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Crowds moved in and out of hundreds of art venues of all stripes around Jersey City this weekend for the 2011 Artists Studio Tour.

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 Get a head-start on the Studio Tour festivities tonight with the official opening party at Mana Contemporary (6 pm), an opening reception for the Vital [...]

With plenty of rain and thunderstorms forecast for Jersey City today and tomorrow, the Washington Park Association has canceled the arts and music festival originally slated to take place Saturday. It has been moved to its rain date, Saturday, October 1, instead. The festival, Washington Park Live – Arts and Music in the Park, features [...]

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 The City Love Project, an interactive public art show, comes to Jersey City today, stopping in McGinley Square (9 am), Journal Square (1 pm) and [...]

A handful of barbeque vendors will once again come to the Hamilton Park neighborhood in Downtown Jersey City this Saturday as the 2nd annual Hamilton Park BBQ Festival takes place adjacent to the Hamilton Square development. Most of the vendors at this year’s festival will be familiar to the hundreds who turned out last year; [...]

- Toll Hikes: A lesser-known aspect of the toll hike that took effect Sunday: peak periods were extended by an hour. – Murder Suspect Arrested: A 19-year-old Jersey City man on the run since July when he allegedly killed a man with three gunshots to the back was arrested yesterday in a Grant Avenue building [...]

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 Legendary folkie Tom Paxton gets the Brennan Coffee House’s fall lineup into gear with a performance tonight (7:30 pm), while The Alex Meixner Band plays [...]

The Historic Downtown Special Improvement District (HDSID) in Jersey City is set to add a new cultural event to its already chock-full repertoire this weekend with the inaugural All About Downtown Street Festival. The festival, which runs from noon to 7 pm on Saturday at the Grove Street PATH plaza and along Newark Avenue west [...]

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 It’s that time again: JC Fridays invades Jersey City today, and there are scores of great art and music events all over town. The best [...]

It’s a very quiet long holiday weekend on the cultural front here in Jersey City, but there are a couple of events worth noting. 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 The [...]