Astoria Astoria Interiors: Restful and Functional on 31st Ave by Claire Leaden BY: ANNA DORE Welcome back to another edition of Astoria Interiors, a series where we go inside neighborhood homes to showcase design on the most local level. Today we head (…)
Astoria ASTORIA INTERIORS: WARM AND SERENE ON 30TH AVENUE by Claire Leaden Welcome back to another edition of Astoria Interiors, a series where we go inside neighborhood homes to showcase design on the most local level. Today, we’re heading inside a colorful, (…)
Astoria Step into LIC’s Most Stylish Art Galleries This Weekend at LIC OPEN ARTS by Claire Leaden If you’ve ever strolled past any of the gorgeous, curated art galleries in Long Island City, but felt too intimated to walk in or didn’t quite know how the process (…)
Astoria Astoria Interiors: Cozy, Sweet and Practical in Astoria Heights by Claire Leaden Welcome back to our bi-weekly Astoria Interiors series showcasing local apartment design! This week we’re showcasing a calming, minimalist apartment in the Upper Ditmars area. Remember, if you’d like to (…)
Astoria Second GIF Series “The Situation Room” Opening at MoMI this Friday by Claire Leaden If you’ve been to the Museum of the Moving Image in the past two years (and if you haven’t, you definitely should go asap!), you’ve been greeted by projections of (…)
Astoria Introducing Our New Series: ASTORIA INTERIORS by Claire Leaden We stroll by Astoria’s countless buildings every day— but have you ever wondered what’s behind the walls? In our new series, Astoria Interiors, we’ll take you behind the scenes in (…)
Astoria Local Theatre, Performance Art and Storytelling Festivals: Fall 2019 Arts Roundup by Claire Leaden Happy Fall! Here’s a round-up of all of the amazing arts programming going on this season, as we share from time to time. Enjoy and let us know what you’re (…)
Astoria See Completed Summer Sculptures at Socrates Park This Weekend by Claire Leaden Every summer artists are hard at work in Socrates Sculpture Park producing work for the Fall exhibit. They are part of the Park’s Annual Fellowship Program, an artist residency that (…)
Long Island City Check Out this Traveling Queens Art Exhibit in 3 Different Neighborhoods by Claire Leaden The Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City (5-25 46th Ave) is the first stop in a multi-month traveling art exhibit called Creative Mosaic, focused on showcasing emerging artists from Queens. (…)
Astoria Last Week to Say Goodbye to Astoria Staple RAR BAR by Claire Leaden RAR BAR (or Rest-Au-Rant) was a little under the radar, tucked back from the subway tracks on 35th Ave at 30th St. We loved them for their budget brunch, broad (…)
Astoria Long Island City The Backlot Festival is BACK at Kaufman Astoria This Weekend (including the first Queens Mutt Show!) by Claire Leaden The Backlot Festival is BACK! This second annual free festival celebrating community though performances, musical acts, readings and exhibitions takes place this Saturday, Sept 21 from 2 to 8 p.m. (…)
Astoria WHA Wedding Week: The Creative (Including Beauty) by Claire Leaden There are so many details and aspects of a wedding, we could easily have done multiple weeks’ worth of posts! So today we’re doing double duty: the creative aspects, including (…)
Astoria Long Island City What to Do on a Rainy Summer Day in Queens by Claire Leaden We have you all set for the warm, sunny days of summer in Queens, but what about when it’s dreary and rainy? (And, uh extremely humid?) We’ve definitely had our (…)
Long Island City LIC Taxi Cab Garage Becomes Alternative Community Art Space by Claire Leaden Smithsonian-recognized artist David Datuna just opened a new non-traditional art space in Long Island City, and it’s not just the venue—a repurposed taxi cab garage—that’s unusual. Datuna is well-known for his (…)
Astoria Long Island City TONIGHT! The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital at Socrates Sculpture Park by Claire Leaden Every year Astorians are treated to a night at the opera – and they don’t even have to go to Lincoln Center! Tonight at 7 p.m. is the Metropolitan Opera’s Summer (…)