Arts and Culture

We’re thrilled to kick of the new year with a giveaway to one of our favorite Astoria institutions, Museum of the Moving Image! We’re giving you the chance to win (…)

Our fifth annual 12 Days of Giveaways is unfortunately coming to a close. Thousands (over 3,000 to be exact!) of you have joined in our giveaway shenanigans, and we’re going (…)

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 (…)

Thanks to the wonder of twitter, we picked up a tweet by author Diane Kochilas about her book signing this weekend at the fabulous Titan Foods, right here in Astoria! Her book, (…)

This weekend Jen Lim and Ben Sandler, owners of The Queens Kickshaw, were featured on CBS Sunday Morning on a segment about hard cider. They mentioned the new bar/restaurant they’re (…)

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 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: (…)

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 (…)

How cool is it to run across this Queens Courier article about Astoria’s very own Saw Lady (AKA Natalia Paruz) having her playing featured in an upcoming feature film! The (…)

Thanks to the eagle eye of Astorian @ATB24, I learned that the opening of the most recent episode (Season 2, Episode 4) of The Blacklist was filmed in Astoria! The (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

The Astoria Art Festival is almost here! It kicks off on Friday October 10 with ten days worth of events. Curious to know more? Let’s go! Friday October 10, 9 p.m. (…)