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KABOOMERS MULL TWO-DAY FEST
Live entertainment at Riverside Gardens and Marine parks is already a staple of the annual fireworks show. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The KaBoom brand may be expanding inContinue reading "KABOOMERS MULL TWO-DAY FEST"
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March 24th, 2010 @ 1pm
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IN oRBit: THIS AIN’T NO TOGA PARTY
For most of us who had to make his acquaintance in school, Euripides is a stonefaced statue, and his 2,400 year old play Orestes a dusty and decaying scroll ofContinue reading "IN oRBit: THIS AIN’T NO TOGA PARTY"
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March 22nd, 2010 @ 5am
IN oRBit: IN LIKE A LITERARY LION
He was called a lot of things in his day, many of them unprintable in your virtual family newspaper — but  in today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit, you’ll hearContinue reading "IN oRBit: IN LIKE A LITERARY LION"
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March 8th, 2010 @ 6am
BASIE MARQUEE GETTING A FRESH LOOK
By September, a new electronic marquee should be hanging over Monmouth Street, theater officials say. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The familiar sight of a man using a longContinue reading "BASIE MARQUEE GETTING A FRESH LOOK"
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March 5th, 2010 @ 8am
IN oRBit: REALLY GETTING INTO THE ACT
In yesterday’s edition of Red Bank oRBit, we talked to stage illusionist Kevin Spencer about the vanishing of the fabled “fourth wall” between audience and performer. Today we’ll introduce youContinue reading "IN oRBit: REALLY GETTING INTO THE ACT"
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March 3rd, 2010 @ 6am
IN oRBit: USE YOUR ILLUSION
Magician’s wives have never had it easy — they’ve been sliced, diced, shot at, twisted, turned into zoo animals, or simply disappeared — and one top trickster allegedly made theContinue reading "IN oRBit: USE YOUR ILLUSION"
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March 2nd, 2010 @ 6am
IN oRBit: WHAT BROWN CAN DO
We deal with a lot of hyphens in this business, and in today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit, we’ll introduce you to an actor-playwright-director-impresario who’s made it a mission toContinue reading "IN oRBit: WHAT BROWN CAN DO"
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February 25th, 2010 @ 6am
To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. To get back to redbankgreen, hit your escape key. Well-shod theatergoers enjoyed aContinue reading "OPENING NIGHT: A REALLY BIG SHOE"
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February 15th, 2010 @ 7am
IN oRBit: POSNER, TWO RIVER PART WAYS
In a surprise announcement made just hours before the first preview of their new production Barefoot in the Park, Red Bank’s Two River Theater Company dislcosed that its dynamic artisticContinue reading "IN oRBit: POSNER, TWO RIVER PART WAYS"
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February 10th, 2010 @ 6am
IN oRBit: THROUGH ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS
It’s “two on the aisle” over at Red Bank oRBit, where yesterday we gave you the backstory on a new production of Barefoot in the Park, going into previews tonightContinue reading "IN oRBit: THROUGH ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS"
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February 9th, 2010 @ 6am
IN oRBit: A NOT-SO-ODD COUPLE
One’s the most successful writer of comedies in Broadway history. The other’s a serious scholar of classic literature, a retired college professor and founding father of Two River Theater Company.Continue reading "IN oRBit: A NOT-SO-ODD COUPLE"
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February 8th, 2010 @ 6am
IN oRBit: RENEE & JOE, TOGETHER AGAIN
Now that the agita-inducing quasi-holiday known as Valentine’s Day is bearing down upon us, it’s only fitting that we seek relationship advice from those rare couples who’ve lived and lovedContinue reading "IN oRBit: RENEE & JOE, TOGETHER AGAIN"
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February 3rd, 2010 @ 5am
IN oRBit: UGLY, BROKE, AND GOING PLACES
We media types can never resist the opportunity to hitch our wagons to a rising star — the better to say “we made ’em what they are today.” In Tuesday’sContinue reading "IN oRBit: UGLY, BROKE, AND GOING PLACES"
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February 2nd, 2010 @ 6am
IN oRBit: EDDIE AND THE PROFESSOR
We’re not outright suggesting that audiences prefer their rock and pop performers to play dumb, but if you’re Jon Caspi (left) — college professor and expert in his field byContinue reading "IN oRBit: EDDIE AND THE PROFESSOR"
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January 19th, 2010 @ 5am
WEST SIDERS GETTING SOME OVERDUE TLC
Danny Murphy, outside his Bridge Avenue restaurant, is leading an effort to boost the Arts & Antiques District’s profile. For years, a cluster of businesses west of Red Bank’s downtownContinue reading "WEST SIDERS GETTING SOME OVERDUE TLC"
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January 15th, 2010 @ 12pm
RED BANK ARTS ON TAP FOR STATE AWARDS
Among the candidates for ‘best professional theater’ is the Two River Theater. Several mainstays of Red Bank’s celebrated arts venues and entertainment scene, including two whose future ties to townContinue reading "RED BANK ARTS ON TAP FOR STATE AWARDS"
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January 15th, 2010 @ 7am
IN oRBit: ReVISION, ON A NEW PAGE
Over in the pixelated pages of Red Bank oRBit, we dote on the doings of our area’s professional stage troupes — Red Bank’s own Two River Theater Company, and NJContinue reading "IN oRBit: ReVISION, ON A NEW PAGE"
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January 7th, 2010 @ 6am
BASIE WINS NATIONAL HISTORY DESIGNATION
A time-lapse video captured the interior renovation work on the Count Basie Theatre in 2008. Below, a detail of an organ loft grille. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI More than a yearContinue reading "BASIE WINS NATIONAL HISTORY DESIGNATION"
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January 5th, 2010 @ 8am
IN oRBit: STRING THEORY IN MOTION
DO pay attention to that man behind the curtain, as Red Bank oRBit returns from holiday break with a look at a long-running local attraction that’s as brilliantly conceived andContinue reading "IN oRBit: STRING THEORY IN MOTION"
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December 28th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: MATTERS OF LIFE & DEATH
There’s an appearance by a local author, whose chronicle of her recovery from a devastating head injury details her experiences between this world and the next. An original musical writtenContinue reading "IN oRBit: MATTERS OF LIFE & DEATH"
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December 17th, 2009 @ 6am
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 ...