This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and one troupe is exploring what the Civil Rights leader might have done hours before his violent death. L.A. Theatre Works presents The Mountaintop three times at Queens Theatre this weekend. It's In Queens followers can buy the most expensive tickets ($42) for $30 with the promo code QTC30.
Reelabilitiespresents over 100 films around NYC -- including in Astoria, Forest Hills, and Jamaica -- from March 8 to March 14. The goal is to promote awareness and appreciation of what organizers call “the most underrepresented minority in American meda." Watch narratives, documentaries, and animation on everything from cerebral palsy to dwarfism to mental illness.
The weather must be confused because the borough is heating up Big Time with innovative theater, live Punjabi-electronic music, a copious amount of history, gang girls, and biker boys. Don’t forget Chinese paper-cutting and high tea. And what could wrong for a nice Jewish girl whose parents want to marry a nice Jewish boy?Click here for the weekly roundup.
Art Kane took a photo of 57 jazz musicians in front of a Manhattan brownstone for Esquire magazine in 1958. Entitled “A Great Day in Harlem,” the black-and-white image symbolized the genre and neighborhood. Fast forward to May 19, 2018, and Art’s son, Jonathan, is going to snap a shot of Queens residents near the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
It’s basically a visa to party hearty ... and then party heartier. Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur is offering the Discover Queens Good Cocktail Passport 2018for $30. Holders get entry and three tastings at a kick-off party on May 14 and then they can imbibe one cocktail made with the signature product at 13 watering holes in Astoria and Forest Hills from March 15 to May 15.
The Rockaway and Sunnyside parades reached their final destinations last weekend, but the borough is still celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Bayside hosts a pub crawl and an inaugural parade on March 24, and there is lunch with the police commissioner at Terrace on the Park on March 15. So put on some green and celebrate the Emerald Isle and Irish culture.
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Visitors and residents always feel welcome in Queens, but some neighborhoods like to make sure that everybody feels at home. Posted by @nikki_nono
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