Under the scorching studio lights, Danielle Colding felt calm. “I’ve done the best I can do,” the “HGTV Design Star” finalist thought as the judges made their concluding remarks and deliberated between the two last-standing contestants. She played out both outcomes — winning and losing — in her head, proud she had made it so [...]
SummerStage, New York’s largest free performing arts festival, runs in Queens from July 17 until August 9. It features musical performances, from pop and hip-hop to R&B and gospel music, as well as dance, theater film and family programming. For more festival information, visit www.SummerStage.org. Tuesday July 17, 7:00 p.m. Queensbridge Park (concert) Chi-Lites / Felix Hernandez’s [...]
Sid Chidiac eats his work. For the past 10 years, the artist, born in Australia and raised in Lebanon, has painted with chocolate. Now based in Long Island City, Chidiac has a distinct, creative routine unseen among those working with oils and acrylics. He cleans his brushes by licking them, and is forced to repeatedly [...]
Taggers armed with cans of spray paint who flocked to leave their mark on the paint-laden walls of graffiti mecca 5Pointz may soon be searching for another canvas. The 200,000-square-foot Long Island City graffiti art exhibition space, home to over 350 multicolored murals, could soon be knocked down in favor of building two high-rise apartment [...]
Though the energy of Citi Field had died down by the ninth inning as the Mets fell to the Cincinnati Reds 7-3, a substitution in center field brought Mets and Reds fans back to life when REO Speedwagon came in to play. The band played the first show in the 2012 post-game concert series at [...]
Balanced on wooden supports in Lisa DiClerico’s Long Island City studio was an 18th century European mirror. The 10-foot-tall relic suffered damages during a fire. Its previously ornate, gilded edges were left charred. The mirror’s sculpted glass, once reflecting the image of a figure now long gone, was coated in layers of soot. Many ornamental [...]
While “Men in Black 3” (MIB) triumphs at the box office, aliens from the movie have invaded an Astoria museum. The Museum of the Moving Image (MMI) is displaying 25 aliens, gadgets and weapons from the third installment of the popular sci-fi flick until September 23. “The Museum is thrilled to exhibit these exquisitely-crafted objects [...]
The creative colony of Long Island City blazed with inspirational energy during the second annual LIC Arts Open – a 10-day extravaganza in which local artists welcome the public into their studios. Festival-goers experienced the cutting edge in painting, sculpture, photography, theatre and ceramics, crafted by many of the city’s most forefront and promising artistic [...]
Comedian Andrew Hendrickson stepped into the spotlight on the makeshift stage at The Bread Box, a Long Island City eatery just off hip, bustling Vernon Boulevard. The restaurant was packed with locals and comedy junkies looking for a laugh and a chance to see the next “great one” before hitting the big time. As a [...]
Fans clamoring for more Heejun Han, will have the chance when the “American Idol” tour rolls through New York this summer. The “American Idol Live” concert tour — featuring the show’s top 10 performers — lands at Nassau Coliseum on August 22. Han, a graduate of Francis Lewis High School, will be among Colton Dixon, [...]
