Weekend Picks: Enn Jay Our Way
November 1, 2007
There’s the new season at NJPAC, there’s Rutgers and NJIT and Essex County College making their campuses more inviting (alas, poor UMDNJ can’t get out of its own way), there’s still those Ironbound Iberians packing them in, there’s last week’s grand opening of the Pru Center …
Is Newark officially cool yet?
At least, look up and see the cool art deco buildings downtown. The New Jersey Historical Society is sponsoring “Art Deco Confidential: A Narrated Architectural Walking Tour of Newark,” led by architectural historian Glen Leiner. It’s Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Cost is $49 and includes a catered lunch from landmark Hobby’s Deli, access to The New Jersey Historical Society’s exhibits and a guided tour of the Newark Museum’s Modernist collections. Call (973) 596-8500 ext. 234 to make reservations or hit www.jerseyhistory.org.
And now for something completely different: Back in the early 1970s, deep in the Piney woods of Waretown, local fiddlers and banjo pickers would head to Joe and George Albert’s deer cabin for a Saturday night hoedown. It was the birth of what became the Pinelands Cultural Society, which this Saturday is sponsoring the Legend of the Jersey Devil Show at Albert Music Hall (www.alberthall.org), a venue that traces its Piney heritage to the old deer cabin. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., adults $5 children $1. Try the website or (609) 971-1593 for tickets and more info.
You got to love our state. You can go from thoroughly urban to completely rural. And where else do people “go down the Shore”? Go and see why some love it in autumn. Or, if you need entertainment by the sea, you can hear “Roxanne ” and “Don’t Stand So Close” at the 30th-anniversary reunion tour of the Police. Concert is Saturday at 8 p.m. $50–$350 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. (800) 736-1420 or www.thepolice.com.
Though we have urban and rural, Enn Jay is mostly suburban. Sometimes, you can even find high culture in our ‘burbs. Like the performance of Carl Orff’s stirring choral work Carmina Burana by Morris County’s Masterwork Chorus (www.masterwork.org), Saturday at 8 p.m. at Drew University. Concert also includes works by Bruckner, Stravinsky and Bartok. $25-$40.
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