This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Blog

TODAY

Need local gifts? Check out our Shop Local Jersey City guide or just swing by the Creative Grove Arts Market today to check out what folks have to offer. Theater-goers have two holiday-themed choices tonight, with “Secrets From the Rooftops” being performed at the Heights’ Hope Center, and “A Tuna Christmas” continuing its run at Downtown’s St. Michael’s Church. (Both will also have shows on Saturday night; for our “Tuna” preview, click here.) If you’d rather get into a little stand-up comedy, check out the Stockinette’s BYOB Comedy Night.

SATURDAY

Seems like there are always cool programs going on in Jersey City for history buffs to check out, and today is no exception. Tom Flag will present a discussion on “The Railroad Wars in Hudson County” at the Historic Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery today at 1 pm. Saturday night, Art House Productions will host some genre-bending theater, with “Transmutations,” a sound and movement performance by Brooklyn-based band Living Things and Jersey City-based performance group Shua Group. For live music, 2nd Street is your best bet, with a CD release show for the One and Nines at Lucky 7′s (they’ll be joined on the bill by Rainbow Fresh), and the Psychedelic Disco Angels and The Front Bottoms will be right up the street at the Lamp Post.

SUNDAY

The holiday festivities continue on Sunday, with Kennedy Dancers’ Christmas Cabaret Holiday Concert in the Heights at 3 pm (there is also a performance Saturday night.)

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is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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