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BAIT SHOP LANDS OK; HOTEL PLAN TABLED
The former Harper’s Copy Center on East Front Street won approval for conversion to a bait and tackle shop. (Click to enlarge) Neighbors raised a stink about the prospect ofContinue reading "BAIT SHOP LANDS OK; HOTEL PLAN TABLED"
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s Where, featuring a bridal-gown wearing mannequin seen from below, turned out to be as intriguing to readers as it was to redbankgreen. What on earth was it doingContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
It was Girls Night Out at Red Bank’s Downtown nightclub Wednesday, one of a series of events in the annual Paint the Town Pink celebration to raise awareness about, andContinue reading "CLUB AWASH IN PINK ON GIRLS NIGHT OUT"
TONY SMILES ON TRTC’s ‘BREL’ TROUPE
Actor (and newly minted Tony nominee) Forrest McClendon joins already-Tony’d director Dan Ostling when Two River Theater Company begins its engagement of JACQUES BREL on May 17. Just hours afterContinue reading "TONY SMILES ON TRTC’s ‘BREL’ TROUPE"
The Monmouth Boat Club opened its 2011 season last weekend by hosting the the 50th Annual Long John Regatta for Lightning Class sailboats. redbankgreen lensman Peter Lindner was out onContinue reading "REGATTA OPENS SAILING SEASON"
ENOUGH TO GIVE ONE GAS
Amid a national spike in gasoline prices, Sea Bright Service Station is the apparent winner in the race to $4-a-gallon gas in the greater Green. On Tuesday, the Ocean AvenueContinue reading "ENOUGH TO GIVE ONE GAS"
TEAK CHANGES HANDS
Restaurateur George Lyristis, below, says he and others bought the restaurant to keep it from going under. (Click to enlarge) An investment group led by Bistro at Red Bank ownerContinue reading "TEAK CHANGES HANDS"
TRTC’s NEXT SEASON: 8 SHOWS, NO WAITING
Artistic director John Dias, below, and the Two River Theater announced the lineup of shows for the 2011-’12 season Monday night. (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK The onstage ensembleContinue reading "TRTC’s NEXT SEASON: 8 SHOWS, NO WAITING"
Actual pinking got underway in downtown Red Bank Saturday with the start of the 2011 Pink Week breast cancer awareness effort. Some photos by Dustin Racioppi. To enlarge the photoContinue reading "NO LONGER JUST THINKING PINK"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of April 22 to April 29, 2011. The information appears here unedited. Theft occurring onContinue reading "THEFTS REPORTED AT RED BANK EATERIES"
FROM GARAGE, POP’S PLANS TO HIT THE ROAD
Produce from the vegetable garden outside Pop’s Garage in the Grove West will be used in dishes. (Click to enlarge) Pop’s Garage, a popular Mexican restaurant on the boardwalk inContinue reading "FROM GARAGE, POP’S PLANS TO HIT THE ROAD"
Red Bank’s KaBoomFest kicked off its 2011 fundraising season Thursday night with a tent party on the lawn of Hovnanian Enterprises’ HQ, followed by a sample pyrotechnics show on theContinue reading "POPPING OFF AT MAPLE COVE"
Coming to Red Bank Middle School tonight: the twirlingest, flyingest, dunkingest Harlem Wizards.
Guests wandered among sale items at Primas Home furniture store on Broad Street in Red Bank Tuesday evening for a cocktail fundraiser for Lunch Break, the feed-everyone-without-questions soup kitchen onContinue reading "MINGLING FOR LUNCH BREAK"
‘BEATLES’ HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE
The Beatlemania Stage Show — co-starring Lucien Nocelli of Lincroft (right) as John Lennon — rolls up to the stage of Red Bank’s Two River Theater for a fab fundraiserContinue reading "‘BEATLES’ HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE"
The development, fronting on Monmouth, West and Oakland streets, calls for a dozen units for low- and moderate-income buyers. (Click to enlarge) With a last-minute concession to neighbors, a planContinue reading "COURTYARDS PROJECT WINS FINAL OK"
A 10-day old stabbing has left a New York City woman hospitalized and Red Bank police short of information, a department spokesman says. The Queens woman, whose name police areContinue reading "RED BANK POLICE STALLED ON STAB PROBE"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of April 15 to April 22, 2011. The information appears here unedited. Theft occurring onContinue reading "RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER"
HOME-GOODS TOUR STARS ‘UNSUNG HEROES’
John and Rachel Decker of Queen Vacuum are leading the charge to highlight Red Bank’s daytime attractions this Saturday. (Photo courtesy Fran Waldmann) By TOM CHESEK “Red Bank is reallyContinue reading "HOME-GOODS TOUR STARS ‘UNSUNG HEROES’"
SOMEWHERE, OVER THE NAVESINK
Thanks to reader Tom Scriven of Sea Bright for sending us this shot, taken from Marine Park in Red Bank on Sunday at 6 p.m. (Click to enlarge)
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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.