Arts & Entertainment

October 19, 2024

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Danny Shot and Reg E. Gaines will appear together in a program called Yester/Now at Sure Things, 561 Palisade Avenue in Jersey City on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The event is free to the public.Danny Shot was a longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot Arts and Literary Magazine, which ...

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PLAINFIELD, NJ — Plainfield Public Library was transformed into the set of the city's growing film festival on Friday evening, red carpet and all.Doors opened at 5pm, as attendees filed to the downstairs atrium for the nicely-decorated opening gala with vendors, a bar, and tables and chairs for ...

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WEST ORANGE, NJ — 30-year West Orange resident Mary-Lauri Bartola has just published her first book. She was a newspaper reporter and anchored the television news for a small cable TV affiliate. Bartola also had a career in healthcare public relations, running the department of a prestigious ...

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MONTVILLE, NJ – Join the crowd at Pyramid Mountain for these fall events: Wild Weather SeriesAges 7 - 12. Select Saturdays  from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Welcome to the wild world of weather! In this series, explore a new kind of weather every month with activities, a craft, and a walk. $7 per child, ...

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SOMERSET, NJ - Do you have plans for this weekend? If not. Check out our editor’s picks for some of the best things to do in and around Franklin Township. Don't forget to check out our community calendar for upcoming events, TAP here.Saturday, Oct. 19Fall BazaarThis indoor sale features a variety ...

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DOYLESTOWN, PA—With Halloween less than two weeks away, the spookiness is beginning to kick into high gear in Doylestown. Here’s a guide to six Halloween events for 2024.1. Doylestown “BoOoroough” Bash: Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m.Doylestown Borough is hosting its first annual “BoOoroough Bash” on Wednesday, ...

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PARSIPPANY, NJ - The Lake Hiawatha library is hosting a Halloween Party on Friday, October 18th at 6pm.There will be games, crafts and a haunted house.

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Morristown, NJ– The Morristown Festival of Books, New Jersey's premier book festival, is this weekend, Friday, October 18, and Saturday, October 19, 2024. Dozens of best-selling, critically acclaimed, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's authors will speak to audiences and sign ...

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MONTCLAIR, NJ – Come see two talented Edison Middle School students onstage, along with other fantastic (mostly adult) cast members, in a collection of one-act plays. This weekend and next, 'Superior Mothers' will be performing at the Grove Street Theater in Montclair; a collection of 8 one-act ...

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Experience the Magic of Joni Mitchell Like Never Before!Join us on Saturday, October 19, 2024, at Stangl Stage for an unforgettable night with The Joni Project, hailed as the most musically sophisticated tribute to Joni Mitchell today! This is your chance to immerse yourself in the enchanting world ...

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MORRIS COUNTY, NJ - It's getting spooky out there? Here's what's happening in and around town this weekend! Friday October 18Flu Shots offered at the Madison Area YMCA; 9am - 11am and 2:30pm - 5pmCamera Buying Event; Madison PhotoPlus; 10am - 5pmFilm Society of Summit will present Sing Sing; ...

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MORRIS COUNTY, NJ - It's getting spooky out there? Here's what's happening in and around town this weekend! Friday October 18Flu Shots offered at the Madison Area YMCA; 9am - 11am and 2:30pm - 5pmCamera Buying Event; Madison PhotoPlus; 10am - 5pmFilm Society of Summit will present Sing Sing; ...

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MORRIS COUNTY, NJ - It's getting spooky out there? Here's what's happening in and around town this weekend! Friday October 18Flu Shots offered at the Madison Area YMCA; 9am - 11am and 2:30pm - 5pmCamera Buying Event; Madison PhotoPlus; 10am - 5pmFilm Society of Summit will present Sing Sing; ...

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BARNEGAT - Operation Halloween will take place on October 25 and 26. The "Terror in the Pines" fundraiser presented is presented by the Southern Ocean County Rotary Club and the Boy Scouts of the Jersey Shore Council.The event take place from 4 to 10 p.m. each day at the Citta Scout Reservation in ...

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BARNEGAT - Operation Halloween will take place on October 25 and 26. The "Terror in the Pines" fundraiser presented is presented by the Southern Ocean County Rotary Club and the Boy Scouts of the Jersey Shore Council.The event take place from 4 to 10 p.m. each day at the Citta Scout Reservation in ...

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HAWTHORNE, NJ - Skeletons, caskets, pumpkins, ghosts and eerie figures are scattered throughout the borough…clearly all in good fun!Borough residents are getting in on that fun and decorating their homes for Halloween, this year on a Thursday, of course, October 31.The tradition brings out many ...

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Morristown, NJ– The Morristown Festival of Books, New Jersey's premier book festival, is this weekend, Friday, October 18, and Saturday, October 19, 2024. Dozens of best-selling, critically acclaimed, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's authors will speak to audiences and sign ...

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Morristown, NJ– The Morristown Festival of Books, New Jersey's premier book festival, is this weekend, Friday, October 18, and Saturday, October 19, 2024. Dozens of best-selling, critically acclaimed, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's authors will speak to audiences and sign ...

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Morristown, NJ– The Morristown Festival of Books, New Jersey's premier book festival, is this weekend, Friday, October 18, and Saturday, October 19, 2024. Dozens of best-selling, critically acclaimed, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's authors will speak to audiences and sign ...

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Students from the Design Academy at Morris County School of Technology recently brought their artistic talents to downtown Denville, painting windows of local businesses in preparation for this year’s Pink Witches Night Out. The colorful designs, which help raise awareness for breast cancer, are ...

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We're kicking off the weekend with a BANG 🎉🎉🎉 Today: Blue Valley. Enjoy some classic rock from Blue Valley.

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ELIZABETH, NJ - The Union County Board of Commissioners announced that the 2024 Teen Arts Touring Exhibit is currently on digital display at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth. This year’s exhibit is a selection of 21 works from the 2024 Union County Teen Arts Festival, an annual two-day ...

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ELIZABETH, NJ - The Union County Board of Commissioners announced that the 2024 Teen Arts Touring Exhibit is currently on digital display at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth. This year’s exhibit is a selection of 21 works from the 2024 Union County Teen Arts Festival, an annual two-day ...

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HOBOKEN, NJ - Day of the Dead celebrations will be in full swing in Hoboken this Sunday, October 20.The Hoboken Historical Museum is holding a community Day of the Dead celebration, hosted by Media Studies professor at Rutgers University, Regina Marchi. She is also author of the book Day of the ...

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JERSEY CITY, NJ- Mana Contemporary will host its Fall Open Studio, on Sunday, allowing residents to meet the artists, curators, gallerists, and art enthusiasts that make up the institution in Jersey City.The festivities will take place at its location at 888 Newark Avenue, 12 to 6 p.m.Mana ...

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JERSEY CITY, NJ- ‘Verses @ Work’ by actor, playwright, and Hip-Hop griot Malik Work, will be shown at the Jersey City Theater Center on October 26 and 27 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.Starring Work, the piece features Quincy Valentine and Swiss Chris, and is directed by Vernice Miller.According to the Jersey ...

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JERSEY CITY, NJ- Metroscapes, an art and performance exhibition, will soon be presented by the Feminist Bird Club of Jersey City and the Jersey City SMUSH Gallery. The gallery at 340 Summit Avenue will host a presentation and performances about Jersey City’s wild spaces on Friday, October 25 with ...

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SOMERS, N.Y. - Over my career as an art teacher there are so many students who I have the pleasure to watch grow and take flight, ultimately doing amazing things. For some students you give a lot of yourself, and some come preloaded with so much potential and drive. I first taught Sasha Gordon in ...

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HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - The annual October tradition of Painting on the Boulevard will return on Sunday.Painting on the Boulevard will be held on Sunday, October 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The rain date is Sunday, October 27.Each year, students from Lincoln School, Euclid School and Corpus Christi ...

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In the late 1970s, I ran an improv comedy workshop for actors and fledgling comedians in New York City. One of my longtime students was Sal Piro, the man who started the Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon at the Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village in 1977. Piro became the longtime president of ...

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