Astoria

As we’ve mentioned before, Astoria Park Pool is home to the adult lap swim program each summer, and it’s awesome. Now that the season is almost over, we’ve learned that (…)

One of the things I love about Astoria is the continued adherence to global traditions and celebrations. The Ditmars area seems to see a number of them—Epitaphios on Orthodox Good Friday, the San (…)

Labor Day edition of food talk includes brand new eats at Off the Hook Bar, U.S. Open food recommendations, Labor day food specials such as the banh mi at The Queens Kickshaw and more.

We caught wind of this excellent effort via Costa Constantinides’s Facebook page. The City Council wants to replenish the city’s food banks and is asking for your help. Head on (…)

Fun times are happening at Sparrow tonight—it’s Glam Rock Night! Here’s the deal: This Go-around we’re spicing up the fund with those who gave us GLAM. come dressed as your (…)

This weekend I wandered over to 22-78 35th Street, the location of what we speculated to be a Greek market. Word on the street is that Mediterranean Foods II in the (…)

We caught wind of this via the Marketa Facebook page—on Tuesday, September 16 Marketa is hosting a fine dining pop-up to benefit Carnival Of Love, a Queens-based foundation that helps (…)

Here’s a great way to contribute your ideas to the decision making process—at the Capital and Expense Budget Public Hearing! This hearing is happening on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at (…)

The annual summer live music festival from Astoria Music & Arts is almost here! This is their 6th annual event and will take place in or around the main lawn (…)

Yesterday Mt. Sinai Queens had their “topping off” ceremony—that’s when a building project’s steel construction phase is finished and they “top it off” with a final piece. In this case, it (…)

We were contacted by Chef Julian Medina and his staff at Tacuba Cantina Mexicana to see if we could help them get the word out about their open positions at (…)

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with John Zervoulakos, who I originally know as friend to one of our favorite ‘cue masters, Tyson Ho. John was also a pit (…)

I had the pleasure to sit down with Nicole Panettieri this morning and chat about her new shop, The Brass Owl. In fact, we met at newly opened 60 Beans (…)

Join us as we go behind the scenes of Astoria’s graffiti art world with Astoria graffiti artist, Louie KR.ONE Gasparro

We are big fans of the delicious iced and milk tea at Tea n’ Milk. They are regular vendors at both the LIC Flea and Astoria Flea, and every time (…)