'Honk!': There's no director in sight!
Peer Players mount second musical at Middletown Arts Center
BY LAUREN BECKETT Correspondent
      Christina Lennon was never a part of the theater program in her high school, but she didn't hesitate when her friend Allison Cloonan asked her to join an extracurricular theater troupe. She has since been a fixture. "I asked her in English [class] one day, 'Hey, Chrissie, want to be in ['You're a...
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IN THE ARTS
      "Spring Into Summer," an artistic celebration of the Jersey Shore through still life and landscape oil paintings done in the style of the old masters, will be on exhibit at the West Long Branch Public Library through July 31. Hours at the library, which is located at 95 Poplar Ave., are 9:30 a.m...
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Two River Theater Co. goes to the movies
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Film Festival: Chicago movies that burn up the screen
      The Two River Theater Company in Red Bank dives into the movie business July 11-26 with Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Film Festival. Chicago is the star in each of nine movies from some of Hollywood's greatest directors in a festival named for the cow that is said to have knocked over the lantern that began...
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Summer jazz returns to Red Bank
      The annual Summer Jazz Café series will return this year for a four-week run at downtown Red Bank's River's Edge Café. Produced by the nonprofit Jazz Arts Project of Red Bank, the series will showcase top jazz performers 7:30-10 p.m. each Friday and Saturday evening from July 11 through ...
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Green roofs, walls becoming latest trends
BY Gotti Kelley Correspondent
      It's not what you think and, no, you did not forget to scrape off the moss up there. Green roofs and walls are all the rage and are appearing in ever-greater numbers on "green" houses, corporate headquarters and public buildings.
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