The menu offers two strolls, more than a dozen cuisines, and countless flavors. Myra Alperson, who runs the food-focused touring company Noshwalks, leads two jaunts through Queens this month. The first onewill delve into South Asian eateries in Jackson Heights on Sunday, April 8. The secondwill savor mostly South American and Central American treats on Sunday, April 28.
A Queens native is about to make her triumphant return, and the homecoming is cause for dancing. A lot of dancing. Body Traffic, a Los Angeles-based repertory troupe that Whitestone-bred Tina Finkelman Berkett co-founded with Lillian Barbeito in 2007, offers three shows
at Queens Theatre this weekend – April 7 at 2 pm and 8 pm and April 8 at 3 pm.
The classic Shakespeare comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" starts a two-week run on Friday, but Queens is "much ado about everything" this week. Festivals celebrating fashion and LEGO bricks headline a jam-packed schedule that includes sculpture, South Asian cuisine, modern dance, classical music, theater, and crazy quilts. Click here for our weekly roundup.
Nothing identifies a time period as much as dress style. Museum of the Moving Image presents the fashion-forward film fest Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream over three weekends from April 6 to April 22. With a diverse lineup of 17 features and experimental shorts spanning nearly a century, the program boasts some of the most visually stunning movies ever made.
Joe DiStefano is the Queens Tourism Council's official foodie. He also runs a great blog on local cuisine. Here's a recent post where Joe describes Indian treats in Flushing, which is the biggest Chinatown on the Eastern Seaboard. He finds the neighborhood's "crunchiest, savoriest Indian snack," maddur vada. Click here to read the entire post.
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Play ball! Major League Baseball's 2018 season began on March 29. And as a sign of great things to come, the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-4 at Citi Field.
