Celebrating their twelfth season, the Astoria Symphony Orchestra will bring the music of Mozart, Brahms, and Barber to Long Island City High School on Sunday, March 15 at 5 p.m. Concertgoers (…)
Long Island City
(Image via New York Mag) We recently stumbled upon this New York Post article that claims some in Long Island City want the neighborhood name permanently changed to LIC. Officials (…)
Monday haiku about Long Island City
Astoria Haiku about Long Island City
Maybe you’ve heard from our Facebook or Twitter about this fun new Where’s Waldo event in Astoria? This July 20 local businesses are teaming up to create one huge local (…)
Today we draw the winner of the Ovelia-Sweet Afton giveaway during our 12 Days of Giveaways. I actually had lunch today at Ovelia and loved the bifteki platter I ordered (…)
We are happy to announce the the winner of the very caffeinated giveaway from Sweetleaf – a free drink and bag of coffee – as part of 12 Days of (…)
Welcome to the 10th day of We Heart Astoria’s 12 Days of Giveaways! Today we have a giveaway from one of our favorite LIC food institutions – Sweetleaf! This lovely (…)
We were alerted to what sounds like a very cool event happening tomorrow night in Long Island City. It’s called BODY OF WORK: A Creative Translation Event, and is a collaboration (…)
We were recently contacted by the people at the new (opening soon) LIC restaurant Bear (no, this is not their bear, or even a representative of the restaurant, but he is a (…)
This morning I found myself in Long Island City in the Vernon-Jackson area, taking care of some errands. OK… one of my errands was to go to Sweetleaf. I hadn’t (…)
Over the summer and fall there were a series of visioning workshops held around Astoria/LIC. This Wednesday, December 8, is the final community visioning workshop. Please consider attending and sharing (…)
The Queens Art Express returns! In its second year, it will “feature performances, exhibitions, art events and great places to eat in the unique cultural communities along the route of (…)