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Still Looking For Something To Do This Weekend in South Jersey? – Events broken out by county – Includes Monday 10/12
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Still Looking For Something To Do This Weekend in South Jersey? – Events broken out by county – Includes Monday 10/12

For all event dates through the end of 2027: https://rmn.pub/event-atlas

Atlantic County

  • Historic Smithville Irish Festival — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Smithville/Galloway · confirmed · E · Irish and Celtic
  • Run the Vineyards - White Horse 10K/5K — Sat Oct 10 · Hammonton · confirmed · R · Races and fun runs
  • Scullville Fire Company Sensory Friendly Hayride — Sat Oct 10 · Egg Harbor Township · confirmed · A · Halloween and fall
    • when: 4:30–6 p.m.
    • admission: Free — Free; pre-registration requested
    • venue: Fleming's Junkyard
    • accessibility: reduced-sound, no-strobe, reduced-capacity
    • source: https://scullvillefire.org/hayride/
  • The Red Barn Farm Sunflower and Fall Fest — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Sat Aug 29 → Sun Nov 1; check open days) · Hammonton · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: Fridays–Sundays, late August–early November · Fri 4 PM-dusk; Sat-Sun 11 AM-dusk; night maze Fri-Sat 7-10 PM (Oct 2-31)
    • admission: Free — Free fairgrounds; attractions ticketed individually or via All-Access Pass
    • venue: The Red Barn Farm
    • source: https://theredbarn.farm/

Burlington County

  • Autumn in Moorestown — Sat Oct 10 · Moorestown · confirmed · E · Fairs and night markets
  • Burlington City 250th Folk Arts Festival — Sat Oct 10 · Burlington · confirmed · E · Arts and crafts
  • Fall Harvest Festival at Johnson’s Locust Hall Farm — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Sat Sep 12 → Sat Oct 31; check open days) · Jobstown · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: Weekends, mid-September through October · Sat/Sun 9am-6pm (grill and live music 12-4pm); Thu/Fri 9am-5pm
    • admission: Paid / see price — Combo ticket (weekday and weekend pricing; online tickets discounted)
    • venue: Johnson's Locust Hall Farm
    • source: https://www.johnsonslocusthallfarm.com/fall-harvest-season/
  • Johnson’s Corner Farm Harvest Festival — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Sat Sep 12 → Sun Nov 1; check open days) · Medford · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: Daily in fall; festival weekends in September and October · Live music 12-4pm; food tent 11am-4pm; weekend hayrides 10am-3pm
    • admission: Paid / see price — Weekend hayride + barnyard package from $18 (adult) / $22 (child); corn maze packages from $28/$32; weekday discounts
    • venue: Johnson's Corner Farm
    • source: https://www.johnsonsfarm.com/events/fall-harvest-festivals/
  • Medford Apple Festival — Sat Oct 10 · Medford · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Paw Prints PetFest & 5K — Sat Oct 10 · Eastampton · confirmed · E · Fairs and night markets
    • when: Festival 10 AM–3 PM; 5K check-in 9 AM, race 10 AM
    • admission: Partly free — PetFest and parking free; 5K $40 adult / $30 youth-walk (early) plus fee; 50/50 $5
    • venue: Smithville Park, 803 Smithville Rd
    • source: https://friendsofbcas.org/5kpetfest/
  • Scarecrows on Main — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Sat Oct 3 → Sat Oct 24; check open days) · Medford · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Sky Zone Sensory Hours (1 New Jersey location) — Sat Oct 10 · Maple Shade · confirmed · A · Play and family fun centers
  • South Jersey Celtic Festival — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Columbus · confirmed · E · Irish and Celtic
    • when: 10:30am-5:30pm
    • admission: Free — Free admission ($10 per person donation requested); whiskey tasting $45
    • venue: Burlington County Fairgrounds
    • weather: Rain or shine
    • source: https://sjceltic.org/CeltFest.html
  • Batsto Village 5K (RevolutionNJ Race Series) — Sun Oct 11 · Hammonton · confirmed · R · Races and fun runs
  • Delran Fall Festival — Sun Oct 11 · Delran · announced (secondary) · E · Harvest and farm

Camden County

  • Barrington Harvest Fest — Sat Oct 10 · Barrington · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Camden County Miracle League Saturday Games — Sat Oct 10 · Cherry Hill · confirmed · A · Sports
  • Diggerland Fall Festival (Diggerfest) — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · West Berlin · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: About 11 AM–6 PM (park calendar)
    • admission: Paid / see price — Included with park admission: $46.99 online + fee ($50.99–53.99 at the gate); seniors $23.99; under 36" free; free parking
    • venue: Diggerland USA, 100 Pinedge Dr
    • source: https://diggerlandusa.com/special-events/fall-festival/
  • GBBPA Berlin Boro Fall Fest — Sat Oct 10 · Berlin · announced (secondary) · E · Harvest and farm
  • Greek Agora Festival — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Cherry Hill · confirmed · E · Greek
    • when: 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM daily
    • admission: Free — Free admission and parking
    • venue: St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church
    • source: https://greekagorafestival.com/
  • Adventure Aquarium Sensory Sundays — Sun Oct 11 · Camden · confirmed · A · Aquariums and zoos

Cape May County

  • Applefest at John Wesley Gandy Farmstead — Sat Oct 10 · Ocean View · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Avalon Arts & Seafood Festival — Sat Oct 10 · Avalon · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Cape May Halloween Happenings & Scarecrow Alley — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Thu Oct 1 → Sat Oct 31; check open days) · Cape May · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Lower Township Rotary Pumpkin Festival & Halloween Costume Parade — Sat Oct 10 · Lower Township · announced (secondary) · E · Harvest and farm
  • Morey’s Piers Oktoberfest — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Wildwood · confirmed · E · Oktoberfest
    • when: Bands Fri 6:30-10:30 pm; Sat 1-5 & 6:30-10:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm (Oct 11: 2-6 pm)
    • admission: Free — Free entry; rides via ticket cards or Oktoberfest wristband
    • venue: Morey's Piers
    • source: https://www.moreyspiers.com/event/oktoberfest/
  • Ocean City Fall Block Party — Sat Oct 10 · Ocean City · confirmed · E · Fairs and night markets
  • Victorian Weekend — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Fri Oct 9 → Mon Oct 12; check open days) · Cape May · confirmed · E · Renaissance
    • admission: Partly free — Free craft show & vintage base ball; tours ticketed (~$30 adults)
    • venue: Historic sites around Cape May, including Lafayette Field
    • source: https://capemaymac.org/victorian-weekend/
  • West Cape May Lima Bean Festival — Sat Oct 10 · West Cape May · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm

Cumberland County

Gloucester County

  • Deptford Township Fall Festival — Sat Oct 10 · Deptford · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Mullica Hill Fall Festival & Living History Weekend — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Mullica Hill · confirmed · E · Renaissance
  • Sunflower/Pumpkin Festival at Dalton Farms — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Thu Sep 10 → Sun Nov 1; check open days) · Swedesboro · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: Thursdays–Mondays, September–October · Sept 10am-7pm; Oct 10am-6pm; closed Tue & Wed; weekend food/beer 11am-5pm, music 1-5pm
    • admission: Paid / see price — Tickets sold online at a discount (prices not captured); some attractions extra
    • venue: Dalton Farms
    • source: https://www.daltonfarms.com/pumpkin-fest
  • Witches of Pitman Shoppe Hop — Sat Oct 10 · Pitman · announced (secondary) · E · Harvest and farm

Ocean County

  • Downtown Toms River Scarecrow Walk — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Fri Oct 9 → Fri Oct 23; check open days) · Toms River · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
  • Fall Festival at Argos Farm — Sat Oct 10 – Mon Oct 12 (ongoing run Sat Sep 12 → Sun Nov 1; check open days) · Forked River · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: Select days, mid-September through October · Sept: Sat-Sun 10am-6pm, plus Sept 28-30 2pm-6pm; Oct: Thu-Fri 2pm-6pm, Sat-Sun 10am-6pm, Columbus Day 10am-6pm
    • admission: Paid / see price — Ticketed general admission; you-pick pumpkins extra; pumpkin patch accessible without GA ticket
    • venue: Argos Farm
    • source: https://www.argosfarm.com/fall-festival
  • Fall Festival at Laurita Winery — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · New Egypt · confirmed · E · Beer and wine
    • when: October weekends · 12pm-7pm
    • admission: Paid / see price — $15 online until 6pm the day before; $20 after and at the door; under 21 free
    • venue: Laurita Winery
    • source: https://lauritawinery.com/event/
  • Jenkinson's Aquarium Sensory Saturday — Sat Oct 10 · Point Pleasant Beach · confirmed · A · Aquariums and zoos
    • when: 9–10 a.m., before public opening
    • admission: Paid / see price — General admission applies
    • venue: Jenkinson's Aquarium
    • accessibility: reduced-sound, dimmed-lighting, reduced-capacity, early-entry
    • source: https://jenkinsons.com/aquarium/upcoming-events/
  • Nightmare at Gille Park — Sat Oct 10 · Lacey · confirmed · E · Harvest and farm
    • when: Sensory-friendly tours 5:30–6:15 PM; regular groups 6:30–9:30 PM
    • admission: Paid / see price — Sensory-friendly tour $5; advance $16; at the door $20; VIP $50 (ticket, T-shirt, priority entrance)
    • venue: Gille Park
    • weather: Rain date 2026-10-11
    • source: https://parksrec.egov.basgov.com/laceynj
  • Ocean County Columbus Day Parade and Italian Street Festival — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Seaside Heights · confirmed · E · Italian and feast days
    • when: Columbus Day weekend · Fri 4pm-10pm; Sat 10am-10pm; Sun 10am-8pm; parade Sun 1pm
    • admission: Free — Free (parade free to watch)
    • venue: Grant Avenue (festival) and the Boulevard (parade)
    • source: https://www.columbusnj.org/events.htm
  • Pine Barrens Jamboree — Sat Oct 10 · Waretown · confirmed · E · Arts and crafts
  • South Toms River Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival — Sat Oct 10 · South Toms River · confirmed · E · Food trucks
  • Stafford Fall Harvest and Wine Festival — Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · Manahawkin · confirmed · E · Beer and wine
  • 18 Mile Run & 12K Run/Walk — Sun Oct 11 · Long Beach Township · confirmed · E · Races and fun runs
    • when: Sunday in mid-October · 18 Mile and 12K 10:00 AM
    • admission: Paid / see price — 18 Mile $110-$115; 12K $90-$95 (2026)
    • venue: St. Francis Community Center (packet pickup and shuttles)
    • source: https://www.18milerun.org/

Salem County

  • Pedricktown Day — Sat Oct 10 · Pedricktown · confirmed · E · Fairs and night markets
    • when: Second Saturday of October
    • admission: Free — No admission; rides/food paid
    • venue: Downtown Pedricktown & Logan Fire Hall
    • source: https://www.pedricktownday.org/
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Rocky Horror at State Theatre NJ Got Weird in All the Right Ways – 10/3 Recap

I have seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show scores of times in dozens of locations, which means it takes quite a bit for a screening to feel genuinely different. Saturday night at State Theatre New Jersey did. The theater hosted the Original Cast Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick, a new 4K restoration of the film and the Friday Nite Specials shadow cast, and the entire production landed at a level I have rarely seen Rocky Horror reach.

The movie was still gloriously unruly, the audience was still part of the machinery, and all the familiar traditions were there, but State Theatre gave the night the kind of professional production support that made the shadow cast feel bigger without sanding off any of the chaos that makes the experience work.

That balance matters. Rocky Horror does not need to be made respectable, and trying to make it too polished can miss the point completely. What State Theatre managed instead was to give the performers a serious room, strong technical support and the kind of presentation that let the shadow cast go bigger. The result felt less like a movie screening with activity in front of the screen and more like a fully realized live event built around a movie everybody already knew by heart.

Barry Bostwick remains an ideal guide through all of it. He was clever, quick and completely engaged with the audience, with none of the feeling that he was simply repeating an obligation attached to a movie he made more than half a century ago. 

The shadow casts apparently call him "Uncle Barry," which he was happy to clarify meant "not the creepy kind of uncle." More importantly, he seems to genuinely enjoy the strange extended life Rocky Horror has built for itself. That affection matters in a room full of people who have been carrying the movie with them for years, and in some cases for generations.

The crowd was exactly the mix it should have been: elaborate costumes, longtime veterans, Rocky Horror virgins awaiting the traditional initiation and plenty of people somewhere in between. One of my favorite moments happened before I even reached my seat. 

Walking in behind a couple, I heard one of them casually warn the other, "Oh, by the way... this might get weird." It was possibly the most efficient explanation of Rocky Horror ever delivered. It did get weird, of course, and that was the point.

I ended up sitting behind what appeared to be an entire family in lab coats, ranging from a teenager to the parents, which was a wonderful little snapshot of what the movie has become. Throughout the night, I kept hearing younger people explaining pieces of Rocky Horror to older people rather than the other way around. 

For a cult movie that has now survived for more than five decades, that reversal says a lot. This is no longer simply an older audience preserving something from its youth. New people keep discovering the rituals and then teaching them forward.

Another couple arrived in near-perfect Brad and Janet costumes. One did not speak English and the other seemed to know just enough to graciously accept compliments about what they were wearing. Once the film started, however, the language issue became almost irrelevant. Watching them through the evening, it was obvious they knew the lines. Rocky Horror has always functioned through a vocabulary larger than the screenplay itself: costumes, gestures, callbacks, timing and the collective understanding of what happens next. They fit into the room immediately.

The costume contest was strong, the shadow cast kept the energy moving, and the audience understood its role. What I enjoyed most, though, was simply being in a place where people had permission to be completely themselves for a few hours. 

Rocky Horror has always created that kind of room, but Saturday felt especially refreshing. Nobody needed to explain why they were dressed the way they were, why they knew every response, or why they were willing to throw themselves into something so proudly ridiculous. The normal social pressure to tone yourself down had been suspended for the evening.

The VIP after-party extended the experience without feeling like an afterthought. State Theatre staff were exceptionally gracious and attentive, the themed food was clever and genuinely good, and the room had the polished feel a VIP add-on should have. 

It did not simply keep people in the building after the movie; it gave the night a proper final act and maintained the same combination of fun and professionalism that had defined the screening itself.

I have been to enough Rocky Horror screenings to know that the film can work almost anywhere. Give it a screen, an enthusiastic cast and a crowd willing to participate and it will usually find a way. But Saturday night showed what happens when a venue with State Theatre's resources fully understands what it has been handed and supports the experience rather than trying to contain it. The production values elevated the shadow cast, Bostwick brought warmth and wit, and the audience supplied everything that cannot be manufactured from the stage.

So yes, the warning I overheard on the way in turned out to be accurate. It got weird. After scores of screenings in dozens of rooms, I would have been disappointed if it had not.

What I did not expect was for this one to top the list.

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Clerks: Open All Night 3 Recap — Kevin Smith, a Nor’easter, and Fans From Across the Country

By the time Clerks: Open All Night 3 began, people had already done something slightly unreasonable to be there. Some had flown in from the West Coast. Others had driven for hours through a nor’easter that was making its presence known across New Jersey. People came to Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands to spend an entire night inside a world Kevin Smith first put on screen more than three decades ago.

The weather was intense enough to make the trip feel like part of the commitment, but once everyone was there, it barely mattered. The line kept moving, conversations kept starting, and the storm became background noise to the thing everyone had actually come for.

Once again, the line people were one of the highlights. That has become one of my favorite parts of events like this because the line is never just where you wait for something to begin; it is where the event begins. You find out where people came from, when they first discovered the movie, how many times they have seen it, which lines they can quote without thinking, what memorabilia they brought with them, and what ridiculous sequence of flights, highways, trains or weather they were willing to tolerate to get there.

At Open All Night 3, those stories stretched across the country. Flying across the United States to sit in a theater overnight during a storm is not casual nostalgia. It is participation.

The staff deserves real credit for making that participation possible. An event built around hours of screenings, appearances, audience interaction, an auction and a building full of people operating on increasingly strange amounts of sleep could have become chaotic very quickly.

Instead, the staff kept things organized, kept people moving and kept the night feeling like an event rather than an endurance test. Add a nor’easter to the logistical puzzle and that becomes even more impressive. Whatever was happening outside, the machine inside Smodcastle kept running, and it ran well.

Then there was Kevin Smith, who overdelivered in the way only Kevin Smith really can. He shared stories, jokes, memories, detours and explanations, but as the hours counted away he also shared some genuine emotion. The longer the night went on, the less it felt like a filmmaker appearing in front of an audience and the more it felt like someone standing inside the history of his own work with the people who helped keep that history alive. There was a looseness to it that only works when the person at the center is willing to give more than the polished version of the story.

“I made movies because I didn’t see my world represented on the screen.”

Of everything Smith said, that was the sentence I carried out with me. It explains not only why Clerks worked in the first place, but why it still matters. We all have our own worlds, and most of them are not especially glamorous. They are convenience stores, strip malls, diners, back rooms, local roads, weird coworkers, old friends, neighborhood grudges, private jokes and conversations that sound meaningless to anyone who was not there.

The best creators do not wait for those worlds to become important enough for somebody else to validate them. They show us why they were important all along.

Smith did not make Clerks by sanding his world down until it could belong to everyone. He made it specific: New Jersey specific, convenience-store specific, friend-group specific, bored-at-work specific. That specificity is exactly what made it universal. Millions of people who had never stood behind that particular counter could still recognize something of their own lives in it. The strange magic of good storytelling is that the more honestly someone shows you their world, the easier it can become to see your own.

More than three decades later, that world is no longer confined to the screen. Clerks is beginning to feel like a cousin of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, not because the two films are alike, but because Clerks is becoming something people know how to attend. There are established jokes now. There are moments when audience participation is expected. Reactions arrive on cue, communal rhythms have developed through repetition, and returning fans understand a language that first-timers begin learning simply by being in the room. No bread throwing required.

That may be the most interesting evolution of all. A film that began because Smith did not see his world represented on screen has become a world people now travel to physically enter. They do not simply remember Clerks or rewatch it at home. They gather around it, quote it, respond to it and perform their relationship with it together. What started as a tiny black-and-white movie about people working behind a counter has accumulated rituals.

The auction fit perfectly into that larger idea. It gave fans the chance to take home a piece of Kevin Smith history while also supporting Smodcastle, which turns the usual memorabilia transaction into something more communal. You are not simply buying an object because it is rare, signed or funny. You are helping support the place where this culture can continue to happen, and then carrying a piece of that night home with you.

I did not exactly leave empty-handed. I walked out with an autographed mug, a huge and extremely comfortable Jay and Silent Bob blanket, and a pin that reads, “I saw a Clerks at Smodcastle.” Yes, “a Clerks.” It is a typo, and I love it. In fact, the typo may make the pin better. Perfect merchandise is merchandise; a slightly wrong pin from a beautifully weird overnight Clerks event feels like an artifact. Years from now, the mistake will probably be the first thing that makes me remember exactly where it came from.

That is what Open All Night 3 ultimately felt like: an accumulation of things that should not necessarily add up, but somehow do. A nor’easter. A cross-country crowd. An overnight movie marathon. Shared jokes. A little exhaustion. An auction. A creator getting emotional in front of the people who understood why the work mattered. A typo on a pin. None of those details needs to be inflated into something bigger than it was because together they already tell the story.

Kevin Smith made movies because he did not see his world represented on the screen. More than thirty years later, people fly across the country to spend a night inside it.

That may be the clearest measure of what he built: not simply a movie people still love, but a world that became a place people can return to together.

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u/rmn_pub — 19 days ago
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Here's what's happening in NJ this weekend – Events are broken down by county

Here's what's going on across NJ this weekend, broken down by county. Hope the weather isn't too bad :) Maybe look for the indoor events.

Atlantic County

Bergen County

Burlington County

Cape May County

Essex County

Gloucester County

Hudson County

Hunterdon County

Mercer County

Middlesex County

Monmouth County

Morris County

Ocean County

Somerset County

Sussex County

Warren County

u/rmn_pub — 19 days ago