Weekend Picks: Dino-Mite!
October 4, 2007
Ever see a Tyrannosaurus rex? No? A little before your time?
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience (www.dinosaurlive.com) ambles into the Continental Airlines Arena through Sunday. The internationally acclaimed show features life-sized dinosaurs, like the 75-foot long Brachiosaurus, moved by master puppeteers and technology. Beware: it all sounds a bit intense for the Barney crowd, but the older kids will be enthralled. Tickets $27-$87. Show times at www.meadowlands.com.
We bet you weren’t around during Victorian times, either. It’s another era you can relive, tonight through Oct.14, at Cape May’s 35th annual Victorian Week. The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC), sponsoring the festivities, has scheduled historic house tours, Victorian teas, vintage dance workshops, tours by boat around Cape Island, evening ghost tours, concerts and antique vendors. A schedule is at www.capemaymac.org.
Bordentown salutes a very Enn-Jay crop with its 18th annual Cranberry Festival, all day Saturday and Sunday. There will be an arts and crafts show with more than 100 vendors and entertainment. Call (609) 298-8066 or visit www.downtownbordentown.com.
Or, feed your mind at the Collingswood Book Festival, one of the state’s largest annual literary events. Find thousands of new and used tomes and related merchandise for sale, plus book readings and writing workshops led by more than two dozen authors. Most of the events are Saturday, with a few during weekdays. www.collingswoodbookfestival.com.
Celebrations abound for Hispanic Heritage Month. Listen to the less known side of the culture at a free concert by the Alturas Duo (www.alturasduo.com), at Rutgers’ Zimmerli Art Museum (www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu). Scott Hill on guitar and Carlos Boltes on viola and the guitar-like charango bridge the European baroque and South American folk music.
A more traditional tribute is the 31st annual Hispanic State Parade of New Jersey (www.desfilehispanoamericanodenj.com). Marchers and floats set off Sunday at noon, on Bergenline Avenue from North Bergen to Union City.
Down the Shore, a few early Columbus Day parades. Saturday there’s one in Atlantic City (www.accolumbusdayparade.org) and another in Sea Isle City (www.sea-isle-city.nj.us). Sunday it’s Seaside Heights, which is hosting a weekend-long Italian festival featuring the Sicilian folk music group Lilybetano. More at www.seasideheightstourism.com.
Finally, help fund the battle against autism by joining the North/Central New Jersey Walk Now For Autism (www.autismwalk.org/ncnj). The locale is Nomahegan Park in Cranford – registration starts at 12:30.
Parade, walk, or strut with a Dinosaur. There’s plenty to keep you moving as we roll into this first weekend of October!
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