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The 2017 Junior Jury Abby Berberian, Bridgewater Raritan High School Aidan Champeau, Montclair High School David Chun, Millburn Alison Cottingham, Montclair Kimberley Academy Tyrell Dickerson, Academy 360 Soula Garcia, Bloomfield High School Hank Greenberg, Montclair High School Jackson Healey, Middletown High School South Kianni Keys, Newark Academy Reymond Lamb, Montclair High School Noah Levin

Watchung Booksellers welcomed author Dave White on Wednesday, March 29 to discuss his new book Blind to Sin, the fifth in White’s series about ex-cop and private detective Jackson Donne.

The Moving Architects, a Montclair-based dance company led by Erin Carlisle Norton, is performing in Jersey City, Boston, and in New York City in April. The performances celebrate the company’s 10th-anniversary season. Norton established the company in Chicago as a female-centric dance company, dedicated to creating and performing dance works “that combine charged movement and feminine strength to

Singer-songwriters Kelly Jones and Teddy Thompson (son of Richard and Linda Thompson), who released their debut album “Little Windows” in 2016, perform at Outpost in the Burbs tomorrow, April 7, at 8 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, 67 Church St. Their harm...

By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news Autumn Turner was knocked out in the Knockout Rounds in NBC’s “The Voice” on Monday, April 3. But she isn’t staying down. The 25-year-old Montclair resident prowled a stage in a red dress as she sang Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.” She was competing with 15-year-ol...

By Gwen Orel orel@montclairlocal.news There’s a melancholy underlying the bubbly goodness that is “Million Dollar Quartet,” a musical about the legendary jam session of Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, at Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, in December 1956. The jam sessi...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Look around the walls of the first-floor hallway of Hillside Elementary School, and you’ll find photo after photo of Drums of Thunder out on the road: in front of the Washington Monument, at Madison Square Garden, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, to name just a few places where they’ve performed. And where...

By ANTOINETTE MARTIN for Montclair Local “Cut!” When a film director yells the word, it signals the end of a take. But for Montclair Film Festival lately, it has meant the start of the action. Last week, the nonprofit cut “festival” from its name, to signify its identity as a year-round organization, and cut the ribbon on its new home at 505 Bloomfield Ave. “Wow! This is a ter...

Tonight, April 6, from 5 to 9, the Montclair Art Museum offers free general admission, live music, art activities and tours, and a full-service bar. The April event spotlights Matisse and American Art, the Montclair Art Museum’s special exhibition on the relationship between French master Henri Matisse and American artists. Ther...

By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news Thirty-three years old may seem a little young to write a memoir. But it depends on the life. Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” was born in 1984, during Apartheid in South Africa, and miscegenation was illegal. His mother wa...