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 Holiday theater abounds this weekend, with performances of J City Theater’s A Tuna Christmas (8 pm, $20); the Attic Ensemble’s It’s a Wonderful Life (8 [...]
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.
Hundreds of hungry folks from Jersey City and beyond descended on Parlay Studios in Downtown Jersey City Sunday for 4th Street Arts’ Second Annual Chili Cook-off. Recipes ranged from the meat-packed — one chili used 11 different types of meat — to the vegetarian friendly, with unorthodox ingredients like quinoa and seitan.
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to get out to Lucky 7 Tavern for a rock event. Luckily that changed Tuesday when The Micks (formerly the McMickle Brothers) and Jorge & Aliah played, and I was invited to emcee the show, introduce the bands and crack a couple of really bad jokes.
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome a new lifestyle column, focusing on — as the title says — sex, dating and being a young, single woman in Jersey City. Enjoy. New Yorkers clearly never hesitate to express their disdain for New Jersey, including Jersey City — at least in my experience. Well, I proudly live in [...]
If the World Cup is, as those incessant Bono-voiced commercials suggest, outside of the text of serious world politics — some brief respite from global concerns petty or epidemic — it doesn’t mean an end to the speculation of what is actually going on in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, at least among the employees at Lucky 7′s. A mostly quiet Tuesday afternoon game between Brazil (the highest ranked team in the world) and DPR Korea (at FIFA-ranked 105, the lowest ranked in the tournament) becomes a forum for foreign policy.
This week, Lucky 7 Tavern hosted two newcomers to the weekly Songwriter’s Showcase, with Plastiq Passion and The Press braving the icy conditions to play two very fun, energetic sets. I took my leisurely stroll down to the bar to check them out.
When most people think of Tuesday in Jersey City, they don’t think of rock ‘n’ roll. But Lucky 7 Tavern (full disclosure: yes, I work there folks) has become a bit of a rock haven on Tuesdays with its weekly Songwriter Showcase — one of the few places you can still catch up with local music in this fair city.
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