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For Jersey City’s most comprehensive arts and entertainment listings, be sure to check our full Cultural Calendar. Here are your Best Bets for the coming weekend.

TODAY

With JC Fridays back in town today, there is plenty of good stuff going on. While you can see the full event listings on the JC Fridays website, there are some standouts worth mentioning. The Jersey City Museum‘s spring season kicks off tonight, with a special reception for Hair Tactics, featuring more than 30 artists whose works explore hair as subject matter and medium. Traditional Puerto Rican percussion and dance ensemble Segunda Quimbamba will perform (6:30 pm). Fish With Braids Gallery also has a big opening tonight: Ryan Ford‘s Behind Bluer Boroughs tells “the twisted tale of an urban princess escaping her captivity into the bluer borough’s inferno” (6 pm). Also on your art-opening dance card this evening: Adam Ramirez‘s Phantasmagoria at 32 Jones Gallery (7 pm) and Joanne Simmons, Beth Achenbach and Leigh More‘s collaboration More Than One Way at Alley Cat Gallery (7 pm).

If you’re looking for something more musical to do tonight, Chilltown is your oyster. Boca Grande plays host to a jam-packed night of dancing, singing, vjing/djing and drums, with all proceeds going to Haiti relief efforts (10 pm). And local fave Any Day Parade returns to the Iron Monkey to help raise funds for the band’s coming trip to the SXSW festival in Austin (11 pm). If you’re in the mood for something more intimate, check out Ace Case at Made With Love Bakery (8 pm).

SATURDAY

One sure sign of spring is Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors. Don’t miss this year’s parade, which gets started at Stegman Parkway and heads north along Kennedy Boulevard to Lincoln Park (11 am). Up in the Heights, the Hope Center presents the latest in its Dinner Theater series, The Curious Savage; dinner is included with the $15 ticket price — $12 for children 12 and under (6 pm). For those of you who can’t drag yourselves west of Brunswick Street, there’s still plenty to do. The newest exhibit of folk art at Nuradeen’s Gallery — “The Assassination of Whistling Rufus” — kicks off today (3 pm), and later on, metal outfits In Musth and Aminal will be dishing it out at the Lamp Post (10 pm).

SUNDAY

The annual Milad Festival commemorates the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad; you can join the celebration by following his birthday parade from 530 Montgomery St. (near the corner of Florence Street) to City Hall (11 am). For more religion-inspired celebration, stop over to St. Michael’s Methodist Church for an afternoon of gospel music featuring local singers and choirs (4 pm). And cut your own singing chops with the help of the “encouraging, listening audience” at the Iron Monkey‘s Singer-Songwriter Open Mic (9 pm) — be sure to swing by the Monkey a little early (7 pm) to check out the opening of a photography exhibition from Michael Brown.