Calling all high school garage bands! Send us your CD's / web links to enter this contest. Winner take all $500 top prize and $250 Wendy's sponsored Audience Choice Award. The event location is the indoor stage of the Fort Lee Community Center at 1355 Inwood Terrace. Deadline for application is June 1st. This event MC will be WFDU-FM 89.1's DJ Christine Vitale. Send music via links to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Call (201) 693-2763 for further info.

The Fort Lee Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs presents the Hudson Shakespeare Company in the following free outdoor performances all at Monument Park (1588 Palisade  Avenue).

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The World's Largest Salt Water Pool - Palisades Amusement Park - June 8th at the Fort Lee Museum (1588 Palisade Avenue).

4 PM - 7 PM Picnic on grounds of museum and Monument Park - hot dogs, lemonade, soda and Palisades Amusement Park vinegar fries! Cost - $10 adults, $5 Senior Citizens and children - all proceeds go to The Fort Lee Historical Society. Wristbands can be purchased that day at the museum. Author of the new St. Martin's Press book Palisades Park, Alan Brennert will be on hand to sign copies of the book - please bring your copy of the book.

Sunset screening on the Museum grounds / Monument Park on June 8th - documentary Palisades Amusement Park A Century of Fond Memories introduced by the filmmaker  Vince Gargiulo - free tot he public. Limited seating - bring blankets or lawn chairs.

For further info visit www.thefortleehistoricalsociety.org or call (201) 592-3580.

Sunday June 9th Palisades Amusement Park / Film History Jitney Tour.

Join  us for  historic jitney tour of Fort Lee led by Fort Lee Film Commission Executive Director Tom Meyers and Palisades Amusement Park historian Vince Gargiulo. Tour sign upon June 9th from 9 AM to 11 AM at the Fort Lee Museum (1588 Palisade  Avenue), first come first serve  -all tours free but seating is limited. Tours run from 11 AM to 3 PM.

Sponsored by the Fort Lee Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, the Fort Lee Film Commission, the Fort Lee Historic Committee and the Fort Lee Historical Society. Call (201) 693-2763 for further info or visit www.thefortleehistoricalsociety.org or www.fortleefilm.org.

Join us each Saturday night from July 6th through September 7th at the Jack Alter Fort Lee Community Center at 7 PM. Live music from 7-8:30 PM followed by a movie screening at sunset all on the outdoor stage / green of the Community Center (indoors on second floor if it rains).

Fort Lee Arts & Music Festival: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 11 AM - 6PM, on Main Street between Lemoine and Center Avenues and in the Municipal Lot.

Vendors, crafters, Fort Lee Artist Guild Juried Art Show, food court, Farmer's Market, two stages of free entertainment, Harley Davidson Motorcycle Show, free bounce rides, rock climbing wall, free Palisades Amusement Park photo booth - event is rain or shine. Call the Fort Lee Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs at (201) 693-2763 for more details.

On Sunday, May 19, 2013, the communities of Fort Lee and Cliffside Park, along with the Diabetes Foundation, Inc., will host their Fifth Annual “Run the Palisades” 5K & 10K Run/Walk and Health Fair beginning at Cliffside Park High School.

The Fort Lee Environmental Committee  / Fort Lee Film Commission screening of the film "Ingredients" on May 4, 2013 at 2 PM on the second floor of the Jack Alter Fort Lee Community Center (1355 Inwood Terrace). The film will be followed by a symposium organized by the Fort Lee Environmental Committee. The event is free to the public. For further information, call the Fort Lee Film Commission at (201) 592-3663.

The Fort Lee Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs seeks artists and vendors for the 2013 Fort Lee Arts & Music Fest scheduled for Sunday, June 2nd. Application deadline is May 20, 2013. No charge for Fort Lee businesses or Fort Lee civic organizations - but everyone must send in applications. For further info call (201) 693-2763.

The Fort Lee Film Commission and Palisade Interstate Park Present: The Gangs of Fort Lee - April 17th at 7:30 PM at the Fort Lee Historic Park Theatre (Hudson Terrace and Bruce Reynolds Blvd)

This one night film festival celebrates to origins of the gangster film genre born in Fort Lee in 1912 with the DW Griffith directed film The Musketeers of Pig Alley. The Fort Lee Film Commission's Tom Meyers and Palisade Interstate Park Historical Interpreter Eric Nelsen will discuss the seminal role Fort Lee played in the birth of the gangster film. There will be a free screening of the short 1912 film The Musketeers of Pig Alley as well as a rare screening of the 1962 classic Italian film Mafioso directed by Alberto Lattuada and staring Alberto Sordi.The final portions of the film Mafioso were shot in For Lee, West New York and Union City, NJ in addition to the Italian locations.  For further info visit www.fortleefilm.org or call the Fort Lee Film Commission at (201) 693-2763.