercer County food bank, the Trenton Times reports today. Last month, Del Monte Foods shipped 33,000 pounds of...

It is perhaps the single most contentious issue in Red Bank: whether the downtown needs a parking garage. Merchants, in general, say yes. They complain that a shortage of street and lot parking is choking their businesses and undermining broader...

So who or what is Trader Joe's? It's a food store with rabid devotees that allows customers to taste anything and return anything, no questions asked. The only exception? Selections from the wine department, which carries 'Two-Buck Chuck,' the Charles...

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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Out front, the open-air courtyard. By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA Early one morning a while back, Dublin House co-owner Sean Dunne walked into the "eerie" empty bar to check on construction work underway on the second floor. But when he went to...

Twelfth-district state Assemblywoman and Red Bank resident Jennifer Beck has asked Attorney General Anne Milgram to speed up the scheduled hearing on whether the borough can shut down Best Liquors over a series of sales infractions. "March of 2008 is...

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...

Red Bank's effort to shut down Best Liquors on Leighton Avenue won't go before an administrative law judge until March 5, nine months after the Borough Council voted to yank the store's license. Borough Attorney Tom Hall got word of...

Red Bank Police will man a DWI spot-check on Newman Springs Road beginning at 11p tonight, the department says in a press release. The sobriety checkpoint will stay up until 3a. Extra patrols will also be on the lookout for...

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...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI The end of summer, when the season is in its final flush of glory, is like no other time. And the Firemen’s Fair in Fair Haven celebrates it with gusto. On a typical warm night, fairgoers...

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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By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA To a foodie, the news that the owners of Sogo Sushi on Monmouth Street spent four years preparing for the opening of their new restaurant wouldn't be terribly surprising. After all, there are so many factors to...