Astoria Long Island City Eat Well + Do Good at Taste of LIC 2019 by Claire Leaden This Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30 p.m. is the 14th Annual Taste of LIC event, which pairs the best of Western Queens food and drink with a good cause: supporting (…)
Astoria 10th Annual Welling Court Mural Project This Weekend by Claire Leaden Discovering the Welling Court Mural Project can feel like you just accidentally stumbled into another, utterly remarkable world. A world with bright colors, crafted words, and the feeling of strolling (…)
Astoria Long Island City How Two Astoria Women Are Expanding Art Education for Local Kids by Claire Leaden Astoria locals Ashley Cavadas and Hannah Lokken both grew up as self-proclaimed “art nerds,” always crafting and creating. They both followed that passion through school—with Hannah studying Illustration & Graphic Design (…)
Two Events You Can Get ARTSY at This Week by Claire Leaden Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend and enjoyed the publishing of our 50+ Things to Do This Summer list! Let us know if there are any of your (…)
Astoria Long Island City 50+ Things to Do This Summer (2019 Edition) by Claire Leaden It’s Memorial Day Weekend…which means it’s unofficially summer…which means it’s time for our annual 50+ THINGS TO DO THIS SUMMER list!! From opportunities to get more social (sports! trivia leagues! (…)
Long Island City MoMA PS1 Becomes Biergarten for One Night Only this Friday by Claire Leaden Art + Beer may not be the most classic combination, but having all local breweries at an experimental art museum complete with a DJ set and outdoor film screenings? Now (…)
All About THE ARC: The Full-Block Arts & Music Center in Queens by Claire Leaden About a year ago, news spread that DMNDR—a global community of music lovers, photographers, filmmakers, artists, writers, and curators—was opening The Arc, a 20,000-sq.-ft. concert and recording space in Astoria. Okay, (…)
Weekend Pick: Return of the Queens Craft Brigade by Claire Leaden Your favorite neighborhood artisans are back this Sunday, April 7 for the return of the Queens Craft Brigade (QCB)! For those who don’t know, QCB is a group that puts on (…)
Long Island City Socrates Sculpture Park Spring 2019 Preview by Claire Leaden One of our favorite Astoria “Spring Things” is enjoying the amazing local parks, and Socrates Sculpture Park just announced their Spring/Summer exhibit: Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space. Located along the (…)
Astoria Arts Roundup Fall 2018 by Laura Caseley Looking for something to do? Of course you are. And you’re in luck, living in a community just packed with creatives doing creative things. So WHA presents the Fall Arts (…)
Astoria Long Island City 50+ Things to Do This Summer (2018 Edition) by Emily Rios Astoria, the unofficial start of summer has arrived! With Memorial Day behind us, we can finally start to plan our perfect summer fun—movies in the park, pool time, art openings, (…)
Long Island City Warm Up 2018 – What To Expect This Summer by Meg Cotner MoMA PS1’s lineup for Warm Up is here!
Long Island City Upcoming Arts Happenings in Long Island City by Meg Cotner Get your art on in the next couple of weeks in LIC.
Astoria Long Island City Pick Up Vol. VI of The Paper by Emily Rios Spring is FINALLY here! We are ready to get out and enjoy Astoria. This edition features our #WHABackTheBusiness, 11 Places in Queens You Must Not Miss, local Artisan features, Bike (…)
Astoria Get To Know the Iconic Akari at The Noguchi Museum by Meg Cotner Akari: “among the most ubiquitous sculptures on Earth.”