Rock-it Docket: "Live From Jersey City, It's jcFRIDAY NIGHT LIVE !"

Thursday, March 6, 2014

"Live From Jersey City, It's jcFRIDAY NIGHT LIVE !"

It took me most of my childhood to stay up late enough to finally watch Saturday Night Live's Mr. Bill. Incidentally, I also missed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards making out in 1978. Luckily that didn't stop my desire to throw live shows and thankfully things are just getting underway for the 2014 seasons. With a city-wide day of Arts, this JC Fridays offers a host of different mediums and medias of enjoyment. I'm teaming up with the O.G.'s of JCF's Art House Productions and hosting four great musical acts at AHP"s Penthouse Crib [1 McWilliams Pl] for jcFRIDAY NIGHT LIVE .

Sean Kiely [fmr Square Wave Punch] starts things off at 7:30 pm. Playing in his trio, David Heilman, a first class JC drummer and Norwegian Idol Judge joins Sean and then stays on to play with Jeff Taylor. Former JC Native's Food Will Win the War, puts a false ending to the night before an interactive performance piece by Ceallaigh Pender and Kit Vogelsang end us "Lost in the Land of Sigmund Freud's Looking Glass". JC Studios who is celebrating their 2nd year downtown, has a full showcase of music and art starting at 6 pm. and you can catch the an after party show across town at at with Papermaker Douglas Dynamo at MOJO Lounge.

This is only a small slathering of the events of JCFridays' and sadly me attempting to tell you everything going would only repeat what is here at www.JCFRIDAYS.com and my schedule doesn't not allow such comfort. Just a big not too, Hamilton Health and Fitness is giving away tow full year memberships, to the person who consumes and relays the most JC Friday Trivia Knowledge. Apparently writing a blog about JC Fridays doesn't count

A premature start of the weekend begins with The Art House; downtown's longest running spoken word, musical, comedic, dramatic performances. Although commanding a delightful dictation, BROKEN ENGLISH, who most likely performed better on his SAT's than I did hosts this installment I'll be spinning out the jams for Ladies of their Night at Lucky's.

On Saturday, I'll be Hosting a DJing PI-e Day a LCCS Fundraiser at Liberty Science Center, that celebrates all this PI and Pie. Eat happy Einstein's! All you need to know about this never ending number and those crustaceans is here. I'm off on Saturday Night DJ's Stay Golden Pony Boy and J-Tower have This Saturday. as I will be prepping for a trip to Austin for South by Southwest, looking forward seeing a bunch of JC based bands , such as The Everymen, Stuyvesant, Overlake, The Black Hollies, and our newest neighbors, The Front Bottoms. If you know any couches in the Austin area hood me up, I make a great omelette.

I'm pretty much taking off next week from updating Jersey City on Jersey City. WFMU's Meghan McKee, will be in for a Girl on Girls Night next Thursday and Motor Funker spins next ST. Patty's Day Saturday Night, Keeping all things Irish DJ William McCamie spins on Sunday Night.

Here's a quick run down on the low down of things around town

Thursday

J.C. Open Slam Featuring Poet On Watch! 7:30 @ The Dopeness

Wreaths-The Black Hollies-Brother JT-Overlake 7:30 @ Bowery Electric

Ladies Night with Dancing Tony @ Lucky 7's 10 pm

Wax Darts / Everymen 10:30 @ Piano's

Awkward Girls - Battery Electric - Pato Zorba 10:00 @ The Lamp Post

JCFriday full listing of all JCfriday Events here www.jcfridays.com

Broad Views | Landscape Photos @ Gallery 58 6 pm

A Weekend of Small Works and Big Ideas 4pm-7pm PROJECT GREENVILLE presents “A Weekend of Small Work and Big Ideas.” Group exhibit Fri, Sat and Sun from 4pm-7pm of works no larger than 12″x12″ including paintings, drawings, photos, collage & sculpture. Bigger is not always better…some of the best things come in small packages! Live music by DIYGFY and special guests…light refreshments from local Greenville businesses.

Cicada Radio / NGHTCRWLRS / The Cartwheelers / The Sound Is Fine 9 :00 pm @ Donegal Saloon [Kearny]

Saturday

JC PI-e Day at Liberty Science Center

DJ's Stay Golden Pony Boy and J-Tower @ Lucky7's

Sunday

Gazelle/Reese Van Riper/Science/ Derrick & The Black Sea @ Cake Shop

Tuesday

Woman's History Month Exhibit Opening Reception at City Hall. FREE 6 to 9 pm

disclaimer: i'm at the point where my mom and I used to be up all night typing my High School papers. she typed which made things much easier.

New Location - Just Behind City Hall : 6th Borough Market

FIRST THURSDAY TIKI PARTY AT DC"s TAVERN

03-06 8 pm Put some Class in your Grass Skirts 8pm DC's Tavern Hoboken : So the crew behind D.C.’s Taverns First Thursdays has decided to go to Hawaii. We’re having a Tiki Party! With a very special guest, the one and only Rum Queen, Natalie Jacob of Papa's Pilar Rum! John Ernst and Joe Donohue are donning Grass Skirts while shaking their coconuts behind the bar. Zoey Ramone will be back in her little tattoo shack and of course I’ll be spinning all things Hawaii, Surf, Skate, Lounge and anything else that reminds you of Summer. So catch a wave, walk don’t run or ski or use the Light Railbut get to D.C.’s Tavern this First Thursday because it is TIKI TIME!

PATHS THAT CROSS : Photography Show at 313 Gallery

03/01 & JCF 5 to 9 pm : Paths That Cross is a visual art experience comprised of works both in photography and video. The work reflects the artists finding their own space in this song to create and reflect. Faet artists : Allana Clarke, Cristine Posner, Gabriella Chavez, Cathleen Marie Thérèse Parra, Kelly Schirmer, Fredrick Macaraeg, Amanda Unger, Rita Jimenez, Roxana Zavala Marroquin, Melissa Büsing, Dakota Santiago, Albamaria Escalante, Kathleen Odenthal, Grace Morchel, and Leona Strassberg Steiner.

17 Year Cicada - New Works by Kayt Hester

SAT 08/24 @ 9pm Port-o- Lounge he 17 Year Cicada – New Art Work by Kayt Hester – opens August 24th at Port- O Lounge, one of the handful of downtown Jersey City restaurants/art galleries that, by presenting to new audiences, up & coming and established local artists, are transforming the New York Metropolitan area Art World. As the title of the exhibition suggests, this edition of the yearly Hester Summer Showcase coalesces around the theme of Magicada Cicadas – the species of cicadas that only appear every 17 years. Her more recent work also expands her use of texture and color. Augmenting her black masking tape are new, extraordinary details made of brightly colored, metallic tape. She also has incorporated embroidery to canvases, essentially embedding 21st century needlepoint within her tape illustrations.

21st Annual Pagan Thanksgiving Dinner

MONDAY Nov 21st 7 pm @ Halcyon [Montclair, NJ] Bring you best side dish, cash bar, donations accepteed for the Human Needs Food Pantry. The 21st Annual Pagan Thanksgiving Feast Where: Halcyon, 114 Walnut Street, Montclair (Next door to Egan's. Parking in back or at the train station) When: The Monday Before Thanksgiving - November 21, 2011 Why: Libations - 7 PM, Dinner - 8:30 (we promise multiple food stations this year!) Who: Everyone, and anyone you want to bring, all are welcome. How: Remember to bring a side dish or homemade dessert Bonus!: Get your muscles primed for the Annual Wishbone Grudge Match! The 21st Pagan Thanksgiving Feast is upon us and from every nook and cranny the weird and wonderful will gather for an evening of full throated frivolity! We will gorge and devour! We will cackle and hoot! Glasses will empty, plates will be licked clean! In the end we will be emerge with bursting bellies, fizzy heads and murky memories. This year we are back at HALCYON in Montclair (next door to Egan's). Feel free to invite any demons you desire: friends and neighbors, families and co-workers, the more the merrier. We'll cook up the turkeys, the ham, the potatoes and the stuffing. All you need to bring is your momma's best side dish or a homemade dessert. No need to bring booze - the bar will be open all night. Every year, we pass the hat to benefit the Human Needs Food Pantry, which has enriched the lives of Montclair residents since 1982.

We Come in Peace | Annual House Party

click for pictures || Four different music rooms with Two different dance floors If you aren't familiar with our house parties: This is an all inclusive deal[ there plenty of cheep free beer and wine [but we also have a premium cash bar] Come in costume [alien, indian, UN peacekeeper, hippie] make an effort. People like to tlak to people in costume, and you want to talk with them. Come in mixed company [if we wanted to have a sausage party I'd go to the Italian Deli] Have fun be safe and be respectful of people [you are in my apartment] +++++If you think that you are that special that you don't need to pay or don't want to pay at least $5 to come, then take your $5 and see how far it gets somewhere else ++++++

3rd annual dj leonard smalls birthday bash

Sat. Dec 4th at Lucky Sevens | Live music by TFTHC, In Musth, Aminial | DJ's Leonard Smalls, Dancing TOny , Caligula | please note, the annual dj leonard smalls drive for the York St. project will also kick-off on december 4th. like last year, please try and bring something to help the single mother's of jersey city this holiday season and each donation gets you a 1/2 priced draft or well drink (one per visit). plenty of items are needed, such as diapers, wipes, bottles, cleaning supplies, bathing supplies, unopened toys, school supplies, non-perishable food, etc. please help make this holiday season a little brighter for those less fortunate

58 Gallery Reunion Show

Opening F 6 to 9 pm Mary Benson Galleryey everybody, there once was this place called 58 gallery in dtjc showed some of the best art around by some of the best emerging artist around, it coupled the shows with sounds and visuals "that would create an atmosphere unlike any in nyc" holland cotter ny times...and it did a bunch of other things to strengthen the artist community between 2002-2012. it closed in 2012. some of the pioneers and trendsetters of that time are gathering for the start of this amazing series of shows. stay tuned for more info. www.fifty8.com

The Attic Ensemble Presents

Nov 7 to 18h @ Barrow Mansion | August, 1949. A fascinatingly realistic picture of routine cases brought into a bustling metropolitan police station in the course of an evening. Out of the welter of human misery, vice and foolishness there emerges the moving case of a decent young man who has stolen money from his employer; a hardened criminal dragging his young friend down with him; a lawless NJ "gardener" with a corrupt lawyer; and others. In the throes of the tumult is Detective McLeod -- a man whose black & white vision of justice will be challenged by the woman he loves most: his wife. A cast of 22 men and women will bring this drama of truth and consequences to life on the stage.

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

"Live From Jersey City, It's jcFRIDAY NIGHT LIVE !"