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RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE WELCOMES MELBA MOORE
Disco, soul pioneer and Tony Award winner Melba Moore comes to Red Bank for a pre-Mother's Day meet and greet. (click to read)
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May 4th @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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PODCAST: GILDA ROGERS ON RED BANK’S BLACK HISTORY – AND FUTURE
New episode of the redbankgreen podcast! An illuminating sit down with Gilda Rogers, executive director of the T. Thomas Fortune House Cultural Center. (Click to read.)
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February 13th @ 12pm
WE NEED YOUR “RED BANK BOOGIE” VIDEOS!
It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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July 28th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: FULL SLATE OF JUNETEENTH EVENTS THIS WEEK
A benefit jazz brunch, a march and community celebration and author talk top a full slate of Juneteenth events in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 18th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: GET SET TO BOOGIE FOR COUNT BASIE
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It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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April 30th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: MURDER, ARRESTS SPARK COMMUNITY DISCUSSION PLANS
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A community discussion is planned in the wake of the shocking arrest of a former Red Bank Regional Football star in a double shooting that killed a Red Bank man. (click to read)
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November 4th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: FUNDRAISER FOR HISTORIC CEMETERY
RED BANK: Keepers of the historic Cedar View African-American cemetery host a fundraiser at the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center.
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May 15th, 2024 @ 3pm
THREE ON TOUR
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RED BANK: Three borough sites will participate in a weekend of self-guided tours of 52 historic locations in Monmouth County May 4 & 5.
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April 25th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: WEEKEND PICKS
A spring street fair, Mexican dance lessons, an Abba tribute and a visit to the T. Thomas Fortune House. redbankgreen has some weekend picks here.
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April 12th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: SPOTLIGHT ON FASHION’S HISTORIC ROLE
RED BANK: Fortune Center and Two River Theater team up to showcase the Ebony Fashion Fair and its role in Civil Rights history.
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March 25th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘POSTCARD FROM SOUTH AFRICA’
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RED BANK: Fortune Cultural Center hosts "A Postcard from South Africa," featuring discussion led by executive director Gilda Rogers.
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February 27th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE’S ‘SALUTE TO EBONY FASHION’
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RED BANK: Fortune Cultural Center presents "A Salute to Ebony Fashion," in conjunction with the Two River Theater’s costume department.
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February 27th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: NURTURING FORTUNE’S LEGACY
RED BANK: Opening this month, exhibit honoring editor and activist T. Thomas Fortune looks at his life, work and legacy.
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October 9th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ‘FORTUNE TELLERS’ GET READY
RED BANK: Ahead of an October exhibit on the history of the Black press, students learn docent skills at T. Thomas Fortune Center.
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August 1st, 2023 @ 7pm
RED BANK: Afternoon of activities to commemorate Juneteenth begins with march from church to Johnny Jazz Park Sunday.
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June 16th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘TINY PORCH CONCERTS’ AT FORTUNE
RED BANK: The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center hosts a Tiny Porch Concert Series in July and August.
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June 6th, 2023 @ 1pm
RED BANK: JUNETEENTH AT BASIE CENTER
RED BANK: Basie Center for the Arts hosts a community Juneteenth celebration at The Vogel.
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June 5th, 2023 @ 3pm
RED BANK: LIFE OF IDA B. WELLS AT FORTUNE
RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center hosts an exhibit honoring Black women, including journalist Ida B. Wells.
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January 13th, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: FORTUNE CENTER FUNDRAISER
RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center hosts a fundraiser at Triumph Brewing Company featuring jazz and South African wines.
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January 13th, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: ‘AFRICAN TAPESTRY’ AT FORTUNE
RED BANK: In a Black History Month celebration, the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center hosts "African Tapestry: Fashions by Rashidah."
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January 11th, 2023 @ 4pm
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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.