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Bar LITM (140 Newark Ave) will be holding an opening reception for Darin DeField’s “Afrocentricity,” an exhibition of mixed media collage that explores race, gender, sexuality, and identity, on Tuesday, February 7th, from 6pm-8pm. One of Jersey City’s most influential artists, DeField’s work has appeared in both public galleries and private collections such as the [...]

It’s never easy to watch an important piece of your life disappear. For 30 years, I’ve had a record shop within walking distance of my house in Jersey City’s Westside neighborhood. But on Tuesday night, I heard the music pour out of the store and into Hudson Mall as Supersounds closed its doors for the last time.

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Rob Piersanti’s first Pop Art Show of the year takes place at Boca Grande, complete with a complimentary wine tasting and live jazz band (6 [...]

The Community Awareness Series will host a night of ‘Jazz-O-Etry’ featuring the David Robinson-Richard Banks Jazz Band and the spoken word performance of Michael Goines, Sr. at the Miller Branch of the Jersey City Free Public Library on Saturday, February 11th at 8 pm. Saxophonist David Robinson and pianist Richard Banks will be leading the [...]

In her paintings, videos, and collages, Margaret Murphy either debases Catholic icons to the lowly status ordinarily set aside for mass-produced knickknacks — or she elevates dime-store trash to the celestial ranks usually reserved for patron saints and martyrs.

The Actors Shakespeare Company of New Jersey City University will be screening iconic Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s aptly-titled and “Macbeth”-inspired Throne of Blood on February 12, at 3:00pm in Room 144 of NJCU’s Grossnickle Hall (2039 Kennedy Boulevard). The screening comes ahead of ASC’s staging of “Macbeth,” which will run from March 16 – April [...]

J City Theater has announced its upcoming event Jersey Shorts, a free night of music and storytelling just in time for Valentine’s Day. The theme of next week’s event is “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” Modeled after National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts at Symphony Space, Jersey Shorts will feature prominent local figures for readings [...]

Female performers’ series Ladies on the Mic, with an eye towards the approaching halfway mark between winter and spring, will celebrate the regrowth of perennials and warming weather with First Songs of Spring on Friday, February 3rd at Art House Productions (1 McWilliams Place), from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Admission is free and food [...]

The people over at No Yo Mama Crafts Fair, promoters of local artisans citywide, is calling on artisan-vendors to participate in their April Fools-themed event ‘Fools Fair’ at bar LITM (140 Newark Avenue) on Sunday, April 1, from 11am to 5 pm. NYM brought out 1,500+ people to their two-day holiday craft fair at the [...]

This is not the first confession I have made in my life, and it will not be the last. I had never visited the art gallery Curious Matter before September 2011. To date, they have organized 13 exhibitions that have featured more than 200 artists from Jersey City, New York, and abroad. Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso run the gallery, which opened in 2007.