31 Aug
FOR SALE: BRUCE’S HUGE LITTLE CRIB
The tiny cottage in the West End section of Long Branch where a scrawny young Bruce Springsteen wrote the title track of his career-making ‘Born to Run’ LP is up for sale.
Archive for August, 2009
31 Aug
MIDWEEK: TO A FAIR-THEE-WELL
Don’t count him out: Counting Crows frontguy Adam Duritz is reportedly back on track regarding Tuesday’s rescheduled benefit concert for the Count Basie Theatre.
It’s summer’s sweetly sadistic endgame; those last days before a Labored weekend of forced relaxation and a jetlagged trudge back to school. Here at Red Bank oRBit, of course, every day’s a [...]
28 Aug
WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL
Fire plus Chicago — an historically volatile mix, but a recipe for a hot time in the Holmdel hills.
1. Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago at PNC Bank Arts Center. Over at Rolling Stone they called this The Revolving Door Tour — ‘as if you combined the total number of band members both Earth, Wind [...]
28 Aug
WITH SEVEN YOU GET…(NEVERMIND)
The Rescuers: Joss Stone and Gavin DeGraw are among the star attractions in a FREE Beach Rescue Concert, benefitting the Surfrider Foundation and happening at the Stone Pony on Saturday evening.
1. Beach Rescue Concert at the Stone Pony. For most of the summer, the volunteers of the nonprofit enviro-org Surfrider Foundation have been all over the map [...]
27 Aug
BLUES FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY
Make a wish: Jersey Shore guitar legend Billy Hector celebrates his birthday on Saturday night at the equally historic Wonder Bar in Asbury Park.
By TOM CHESEK
While it’s neither a photograph nor a live memory — it’s actually a painting — the image of the great Jersey Shore guitar guy Billy Hector that sums it up [...]
26 Aug
THE OTHER SIDE OF DR. JOSH
The Doctor is in: Joshua Louis makes two appearances this week in downtown Red Bank — at Red Lounge on Thursday, and on the final evening of Red Bank Street Life this Saturday.
By TOM CHESEK
It’s a phrase you’ve heard before — maybe you thought it to yourself once or twice when you were stuck somewhere [...]
25 Aug
THREE ON THE FRINGE IN NYC
Middletown playwright and director Mary Lynn Dobson presents a new staging of her original comedy TWO ON THE AISLE, THREE IN A VAN, going on this week during the 13th annual Fringe Festival in NYC.
“Life is hard,” quoth Mary Lynn Dobson in regard to her wanting to write side-splitters instead of soul-searchers. “And sometimes you [...]
24 Aug
A PADDLE ROYAL, AND THEN SOME
Surfers Environmental Alliance exec director Andrew Mencinsky of Sea Bright, and fellow SEA board member Darian Boyle of Monmouth Beach do the sightseeing cruise stand-up paddle style, as two of the participants in the SEA Paddle NYC event around Manhattan. The third annual edition of the 28-mile tour happens this morning, with a star-studded lineup [...]
21 Aug
FRIDAY: RIVERSIDE SUNSETS
Bench depth: Tall drink o’ water Ari Hest comes down to the Riverside for tonight’s final entry in the 2009 Songwriters in the Park series.
Ari Hest and Beth Arentsen at Riverside Gardens. He’s been called the Tallest Guy in Music — and while we’re not really sure if that’s true (the honor may go to [...]
21 Aug
SATURDAY: SEASONAL SWANSONGS
Red Bank’s own Riverwinds breeze through some sets on Saturday night, as Red Bank Street Life continues apace in the great outdoors.
Bank of America presents Red Bank Street Life. Musical Farmers Market? Sonic Sidewalk Sale? We’ve been searching all season long for the right analogy to mark Street Life, the Saturday night summertime series of [...]
20 Aug
CALLING ALL ‘CHEMO GIRLS’
Teaming up at Frank Talk for an afternoon/ evening of health, hair and beauty advice are BEAUTY PEARLS FOR CHEMO GIRLS authors Marybeth Maida and Debbie Kiederer, along with natural hair experts Candace and Palisa Kelley of the website THE FOLLICLE CHRONICLES.
By TOM CHESEK
In our quest here on oRBit to bring you the best local [...]
19 Aug
NEXT GEN STARS PLAY TO PREVENT
Three of the best and brightest of the newest generation of Shore musicians — Cara Salimando, Quincy Mumford and Phoebe Holiday Ryan — headline a benefit show for the nonprofit Prevention First, Friday night at Red Bank’s Two River Theater.
By TOM CHESEK
If you’re Quincy Mumford — and you’re not; not by a long shot — [...]
