One of the projects I’ve been working on for the past few months is a new website, Red Bank oRBit. It’s a sort of entertainment sister-site of Red Bank Green. Orbit’s been up for a couple of weeks now and it’s amazing. I don’t so much mean the site itself is amazing–it’s good, but I think there is still a lot of work to be done on the calendaring and community function, but the quality of the articles–the writing–is just incredible. Tom Chesek just writes some amazing stuff about what’s going on locally. I first started paying to attention to his writing when I read his piece on Blondie a couple of months ago. It’s the kind of writing that used to show up in really good music mags and not the kind of thing you expect to stumble across on a local area news site. Anyway, if you’re not checking out Red Bank Orbit, you probably should be. And if you have any suggestions on how I can improve any of the technical aspects of the site like the calendaring or GPS integration, etc, drop me an email at sjwillis@willisbros.net.
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- 2008-11-20 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- 2008-11-21 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- 2008-11-22 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- 2008-11-23 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- MSSB @ M Shanghai Den
Our monthly first Saturday gig. Awesome Schezwan food!
When: Dec 6, 2008 9:00:00 PM
Where: M Shanghai Den in Brooklyn,New York
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just to make a quick note here that the header for a piece on Rod Stewart’s show at PNC reads “STEWED PRUNE:” Brilliant, moreover, Chesek calls PNC art center a lawn-mounted ventilator duct. So happy to be working with these guys.