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RED BANK: A ‘SPUNKY, PASSIONATE’ CONCERTO
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Violinist (and 2014 Young Artist Concerto Competition winner) Elizabeth Hendy helps Roy Gussman and the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra close out their season with “driving percussion rhythms and a dazzling displayContinue reading "RED BANK: A ‘SPUNKY, PASSIONATE’ CONCERTO"
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May 30th, 2015 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: FOUR MEN FOR ALL SEASONS
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The Midtown Men return to the Basie stage Saturday for a stylish salute to the music of Frankie Valli and his 1960s jet-set contemporaries.  The sleek-suited Mad Men of TVContinue reading "RED BANK: FOUR MEN FOR ALL SEASONS"
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May 28th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FOR THE LOVE OF BOB (AND BAND)
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Music from BIG PINK (Arne Wendt, Bob Burger, Sal Boyd, Glen Burtnik) is on the bill, as Pat Guadagno (right) saddles up his Tired Horse for the 17th annual Dylan’sContinue reading "RED BANK: FOR THE LOVE OF BOB (AND BAND)"
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May 20th, 2015 @ 12pm
Student performers from over a dozen area schools are the stars of the show at Wednesday’s tenth annual Basie Awards. Broadway has its well-established Tonys; Off Broadway its Obies —Continue reading "RED BANK AREA SCHOOLS DOMINATE BASIES"
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May 18th, 2015 @ 8am
RED BANK: PHOENIX LAUNCHES NEW HQ
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Phoenix Productions exec director Tom Martini (fifth from left) brandishes the scissors as the ribbon is cut for the theater company’s new home on Chestnut Street. Assisting during the MayContinue reading "RED BANK: PHOENIX LAUNCHES NEW HQ"
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May 14th, 2015 @ 8am
RED BANK: SATURDAYS WITH SINATRA
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Crooner Michael Martocci offers up Memories of Frank as the Sinatra-centennial year continues at the Count Basie on Saturday. It’s not so much that Ol’ Blue Eyes is back: it’sContinue reading "RED BANK: SATURDAYS WITH SINATRA"
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May 8th, 2015 @ 7am
RED BANK: ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT…
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Original lead vocalist Jimmy Beaumont brings the 2015 edition of the Skyliners back to the Basie stage for a Friday night “Stars of Rock and Roll” doo-wop extravaganza. They’re mostContinue reading "RED BANK: ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT…"
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May 7th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MARIACHI ON MONMOUTH STREET
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All dressed up for his debut performance on the greater Green, trumpeter/ bandleader Jose Hernandez brings his Sol de Mexico mariachi orchestra to the Count Basie stage on Tuesday. TheirContinue reading "RED BANK: MARIACHI ON MONMOUTH STREET"
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May 4th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: CELEBRATING BANDIERA’S ERA
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The Hardest Working Musician in Shore Business, Bobby Bandiera writes his musical “Autobiography” in a special concert at the Count Basie on Saturday. As commanding officer of the Jersey ShoreContinue reading "RED BANK: CELEBRATING BANDIERA’S ERA"
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May 1st, 2015 @ 10am
RED BANK: JIRKS AND SERAPHS UNITE
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Jirks bandleader Brian Kirk plays springtime Santa with a benefit concert for Middletown’s Mater Dei Prep high school, Thursday night at the Count Basie. In an interview that appeared previouslyContinue reading "RED BANK: JIRKS AND SERAPHS UNITE"
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April 28th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: SOME FRANK TALK ABOUT JAZZ
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Above: Rosemary Riddle Acerra — daughter of the great Sinatra arranger-conductor (and onetime Rumson resident) Nelson Riddle — joins author and music historian Will Friedwald (below) for a new slateContinue reading "RED BANK: SOME FRANK TALK ABOUT JAZZ"
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April 19th, 2015 @ 6am
The Sony Pictures Classics rockumentary LAMBERT AND STAMP is screened as part of statewide student film competition Project FX, with finalists in the High School and College categories showcased at theContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE ‘FX’ THE FUTURE OF FILM"
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April 17th, 2015 @ 12pm
CHOICE VOICES IN RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN
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AMERICA’S GOT TALENT breakout sensation Jackie Evancho, left, makes her area debut at the Count Basie this Friday, while Gianna Salvato (of THE VOICE competition) joins kindie-rocker Miss Sherri forContinue reading "CHOICE VOICES IN RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN"
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April 15th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: FOURPLAY, THEN SOME SPYRO GYRA
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Fusion-jazz force of nature Spyro Gyra is part of a double-bop bill that takes the Count Basie stage this Thursday. It’s called fusion – a crossroads of modern bop jazz withContinue reading "RED BANK: FOURPLAY, THEN SOME SPYRO GYRA"
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April 14th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: SEDARIS RETURNS TO BASIE
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Essayist David Sedaris brings his droll humor to the Basie Wednesday. It’s one thing to have earned the status of America’s bestest-selling purveyor of humor on the printed / pixelatedContinue reading "RED BANK: SEDARIS RETURNS TO BASIE"
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April 13th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: BUDDY OF EVIDENCE
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The timeless songs and stage persona of Buddy Holly — as well as his tourmates The Big Bopper and Richie Valens — are conjured into colorful life in BUDDY, theContinue reading "RED BANK: BUDDY OF EVIDENCE"
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April 3rd, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: THUNDER IN THE FORECAST
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The assembled voices of Celtic Thunder take it to the Count Basie stage on Thursday, for a “Very Best of” extravaganza engineered to keep our collective Irish up in April.Continue reading "RED BANK: THUNDER IN THE FORECAST"
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April 1st, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: INDIE THEATER, UPSIDE THE BASIE
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Those in the know count the upstairs rehearsal room as another cool space at the Basie. Below, Lorraine “The Wisdomkeeper” Stone. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Observers ofContinue reading "RED BANK: INDIE THEATER, UPSIDE THE BASIE"
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March 27th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: I HEAR A SYMPHONY
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Monmouth Conservatory of Music exec director Vladislav Kovalsky (right) is the special guest, as conductor Roy Gussman and the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra celebrate MCM’s golden anniversary with a Sunday afternoon concertContinue reading "RED BANK: I HEAR A SYMPHONY"
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March 20th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CONVERSATIONAL CLAIRVOYANCE
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The Count Basie Theatre keeps the ghost light burning in anticipation of Thursday’s appearance by GHOST WHISPERER consultant James Van Praagh.   As we said in this space during lastContinue reading "RED BANK: CONVERSATIONAL CLAIRVOYANCE"
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March 17th, 2015 @ 4pm
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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 ...
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 ...