The second annual President’s Lecture on Music History and Contemporary America will be held at Monmouth University on Cedar Avenue in West Long Branch at 3:00 p.m. in the on-campus Pollak Theatre. The subject will be Bob Dylan. The event is free. Advance registration is required.

By any reader’s estimation, Little City Books—100 Bloomfield Street in Hoboken—is a great book store. It hearkens back to an earlier era when you could spend hours just browsing through its titles in a friendly atmosphere. Maybe that’s why the producers of the new Bob Dylan bio-pic—A Complete Unknown—due Christmas Day, picked the venue to film some scenes for actor Timothee Chalamet as Dylan.

Bob Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour will have the 82-year old legend performing at NJ PAC downtown Newark November 20 and 21. If the set list for Chicago last month is any indication, expect plenty of surprises.