They are cooking up a storm at Atlantic City’s Food & Wine Festival this weekend (www.acfoodandwine.com ). Check out the new Cooking Channel’s ice cream truck (free ice cream) and meet the newest foodie stars on cable.

It’s a summer tradition in some of our parks—a movie and a picnic. Watch Monsters vs Aliens tonight as part of the Essex County Park’s summer series at Riverbank Park (riverbankpark.org ) beginning at 7:30pm. Bring blankets, and bug spray!

The Morris Museum (www.morrismuseum.org ) has an interesting collection of photographs from Ellis Island’s un-restored buildings called Shadow And Memory … it’s on view through August 1.

If you need an excuse to go down the shore, The 8th Annual Boardwalk Art Show this Sunday in Ocean Grove (www.oceangrovenj.com ). Compete in the Dog Days Of Summer Biathlon in Ocean City (www.ocnj.us/single_event.asp?event_id=2428 ).

Shop the Red Bank Annual Sidewalk Sale (www.redbank.com ) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Go star gazing at Bergen County Community College’s Emil Buehler Trust Observatory (www.bergen.edu/pages/2852.asp?PageId=340 ) on Friday evenings from 9pm to midnight.

The Mercer County 4-H Fair at Howell Living History Farm this weekend (www.howellfarm.org ).

You’ve seen the movies, now catch Disney’s High School musical again at the Surflight Theatre on LBI (www.surflight.org ).

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American Idol winner Jordin Sparks (jordinsparks.com ) kicks off her Summer concert tour tonight at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville … and one lucky NJ My Way reader can win a pair of FREE tickets ! Be the tenth person to e-mail us right now by clicking on the “Write The Editor” link below. Make sure you include your name, contact information, including e-mail. If selected, you’ll pick up the tickets tonight at the box office.

Grammy winner Loudon Wainwright III plays the South Orange Performing Arts Center tomorrow night (sopacnow.org ).

The 43rd annual Fireman’s Fair – a firehouse cook-off and huge antique fire truck display this Sunday beginning at 10am at the Newark Museum (newarkmuseum.org ). More than 80 firehouse chefs are competing.

Talk about Jersey Fresh! The Garden State Rollergirls (gardenstaterollergirls.com ) are taking on the Skyland Rollergirls for En Jay bragging rights this Saturday beginning at 6pm, at the Hackettstown Sports Plaza .

Grab your best friend and head to St. Hubert’s Barkfest to benefit the group’s animal shelters on Sunday beginning at 11am at the Upton Pyne Estate in Bernardsville (sthuberts.org )

Glass artistry and abstract photography combine in the Flowing Show (flowingshow.com ) at the Virginia Perle Gallery in Toms River .

The Ocean Grove Giant Spring Flea Market (oceangrovenj.com ) sports a huge amount of antiques this Saturday beginning at 9am.

On Your Toes is running through next weekend at LBI’s Surflight Theatre (surflight.org ).

The New Jersey Emerging Artist Series continues at the Monmouth Museum with a show by noted landscape photographer Michael Hynes (monmouthmuseum.org ).

Beginning this Saturday and running on Saturday nights through the Summer, the Red Bank Street Life Festival takes over downtown with entertainment and fun. The performance schedule is at redbankrivercenter.org/streetlife .

It’s the fun First Friday in Haddonfield (haddonfieldnj.org ) tomorrow with restaurants and stores open late all over town.

Saturday is Ho-Ho-Kus Ducky Derby Day with food, games and a duck race beginning at 2pm. (ho-ho-kusboro.com ).

Pack the Pepto and get ready to chow down on fresh boiled Louisiana crawfish and tons of other food from the Big Easy at the Crawfish Fest all weekend at the Sussex County Fairgrounds (www.crawfishfest.com ).

Sponsored Link : check out the amazing bargains at the GRANGE furniture outlet sale, beginning this weekend in South Hackensack!

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Celebrate the end of the long workweek at the Jersey City Museum’s Target First Fridays, beginning at 5pm. (www.jerseycitymuseum.org) It’s all free including a wine tasting, entertainment, refreshments, and open galleries.

Funnyman Bobby Collins brings his offbeat brand of humor to the stage Saturday night at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal (www.axelrodartscenter.org).

This Sunday’s 1pm Yoga Class at the Princeton Center for Yoga and Health will raise funds for Haiti earthquake victims (www.princetonyoga.com).

It’s all jazz at Words Bookstore in Maplewood (www.wordsmaplewood.com) Saturday at 7pm, when singer Sarah Partridge entertains, and author Sandy Josephson shares passages from his book Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the Generations.

Help Ridgewood’s most deserving students to attend college, by attending the exciting, highly produced Jamboree 2010 all weekend long (www.rhsjamboree.com).

It’s Chocolate Lovers Weekend in Ocean Grove, (www.oceangrovenj.com) with a free chocolate treat at each of the town’s beautiful historic inns, open for visits. You can also win prizes by participating in the hunt for hearts, hidden in participating shops.

Singles will be flocking to this Lock and Key event (www.lockandkeyevents.com/SNJ) at Taylors in Cherry Hill on Saturday night.

See Earth Matters, artist Donna Grande’s pastel landscape vision of the evolving Earth, all month at the Studio Montclair Block Gallery, (www.studiomontclair.org).

The fourth annual Hub City Carnivale is in full swing at New Brunswick’s State Theatre (www.statetheatrenj.org) with tons of great shows geared towards the whole family.

It’s an all St. Hubert’s weekend, as the animal shelters host a benefit Wine Tasting at the Morris Museum on Friday night, and their Fabulous Fall Fair on Saturday at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township (www.sthuberts.org/poop/).

Boomers converge on the 50+ Better Living Expo, on Sunday at Mayfair Farms in West Orange. All kinds of exhibitors and speakers aimed at keeping you looking and feeling young. Sponsored by NJ Savvy Living Magazine (www.njsavvyliving.com).

Christmas comes early in Port Murray at the Well-Sweep Herb Farm’s Christmas In The Country Open House on Saturday, including special demonstrations, a greenhouse tour, hot cider and cookies (www.wellsweep.com).

Get a Taste Of Ocean Grove on Friday night , as nearly a dozen area restaurants join offering a special tastings menu in this pretty Victorian shore town (www.oceangrovenj.com).

The Deptford Mall welcomes Santa and Mrs Claus, with a holiday parade on Friday morning. The first 500 kids will get a free teddy bear (www.deptfordmall.com).

Noted jewelry designer Norma Wellington (www.nwjewelrydesign.com) hosts a one-woman show at Englewood’s Bergen PAC on Sunday, to benefit arts education for children (njmonthly.com/events/5530.html).

This weekend marks the 32nd Cape May Jazz Festival (www.capemayjazz.com) featuring a performance by the Count Basie Orchestra.

It’s the final weekend to take the kids to Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse at Hoboken’s Mile Square Theatre (www.milesquaretheatre.org).

The Grapes Of Wrath continues through next weekend at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (www.shakespearenj.org).

The Rainbow Experience production of the musical Leader Of The Pack starts this weekend at the United Church of Christ in Plainfield (rainbowexp.wordpress.com).

Ladies, join the Beauty And The Beach 5k run on Saturday at Pier Village in Long Branch. Proceeds benefit Aslan Youth Ministries in Red Bank (www.beautyandthebeachrun.com).

Finally, take the family to spot Ducks At Dusk at Celery Farm in Allendale (www.fykenature.org).

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