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A likely stop on the tour: Emily Asher Neiman's new gallery on Monmouth Street. By TOM CHESEK Here's an intriguing idea: link Monmouth County's three hottest cultural hubs by choo-choo train and see what happens. Come late spring, the borough...
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March 5th, 2008 @ 9am
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Brian Metz (on floor) and Samuel Spare star as the infamous Leopold and Loeb in "Thrill Me," the musical appearing this week at Brookdale's Performing Arts Center. By TOM CHESEK At first blush, it seems something out of Max Bialystock's...
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March 4th, 2008 @ 9am
Two River Film Festival founder and CEO Rosellen Otrakji with Mike Buess, center, and VJ Carbone of The Bodega Shoppe at Thursday night's reception for the TRFF. (Photo courtesy of Diana Moore) Film buffs who mark their calendars each November...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 1pm
Light on his hooves: Pink Floyd's pig, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, floats into the Count Basie Theatre on Saturday. By TOM CHESEK Roosevelt Stadium, June 1973. A capacity crowd in this Jersey City deco landmark is getting its first...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 5am
Ilsa crashes Sam's pity party at the Café Américain in 'Casablanca.' By TOM CHESEK We'll always have Red Bank. Beginning tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:00p, the Count Basie Theatre kicks off a series of free classic film screenings with Bogart, Bergman...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 12pm
HEY! That's our DOG! Roddy McDowall with the original Red Bank-bred 'Lassie' in 1943's 'Lassie Come Home.' By TOM CHESEK While redbankgreen applauds the slate of picture shows on display in the Count Basie Theatre's "Take 9 at the Basie:...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 12pm
By TOM CHESEK For a man who quit an established recording career in order to study the fine art of making violins, David Bromberg sure knows how to work a room. A veteran sideman to Dylan, Ringo Starr and Jerry...
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February 20th, 2008 @ 9am
By TOM CHESEK The flying saucer descends to the stage of the Vegas Hilton in a swamp-gas riot of dry-ice foggers and gelled lights. Through the actual haze (and the one brought on by the showroom's three-drink minimum), the audience...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 9am
The Bistro's George Lyristis: "You can't always ask somebody else to fix the problem." Business is tough these days for many Red Bank restaurants. And it's not simply a matter of the winter blahs. The economy has soured. Would-be patrons...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 7am
Among the records broken at the Two River Theater in its smash 'Macbeth' run: most students attending one of its plays. Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd In evils to top Macbeth. Well,...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Sebastian Garcia, Spiro Galiatsatos and Kaitlyn Kurkemelis in "tick, tick... BOOM!" By TOM CHESEK That insistent ticking you hear at the outset of the musical "tick, tick...BOOM!" is explained away by its central character as "the sound of one man's...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 11am
Dr. Julian Paul Keenan speaks at the Red Bank Humanists Darwin Day event, held Sunday at the Red Bank Charter School. In honor of international Darwin Day, the Red Bank Humanists hosted a lecture yesterday by Julian Paul Keenan, Director...
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February 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Visiting actors would stay rent-free at 81 Shrewsbury Avenue under a plan pitched by Two River Theater founder Bob Rechnitz. "Everybody loves the Two River Theater," says Red Bank Zoning Board vice chairperson Lauren Nicosia. But the board's reviews aren't...
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February 8th, 2008 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK The news has at least two generations of local residents disappointed and disgusted, but the Internet Café is "throwing in the towel," says owner Joe Cullity. In the wake of an incident that saw a recent show...
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February 6th, 2008 @ 7am
By TOM CHESEK It's not uncommon for a stage troupe to throw some local kids in with a cast of more seasoned professionals whenever the script calls for a couple of young performers. The more hometown kids in the show,...
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February 1st, 2008 @ 7am
Actor-director-administrator-set decorator-artistic director Lori Renick readies the detail-intensive set of 'Blithe Spirit' for Saturday's opening at Monmouth Players. (Photos courtesy of Diana Moore) By TOM CHESEK It's a busy Monday evening at Middletown's Navesink Library, and Lori and Paul Renic ...
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January 31st, 2008 @ 9am
By TOM CHESEK Anyone know exactly what's going down down at the Internet Café? It seems that dozens of ticketholders to an all-ages rock show last Friday night were refused admission to Red Bank's grooviest grotto, leaving a lot of...
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January 30th, 2008 @ 7am
You will be forgiven, in a secular sense at least, for not knowing that there's something called 'Darwin Day.' A dozen years ago, there was only one known celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday — Feb 12, 1809. Now, if we...
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January 30th, 2008 @ 6am
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church on Pearl Street. By TOM CHESEK At 1p tomorrow, one of Red Bank's best-kept cultural secrets is scheduled to step into public view, bringing with it a millenium of tradition. A procession of worshippers and...
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January 18th, 2008 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK It's the local, live-theater equivalent of a blockbuster movie opening. Illuminated by star power, ablaze with spectacular stage effects and drenched with enough hemoglobin to drown the lamps of Transylvania, "Macbeth" is coming to Red Bank. Shakespeare's...
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January 11th, 2008 @ 10am
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sneakers hanging from the overhead wires on Broad Street.
PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
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