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RED BANK: TOWER HILL VAN FIRE
Red Bank Fire Department extinguishes van fire as distraught driver looks on. (click to read)
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RED BANK: PROM GIVEAWAY DECKS OUT 135 FOR BIG NIGHT
Lunch Break's annual prom giveaway decks out 135 local students for the big night. (click to read and see photos)
RED BANK: KINGS KALEIDOSCOPE AT TOWER HILL
Tower Hill Church present Seattle indie worship band Kings Kaleidoscope in concert. Sometimes referred to as “the greatest band you’ve never heard of,” Kings Kaleidoscope is known for its wildlyContinue reading "RED BANK: KINGS KALEIDOSCOPE AT TOWER HILL"
RED BANK: ‘SUMMER SING’ AT TOWER HILL CHURCH
RED BANK: Shrewsbury Chorale presents 'Summer Sing' featuring a “Missa Pastiche” of movements, from mass settings to recent works.
RED BANK: FLORENCE DEPARTS
RED BANK: After battering North Carolina, the remnants of Hurricane Florence move out to sea. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
RED BANK: "Love is in the Air" up on Tower Hill, when the Monmouth Civic Chorus returns to First Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
RED BANK: FOUR BIG CHRISTMAS EVENTS
RED BANK: Four big events in Christmas music and dance roll onto the Greater Green in coming days, including The Nutcracker and the Vienna Boys Choir.
RED BANK: STRAWBERRIES, STARS ‘N STRIPES
RED BANK: Strawberries, swinging sounds, and a stirring salute to Old Glory come together atop Tower Hill on Sunday.
RED BANK: TWO NIGHTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
A Bo-dacious BOLERO, a helping of HEAVENLY HARMONY and a gathering of guest artists, as the Monmouth Symphony and Monmouth Civic Chorus make this saturday night a classical gas.
RED BANK: MCC ANNOUNCES NEW SEASON
Press release from Monmouth Civic Chorus The Monmouth Civic Chorus, the award-winning vocal ensemble under the artistic direction of Dr. Ryan James Brandau (pictured), has announced a 2015-2016 season thatContinue reading "RED BANK: MCC ANNOUNCES NEW SEASON"
It’s a grand old flag for sure, and on Sunday,its raising forms the centerpiece of the annual Liberty Extravaganza at First Presbyterian Church on Tower Hill.  Independence Day weekends inContinue reading "RED BANK: PATRIOTIC SOUNDS ON THE HILL"
RED BANK AREA CHURCHES HOST BAND NIGHT
Groundskeeper (left) and Animaudio (right) are just two of the local bands participating in the first joint Spring Connection Band Night partnership between three area churches Friday night. Press release from ParkContinue reading "RED BANK AREA CHURCHES HOST BAND NIGHT"
RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: JOYFUL NOISES
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"
RED BANK: GO TELL IT ON THE HILLTOP
Matthew Van Dyke directs the 50-voice Tower Hill Choir in a free, public-welcome performance of traditional Christmas choral music, Saturday evening at First Presbyterian Church.  From the sacred to theContinue reading "RED BANK: GO TELL IT ON THE HILLTOP"
RED BANK: STEPPING UP FOR LUNCH BREAK
Press release from First Presbyterian Church at Red Bank Recently, Tower Hill Church (The First Presbyterian Church at Red Bank) donated $8,725 raised from its October 18 Rummage Sale toContinue reading "RED BANK: STEPPING UP FOR LUNCH BREAK"
RED BANK: TURK ON TOWER HILL
He’s toured across three continents, appeared at Carnegie Hall, and performed live concert broadcasts for NPR, in addition to many other professional accomplishments and accolades. That said, Monmouth County musicContinue reading "RED BANK: TURK ON TOWER HILL"
RED BANK: MCC CELEBRATES MCM
Monmouth Conservatory of Music exec director Vladislav Kovalsky (right) is the special guest, as Dr. Ryan Brandau and the Monmouth Civic Chorus  celebrate MCM’s golden anniversary with a Saturday afternoonContinue reading "RED BANK: MCC CELEBRATES MCM"
RED BANK: HOT TATERS AND COOL BERRIES
First Presbyterian Church on Tower Hill is the setting for the annual Liberty Extravaganza on Sunday, capping an evening of strawberries and dixieland on the patio.  Up at Tower HillContinue reading "RED BANK: HOT TATERS AND COOL BERRIES"
RED BANK: MUSICAL HEROES AND HANDBELLS
Violinist James Ehnes keynotes a weekend of classical music in Red Bank, when he appears as Saturday night’s guest soloist with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at the Count Basie.Continue reading "RED BANK: MUSICAL HEROES AND HANDBELLS"
WEEKEND: VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS ABOUND
Above: Celtic combo Danú brings “An Nollag in Éirinnis” to Santa Basie’s workshop on Friday…while below, young adult novelist Julie Milillo comes home to Middletown for a Saturday discussion ofContinue reading "WEEKEND: VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS ABOUND"
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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.