Category: HUB Opinion
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The view through the lens in Monmouth
Exhibit showcases photos by Monmouth Museum member groups “Waltzing Matildas Verse Two” by Dana Cohoon, Freehold Art Society Fine art photography, like other visual art forms, is thriving in Monmouth County. So much so, that the Monmouth Museum and Cultural Center has devoted an exhibit to photographs from member arts organizations. “Monmouth County Photography” will…
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Celebrating the unique heritage of the Shore
PHOTOS BY ARETE BOUHLAS PHOTOS BY ARETE BOUHLAS Francis Life-Car circa 1860, courtesy Twin Lights Historical Society, Navesink The unique history and culture of the Jersey Shore is the subject of a new exhibit that opens Sunday at the Cornelius Low House Museum in Piscataway. “Down the Shore: The Coastal Heritage of New Jersey” will…
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In the Arts
The Ahn Trio will perform in concert at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre Friday at 8 p.m. The three gifted Ahn sisters achieve complex, virtuosic sounds by exploring the contradictions and fusions of early classical and 21st century music genres. Tickets are $32. Pollak Theatre is located at 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch. For…
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Puppeteer Sam Green Paper Moon Puppet Theatre presents “The Princess, the Dragon and the Magic Flute” Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. Adapted from the Mozart opera “The Magic Flute,” the show is appropriate for children from preschool to fifth grade. Saturday is National Day of Puppetry, and to celebrate, children who attend that day’s performance will…
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Due to ticket sales volume, Two River Theater Company in Red Bank has extended for an extra week its production of Steve Martin’s outrageously funny adaptation of Carl Sternheim’s German classic farce “The Underpants.” Now scheduled to run May 2-27, the comedy recounts the trials that befall a young housewife after her underpants fall down…
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Untold stories of the ‘British Invasion’
Pete Bennett in a vintage photo with the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. For fans who weren’t around yet, or who want to revisit a definitive chapter in rock history, an insider’s look at the music scene during the heyday of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – with a tour guide who…
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Haleakala Park image featured in calendar
A landscape at Haleakala National Park National Parks are some of America’s most scenic refuges, and one company encourages employees to capture and preserve the natural beauty of the nation’s 388 national parks by sponsoring a photo contest. Tinton Falls resident Rick Laiken won first prize in Unilever’s 2006 Employee National Parks Photo Contest. Laiken’s…
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You are your town’s best asset
Brendan Toubin Guest Column Brendan Toubin Guest Column It seems that every time I open the Letters to the Editor page, there is at least one letter complaining about a problem that asks, “Why won’t anyone do something about it?” The question back should be, “Why don’t YOU do something about it?” People are our…
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R.B. voters approve $15M school budget
Two write-ins join incumbent on BOE BY SARAH KLEPNER Staff Writer BY SARAH KLEPNERStaff Writer RED BANK – – This year’s Red Bank School District elections showed that residents will call on neighbors when necessary. Despite two vacant board seats, for which no one was running, the election concluded with two additional board members. Voters…
