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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 (…)

Happy National Kale Day, everyone! Here at We Heart Astoria, we are big fans of kale—salads, kale chips, sauteed, in pies, it’s all good. Astoria has some great kale options (…)

We’ve learned that It’s My Park Day will be taking place at two different parks in Astoria this Saturday—Astoria Park and Astoria Heights Park. There are all sorts of activities—Zumba, (…)

It’s almost that time again—time for Open House NY Weekend! These two days—October 11 and 12 this year, as well as October 10 for Factory Friday—where you get the chance (…)

While we wait with bated breath for the 12th Annual Open House NY Weekend listings to hit the online stands, we wanted to let you know about how Astoria has (…)

Our friends at XXX Coffee shared the news that they’ll be offering free coffee on Saturday, 10/4 from 10-11 a.m. (only!!) at Socrates Sculpture Park! They are there usually during (…)

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 (…)

This week we were notified that participatory budgeting—AKA “What Would You Do With $1 Million?”—is coming to Astoria (Council District 22) via our councilman Costa Constantinides. Costa’s office emailed us (…)

As you can imagine, the ladies of We Heart Astoria are looking forward to the new women’s clothing (and more) store that’s being developed by our colleague Mackenzi, proprietor of Lockwood. (…)

The beauty that is Alobar’s maple bacon popcorn, a standard menu item since its beginning. I’ve been spending more time on Eater, checking out their new redesign (so far, I (…)

Food Talk explores savory fall food such as the okonomiyaki at Mu Ramen, the meze tasting at Zenon Taverna, Bear’s veal dumplings and more.

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 (…)

The view of the East River from Astoria’s waterfront along Vernon Blvd. Today we came across a couple of interesting stories on folks interacting with the East River and its inhabitants. (…)