Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Cancer survivor finds catharsis in triathlon
On the Sunday of September 17, after four months of training, a host of 1,300 women athletes and I anxiously entered the waters off Sandy Hook Bay to compete in the Danskin Triathlon for breast cancer research. Twenty years earlier at the age of 24, I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was suffering…
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Vote for Unger and make your voice heard
I want to reach out to all those Long Branch voters that voted in the past mayoral election, but more specifically, to those registered voters that didn’t. Casting a vote is a privilege and every citizen should be casting their vote on Election Day. Your vote is never a waste! The current Schneider team barely…
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‘Flip’ right choice for Long Branch
I take personal insult at Jackeline Biddle’s use of the term “re-elect” in her campaign literature and her Web site, calling her committee “re-elect.” Jackeline Biddle was never elected to the Zambrano seat. Zambrano lost his seat because he was a “dishonest” politician. This is a time for complete honesty, not campaign trickery. If you…
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180 Turning Lives Around gives thanks to supporters
We thank the community for their wholehearted generosity and support that mad our 30th anniversary gale an unbelievable success. It seemed like only yesterday that in 1976, 180 Turning Lives Around Inc. established a rape hotline in Monmouth County and 459 survivors were counseled. Today, 180 has helped nearly 300,000 victims and their families break…
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Monmouth Arts Council announces 2007 awards
HOLMDEL – The Monmouth County Arts Council (MCAC) announced its Local Arts Program Grant Awards for Fiscal Year 2007 at a special networking event for members on Sept. 13 at the Holmdel Theatre Company, Holmdel. The grants will go to local nonprofit arts organizations for a wide range of art exhibitions, concerts, dance, theater, film…
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In the Arts
Kathleen Murphy Jackson and James Alexander in a scene from “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” which is playing to packed houses at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, where it runs through Oct. 22. Jon Francis will host the musical presentation “Uncanning Worms” at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch on the third…
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Tobi Kahn exhibit in Rumson
“UJAR” (variation) ‘Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses Revisited,” an exhibition of paintings, works on paper and small-scale sculptural shrines from the 1980s by the internationally acclaimed painter and sculptor, is at Beauregard Fine Art in Rumson. The exhibition comprises works from the period of “Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses,” the museum exhibition that traveled to eight museums from 1997…
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‘Abstract Please’
“Circus” A show of abstract expressionist paintings by Medy Quiroz will be on exhibit at Cask 591 restaurant in Long Branch throughout October. An opening reception for “Abstract Please,” the Red Bank artist’s first solo exhibit as an abstract expressionist, will be held today, 7-9 p.m. at Cask 591, located at 591 Broadway in Long…
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SICA presents 3rd annual international exhibit
The Shore Institute of the Con-temporary Arts in Long Branch will present its third annual international juried exhibition with juror Robert Curcio. The exhibition begins Oct. 13 and runs through Nov. 10. To mark the opening, a reception will take place Sunday, Oct. 15, 3-6 p.m. Many of the exhibiting artists will be present. This…
