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Robert Womble at Red Bank borough hall in December, 2011, when he was honored for heroism. (Click to enlarge) A Red Bank man cited for heroism in the 2011 fireContinue reading "RED BANK: FIRE HERO ARRESTED FOR THEFTS"
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Less than a year after its debut, the Count’s Courtyard, the terrace bar at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre, is slated for a tweaking Friday with the installation of anContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE COURTYARD TO GET CANOPY"
WEEKEND: POP STAR, PRINTS & A PARADE
Dionne Warwick brings her golden pipes to the Basie Friday night. Below, the works of Bruce Waldman are featured in a printmaking show at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. (ClickContinue reading "WEEKEND: POP STAR, PRINTS & A PARADE"
A SHAKING, BOUNCING, OOH-LA-LA WEEKEND
Grace and the Nocturnals bring a bit of ooh-la-la to the Basie tonight. Bar Bounce bops into Red Bank for Hurricane Sandy relief Saturday. (Click to enlarge) Friday, February 22Continue reading "A SHAKING, BOUNCING, OOH-LA-LA WEEKEND"
RED BANK: BIG BAND HOSTS BIG TROMBONE
Conductor Joe “Mooche” Muccioli with the “freight train” that is the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra, which takes to the Count Basie Theatre boards for the first in a new seriesContinue reading "RED BANK: BIG BAND HOSTS BIG TROMBONE"
WEEKEND: BIG BAND, ‘TWO TRAINS’ & ART
Thomas Lauderdale, who appears with his band, Pink Martini, at the Count Basie tonight, discusses his music. Below, Owiso Odera and Roslyn Ruff in ‘Two Trains Running,’ at the TwoContinue reading "WEEKEND: BIG BAND, ‘TWO TRAINS’ & ART"
WEEKEND: HEARTS, CRAFTS AND HARMONIES
Kenny Vance and the Planotones bring their supersmooth doo-wop to the Basie Saturday night. Below, quilts will be on display at the Middletown Township Public Library Saturday. (Photo by WilContinue reading "WEEKEND: HEARTS, CRAFTS AND HARMONIES"
WEEKEND: BOOK SHOPPING, RUNNING, ART…
The Friends of the Red Bank Public Library three-day book sale kicks off Friday night with a reception, hits its stride Saturday, and concludes with a fill-a-bag coda on Monday.Continue reading "WEEKEND: BOOK SHOPPING, RUNNING, ART…"
A WAGGING, PLANTING, ROCKING WEEKEND
Is veganism “like being a nun at an orgy”? “Vegucated,” a documentary screening in Lincroft Sunday, explores that question and others. The Wag, below, is at the Red Bank PublicContinue reading "A WAGGING, PLANTING, ROCKING WEEKEND"
SCHOOL ARTS TO GET INSTRUCTOR BOOST
Count Basie CEO Adam Philipson and director of education Yvonne Lamb Scudiery meet the press on Tuesday. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON Red Bank’s youngest studentsContinue reading "SCHOOL ARTS TO GET INSTRUCTOR BOOST"
BATTLES BREWING FOR TONIGHT’S BASIE CUP
Action during the 2011 edition of the Basie Cup girls’ game, which ended in a tie after overtime. (Click to enlarge) By LOLA TODMAN Red Bank Charter School Intern BrightContinue reading "BATTLES BREWING FOR TONIGHT’S BASIE CUP"
BASIE GOES WEST FOR NEW CEO
Adam Philipson being interviewed on SCVTV Newsmaker of the Week in June. (Image courtesy of SCVNewsmaker.com, Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Count Basie Theatre‘s search for aContinue reading "BASIE GOES WEST FOR NEW CEO"
GETTING JAZZY FOR JOHNNY JAZZ
Red Bank’s jazz royalty gathered in an unassuming pocket park at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard Friday night as the Al Wright Unit, above, the Chuck Lambert BandContinue reading "GETTING JAZZY FOR JOHNNY JAZZ"
Numa Saisselin at the Basie in 2011. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Numa Saisselin, a former stagehand who led the Count Basie Theatre back to fiscal health afterContinue reading "EXIT STAGE LEFT FOR BASIE EX-CEO"
A MONTH OF ‘LE JAZZ HOT’ ON THE GREEN
Trumpeter Claudio Roditi sounds a keynote to a month of jazzy happenings in and around Red Bank, with a Weekend in Brazil that kicks off the Summer Jazz Cafe seriesContinue reading "A MONTH OF ‘LE JAZZ HOT’ ON THE GREEN"
@ BASIE: CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & COCKTAILS
Set-up was underway Thursday morning for the Count’s Courtyard, an outdoor bar and terrace on the east side of the Count Basie Theatre that makes its debut Friday night withContinue reading "@ BASIE: CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & COCKTAILS"
HELP FOR THE HUNGRY, VETS AND ATHLETES
  TUESDAY: “Family Night Out” to benefit Lunch Break By dining at any one of 11 participating restaurants on June 12, Red Bank area residents can help take a biteContinue reading "HELP FOR THE HUNGRY, VETS AND ATHLETES"
AT THE BASIE: A MULTITUDE OF VOICES
Middletown’s Nancy Scharff — and a heavenly host of helpers — present their annual celebration of Christmas in words and music Friday at the Count Basie Theatre. As the founderContinue reading "AT THE BASIE: A MULTITUDE OF VOICES"
SWINGING INTO SINATRA AT A BASIE BASH
Joe Muccioli (left) conducts the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra in the fifth annual Sinatra Birthday Bash event, Friday night at Basie’s place — an occasion that also marks the releaseContinue reading "SWINGING INTO SINATRA AT A BASIE BASH"
WOMAN BURNED IN RED BANK FIRE DIES
Phyllis Rudrow at the October, 2009 dedication of a bust of her cousin, Count Basie, flanked by benefactors Ray Brennan, left, and Dr. Gene Cheslock, right. Her home after theContinue reading "WOMAN BURNED IN RED BANK FIRE DIES"
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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 ...
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.