Weekend Events in Queens – April 13-15, 2012 Friday The House featuring The Queen’s Secret Improv Club Secret Theatre Scavenger Hunt Forest Park Monthly Jazz Clinics Flushing Town Hall For Rent LaGuardia Performing Arts Center – Through April 21 Saturday Children’s Carnival Queens County Farm Museum – Weekends Through April 22 Kraftwerk Music Festival PS 1 – Saturday and Sunday Photo [...]
Joey “Fitness” Lasalla and Danny Horal anticipated the trip of a lifetime. But first, they needed to find somewhere to pack their club attire and a few extra cans of Axe Body Spray. The best friends snagged the ultimate journey, competing on the most recent season of CBS’s “The Amazing Race.” Lasalla and Horal lasted [...]
A blank canvas – lacking a defined identity and purpose – can be a daunting task for any artist. Many grow to hate its vacant stare, praying for inspiration to end the monotony of its colorless complexion. Often, it can lead to hasty or unimaginative work. Such dilemmas are nonexistent for Louie Gasparro, who adores [...]
At this time last year, singer James Durbin was bravely competing on one of TV’s top shows—American Idol. The country anxiously watched as the charming and talented young man from Santa Cruz, Calif., who has both Tourette’s and Asperger’s syndromes, proved that a rocker can make it to the finals on Idol. Durbin wound up finishing [...]
SAVE THE DATE: 10th Annual Top Women in Business Awards & Networking Dinner Terrace on the Park Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 6-9pm Click Here For Full Event Details The Queens Courier will be honoring influential women in business whose major achievements and whose participation in many community activities throughout the years has helped the borough grow [...]
For the second straight week, Heejun Han found himself in American Idol’s bottom three. This time though, neither viewer votes, nor the judges were able to save him. Han was joined in the bottom three last night by Skylar Laine and Hollie Cavanagh, but it was Han whose Idol dreams were ended. After host Ryan [...]
A week after the American Idol judges were on Heejun Han’s back for not taking the competition seriously, the Flushing-native had them on their feet with his rendition of “A Song For You.” The top 9 Idols performed songs from their personal musical icons with Han choosing the Donny Hathaway classic. The song, which was [...]
Elijah Strauss hovered over piles of equipment stacked behind the DJ booth in the lightless back room of the UC Lounge, a nondescript bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Pressing his headphones to one ear, Strauss twisted a shiny, silver knob, bringing Rihanna’s voice slowly into focus. The crowd is minimal — a group of [...]
A lot of talented people upload videos of themselves performing to websites like YouTube on a daily basis. While a lot of these folks are skilled in what they do, most of them don’t make it past the Internet. One gifted lady who is getting the chance at the big time—with her own television show—is Stevie [...]
Our view of art tends to be restricted to the work residing within the frame. The artist decides to start or stop at a certain point, and the audience must find meaning somewhere within that – and that alone. This is the conventional way in which the world views art. But of course, artists will [...]
