CUE THE NEXT REEL

Oct 18, 2006

Final figures aren’t yet in, but the sixth annual Red Bank International Film Festival, held last weekend, attracted a record number of moviegoers from all over the tri-state region, says Marc Leckstein, president of the Freedom Film Society, the festival sponsor.

“This was probaly the most sucessful festival we’ve had, not just in terms of attendance, but in terms of the quality of the films and audience response,” says Leckstein.

Soon, after a brief return to lives put on hold for the festival, the all-volunteer film society returns to the challenge of building the lineup for the seventh edition.

“What we try to do is to show people product that they’re not normally going to be able to see,” says Leckstein. “That’s what our audience has become conditioned to expectingsomething new and different.”

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October 18, 2006 - 9:43 am |

GREAT FOOD: $35. WORLD-CLASS JAZZ: PRICELESS.

Aug 16, 2006

First, if you want to eatand you probably willitll cost you $35. The food promises to be terrific, and the money goes to a worthy organization.

But if you cant swing the $35, or have other gustatory plans, dont let the price of a food-access wristband keep you away. Because the main event is a free jazz concert. And this should be one hell of a show.

In fact, it may prove historic. It’s the kind of event that has real potential to boost Red Banks national and even international profile.

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August 16, 2006 - 10:20 am |

AS ALIVE AS EVER

Jul 29, 2006

Steve Forbert played in Riverside Gardens Park last night as part of the Songwriters in the Park series.

Yeah, he did “Goin’ Down to Laurel,” the breakout tune from his debut 1978 album ‘Alive on Arrival,’ and it sounded like… freedom.

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July 29, 2006 - 6:55 am |

LEDGER PACKAGES RED BANK

Jul 21, 2006

Today’s Star-Ledger has an eight-page pullout guide to Red Bank in its “Ticket” section, and a more extensive version at its website.

The section doesn’t aim for depth (thus we’re reminded, repeatedly, that 20 years ago the town was known as “Dead Bank”). But it does have overviews of the arts, dining, nightlife and shopping scenes that visitors will find helpful.

Noteworthy is an interactive map that shows the locations of art galleries, restaurants and other attractions. Kudos to the Ledger for making the map so big and for encompassing everything from Two If By Sea and The Little Kraut on the West Side to Design Front on the east. (Rok+Lola, just few doors east of Design Front, may have a differing opinion.)

The package also includes a terrific slideshow of pictures by staff photographer Aristide Economopoulos. They’re not included the dead-trees version.

July 21, 2006 - 1:27 pm |

NO DUDS ALLOWED

Jul 5, 2006

While tens of thousands of visitors sought out unobstructed views of the KaBoom Fireworks Monday night, hundreds of others chose to stand in or near the intersection of Broad and Front streets to watch the action from behind a scrim of storefronts.

Not all the pyrotechnics were visible from this unconventional vantage point. But those that cleared the rooflines repainted the downtown, if only for a flash, and proved the street throngs were onto something.

July 5, 2006 - 11:29 pm |

THE END OF AN OASIS

Jul 5, 2006

Say goodbye to another Red Bank landmark.

Shrewsbury Manor, an idyllic cluster of 59 apartments located next door to the Molly Pitcher Inn, is gradually being cleared out and will fall to the bulldozer sometime after the last tenants have departed in late 2007, redbankgreen has learned.

Samantha Bowers, vice president of Philip J. Bowers & Co., the family-owned real estate development firm that built Shrewsbury Manor 60 years ago and still owns it, yesterday confirmed that the buildings will be razed.

Because of their age, the two-story, red brick structures “require an extraordinary amount of maintenance,” said Bowers. “The buildings have reached the end of their useful life, and so this is, unfortunately, what we have to do. It’s time to redevelop the property.”

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July 5, 2006 - 11:27 pm |

BE YOUR OWN PYROTECHNICIAN

Jul 4, 2006

The fireworks display over the Navesink on Monday was just one part of the street theater that played out on the throng-choked thoroughfares of Red Bank on July 3. Our roving photographer asked some folks in town to show off their best facial impressions of awesome kaboomery, and more than 100 complied. (OK, the tattoo of the googly-eyed pancake doesn’t actually fit the theme, but how often will we get to run a picture of a googly-eyed pancake tattoo?)

Know any of these rubbery-faced funsters? Let them know they’re now famous, courtesy of redbankgreen.

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July 4, 2006 - 5:02 pm |

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