Thursday, September 10, 2026 · New Jersey

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Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2026 Philly Fringe Is Open, and the City Is Part of the Show FringeArts · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Final Stretch Has a Look

Somerset's final home week of 2026 brings Damian Priest, a WWE giveaway jersey that actually understands the assignment, and one last turn as the Jersey Diners.

Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey

New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 The New Jersey Film Festival Opens a Month-Long Window for Independent Film Voorhees Hall · Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey The Fright Stuff at New Jersey Film Festival Behind Every Scream Is Somebody Building the Room Voorhees Hall · Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Brook Arts Center Star Trek 60th celebration Bound Brook Goes to Warp for a Three-Part Star Trek Celebration Brook Arts Center · Bound Brook, New Jersey Darkside New Jersey Fall 2026 Darkside NJ Has Two More Chances to Get Weird This Fall Mercer County Park Ice Skating Facility · West Windsor, New Jersey Lunar Faire 2026 final run Lunar Faire’s Final Five Nights Move Across Five Very Different New Jersey Grounds Middlesex County Fairgrounds · East Brunswick, New Jersey Somerset Patriots vs Hartford Yard Goats — Postgame Fireworks + Irish Heritage Night One More Burst Over Bridgewater TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey Newfie X-Travaganza Giant Breed Event Pet Friendly, but Make Room Working Dog Winery · Hightstown, New Jersey PigDog Puppa Palooza At Morey's Piers, the Water Park Is Going to the Dogs Raging Waters Water Park · Mariner's Pier, Wildwood, New Jersey Pulling for a Cure 2026 Six People, One Tractor, Twenty Yards Carriage Farm · Hillsborough Township, New Jersey Jersey Shore Card Show The Jersey Shore Card Show Returns to Toms River, Where the Hunt Is the Point Toms River Elks Lodge · Toms River, New Jersey New Jersey State Firemen's Association Annual Convention & Fire Expo For One Weekend, Wildwood Becomes New Jersey's Firehouse Wildwoods Convention Center · Wildwood, New Jersey XPoNential Music Festival 2026 XPoNential Music Festival Returns to Camden With a Weekend Built for Discovery Wiggins Park · Camden, New Jersey Duke Farms Presents: Wild by Nature Duke Farms' 'Wild by Nature' Puts Climate Conversation Beside Music, Film, and an Owl Duke Farms · Hillsborough, New Jersey Sea.Hear.Now 2026 Sea.Hear.Now Returns to Asbury Park for a Weekend Built Around the Shore North Beach, Bradley Park and Atlantic Park · Asbury Park, New Jersey Brook Arts Center fall creative programs At Brook Arts Center, the Fall Calendar Starts Before Opening Night Brook Arts Center · Bound Brook, New Jersey Downtown Somerville Music Fest For One Sunday, Downtown Somerville Becomes the Venue Downtown Somerville · Somerville, New Jersey Nerd Fest / Jersey Shore Comic Book Show Nerd Fest Brings the Small-Con Advantage Back to South Jersey Holiday Inn Swedesboro · Swedesboro, New Jersey Chicken Salad Chick Clifton Park opening Chicken Salad Chick Has One Job, and I Respect That Chicken Salad Chick · Clifton Park, New York Lucas Museum of Narrative Art public opening Eighteen Days Until the Lucas Museum Opens the Door on Narrative Art Lucas Museum of Narrative Art · Exposition Park, Los Angeles Ugly Pancake Comedy Festival The Ugly Pancake Comedy Festival Is Building a Jersey Shore Comedy Circuit Wild Air Beerworks · Asbury Park, New Jersey September Afternoon Tea with the Secret Tea Room Morven Sets the Table for a September Afternoon Tea Steeped in History Morven Museum & Garden · Princeton, New Jersey Clerks: Open All Night 3 Open All Night: Kevin Smith Brings Clerks Back Home SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey World's Largest Pet Walk The Event Is Wherever the Dog Is Any location (nationwide) Monarch Festival The Point Was Always to Let Them Go Animal Welfare Association · Voorhees, New Jersey Bruce Springsteen and Monmouth: Music, Memory, and the Making of an American Icon Before Springsteen Became an Icon, Monmouth Was Already in the Story Powell Soundstage · Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, Long Branch, New Jersey I'm Not a Comedian…I'm Lenny Bruce Lenny Bruce Is Still Arguing With the Room Union County Performing Arts Center · Rahway, New Jersey Jamtoberfest '26 One More Day in the Field Before the Season Turns Swim & Sport Club · Roxbury Township / Flanders, New Jersey The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Barry Bostwick Rocky Horror Is Ready to Do the Time Warp Again in New Brunswick State Theatre New Jersey · New Brunswick, New Jersey Downtown Somerville Spooky Night Market Downtown Somerville Gets a Little Stranger After Dark Downtown Somerville · Somerville, New Jersey The Shining: Live on Stage! Smodcastle Checks Into the Overlook for The Shining: Live on Stage SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey Montclair Film Festival 2026 Montclair Film Festival Sets Its October Return as the 15th Edition Approaches The Clairidge · Montclair, New Jersey A Bronx Tale - The One Man Show starring Chazz Palminteri One Man, Eighteen Lives: Chazz Palminteri Brings the Original A Bronx Tale to Carteret Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center · Carteret, New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey 2026 The Lighthouse Challenge Strat Guide New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey 2026 The Lighthouse Challenge Turns New Jersey Into a Two-Day Maritime Road Trip New Jersey Jenkinson’s Boo at the Boardwalk When the Boardwalk Trades Summer for Costumes Jenkinson’s Boardwalk · Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey 2026 Central Jersey CROP Hunger Walk Somerset County Will Walk Against Hunger Again — Because the Need Is Local United Reformed Church · Somerville, New Jersey Downtown Somerville Halloween Spooktacular Halloween Works Better When the Whole Downtown Plays Along Downtown Somerville · Somerville, New Jersey William Shatner Live on Stage with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan William Shatner Is Bringing The Wrath of Khan to New Brunswick - Then Taking the Stage State Theatre New Jersey · New Brunswick, New Jersey

Five Runs, One Championship Belt and a Ballpark Full of Dogs

Somerset beat Hartford 7-2 on a night when WWE star Damian Priest, Bark in the Park and a championship-belt shirt giveaway turned TD Bank Ballpark into a perfect collision of baseball people, dog people and wrestling people.

Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey

Star Trek 60th Anniversary — New Jersey From Khan to Kirk: New Jersey Marks 60 Years of Star Trek New Jersey

Six Degrees of Kevin Smith

Before the doors opened in Hillsborough, the show was already revealing what made it work: access, ease, and a crowd connected by more than one kind of fandom.

Reported Event Iron Peak Sports & Events · Hillsborough, New Jersey

Somerset Patriots vs Akron RubberDucks A Vow, a Wave, and the Runner on Second TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey Before America 250, New Jersey Looks Back at America's 200th New Jersey State Museum · Trenton, New Jersey DollyFest 2027 DollyFest Will Bring Dolly Parton's Celebration Home to Tennessee in 2027 Nashville, Tennessee Firefighter I, Firefighter II and EMT graduation He's Not Really Going Into Fires, Is He? Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy · Hillsborough, New Jersey Somerset Patriots vs Akron RubberDucks The Ballpark Remembers TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey