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As the founder of the Abaton Book Company, a 14-year-old publishing house and record label she runs out of her Lincoln Park area home with her husband, Lauri Bortz is always jumping off with new projects. At the moment, she is directing and producing scripted audio dramas, in the manner of classic radio serials from the 1930s, through an imprint dubbed Abaton Radio Theater.

When Christine Goodman was a teenager, she enrolled in a program of the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts and learned how to put on a play from start to finish. Then she performed in the production, a youth-oriented version of Pippin. Goodman, the executive director of Art House Productions, loved the process, connected with peers, [...]

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 [...]

Starting next week, The Kennedy Dancers will offer new dance and dance/fitness classes for fun, improved health, recreation and performance opportunities for adults 62 and up at the dance troupe’s Heights location (79 Central Avenue). The classes used to be 100-percent free, but due to cuts to arts funding Kennedy Dancers says it has to [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 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 [...]

Your Move, a Jersey City showcase for emerging choreographers put together by Art House Productions and Insurgo Stage Project, is now accepting submissions for its second annual event. Choreographers are invited to submit one movement-based piece (no longer than 15 minutes) in a wide range of movement performance, including: modern and postmodern dance, physical theater, [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]