Category Archives: Books

Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...

Fans of former New York Giants tight end Mark Bavaro huddled under a tent in the rain, clutching football jerseys, helmets and, oh yeah, his new novel during a signing event at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Saturday....

As a tight end for the New York Giants, Mark Bavaro lived up to the team name: he once dragged what seemed to be the entire defensive backfield of the San Francisco 49ers 20 yards downfield after a catch. With...

Adrienne Barbeau, pictured with hubby Billy Van Zandt and her books. The famed "scream queen" turned horror author will appear at a local signing on Thursday. By TOM CHESEK As the archetypal fox of the drive-in and the video store,...

It's been back up and running since late January, but this Saturday, the Red Bank Public Library plans to hold a grand reopening to mark the completion of a $1.6 million renovation. The interior design of the facility was done...

Detail of the wall and ceiling in the restored New Jersey room at the Red Bank Public Library. Two and a half months after wrapping up a major renovation job, the Red Bank Public Library is preparing for a grand...

You will be forgiven, in a secular sense at least, for not knowing that there's something called 'Darwin Day.' A dozen years ago, there was only one known celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday — Feb 12, 1809. Now, if we...

Red Bank and a dozen other Monmouth County towns that don't participate in the county library system — and whose residents don't have borrowing priveleges in it — won't get stuck paying some of its costs, today's Asbury Park Press...

A review in today's Jersey section of the New York Times of the Two River Theater Co.'s 'Macbeth' takes note of the over-the-top spillage of blood. It's a production, writes reviewer Naomi Siegel, that "oozes, drips and squirts forth a...

Back in business. The hours of operation are, for now, limited — 1 to 5p, Monday through Saturday. There are still lots of loose ends for the staff to attend to as they relocate from temporary facility two doors away....

A refurbished room on the second floor of the library. The room was once a bedroom in the Eisner family home. Months overdue but not over budget, the renovated Red Bank Public Library will reopen at 1p next Tuesday, Borough...

Colorful chairs for little people await the reopening of the children's room at the renovated Red Bank Public Library last week. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the elevator at the Red Bank Public Library passed a state inspection Friday,...

Herbert Holzberg By LINDA G. RASTELLI The 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol envisioned for everyone appears to have arrived, somewhat late in life, for Sea Bright resident Herbert Holzberg. A veteran of two wars and owner of a successful...

New computers stand ready for public use. The problematic elevator is in the center background. [PLEASE SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF STORY] The newly remodeled children's room of Red Bank Public Library is bright and colorful, taking cues from the...

The books are out of storage, free of dust and are being returned to their shelves. Now, all that remains is a short punchlist of renovation items, plus the logistics of getting the phones re-installed and the return of books...

Mayor Pasquale Menna last night lit into what he termed a "poison pen" letter to the editor of the Hub by Gene Goellner of Linden Place. The letter hasn't yet been published — Goellner tells us it's slated for to...

It's not often that firebrand Republican Councilman John Curley makes much headway against the tide of the Democratic majority. But for a fleeting moment last night, Curley seemed to have raised concerns that just might bring the Dems around to...

Commuters and pedestrians cross the North Jersey Coast Line tracks at Monmouth Street this morning during delays caused by a fatality on the rail bridge to Middletown. Red Bank Police were called at 7:25a. New Jersey Transit Police are investigating....

An early-morning fire today at the Red Bank Public Library was quickly extinguished and left no adverse effects on the extensive $1.2 million remodeling job now nearing completion, borough officials say. Fire Marshal Stanley Sickels tells redbankgreen that the fire...

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