Arts and Culture

Calling all young professionals looking to share their personal awesomeness with the Queens creative community! The Queens Council on the Arts Junior Board (QCAJB) is a group of local emerging leaders who are (…)

We Heart Astoria is proud to sponsor the first curated Art Walk at the Astoria Art Festival! We’re big fans of this Festival, now in its third year, and proud (…)

We just heard that master of funk George Clinton is going to be in Astoria on Monday, October 27 at 7 p.m.! He’ll be in town for a book signing (…)

Astoria’s own urban farm, Brooklyn Grange. The Rural Route Film Festival folks are bringing a double-feature to the Broadway Library this Saturday, focusing on agriculture both in the city and (…)

Next week on the evening of Tuesday, October 7 there’s a very special event happening at the Astoria Bookshop—at 7 p.m. author Andrea Lynn will be chatting with yours truly (…)

We recently learned about this new panoramic video installation at the Museum of the Moving Image, A Memory of Astoria, and it definitely piqued our interest. It was created by (…)

We are thrilled to let you know about the coveted award won by APAC during last night’s 2014 New York Innovative Theatre Awards ceremony. They won in the category of Outstanding Production of (…)

I’ve always loved this storefront and its signage. Thanks to AlexNYC on Astorians, we were tipped off to this great video over on Gothamist, Type Safari, where James Victore, a (…)

Earlier today on Facebook we posted an Instagram from WHA fan @kellnr of the preparations happening for a shoot of St. James Place, the new film from Steven Spielberg (not (…)

We’ve learned about what sounds like a fun event—a book signing of When the Cypress Whispers by Yvette Manessis Corporon, taking place at Artopolis Bakery on Saturday, September 13 from 1 (…)

We were happy to learn of the opening of The Princess of Bedlam, a production of Art House Astoria in their theater space, The Broom Tree Theater. It opens tomorrow (…)

Well how cool is this?!? MA Senator Elizabeth Warren was in town! On Thursday she spent time at Kaufman Astoria Studios to film a cameo in Amazon’s Alpha House. According (…)

We are big fans of the QNS Collective and we’re super excited to be both collaborators and supporters of the first QNS Cowork Week. Check out all of the fantastic (…)

Thanks to the fine folks at the fabulous Broadway World, we’ve learned that APAC is launching their 2014-15 season with Cody Daigle’s In The Bones. It’s scheduled for November, but (…)

Did you happen to catch a recent episode of $9.99 that took place in Astoria? It’s very interesting! They visited MOMI, Socrates Sculpture Park (the awesome Queens Mother of Reality (…)