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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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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.