Astoria Long Island City 12 Days of Giveaways, Day 8-Spaceworks LIC by Emily Rios Music, dance and theater – all being made under one roof! Where else but in Queens? Spaceworks Long Island City provides affordable rehearsal space to help your talent grow! Four (…)
Astoria Mundo’s Saturday Night Party Will Be Full of Music and Dancing by Meg Cotner We love this video filmed last summer at Mundo, which is opening this weekend! As an update, there are $10 tickets for the Saturday event, which you can purchase here. (…)
The Quays’s Live Music Fridays Series Starts Up Tonight by Meg Cotner The Quays’s Live Music Fridays Series is starting tonight! They’ll have live bands for the month of November (including the day after Thanksgiving) and the majority of December. Here’s the lineup: (…)
Uke Hut Arrives In Astoria by Meg Cotner A WHA reader tipped us off today to this new arrival in Astoria—the Uke Hut. And yes, it’s all about Ukeleles, and it also seems to be the successor to (…)
Astoria Video of Postmodern Jukebox and a Very Tall Crooning Clown Shot in Astoria by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
Astoria SummerSessions at The Quays – Live Music at a Beloved Local Venue by Meg Cotner Joe at The Quays took the time to send us news of their #SummerSessions music line up for the rest of the summer, and we wanted to pass that info (…)
Astoria Italian Nights 2014 in Astoria by Meg Cotner We apologize for being a little late on this, but we still wanted to let you know about these Italian Nights presented by the Federation of Italian American Organizations of (…)
Astoria Long Island City Saturday Recap – Solstice, Instameet, and Block Parties by Meg Cotner This Saturday was an amazing day in Western Queens. And it was the longest day of the year—the Summer Solstice—so there was plenty of daylight in which to enjoy the day. Plus, (…)
Astoria Summer 2014 Waterfront Concert Series in Astoria Park by Meg Cotner The Waterfront Concert Series this summer again takes place on the Great Lawn in Astoria Park on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in July and August. It’s a great chance (…)
Astoria Long Island City Socrates Sculpture Park’s 10th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration is Saturday by Meg Cotner If you can believe it, the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, is just a handful of days away on Saturday. One of the highlights of Solstice in Astoria/LIC is (…)
Astoria Sponsored Giveaway: Two Tickets to the QCA Block Party by Emily Rios On June 21st, QCA is kicking off summer with their annual Block Party! Enjoy a fun-filled evening of food delights from Bareburger, Snowdonia, Manducatis Rustica, Kim Chi Smoke, and (…)
Astoria Where to Experience Make Music New York in Astoria, LIC, and Sunnyside by Meg Cotner Make Music New York, the nonprofit organization that organizes city-wide public music festivals on both the Summer and Winter Solstices, has organized over 1,300 free public music shows this year! There (…)
Art, Music, Film and Lots More Art This Week in LIC by Meg Cotner Over on We Heart LIC we’ve been posting about all the amazing arts events happening in Long Island City this week—there’s the LIC Arts Open, the Queens World Film Festival (…)
Astoria Waltz-Astoria Closing, Reopening in New Space by Meg Cotner We heard the news last week that beloved live music space (and home to giant slices of cheesecake and watermelon icys) Waltz-Astoria is closing… but opening up in a new (…)
Astoria 2014 Best of Astoria – The Winners by Judith Rich We Heart Astoria announces the 2014 Best of Astoria winners – best restaurant, best bar, best cafe, best boutique, best new arrival of 2013