Astoria Long Island City Astoria Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Their Twelfth Year With a Concert by Lindsay Goyette 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 LIC vs Long Island City by Mackenzi Farquer (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 (…)
Astoria Long Island City Monday Haiku – Respect Thy Neighbors by Judith Rich Monday haiku about Long Island City
Astoria Long Island City Monday Haiku – Ode to LIC by Judith Rich Astoria Haiku about Long Island City
Astoria Where’s Waldo Shop Local in Astoria Starts This Sunday by Mackenzi Farquer 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 (…)
12 Days of Giveaways, Day 11 Winner by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
12 Days of Giveaways, Day 10 Winner by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
12 Days of Giveaways, Day 10 – Sweetleaf by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
Long Island City QUILL Presents BODY OF WORK: A Creative Translation Event by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
Coming Soon to LIC – Bear by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
Meg Hearts Sweetleaf Cafe by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
Astoria/LIC Waterfront Visioning Workshop by Meg Cotner 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 (…)
Queens Art Express is Back by Meg Cotner 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 (…)