Category: HUB Opinion

  • Garden State Film Festival rolls out the red carpet

    The sixth annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) showcasing film, video and animated works by independent filmmakers, will roll out the red carpet April 4- 6 in Asbury Park. This year’s honorees include novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Screenplay Writing. Chris Costello, daughter of Hollywood legend…

  • Summer at PNC: Changes in concert lineup, tailgating

    State police will use video surveillance, plainclothes officers BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Festival-type concerts and tours are off the summer concert roster for the PNC Bank Arts Center, according to Kevin Morrow, president of Live Nation New York. Morrow made the announcement to a small audience at a forum held March 18 at…

  • Citizens’ group seeks inquiry into ‘Swapgate’

    On Friday, Jan. 25, the Citizens for Rational Coastal Development filed an Injunction before the N.J. Appellate Court regarding the diversion and sale of properties to the N.J. Department of Transportation which the state needed to begin construction of the 73 foot span mega-bridge over the Shrewsbury River. For weeks, we have been undertaking an…

  • Help make a difference for inner-city children

    As we experience the end of a mild winter, thoughts of spring and summer do not linger far behind. The days grow longer, nature comes alive around us and summer plans begin to take shape. Summer provides an opportunity for us to share the sights and sounds of our community with others less fortunate. Since…

  • Write more tickets to enforce rules of the road

    Arecent article in the paper stated that a local police chief criticized his officers for only writing about 40 tickets per officer per year. That equates to less then one ticket per week. The chief was criticized and complaints that this is trying to enforce a quota system of issuing tickets was expressed. If I…

  • Award winners in Eye-Sights

    Local fine art photographers dominate the list of award winners at Eye- Sights 2008, the fifth annual open juried photography show currently on exhibit at the Guild of CreativeArt in Shrewsbury. "Frankfurt Bahnhof" by Jesse Craft Jesse Craft, Red Bank, won Best in Show with "Frankfurt Bahnhof," an image taken at a train station in…

  • IN THE ARTS

    “Engaging Shaw” by JohnMorogiello, with excerpts fromBernard Shaw, is making its New Jersey premiere through April 13 at New Jersey Repertory Company, 179 Broadway in Long Branch. Of all the great love stories in literary history, the pairing of playwright George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Payne-Townshend may rank as the very least romantic. The blazingwit…

  • 3 questions for Stephen Colbert

    Comedy Central funnyman Stephen Colbert was the guest of honor at the Two River Theater Company’s Annual gala earlier this month. Stephen Colbert The South Carolina native wears multiple hats on his Emmy-nominated show "The Colbert Report," including host and executive producer, and is a best-selling author of the book "I Am America (And So…

  • Paul Bernard Ferrigno

    Mr. Ferrigno, 40, of Little Silver, diedMarch 10, 2008, in London. He was managing director and head of sales for Cohen & Company Investment Bank, NewYork City. He is survived by his wife, KathleenMancini Ferrigno; two sons, Paul S. Ferrigno and Alexander Q. Ferrigno of Little Silver; his parents, Joseph W. Ferrigno III of Stonington,…