Red Bank Orbit

WEEKEND: T.G.I. FRIDAY THE 13th

tchesek — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:30:31 +0000

Unlucky Harms: Kristin Ferrell’s CUPCAKES are not the featured fingerfoods, but part of the show, as the Parlor Gallery debuts a new installation entitled TRAGICALLY DELICIOUS! 1. Fab Forward Ball at Two River Theater. It happens but once a year, and by that we mean the happy alignment of planets by which pedigreed Red Bank rocker [...]

WEEKEND: GOING UP & COMING DOWN

tchesek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:37:29 +0000

Tworudeproductions put together this very nice trailer for the Phoenix Productions staging of MISS SAIGON, opening this weekend at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. It’s mid-November already, and while the seasonal Sweeps are in full effect on the TV networks, the folks who bring both professional and community theater to local stages are getting [...]

PAYING IT FORWARD, FAB-LY

tchesek — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:26:20 +0000

Red Bank rocker/ realtor Jeff MacPherson (pictured in his day-gig headshot, as well as with Dave Crowton and the sisters McCrink) hosts the second annual Fab Forward Ball benefit for the Red Bank Charter School (inset). If you had the idea that you were going to slip quietly out the end of this decade without running [...]

A RIDDLE FOR THE AGES

tchesek — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:20:14 +0000

The great composer, arranger, conductor and Rumson HS grad Nelson Riddle — surrounded here by a mere handful of the classic projects he worked on — is honored in style at McLoone’s Supper Club this weekend, with a pair of shows organized in part by his daughter, former Red Bank resident Rosemary A. Acerra. By TOM [...]

AND THE AZZIE GOES TO…

tchesek — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:23:57 +0000

Nominees for Top Pop Band in the 2009 Asbury Music Awards include (clockwise from left) A Love Like Pi, Jerzy Jung and Jillian Rhys. Our late colleague Chris Barry — the mad shaman/ dizzy and daffy Dean of the local music press who covered the Shore beat for The Aquarian and scores of other publications — called [...]

WEEKEND: EIGHT IS ENOUGH

tchesek — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:24:07 +0000

Howling at the Moon: Doug Hara as Puck casts a spell as Two River Theater’s screamingly funny take on A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM magically extends its run. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Two River Theater. With a bevy of rave reviews and a full head of momentum generated by its open-air production at California Shakespeare Company, [...]

SPEEDCORE CINEMA, POWERPOINT POP

tchesek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:42:28 +0000

140 characters in search of something to do: The Parlor Gallery on Asbury Park’s “Arts Block” is the scene for a Friday night event hosted by AsburyPop’s Twitter community — with the fast-paced action continuing across the street at The Showroom during NJ Film Alliance’s 140 Second Film Festival. Could this be a new paradigm [...]

BLACK WINE, ILLEGAL CHEESE

tchesek — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:23:15 +0000

ANGELHEADED by French artist Sunny Buick is among the gamut of eye-popping works by and about — but not necessarily just FOR — women, as the Asbury Lanes hosts the Sisterhood of the Traveling Paints known as LADIES FIRST, one of ten top picks on the oRBit art tour this week. It’s official! The latest studies [...]

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO TEA

tchesek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:16:13 +0000

With his latest novel just named Best Book of 2009, Colum McCann (left) comes to “The Lincoln Center of Red Bank” for the first in a series of NovelTeas author events, hosted by Kim Widener (right). (McCann photo by Brendan Bourke) When last we looked in on Kim Widener, the Rumson-based patroness of the arts had [...]

SOMETHING IN THE WATER, IN LB

tchesek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:11:27 +0000

The new Brady Bunch? Another revival of Hollywood Squares? Actually, they’re some of the people taking part in the Celebrate Long Branch Poetry Festival next month. Lorraine Stone is at center square; the others are (clockwise from top left) Emanuel di Pasquale, Laura McCullough, Mihaela Moscoliuc, Michael Waters, Gretna Wilkinson, Rock Wilk, Dan Weeks and [...]