Last night I wandered over to Q.E.D.’s open house to check out the space—that is totally refreshed from what I saw originally—and the art show, Seeing Stories. It was a (…)

A couple of weeks ago, Meg and I ventured over to check out Glassful, a new wine shop/wine service start-up. It’s located in the same building as the Brooklyn Grange, (…)

This video flew around social media last year and I remember really liking the sounds coming out of this very tall clown singing Lorde’s “Royals.” Turns out, it was filmed (…)

We’ve learned about a very interesting opportunity for folks interested sustainable living—a paid internship with Hellgate Farm! The internship goes from March to October 2015, and the work will be (…)

Gotta love that sign, especially as we near Halloween. We heard through the grapevine that The Second Best Thrift Shop on Astoria Blvd near 31st Street is going out of (…)

While walking home from an early swim yesterday morning, I passed the house on 28th Street (between 24th and 23rd Aves) that goes all out with the decorations for various holidays. As in (…)

Last month we told you about Q.E.D., a new performance space/skill share community space on 23rd Ave. Good news—they are having an open house tomorrow night (Wednesday) from 7 to 9 (…)

The second annual Sunnyside Restaurant Week is back and it’s bigger and more delicious than ever. This year 32 restaurants – double the participation from last year – will serve (…)

We were sorry to see Greenline Organic close, since they had so many interesting things on their shelves (the produce was a bit sketch at times), and it was a reasonable (…)

The annual Fiaccolata di San Rocco Is October 18—thanks to Magna GRECE for keeping a list of these things. It is sponsored by the Societá Gioventú Quagliettana, whose clubhouse resides in (…)

It’s that time again! Halloween is just a few weeks away. There are plenty of things going on leading up to and on that day, so here’s our roundup of (…)

Thanks to those crazy cats on Reddit, we were turned onto this video on Bloomberg, Bareburger: The Organic Chain’s Ingredients for Success—a glimpse into the success of Bareburger, starting Euripides (…)

The MTA’s recently released 2015-19 Capital Budget is not the shiniest of new news, but we were excited to see that DNAinfo put together this excellent map of the planned fixes. Just click on (…)

While perusing Astorians.com, I noticed that user @nsutaria posted a link to the draft of the Western Queens Transportation Study. It’s a long document—a 105 page pdf—and goes over the (…)

We Heart Astoria food talk features Queens Restaurant Week, LIC Flea’s Beer Garden, a new fried pork chop dish at the Bao Shoppe and more.