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MIDDLETOWN: MAY MEANS MOVIES AT MTPL
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The 2001 feature TORTILLA SOUP screens on Monday 5/4, as one of the May series of free film events at Middletown Library.  The monthly series of free Movie Mondays atContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: MAY MEANS MOVIES AT MTPL"
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May 3rd, 2015 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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MIDDLETOWN: RESCUING THE ‘LOST DOGS’
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Project Animal Worldwide partners with Middletown Township Library for a free Wednesday evening screening of the documentary SPIRIT OF THE SATO: The Journey of Puerto Rico’s Lost Dogs.  From theContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: RESCUING THE ‘LOST DOGS’"
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April 27th, 2015 @ 2pm
MIDDLETOWN: WHEN THE SUN HITS YOUR EYE
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It’s been called the Italian Decade — that pop-music moment between the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the British Invasion of the Beatles and their peers, a time when aContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: WHEN THE SUN HITS YOUR EYE"
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April 16th, 2015 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: MAKING A MEAL OF A MOVIE
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Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan star in THE TRIP TO ITALY, one of a smorgasbord of “food themed films” that screen for free during Mondays in April at Middletown Library. Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN: MAKING A MEAL OF A MOVIE"
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April 4th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: JOYFUL NOISES
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Dr. Ryan Brandau leads the Monmouth Civic Chorus in song, Sunday at Tower Hill Church — while pianist Julia Muench salutes her immigrant heritage in a free Monday evening concertContinue reading "RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: JOYFUL NOISES"
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March 7th, 2015 @ 4pm
MIDDLETOWN: MOVIE MAYHEM MATINEE
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Begin Again: The Tom Cruise sci-fi suspenser EDGE OF TOMORROW screens for free at Middletown Library, kicking off a month of Movie Monday matinees.  With the “what-were-we-thinking” hiccup of theContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: MOVIE MAYHEM MATINEE"
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March 2nd, 2015 @ 6am
M’TOWN: INTIMATE CLASSICS, REVERENT JAZZ
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Violinist Joel DeWitt (left) presents a program of chamber duets at Middletown Library on Monday evening…while drummer John Gronert (right) is among the cats taking part in a February 19Continue reading "M’TOWN: INTIMATE CLASSICS, REVERENT JAZZ"
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February 13th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK’S FORTUNE PROJECT SPEAKS
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The nonprofit that’s working to save the former home of T. Thomas Fortune hosts readings from the words of the pioneering African-American journalist, with events in Middletown, Red Bank, ShrewsburyContinue reading "RED BANK’S FORTUNE PROJECT SPEAKS"
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February 12th, 2015 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: A FEB FILMFEST, FOR FREE
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Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o and Chiwetel Ejiofor appear in the Oscar-winning 12 YEARS A SLAVE, one of several recent films screening for free this month at Middletown Library. While FebruaryContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: A FEB FILMFEST, FOR FREE"
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February 1st, 2015 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: CATCHING UP WITH 2014
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Frankie Valli meets Dirty Harry — when director Clint Eastwood’s cinema treatment of the Four Seasons musical bio JERSEY BOYS screens as part of a month of free 2014 releasesContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: CATCHING UP WITH 2014"
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January 2nd, 2015 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: VERY MERRY MATINEES
Marley’s ghost rattles old Scrooge in the 1938 MGM treatment of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, one of several holiday-themed films screening for free this month of Mondays at Middletown Library. TheContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: VERY MERRY MATINEES"
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December 7th, 2014 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: POETIC VOICES PLEASE
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Acclaimed British poet Cora Greenhill visits the Middletown Library on Monday, December 1, in an event hosted by the Red Bank Writers Group. As her official bio states, “She livesContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: POETIC VOICES PLEASE"
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November 30th, 2014 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN, SANDY HOOK: A GHOSTLY TRIO
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The isolated, wind-whipped battlements of Fort Hancock are the setting for a moonlit tour of local lore and legend, (g)hosted by the American Littoral Society on October 30. Laugh ifContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN, SANDY HOOK: A GHOSTLY TRIO"
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October 24th, 2014 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN, RED BANK: ARTISTS IN MOTION
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Artist Suzanne Ritger’s mini-watercolors — done in real-time during her morning bus commute to NYC — are a highlight of her exhibit opening Saturday at Middletown Library, while Jon PetersContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN, RED BANK: ARTISTS IN MOTION"
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October 9th, 2014 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: JERSEY-FRESH FILM STOCK
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Peter Dinklage co-stars with Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale in THE STATION AGENT, one of a series of “filmed in New Jersey” movies screening for free, Mondays in October atContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: JERSEY-FRESH FILM STOCK"
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October 4th, 2014 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: THE MARTIANS ARE HERE
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Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 broadcast of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS is evoked in a live radio play performance by Raconteur Radio, Saturday afternoon at Middletown Library. It’s coming upContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: THE MARTIANS ARE HERE"
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October 2nd, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: CLASSICAL DUETS
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Keith Calmes and carry on: the classical guitarist teams with flautist Marjorie Koharski for a free public recital at Middletown Library, on Monday evening. Classical music connoisseurs in and aroundContinue reading "RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: CLASSICAL DUETS"
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September 20th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK & MIDDLETOWN: LIBRARY VOICES
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After a preview party Friday evening, the two-day Red Bank Public Library book sale gets underway Saturday morning. Below, ‘The City and the Shore’ come alive as graphic artist MikeContinue reading "RED BANK & MIDDLETOWN: LIBRARY VOICES"
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September 12th, 2014 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: WORD IS BOND AT MTPL
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Christopher Lee and Roger Moore pace it off in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, as Middletown Township Public Library hosts a month-of-Mondays worth of classic James Bond thrillers. EvenContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: WORD IS BOND AT MTPL"
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September 7th, 2014 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: MONUMENTAL MOVIE MONDAYS
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John Goodman, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Bob Balaban and Bill Murray ARE The Expen…check that, THE MONUMENTS MEN, as Middletown Township Public Library hosts a month-of-Mondays worth of recent HollywoodContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: MONUMENTAL MOVIE MONDAYS"
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August 3rd, 2014 @ 12pm
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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 ...
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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.