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By TOM CHESEK New York has its late and lamented CBGB; Memphis its Sun Studio; Detroit its original Hitsville USA; and Asbury Park a converted disco by name of the Stone Pony. In New Orleans, it's the legendary J&M Music...
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December 14th, 2007 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
Nicole Atkins and her band, the Sea, played songs from their major-label debut LP "Neptune City" for an admiring crowd of several dozen fans last night at Jack's Music. The singer-songwriter from Neptune is scheduled to play the Bowery Ballroom...
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December 12th, 2007 @ 7am
Two suspects in today's stabbing and robbery of a Shrewsbury Avenue merchant, as well as two alleged accomplices, are in custody, and one of them used to work in the store, Red Bank police report. All four suspects are from...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 5pm
After being stabbed in his store, at left, victim Charlie Williams made his way to Golf Greens Fore U, at right. A Shrewsbury Avenue merchant was pistol-whipped and stabbed by two hooded robbers this morning. The victim, Charlie Williams, is...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 1pm
Nicole Atkins in a rare moment of relaxation. Yes, we know that Nicole Atkins has a full dance card as she more than lives up to her inclusion on Rolling Stone's 10 Artists to Watch list of 2006. A torchy...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 9am
Buona Sera's plan to expand into the space now used by Fins and Feathers was approved by the Planning Board earlier this week. It doesn't have a single parking space to offer its customers, but Buona Sera Ristorante has gotten...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
By TOM CHESEK Even if you don't think of yourself as a frantic foodie, chances are excellent that you're likely to reach for the olive oil any time you make some noise with the pots and pans, be it a...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 12pm
Thirty-five stores downtown will feature live mannequins from 1 to 4p Sunday as part of an effort by Red Bank RiverCenter, the town's retail promotion organization. Might be fun to go from store to store and test just how well...
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November 23rd, 2007 @ 3pm
A customer tries on a bracelet at an opening-night reception at Tiffany & Co.'s Broad Street store earlier this month. The Asbury Park Press today pops in on store owners in downtown Red Bank to gauge their feelings about the...
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November 18th, 2007 @ 11am
If any one person outside of Tiffany & Co. is responsible for the jeweler's decision to open a gleaming outpost in downtown Red Bank today, it's Larry Garmany, who has a habit of making high-risk business moves that tend to...
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November 9th, 2007 @ 9am
A Broad Street building with one of downtown Red Bank's most distinctive facades has been sold and is about to undergo a makeover, redbankgreen has learned. The property, at number 7 Broad, near the intersection with Front Street, sold last...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 2pm
Restoration Hardware Inc., owner of Red Bank's most prominent national-chain store, is being taken private by company executives in a deal valued at $267 million, according to the news agency Reuters and other reports. The buyout group, which includes private...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
Love it or loathe it, Tiffany & Co. arrives in Red Bank tomorrow with the opening of a 6,000-square-foot emporium of luxury that caps the downtown's 17-year sprint from economic backwater to one of the most admired in all of...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
Last week's 'Where' was "too easy" for Mayor Mike Halfacre of Fair Haven. Isn't that what convenience stores are all about? Gary and Joseph Morris mistook it for Juanito's Restaurant on Monmouth Street, and Jenn Woods thought it showed the...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Getting here is less of a circus for many customers, says Joe Azzolina Sr. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Local supermarket magnate Joe Azzolina Sr. has purchased the Stop & Shop on Newman Springs Road in Shrewsbury and is reconfiguring it...
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November 5th, 2007 @ 8am
Meryl Blinder, a painter from Brookline, Massachussetts, brings a collection of her works to Church Street Garden & Home in Little Silver in a show that opens tonight with a reception from 5 to 8p. An open house is scheduled...
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November 2nd, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Yes, there's a mention of a bar in the concept plan for what a made-over Fair Haven business district might look like. But that's as racy as it gets. Borough residents are emphatic that they're "very...
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November 1st, 2007 @ 2pm
William Neumann, the Fair Haven wicker-furniture dealer who was arrested in March for defrauding 83 customers out of $290,000, has been indicted, the Asbury Park Press reports. The indictment, handed up by a Monmouth County grand jury on Monday, reduced...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 2pm
The first 72 hours of 2008 will be busy ones for the critters at Fins and Feathers, a pet store at the corner of Monmouth Street and Maple Avenue. They'll be hopping, flying and skittering a couple of hundred yards...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI If Middletown police have their way, underage drinkers won't even think about buying beer in the township. "We have a zero-tolerance policy," says Sgt. Darren Schwedes, coordinator of an $8,000 state grant for the "Cops in...
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October 18th, 2007 @ 7am
Partyline
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 ...