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RED BANK: BURTNIK’S PIG-LIT ANTACID TRIP
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A colorful Glen Burtnik, illuminated by Pig Light Show, brings the fifth edition of the Summer of Love Concert to the Basie this Saturday. (Photo by John Cavanaugh) “Here’s toContinue reading "RED BANK: BURTNIK’S PIG-LIT ANTACID TRIP"
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March 12th, 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: MUSIC FOR LIFE AT THE BASIE
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The assembled voices of the African Children’s Choir take the stage of the Count Basie Theatre for a concert on the evening of Tuesday, March 31. Press release from CountContinue reading "RED BANK: MUSIC FOR LIFE AT THE BASIE"
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March 12th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: BASIE NAMES FILMFEST ENTRIES
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The rockumentary LAMBERT & STAMP — in which the birth of The Who is examined — is the centerpiece of April’s PROJECT FX Festival at the Count Basie Theatre, inContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE NAMES FILMFEST ENTRIES"
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March 10th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: LORD TAKE ME DOWNTOWN
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One of the longest-running lineups in popular music, ZZ Top brings fifty shades of electrified boogie blues (and a touch or two of grey) to the Basie stage on Wednesday. Continue reading "RED BANK: LORD TAKE ME DOWNTOWN"
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March 10th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: BOLTON AHEAD TO SPRING
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Ain’t No (Snow) Mountain High Enough: Michael Bolton — pictured playing to an appreciative audience in China last year — returns to Red Bank on Sunday night for a concertContinue reading "RED BANK: BOLTON AHEAD TO SPRING"
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March 7th, 2015 @ 6am
Press release from Count Basie Theatre The Count Basie Theatre has announced the awarding of three arts impact scholarships, to be presented during the 10th annual Basie Awards ceremony. TheContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE INTROS ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS"
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March 5th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: THE LOOKS OF LOVE, AT THE BASIE
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Classic pop composer Burt Bacharach brings 50-plus years of make-out music to the Basie stage on Friday… after SPANK! delivers some Fifty Shades of parody on Wednesday.  Call it Jet-SetContinue reading "RED BANK: THE LOOKS OF LOVE, AT THE BASIE"
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March 3rd, 2015 @ 8am
RED BANK: A BASIE HOMECOMING
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Scotty Barnhart and the Count Basie Orchestra make a too-rare and much-appreciated return to the historic venue that bears the name of the fabled Kid from Red Bank this Sunday,Continue reading "RED BANK: A BASIE HOMECOMING"
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February 28th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: WILLIAMS’ STORY NOT IMPROBABLE
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NBC News anchor Brian Williams onstage at the Count Basie Theatre in December, 2012. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Was news anchor Brian Williams robbed at gunpoint whileContinue reading "RED BANK: WILLIAMS’ STORY NOT IMPROBABLE"
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February 27th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: LIVE, AND IN LIVING QUAD
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It’s not Roosevelt Stadium in the 1970s, but when The Pink Floyd Experience returns to the Count Basie this Friday, they’ll illuminate “the dark side of the room” with aContinue reading "RED BANK: LIVE, AND IN LIVING QUAD"
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February 24th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BOW TO THE MACMASTER
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Grammy winning fiddler Natalie MacMaster brings her Visions from Cape Breton to the Basie stage, in a Thursday night concert appearance.   Here on the greater Red Bank Green, whereContinue reading "RED BANK: BOW TO THE MACMASTER"
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February 23rd, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FORECAST CALLS FOR RAIN
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The four “Mock Tops” known as RAIN make it shower Beatles hits and deep album delights in a Sunday matinee at the Basie.   Sunday, it seems, is prime timeContinue reading "RED BANK: FORECAST CALLS FOR RAIN"
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February 21st, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: LAUGHING ROOM ONLY
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Funnyman Mike Gaffney appears in a Saturday night Laugh Out Loud fundraiser at Two River Theater — while veteran Bobby Collins holds down the shtick at Count Basie’s place. SaturdayContinue reading "RED BANK: LAUGHING ROOM ONLY"
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February 20th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: A COMPELLING A CAPPELLA
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The 2015 touring stage show from the NBC TV series THE SING-OFF takes it back to Basie’s place for a Friday night showcase of vocal artistry, performed live “without aContinue reading "RED BANK: A COMPELLING A CAPPELLA"
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February 16th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WHOLE LOTTA LOVE AT THE BASIE
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Eighties Brit hitmaker Billy Ocean and ’60s girl-group great Shirley Alston Reeves are among the faces of musical romance taking to the Count Basie stage in the Valentine nights toContinue reading "RED BANK: WHOLE LOTTA LOVE AT THE BASIE"
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February 11th, 2015 @ 12pm
On Monday night’s edition of the Daily Show, Red Banker Jon Stewart weighed in on the controversy over NBC News anchor Brian Williams, whose embellished account of an incident earlyContinue reading "STEWART RIPS MEDIA’S WILLIAMS REAX"
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February 10th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: WILLIAMS’ MUGGING STORY A LIE?
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NBC News anchor Brian Williams, left, onstage with comedian Jon Stewart at the Count Basie Theatre in December, 2012. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Was news anchor BrianContinue reading "RED BANK: WILLIAMS’ MUGGING STORY A LIE?"
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February 9th, 2015 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOT AND/OR GRUMPY COMICS
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Craig Ferguson returns to the Count Basie on Monday night — while Adam Mamawala is Tuesday’s featured performer for this month’s edition of Laugh at Lunch, on campus at Brookdale. Continue reading "RED BANK: HOT AND/OR GRUMPY COMICS"
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February 8th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: YOUNG MAN’S WINTER
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Lucian Rinando conducts — and Michael Avagliano is guest soloist — when the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra invokes dreams of Winter on the Basie stage, this Sunday afternoon. Once each year,Continue reading "RED BANK: YOUNG MAN’S WINTER"
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February 7th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK: IMPRACTICAL MAGIC
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The Impractical Jokers of TV’s Tenderloins troupe dig in for a three-show stand at the Basie, including TWO sold-out shows on Saturday and a going-fast addition on Sunday night. It’sContinue reading "RED BANK: IMPRACTICAL MAGIC"
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February 4th, 2015 @ 12pm
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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 ...