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In Chicago, they sexed it up from the original script. In Poland, they added a scene in which the husband beats his wife, apparently thinking that's what the audience would demand. In Long Branch, though, NJ Rep shoots for a...
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October 21st, 2008 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
Readers with cinemaphotographic memories will recall our tongue-in-cheek lineup of films that the Count Basie Theatre might have pulled together to commemorate the old Carlton's 80th birthday this year — a whacky assemblage of mostly forgotten movies that have in...
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October 20th, 2008 @ 11am
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
Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 8am
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
Ahh, that first, hot cup of coffee. Not just the first of the day; the first of one's life. Bob Henry recalls losing his coffee virginity, and how that experience led, decades later, to his manning the bean counter at...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
The timing is favorable, to say the least, what with the end-of-days mood darkening Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, not to mention Main Street. Red Bank's annual Dine Downtown promotion kicks off tonight for a month of Tuesday & Wednesday...
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September 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Talk about "a show about nothing:" Yasmina Reza's Tony-award winning play Art centers on an all-white painting in which one of the three characters invests a hefty sum. What ensues, though, is emphatically not nothing — not to these guys....
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September 29th, 2008 @ 2pm
'Infinite Sky,' from Anthony Almeida's show of Everglades images at Red Bank's McKay Gallery. One of the busiest weekends since mid-summer kicks off tonight with a gallery show of monochromatic photos from the Everglades, in Red Bank; a cadaver-cool punkabilly...
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September 26th, 2008 @ 10am
As a tight end for the New York Giants, Mark Bavaro lived up to the team name: he once dragged what seemed to be the entire defensive backfield of the San Francisco 49ers 20 yards downfield after a catch. With...
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September 24th, 2008 @ 11am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a look at the noteworthy durability of a pop-rock band based in Middletown called the Wag. Given a name they weren't sure they wanted when they started out a decade ago, the powerpoppy...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Things like props, scenery, costumes and even rehearsal schedules don’t matter too much when it comes to New Jersey Repertory Company’s long-running series of script-in-hand readings at its downtown Long Branch playhouse. It's a series that's seen the likes of...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek tries to pin down just what it was about Zuleyka's Kitchen in Red Bank that first captivated him: It could have been the surprising and innovative sides that garnished a...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Bargains, lightly used, in Atlantic Highlands Saturday. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, your comprehensive guide to what's going on around The Green, you'll find: • a item on the nearly nude, airborne dancers in "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
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September 12th, 2008 @ 9am
Is lower Broad Street ready for a $15 lobster and bacon sandwich on toasted brioche roll? The owners of the three-week-old Broad Street Filling Station think it is, and how. They've also got a roast duck sandwich and an ahi...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 8am
Jillian Rhys shows off her stuff in Asbury Park, and the so-called 'Vagina Monologues of childbirth' makes its Middletown debut. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit: • a singer gives birth to a new identity • moms give voice...
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September 5th, 2008 @ 9am
You may have noticed the cryptic, vaguely erotic posters around Red Bank for "Garden of Earthly Delights" starting tonight at the Two River Theater. Well, Red Bank oRBit has not only the details, but an interview with MacArthur Award recipient...
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September 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
Red Bank oRBit — the redbankgreen sibling site that debuted August 1 as your thrice-weekly tickler on what's happening in the world of arts, entertainment, shopping and dining — is going daily. Six days a week, to be specific. Taking...
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August 18th, 2008 @ 11am
Partyline
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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...