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RED BANK: COUNT BASIE BIRTHDAY “BOOGIE” PROCESSION ON TAP
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On the birthday of late jazz icon William "Count" Basie Thursday, dancers will lead procession of through downtown streets to "Red Bank Boogie", Basie's 1944 tribute to his hometown. (click to read)
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August 20th, 2025 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: BASIE AWARDS DRAW PACKED HOUSE
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RED BANK: Capacity crowd turns out for 18th annual Basie Award to honor excellence and achievement in Monmouth County high school theatre.
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May 25th, 2023 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BASIE ADDS TO FOOTPRINT
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RED BANK: Less than two years after massive expansion, Basie Center adds to its real estate holdings, acquiring a Maple Avenue property.
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March 15th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: BOSS SHOWS UP FOR WORK
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RED BANK: Springsteen and band settle in at Count Basie Center for the Arts to rehearse for world tour that begins February 1.
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January 13th, 2023 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BASIE, PHOENIX TO MERGE
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RED BANK: After a 30-year working relationship, Basie Center and Phoenix Productions plan to merge, the arts organizations announced Tuesday.
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February 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Count Basie Center lands $100,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for its mindALIGNED school arts program.
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February 4th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: BASIE TAKES OVER MOVIE THEATER
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RED BANK: Count Basie Center, facing uncertain post-pandemic future, takes over two-screen movie house previously run by Bow Tie Cinemas on White Street.
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September 7th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: HOLIDAY EXPRESS TO LIGHT IT UP
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RED BANK: Free hot choco. Santa Express. High-energy Holiday Express concert. Electrifying town light-up. We've got the details for Friday night's event.
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November 28th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: CONSERVATORY AT HOME AT LAST
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RED BANK: Now under the Basie wing, the Monmouth Conservatory of Music finds its first real, new home on Chestnut Street.
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March 18th, 2019 @ 3pm
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: Count Basie Theatre lands $100,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for its mindALIGNED school arts program.
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February 7th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BASIE TO AIR DINIZIO TRIBUTE
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RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre to livestream Saturday's tribute concert in memory of late Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio.
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January 10th, 2018 @ 6am
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: SMITHEREENS SHOW TO GO ON
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RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre will go ahead with a planned January 13 concert despite the death last week of Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio.
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December 18th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SINGER DIES
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RED BANK: Smithereens singer Pat Dinizio dies two days after announcement of January 13 show at the Basie.
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December 13th, 2017 @ 6am
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
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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.
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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 ...