30 Jan
Looking rather like everybody’s MySpace friend TOM, literary-minded rocker Jon Caspi prepares to inaugurate a new monthly series of acoustic music mini-concerts at the Red Bank Library.
By LAURA SCHNEIDER
Starting tomorrow and continuing through May on the last Saturday of each month, the Red Bank Public Library will present Acoustic Saturdays, a monthly music series featuring [...]
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30 Jan
Stranger with a red guitar: Local-organic country music ace Michael Patrick continues his world-domination CD release tour with a Friday appearance at Asbury’s Twisted Tree Cafe.
PATRICK’S HAT TRICK: Michael Patrick at Twisted Tree Cafe. As a solo artist, leader of The Suburban Hillbillies and producer of the Suburban Roots Concert Series, Morganville-based Michael Patrick has [...]
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29 Jan
PJ Sosko, Joseph Harrell and Bobby Moreno co-star in ReENTRY, the world premiere docu-drama now playing at Two River Theater. (Photos by Mark Garvin)
When you think about it, some of the most compelling “war stories” take place in large part far away from the field of battle. The Best Years of Our Lives, Coming Home, [...]
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28 Jan
Prose and Conn: Marjorie Conn at Restaurant Plan B in Asbury Park, where for the next five Sundays she’ll be presenting the local debut of her stage work on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
By TOM CHESEK
Hard to believe it’s just been a couple of years since Marjorie Conn arrived in Asbury Park, “not knowing a soul” [...]
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27 Jan
Big Bill Morganfield at a past edition of the Red Bank Jazz and Blues Festival. Could the borough’s “hip” need a replacement?
If you wound up here in oRBit without passing GO on Green, make sure to visit our mothership site redbankgreen for a fun story titled DOES RED BANK NEED A HIP REPLACEMENT?
Just hours before [...]
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27 Jan
No Stone Unturned: Lorraine Stone is pictured as just herself, as Harriet Tubman and as an expectant mom in a local production of BIRTH.
By TOM CHESEK
You sure do meet a lot of new people working this here arts and entertainment beat. An actor-playwright here, a singer-songwriter there — plus bartender-artists, teacher-comedians, restaurateur-raconteurs and other more [...]
Posted in Literature, Middletown, People, Theater by: tchesek
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26 Jan
Photos by Monmouth University faculty member Anne Leighton Massoni are part of the exhibit DIGITAL CAPTURE, on view as of today in the Rotary Ice House Gallery on the West Long Branch campus.
Banish that Old Navy fleece to the under-bed storage bin! Clear the laundry off that BowFlex! Pitchers and catchers report! SPRING has sprung, [...]
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26 Jan
Jeffrey Haveson at his business on Cookman Avenue — a place where Oprah Winfrey publicly urged “everybody” to take their friends.
As we said in a story posted a couple weeks ago in oRBit, the restaurant business has seemed like one big fallen soufflé in recent months. Since the end of the holiday season, we’ve been [...]
Posted in Food and Drink, Restaurants, Television, Web/Tech by: tchesek
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23 Jan
Mind Your P’s and Cues: Playmate, Pet and Ph.D Victoria Zdrok and 9-Ball pool champ Jennifer Barretta are among the imported celebs appearing at WRAT-FM’s Men’s Expo, Saturday afternoon in Asbury Park.
OLD SPICE: Men’s Expo and Texas Hold ‘em Tournament at Convention Hall. With the formerly alternative (and hardly the free-for-all it used to be) [...]
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23 Jan
Beth Arentsen returns to the Middletown Township Public Library on Sunday for a trio-setting concert.
NAPOLI EVER AFTER: Italian Cooking Demo with Anna Teresa Callen. The Middletown Township Public Library will be serving up some decidedly heartwarming fare on Saturday afternoon, as internationally renowned cookbook author Anna Teresa Callen comes to town for a hands-on demo [...]
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22 Jan
It Takes a Village: The East Village Opera Company brings its marvelous marriage of powerchords and Puccini to the stage of Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre this Sunday.
On a weekend that’s defined more by what’s absent — the missing-in-action Red Bank International Film Festival, a twice-cancelled Paul Venier concert at Brookdale, and a handful of [...]
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21 Jan
Event promoters! Musicians! Local charities! Whatever! Show us us your flyers.
If you’ve logged on to Red Bank oRBit for the first time since last week, you may have noticed an all new feature in the upper left hand of our page. It’s called FLYERBOARD, and it’s pretty much the greatest thing since sliced bread, or [...]
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