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RED BANK: FORTUNE SETS ‘BASIE 2020’ SKED
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RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center sets 'Basie 2020' slate of events to commemorate 85th anniversary of the Count Basie Orchestra.
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February 18th, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: TWO RIVER THEATER FOUNDER DIES
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RED BANK: Robert Rechnitz, who co-founded the Two River Theater with his wife and directed a number of its productions, has died.
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October 17th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: JAZZ BAR/OPEN MARKET PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: A combo food market/basement jazz club proposed for Broad Street wins praise from business owners and zoning board approval.
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June 7th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPEAKEASY ON ZONING AGENDA
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RED BANK: Zoning board agenda Thursday includes downtown speakeasy/ food market; changes to theater plaza; and new home where last one burned down.
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June 5th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: HOSPITALS CLAIM BASIE MARQUEE
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RED BANK: Another branding deal adds another corporate name to the marquee of the venue locals know simply as 'the Basie.'
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October 26th, 2018 @ 3pm
RED BANK: JON STEWART STAR-POWERS LUNCH
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RED BANK: Count Basie surprises construction workers with free lunch from food truck, served with quips by comedian Jon Stewart.
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September 26th, 2018 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Comic Jon Stewart returns to the stage of the Count Basie this month for a Q&A to raise money for the theater's $26 million expansion.
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June 6th, 2018 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Here are the high school thespians named winners of 2018 Basie Awards Wednesday night.
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May 24th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: BASIE NOW ‘CENTER FOR THE ARTS’
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RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre is now the Count Basie Center for the Arts, a change made to reflect the venue's transformation into an an arts 'campus,' officials said.
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May 15th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: RECHNITZES GIVE $5M TO HOSPITAL
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RED BANK: Two River Theater founders Joan and Bob Rechnitz donate $5 million to Riverview, and it's not the first time, either.
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April 5th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: Ticket sales rose for the fourth straight year at the Count Basie in 2017, making it the state's top venue of its size once again.
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January 8th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BASIE #GIVING BACK TO VETS
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RED BANK: Basie hosts #GivingTuesday to help get show tickets to veterans.
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November 22nd, 2017 @ 10pm
RED BANK: AN EARNEST PROPOSAL, ACCEPTED
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RED BANK: Two River Theater employee gets surprise, earnest proposal on stage of 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' which centers on an offer of marriage.
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November 20th, 2017 @ 5pm
LINCROFT: A FAVORITE OCTOBER HAUNT
LINCROFT: The EEK!spanded 15th annual Brookdale Haunted Theater returns for the first of three big weekends, starting, you guessed it, Friday the 13th.
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October 12th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘BUTTERFLY’ ALIGHTS AT BASIE
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RED BANK: The Basie's upstairs Studio 99 is the scene for an encore presentation of Dunbar Rep's 'Butterfly Confessions,' beginning Friday.
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October 11th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: ENJOY THE SHOW, WEAR YOUR PJ’S
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RED BANK: Wear your PJs to the theater, when Two River hosts a four-day stand of SKELETONS, A Day of the Dead Bedtime Story for all ages.
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October 8th, 2017 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: The Stone Church Players and Monmouth Players once again warm up autumn audiences in their landmark performance venues.
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October 6th, 2017 @ 6am
RBR: NO MINOR FEAT FOR TEEN PLAYWRIGHT
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LITTLE SILVER: A Red Bank Regional senior joins a select group of veteran playwrights and actors as her short drama is presented as part of a major theater festival.
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September 26th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: BASIE STARTS MASSIVE EXPANSION
RED BANK: With Steven Van Zandt donning a hardhat over his head scarf, Count Basie Theatre puts shovels in the ground for $23 million expansion.
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September 20th, 2017 @ 3pm
ON THE GREEN: TWO TICKETS ON THE AISLE
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Red Bank's Phoenix Productions goes "Into the Woods" at the Basie...and Middletown's Monmouth Players go "Moon Over Buffalo" at Navesink Arts...as the fall stage season heats up on the greater Green.
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September 14th, 2017 @ 12pm
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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 ...