Literary

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. (…)

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! (…)

When thinking of neighborhood activities in Astoria, our mind tends to go to eating, drinking and maybe going to the park (how could we not?). But, the community also has (…)

Big congrats, Astoria Bookshop!

Get your art on at the Kaufman Arts District’s Backlot Art Festival this weekend!

Where’s Waldo local returns in July!

Long Island City is getting a new bookstore – Book Culture!

As we are all well aware, tomorrow is Inauguration Day. After spending the past two years glued to our computers, TVs, and phones following politics, it might be nice for some (…)

When 2016 began, we put together a list of New Year’s resolutions for Astorians, which was a fun way to make attainable, neighborhood-specific goals that we’d actually look forward to (…)

    You guys, this is SO exciting! Award-winning author Roxane Gay will be visiting Astoria Bookshop next month for a reading and signing of her much anticipated collection of short (…)

We love events that combine multiple fun activities into one awesomely good time. If you love trivia, enjoying drinks, and helping a good cause, we’ve got your plans for November (…)

The Astoria Bookshop is three years old this year, and they are celebrating with a party on Sunday, August 21!

Book lovers of Astoria, get excited! The Queens Book Festival will be making its big debut this Sunday, August 7th from 11am-6pm at Kaufman Astoria Studios, and is shaping up (…)

Summer is heating up and so are our giveaways. We’ve got a pair of tickets to Panorama NYC going down July 22-24 at Randall’s Island Park. Panorama is a one-of-a-kind (…)

Back by popular demand, the Astoria Where’s Waldo? search kicks off today, courtesy of Astoria Bookshop! Everyone’s favorite bespectacled stripes-wearing traveler will be hiding in twenty-five local businesses, and those (…)