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IN oRBit: FICKLE CORNCOBS OF FATE
It’s been said that the plastic trophy looks more like a corncob than a microphone, but for a generation of artistically minded people here on the Jersey Shore, the Asbury MusicContinue reading "IN oRBit: FICKLE CORNCOBS OF FATE"
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November 9th, 2009 @ 7am
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IN oRBit: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit takes off on a literary bent, with an update on some exciting projects in the works from Kim Widener (left), a former partner in BookIt! AuthorContinue reading "IN oRBit: YOU READ IT HERE FIRST"
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November 3rd, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: LADY BIRD, LYLE, & LADIES AT TEA
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit welcomes a pair of cultural ambassadors from the republic of Texas to the crimson banks of the Navesink — one in spirit, the other inContinue reading "IN oRBit: LADY BIRD, LYLE, & LADIES AT TEA"
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: DEATHLY GOOD HALLOWS
DON’T go in the house. DON’T look in the basement. And whatever you do, DON’T part with a single discretionary dollar before you visit Red Bank oRBit. This Halloweekend, the stakesContinue reading "IN oRBit: DEATHLY GOOD HALLOWS"
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October 28th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: HANG ON TO YOUR EGO
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit celebrates the return this evening of Brian Wilson (right) to our right-coast sandbox, with an appreciation of an artist who, pretty much against all odds, findsContinue reading "IN oRBit: HANG ON TO YOUR EGO"
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October 26th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: DUET FOR DICK AND DOC
Who wouldn’t get excited at the mention of the name Dick Hyman? In today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit, we enumerate the ways in which the appearance of the 82-years-young master ofContinue reading "IN oRBit: DUET FOR DICK AND DOC"
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October 22nd, 2009 @ 5am
IN oRBit: GONNA RAISE SOME FUNDS
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit has the first-out-of-the-box word on an upcoming appearance by Alec Baldwin, star of stage, screen and, well, message machine. Baldwin will be visiting he Two River Theater this NovemberContinue reading "IN oRBit: GONNA RAISE SOME FUNDS"
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October 21st, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: CELEB SUICIDES, SEA SPIRITS
With the Eve of All Hallows breathing down our collective necks, today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit tantalizes the terror buds with a dose of ship-to-shore shivers, a walk-through spookhouse spelunkContinue reading "IN oRBit: CELEB SUICIDES, SEA SPIRITS"
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October 20th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: WELL-FED BY MOONLIGHT
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit has the goods on a pair of events scheduled to invade the major stages of the borough these next few midweek nights — and we’llContinue reading "IN oRBit: WELL-FED BY MOONLIGHT"
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October 19th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: LOUD, BRASSY AND ON THE MARCH
Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets of Asbury Park without dodging hordes of hungry zombies, word comes that the boulevards, boardwalks and bowling alleys ofContinue reading "IN oRBit: LOUD, BRASSY AND ON THE MARCH"
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October 15th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: SHOWDOWNS AND SHIMMYTANG
Cowboys in downtown Long Branch? Sounds pretty far-fetched, but it’s not without precedent. As New Jersey Repertory Company prepares to mount the first previews of the psychological Western drama Dead Ringer, weContinue reading "IN oRBit: SHOWDOWNS AND SHIMMYTANG"
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October 14th, 2009 @ 5am
IN oRBit: SOMEWHERE EAST OF LARAMIE
Today, October 12, marks the eleventh anniversary of the passing of Matthew Shepard (right), the young and openly gay Wyoming man whose death — he was beaten and tortured, tied toContinue reading "IN oRBit: SOMEWHERE EAST OF LARAMIE"
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October 12th, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: A SUCCESS PILE
In one of his greatest-hit bits, funnyman Patton Oswalt described the peculiarly American artifact known as the KFC Famous Bowl as “a failure pile in a sadness bowl.” With theContinue reading "IN oRBit: A SUCCESS PILE"
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October 9th, 2009 @ 5am
IN oRBit: DINE ON, FRUGAL FOODIES
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit has the goods on Dine Downtown, the Octoberlong promotion in which much of the Red Bank restaurant community bands together to offer a set ofContinue reading "IN oRBit: DINE ON, FRUGAL FOODIES"
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October 6th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: A CANCER VIXEN IN FAIR HAVEN
To the jealous eye, writer and cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto had it all, in a glamorous, sex-in-the-city way — a career as a regular contributor to magazines like Glamour and The NewContinue reading "IN oRBit: A CANCER VIXEN IN FAIR HAVEN"
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October 5th, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: JERZOMBIES WALK AMONG US
Draw whatever inference you will from the notion of hordes of shambling, lurching social networkers crying out for “braaaains:” there’s no denying that zombies are big business these days, bothContinue reading "IN oRBit: JERZOMBIES WALK AMONG US"
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October 1st, 2009 @ 4am
IN oRBit: BEAU ON THE ASBURY BOARDS
It’s well along into autumn, when thoughts run to Halloween and pie and those mischief-filled nights leading up to Election Day. But a few miles down the coast there’s stillContinue reading "IN oRBit: BEAU ON THE ASBURY BOARDS"
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September 30th, 2009 @ 4am
IN oRBit: THE WINE, THE CHEESE, AND YOU
Have that little cellophane-wrapped toothpick at the ready, and let no one stand between you and that last plastic tumbler of merlot. Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit offers up aContinue reading "IN oRBit: THE WINE, THE CHEESE, AND YOU"
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September 29th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: HI-RESNICK IMAGERY
“It was the last time that New York was any good,”  Marcia Resnick tells us. “Everybody was poor then.” The legendary fine-art photographer and photojournalist comes to Red Bank on FridayContinue reading "IN oRBit: HI-RESNICK IMAGERY"
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September 24th, 2009 @ 9am
IN oRBit: GLORY DAYS IN THE LECTURE HALL
Today’s the Boss’s birthday, and over at Monmouth University, organizers are putting the final touches on a special four-day, multi-venue event known as Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium. It’s aContinue reading "IN oRBit: GLORY DAYS IN THE LECTURE HALL"
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September 23rd, 2009 @ 7am
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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 ...