Weekend Picks: Restaurant Week, Cheetah Girls, Swamp Hike

Bet you didn’t know it was Newark Restaurant Week (www.gonewarkrestaurantweek.com). You can save big through the weekend at thirty downtown eateries. Check out the website to see which of your favorite restaurants are participating.

The beloved Masterwork Chorus (www.masterwork.org)  launches its season on Sunday singing pieces from Romantic composers like Brahms, Bruckner, and Mendelssohn. The concert is at the Dorothy Young Center at Drew University.

The Cheetah Girls bring their One World Tour to Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall (www.boardwalkhall.com) this Saturday night. Hellogoodbye headlines at The Stone Pony (www.stoneponyonline.com).  Get a taste of Dinner With Diamond—all Neil, all the time,  at McCloone’s Supper Club (www.timmcloonessupperclub.com) tomorrow night. The Bacon Brothers are at the Mayo Center (www.mayoarts.org/) in Morristown.

Get your hiking boots on and hit the trails at the Sussex Swamp Preserve (www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/newjersey/work/art8499.html) You’ll learn how the geologic formations in the area are so important to the biodiversity of the site. And it’s good exercise!  

It may be the last weekend this season to go apple picking. Here are a few farms that are still offering you a chance to pick your own, although we suggest you call first: www.wightmansfarms.com, www.hillviewfarmsnj.com , www.melickstownfarm.com. 

Want to learn to weave a basket from the real artisans? This Sunday, basket maker Mary May of Forked River is leading a workshop at the Lily Lake studio in the Noyes Museum of Art (www.noyesmuseum.org).  You’ll learn to make a shaker-style table basket with a carved handle.

Tomorrow at Saks (www.saksfifthavenue.com) at Riverside Square Mall in Hackensack, you can preview the St. John Resort Collection with a representative from the line.

It’s the Second Saturday in downtown Collingswood, (www.collingswood.com/arts/second-saturday) with dozens of  merchants and  restaurants participating. Everything stays open late, and the streets are alive with shoppers. Here’s a story we published last March that brings it home:
www.njmyway.com/content/view/379/101/

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