Archive for September, 2009

30 Sep

LOOKING FOR MICHAEL, FINDING BEAU

Step out of liquid: Australian surfing champ Beau Young trades the longboard for the fretboard when he appears at Asbury’s Carousel building this Friday night, on a program with the film SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL PETERSON.

By TOM CHESEK
There’s rock stars, and then there’s rock stars — and for most of the decade of the 1970s, Michael [...]

29 Sep

WINE & CHEESE & YOU & ME

Wildthing, you make everything groovy: Pictured is THE YOUTH, a monumentally scaled work in bronze by animal figure specialist Bart Walter. The well-traveled and far-famed sculptor will be “Working with Wildthings” in a special appearance at the County Library in Shrewsbury this Saturday evening, as part of an “After Hours” fundraiser.
Have your little cellophane-wrapped toothpicks [...]

28 Sep

A MIDWEEK HANGOVER HELPER

CANCELLED DUE TO ACCIDENT: The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir in-store appearance at Jack’s Music in Red Bank scheduled for Wednesday evening, September 30, has been cancelled in the wake of a serious traffic accident involving the band, several of whom are still hospitalized. The accident, which occurred late last week and just became national news [...]

24 Sep

WEEKEND: RAIN, SHINE OR SHELLFISH

No Spin Zone: Chris Barron, second from left with his new band, appears at the second annual Guinness Oysterfest in Asbury Park this Sunday, with the Spin Doctors frontman taking one of two co-headliner stages — no waiting!
Joe Grushecky presents COLLABORATING WITH SPRINGSTEEN at Monmouth University. The pride of Pittsburgh since his earliest records with [...]

23 Sep

S’POSE THEY GAVE A SYMPOSIUM…

In a crudely Photoshopped recreation which is nonetheless “based on sworn testimony,” as they say in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, A-list celebs Jon Stewart and Tom Hanks join Bruce Springsteen chez Le Boss for a movie night to which you were not invited. Neither were we, of course, but none of this should deter [...]

22 Sep

PUNK POETS & THE PASSING PARADE

The famous subjects of New York photographer Marcia Resnick include (clockwise from top left) Divine, Chris Stein and Debbie Harry of Blondie, John Belushi and punk progenitor Johnny Thunders. The Resnick retrospective PUNKS, POETS & POLITICIANS opens this week at McKay Imaging Gallery in Red Bank.
By TOM CHESEK
There’s a disarmingly casual image of three cultural [...]

21 Sep

THE CHORNEY CONTINUES

Having dived ‘n survived the “Fins”-infested waters of the dating scene, Linda Chorney reports on what she’s found in a special Wednesday night concert at the Blue Bay Inn, hosted by BookMarkIt Events.
Okay, it’s a fair question, and it needs an answer as much as it needs to be asked — why shell out nearly [...]

18 Sep

WEEKEND: SUDDENLY SECOND SEASON

Make tracks: Roots music raconteur Wayne “The Train” Hancock rolls into station Brighton Bar for a Saturday night whistlestop. (Photo by Jerry Lukas)
Hitman Murder Mysteries in Ocean Grove. Granted, it ain’t Shakespeare — but then neither were Shakespeare’s plays, according to some scholars. Anyway, we had the pleasure of running into producer and director Jade [...]

17 Sep

OKLAHOMA!: A PERSONAL ‘CHURN-EY’

EDITOR’S NOTE: With Red Bank’s own Phoenix Productions preparing to open its revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic OKLAHOMA! Friday night at the Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank oRBit assigned our Dorothy Creamer to get the story — only to find that she was already on the case, embedded in the cast, and “going [...]

16 Sep

MUST-SEE THURSDAY, TASTY SUNDAY

Providing a streetside soundtrack to this week’s Third Thursday evening in Red Bank are (clockwise from top left) Carly McIlvaine, Don Lee, Al Venturini, Gary Phillips and The Wag. (McIlvaine photo by C. Rex)
It was just about a month ago that the folks at Red Bank RiverCenter announced the maiden voyage of Third Thursdays, the [...]

16 Sep

THIS YEAR’S MODEL YOUTH

As young as you feel: Brothers Mark and Shawn Stern (right) bring the 2009 edition of their classic LA punk band The Youth Brigade (at left, in sepia days) to the Asbury Lanes this weekend — while The ShowRoom hosts a special screening tonight of their documentary LET THEM KNOW.
“Alright, I’ll do it just this [...]

15 Sep

SMOD MONSTERS STOMP 2 RVR

It’s not a podcast, it’s a SModcast — the collective brainchild of Kevin Smith (above) and Askewniverse producer Scott Mosier. The filmmakers will be doing their ‘cast live from the stage of the Two River Theater on September 27.
The news has already made the rounds of the observable Askewniverse (and been posted to the normally staid Two River [...]