This Weekend’s Best Bets
By Jon Whiten • May 1st, 2009 • Category: Arts, Blog
Lots of good stuff on tap this weekend, including some outdoor events that might face some weather-related issues. For full listings, check out our Cultural Calendar in the right rail of the site.
FRIDAY
- Bar Majestic and Exeter Properties’ annual Cinco de Mayo party is today from 4 pm-midnight at 275 Grove St. They say the party will go down rain or shine.
- The mayor kicks off his annual “block parties” that will hit every ward in the next week. Today’s is in Ward A, at Columbia Park, from 5:30-8 pm.
- For pet lovers, the Liberty Humane Society is teaming up with Liberty Science Center to put on the “Single, Mingle and Bark” fundraiser this evening. The event is $30, with proceeds going to Liberty Humane, and is scheduled for 6:30-9 pm at the Liberty Science Center’s Back Deck Lawn (222 Jersey City Blvd.).
- For art lovers, there’s a closing reception at NJCU’s Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery for K. Shelton‘s “Exposure to Entropy” exhibit from 5-9 pm (2039 Kennedy Blvd.), and there’s an opening reception for Carlos “Mare 139” Rodriguez’s “B Line: The Art of the B-Boy Dance” at the 58 Gallery (58 Coles St.).
- Music on tap tonight: The nine-piece improv band known as the People’s Revolutionary Party are playing a free gig at the Grassroots Community Space (54 Coles St.) at 8 pm. At IM Automata Chino (99 Greene St.), the excellent The Cordova Academy Glee Club is slated to perform with We’re All Broken, A True Story, and Cicada Radio. Doors open at 8 pm.
- Last, but certainly not least, tonight is the opening night of Art House Productions’ latest, Heavy Craft/Soft Landing, a multimedia play based on the human life cycle. It’s at 8 pm at 1 McWilliams Place.
SATURDAY
- For history buffs: The Lafayette History Festival & Tour begins with an opening ceremony at 11:45 am. There will be two guided tours — a bus tour from noon-1 pm and a walking tour from noon-2 pm. It all starts — and ends — at Rev. Ercel F. Webb Park (Lafayette and Van Horne Streets).
- Music on tap tonight: At the Lamp Post (382 2nd St.), two female-fronted rockers — 6 to Eight Mathematics and Tara Elliot & the Red Velvets — play at 10 pm. At IM Automata Chino (99 Greene St.), the lineup features Copasetic, Wesley Jeremiah, St. Sat B & The Fave. Doors at 8 pm.
SUNDAY
- Today marks the beginning of Con Vivo‘s Spring Quartet Festival with a 3 pm concert featuring chamber music by living composers of the U.S. and South Africa (at St. Paul’s Church, 440 Hoboken Ave.).
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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