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While the latest developments inside City Hall show signs of promise for some restored funding to the Community Awareness Series, the founder of the 34-year-old program alleges that the budget cuts are not related directly to the library’s fiscal health, but are instead a matter of personal and political payback — a charge library officials deny.

Share/Save 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. Though plenty of events are being canceled due to Hurricane Irene, there is still some stuff to do around Jersey City this weekend. Be sure [...]

While much-needed revisions to the city’s entertainment ordinance continue to be hashed out at City Hall, one of the most consistent options for live music in Jersey City has become the outdoors. But one bustling location, the Grove Street PATH plaza, is facing noise complaints from residents of an adjacent building.

Share/SaveFor 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 Some outdoor options if the rain cooperates: P.R.I.M.E. plays a free concert at the MLK Hub this evening (6 pm), and the Historic Paulus Hook [...]

Share/SaveTuesday evening’s concert by the Latin group 3D was the latest in a string of Summerfest concerts to be rained out, but now four have been rescheduled for coming Tuesdays, pushing the annual free concert series into September for the first time in its 35-year history. The concerts take place in the public gardens just [...]

Share/SaveThe call for continued showers this evening has led Jersey City’s Cultural Affairs division to cancel tonight’s free outdoor concert in Liberty State Park. The show, featuring the Latin group 3D, has been rescheduled to Tuesday, September 6 at 7 pm.

Share/SaveFor 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 Creative Grove Artist Market has some killer stuff on tap for today, including an open-to-the-public live painting exercise of an entire van — bring [...]

Consider it a confluence of cool: Downtown Jersey City’s premier promoter putting together a show with five outstanding bands, at the town’s most inviting venue, with food from the city’s hippest bar, all to benefit one of the area’s most deserving causes. Now that’s the way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Share/SaveFor 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 This afternoon, cool off inside the Five Corners Branch Library and listen to storyteller Bob Leach, one of Jersey City’s gems, tell the tale of [...]

Share/SaveThis September 17, the Historic Downtown Special Improvement District (HDSID) and the Jersey City Craft Mafia are putting on the first-ever All About Downtown street festival in Jersey City, and they are looking for vendors to participate. The daylong festival, which will run along Newark Avenue between Grove Street and Jersey Avenue, will feature live [...]