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It’s another solid weekend of music, art, theater and food offerings in Jersey City for a wide array of tastes. Be sure to check out all of our listings in the full Cultural Calendar, but here are a few of our Best Bets.

TODAY

Lots of live music around town this evening. Local tunesmith Tris McCall is playing a solo show at the Brennan Coffee House with Chrissy Roberts and Efrain Calderon (7 pm); the Loew’s-Down Blues series continues with Debbie Davies and Sugar Ray and The Bluetones at the Loew’s Jersey Theatre (8 pm); Mice Parade guitarist Dan Lippel will play guitar music by Bach at Art House Productions as part of Con Vivo Music‘s Bach Festival (8 pm); and over in Hoboken, some Jersey City folks have put together a bill with PJ Bond and The Waltz as part of a closing reception party for John Selburg‘s Paul Vincent Gallery show (8 pm).

If music isn’t your thing, you’ve still got options tonight, with the Attic Ensemble kicking off its two-week run of Martin McDonagh‘s award-winning dark comedy The Pillowman (8 pm); and an opening reception for photography by Billy John Moore at the Saffron condo building on Newark Avenue (6 pm).

SATURDAY

Artists of all stripes should check out the free legal workshop at Art House Productions (2 pm), which will be covering all sorts of ground: contracts, leases, negotiations, buying and selling art, copyright, partnerships and more.

Moving into the evening, the Shopping Cart Landscape show, featuring an array of photographs of the abandoned carts of Chilltown, comes to White Star Bar and celebrates with an opening (7 pm), which will be followed by DJ Dancing Tony spinning for the Vinyl Solution.

Over on 2nd Street, there’s a David Bowie tribute at Lucky 7‘s (8 pm), and Higgins will play a free show at the Lamp Post (10 pm), if you didn’t get a chance to check them out at their recent Jersey City Museum show (see our review here.)

SUNDAY

Skip the brunch Sunday and get your appetite ready to chow down on some chili at the 4th Street Arts Chili Cook-off (2 pm) — for more on the cook-off, check out our item from earlier this week.

If that’s not your thing, NJCU is hosting a free concert (3 pm) by the vocal/instrumental ensemble Zorzal, who will be playing music “from the Latin American colonial period, music from the time of the 20th century dictatorships, and music by Sephardic groups that struggled to maintain their cultural identities and languages through centuries of exile” in a performance dubbed “Revolution, Resistance and Reconciliation” — should be interesting stuff.

Later on, LITM‘s free Sunday night film screenings will celebrate Presidents Day Weekend, with Young Mr. Lincoln at 6 pm, followed by 1776 at 8 pm.