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If you’re not still digging out from this week’s snowstorm, we suggest you get out and check out some of the good stuff going on around town this weekend. You can always check out all of our listings in the full Cultural Calendar, but here are a few of our Best Bets.

TODAY

It’s the final day of Hudson Restaurant Week, so if you haven’t had a chance to make it out to one of the 19 participating restaurants in Jersey City, it’s your last chance. Check out a full list, with the specials each place is offering, here. Tonight, swing by the Stockinette for comedy night, the monthly BYOB shindig featuring stand-up by local comics (8 pm).

SATURDAY

As part of Black History Month, the Hudson Genealogical Society will host a special presentation led by Michael Hait on African-American genealogy research (11 am, in Secaucus). You can spend a few afternoon hours taking in numbers from the American songbook at Made With Love, courtesy of vocalist Yvonne Underhill and pianist Jordan Piper (1 pm). And an event by teens for teens — part of the Teen Art Task Force program we told you about back in October — comes to the Jersey City Museum this afternoon at 2 pm. The task force is curating and hosting the Teenage Riot Poetry Slam, an afternoon celebrating high-school aged spoken word artists and the poetry scene, with music by DJ Motorfunker. Two different but excellent — and free — music events are happening Saturday night. Con Vivo Music kicks off its six-week long Bach Festival with a performance by Duo Figer-Khanina (violinist Guy Figer and pianist Anna Khanina) at Grace Church Van Vorst (8 pm), while The Amboys and Poconos frontman Brian Leopold play a free show at the Lamp Post (10 pm).

SUNDAY

It’s a film-filled day and night at LITM, with the latest installment of Chillfest screening Fat Girls at 4 pm, and a Valentine’s Day-themed film pairing of Amelie and 1968′s Romeo & Juliet at 6 and 8 pm, respectively.