Saturday, April 27 Starting at 12 p.m., come participate in the Spring Jazz Festival at Flushing Town Hall, located at 137-35 Northern Boulevard in Flushing. Performances by Queens-based musicians and students, plus free workshops and clinics for jazz fans of all ages. The day is a collective of Queens-based musicians that stimulates a wider awareness of Queens as an [...]
Jazz is coming to Flushing Town Hall. The town hall and the Queens Jazz OverGround (QJOG), which promotes jazz education and musical enrichment, are hosting the first annual Spring Jazz Festival on Saturday, April 27. Three founding members of QJOG, a nonprofit collective, along with Ellen Kodadek, Flushing Town Hall executive and artistic director, trumpeted [...]
Feeling like she was never good at art, Karen Dimit started her career as an opera singer. Yet when the perfect stone sang to her, she decided to begin chiseling her outlook on the dualities of life. “I physically felt something hit me in the gut and say ‘Karen, you’ve got to do something with [...]
With spring just around the corner, you can rock this season’s fashion trends right off the runway, without burning a hole in your wallet. BURBERRY PRORSUM- Runway EMERALD LACE DRESS Kohl’s $26 VIOLET CLUTCH Be&D $185 BLUE ANKLE STRAP HEELS Zara $50 JUST CAVALLI- Runway DENIM VEST tillys.com $45 LEOPARD PRINT TROUSERS River Island $48 PEEP-TOE BOOTS [...]
Saturday, April 20 – Sunday, April 22 The Children’s Carnival will take place at the Queens County Farm Museum, located at 73-50 Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park. Enjoy the farm’s apple orchard, rides, carnival games, food vendors and hayrides. Cost of admission is $11 and allows access to all rides. For more information, visit queensfarm.org [...]
At a former Bayside pizzeria, customers are coming for laughs instead of slices. Cascarino’s closed its 39-17 Bell Boulevard restaurant in January for economic reasons and has only offered catering and delivery services since. Jimmy’s Comedy Lounge moved into the location on April 5. “I’m trying to bring something different to Bell Boulevard,” said co-owner [...]
To fans of the HBO series “The Sopranos,” he is Furio Giunta. Yet to the artistic world, Federico Castelluccio has come to be known as a prominent realist painter. On Thursday, April 4 the art collector, connoisseur of old master Baroque paintings and Naples native presented the opening of “Diverse Visions of Reality.” Along with [...]
Saturday, April 13 Starting at 2:30 p.m., the 1960 Broadway hit “Bye-Bye Birdie” will be performed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, located at 85 Greenway South in Forest Hills (between Ascan Avenue and Harrow Street) Suggested donation is $12 ($10 for groups of six or more). For reservations call 718-268-7772 or visit gingerbreadplayers.org. Starting at [...]
The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) kicked off its new exhibition, “An Inclusive World,” showcasing artists of all different backgrounds in one common forum. The traveling exhibition, created by curator Vida Sabbaghi and sponsored by COPE NYC, was inspired by how art transforms lives in many different ways and promotes the idea that [...]
BY DALE REYNOLDS Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper’s new musical, Kinky Boots, is what Broadway is all about…it is a live wire musical full of fun with a cast that truly seems to be enjoying itself. The musical, loosely based on a true story of how Charlie (Stark Sands) reluctantly becomes head of a shoe [...]
