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Eight-year-old Maddy Ward writes her name on the wall of the theater this morning as a four-month renovation got underway. The scaffolding was up and an access hole had already been cut in the lobby wall as the Count Basie...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 10am
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The Fab Faux put a faux finish on the Count Basie's season of shows at Saturday's sold-out fundraiser. By TOM CHESEK Heading into a four-month, multimillion-dollar refurbishing, the Count Basie Theatre pulls the plug on summer shows this weekend with...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 8am
John Astin, haunted by his famously macabre characterizations Gomez Addams and Edgar Allan Poe. The actor visits the area this week for a pair of special appearances. (Recent photo by David Colwell) By TOM CHESEK Who wouldn't want to be...
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June 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Travis Radcliffe's 'Monmouth Street,' one of 18 of his pieces on display at Echo through the end of the month. One glance at the above painting, and we were transported back to the lonely world of Edward Hopper. There's an...
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June 20th, 2008 @ 10am
Here they come, parking guaranteed: some six dozen Ferraris are due to assemble on Broad Street Sunday as part of a private event hosted by Hamilton Jewelers. By TOM CHESEK It's a delicate dance, this business of securing a primo...
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June 19th, 2008 @ 9am
The facade of the small building next door to the theater was the last piece to go; now there's just a hole in the ground. (Facade photo courtesy of Wendy Spencer) A small, ivy-swaddled office building that stood next door...
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June 19th, 2008 @ 6am
Jimmy Vivino appears in Red Bank Thursday night. By TOM CHESEK Guitarslinger extraordinaire Jimmy Vivino can appear to be everywhere at once. You know him from his standing... er, sitting... gig with The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with...
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June 18th, 2008 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK Picture this: a summer event with your choice of first-come/first-served seating. No parking lot shuttle queues or "parent daycare" zones. No turnstile patdowns. No confiscated cameras, water bottles, umbrellas or Pringles packs. And best of all, no...
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June 17th, 2008 @ 7am
The cast of Mark Twain's A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage, with Erin Weaver at right. Star-Ledger theater critic Peter Filichia, working up a Jersey version of the Tony awards, considers Erin Weaver of the Two River Theater Company...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
The name is Italian for 'eleven,' as in 11 West River Road, Rumson. The Jersey section of yesterday's New York Times dropped in at Undici in Rumson and came away favorably impressed by the new Tuscan-themed eatery. Actually, reviewer David...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 10am
The 2008 edition of Blondie celebrates the 30th anniversary of its classic album Parallel Lines Tuesday at the Count Basie. By TOM CHESEK Blondie, one of the best live acts ever? Come again? This is a group of people, after...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 3pm
Were they cut from a lesser bolt of corduroy, we might expect some snarkasm about this article from the four young men behind the Errant Notice, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High's totally, totally unauthorized student newspaper. For starters, they might wonder...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 9am
Runners in the 2007 race take the first turn, at Broad Street and East Bergen Place. Below, a runner celebrates a mighty finish. Upon his passing in 1993, Dr. George Sheehan was eulogized by President Bill Clinton as "the Philosopher...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 8am
Chuck Prophet Chuck Prophet, a member of the seminal '80s psychedelic country band Green on Red, brings his solo act to the floor of Jack's Music Shoppe tomorrow. Critic Robert Palmer of the New York Times proclaimed Green on Red...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 5pm
Judas Priest! It's that guy from Idol as Iscariot, with the singer from Almost Queen as Jesus (we kid you not)! By TOM CHESEK House is in reruns; the Basie's about to go dark til autumn; you've got no gas...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 11am
These four young promoters were out on the streets of downtown Red Bank today encouraging passersby to stop in at the Two Rivers Art/Antiques Show & Garden Tour now underway at the Red Bank Armory Ice Complex and various gardens...
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June 7th, 2008 @ 1pm
Back in March, redbankgreen was the first to tell you about a nascent project called the Tri-City Arts Tour, a big-tent sort of event under which the artizens of Red Bank, Asbury Park and Long Branch would join forces for...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Joe Simonelli By TOM CHESEK Chicago has the profanely profound David Mamet; Pittsburgh the late great August Wilson. New York? Well, at least as the rest of the country sees it, there's no playwright more attuned to Manhattan than the...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Dishad Husain directs and stars in Viva Liberty, one of four shorts in the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cinefest at Middletown Township Public Library. By TOM CHESEK A couple of evenings a week at Neelam Exotic Indian Cuisine —...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 6am
By SUE MORGAN Never mind that 'farewell forever' send-off held last year at Donovan’s Reef. The legendary Sea Bright landmark is sticking around and kicking up sand a bit longer. Today's lackluster real estate market has benefited regulars of the...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 6am
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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 ...
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 ...