Category: HUB Opinion

  • Landscapes offer a window into nature

    Beacon Fine Arts Gallery in Red Bank is hosting an exhibition of landscape paintings by nationally acclaimed artist Scott Addis. “A Good Place” Addis was born and raised in a small town outside of Pittsburgh in rural Pennsylvania and grew to love nature from a very young age. His first teacher was his father, who…

  • IN THE ARTS

    The original “Jersey Boy,” Frankie Valli (right), will perform Friday at 9:30 p.m. at Pollak Theatre, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, for the Breeders’ Cup Charity Celebration Gala. The event, hosted by Breeders’ Cup Limited, will raise funds for the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Monmouth University and Monmouth Park Charities. The gala will be held…

  • Exhibit celebrates thoroughbred racing

    This weekend’s Breeders’ Cup has dominated conversation and the local social scene for weeks. The excitement has even spilled over into the art world where “The Breeders’ Cup: An Exhibition in Celebration of Thoroughbred Racing” has opened at the Frederick Galleries in Allenhurst where it will run through Nov. 10. “Monmouth Park Home Stretch” by…

  • Theater stars of yore had roots at the Jersey Shore

    ‘Stars of the New Jersey Shore’ about locals who are part of theater history BY KATHY HALL Correspondent Local historian Karen L. Schnitzspahn’s interest in theatrical history may be genetic. The daughter of a magician and his assistant discovered the appeal of the past by browsing through her grandmother’s copy of Daniel Blum’s “Great Stars…

  • Luminous landscapes at Laurel Tracey Gallery

    An exhibit of recent landscape paintings by artists Richard Kooyman and Derek Buckner opened Oct. 12 at Laurel Tracey Gallery in Red Bank. “Autumn Leaves” “The Landscape,” Kooyman’s first exhibition at the gallery, will run through Nov. 2. Laurel Tracey gallery is located at 10 White St. Kooyman was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., and…

  • 15th annual Juried Show at Guild of Creative Art

    From the shores of Monmouth County to the shores of Donegal, locations near and far are on view in a vibrant multi-media show of contemporary American artists at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. “Flora3” by Douglas McIlvain Michael Cagno, curator of the Noyes Museum in Oceanville and an experienced photographer and painter, judged…

  • RBR welcomes first school resource officer

    Officer Peter Gibson, RBR’s first SRO (school resource officer), gets acquainted with three students at RBR during lunch. Pictured with Gibson (l-r) are Monica Tauro and Julianne Malley of Union Beach and Ashley Mullins of Little Silver. LITTLE SILVER – Police Officer Peter Gibson has a new beat. The Little Silver police officer is the…

  • For a while, it was always summer in Long Branch

    City native authors two books on history of Long Branch BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent Long Branch history is alive and well and is being showcased in a number of books by native daughter Sharon Hazard, whose family tree branches back to the 1860s, when her great-grandmother immigrated to the coastal town from Ireland. CHRIS KELLY…

  • Open houses at Rumson Country Day School

    Rumson Country Day School (RCDS) will host several open houses for prospective students. The schedule is: kindergarten, Friday, Oct. 19, 9-10:30 a.m.; all grades, Saturday, Nov. 17, 9-11 a.m.; preschool, Friday, Dec. 7, 9:30-10:30 a.m.; all grades, Saturday, Jan. 12, 9-11 a.m. Prospective kindergarteners must be 5 years old by Sept. 1, 2008. For more…