By Meg of Joey in Astoria
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thus starts the official holiday season. Thanksgiving is a time for gathering with friends and family, expressing gratitude, and of course, eating! Judith has a great rundown on places to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in town, if you are not preparing the meal yourself.
Friday hails Black Friday, and boy do retailers need your business. One local Astoria business that I particularly love is The Little Soap Shop. Vivian is holding a sale, natch, so you'll find 20% off everything in her store that day, from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. I especially love her citrus-lavender reed diffuser, which uses wooden reeds stepped in scented oil to spread a wonderful fresh aroma throughout the room. And how about SITE's cupcake ornaments! How cute are they?!? They look good enough to eat!
On Sunday, stop by Immaculate Conception School (21-63 29th St) for its Annual Flea Market. The event lasts from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Vine Wine in LIC (12-09 Jackson Ave) will be open tonight until 11 p.m. -- score! -- if you're still in need of happy libations. And on Thanksgiving Day, it's open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.! Tonight's wine tasting (5:30-8:30 p.m.) includes three of six Thanksgiving-theme wines. They've even boxed up these wines in a cute carrying case for your convenience. There is a $50 box and a $75 box, both saving you approximately $15 each.
Mix (40-17 30th Ave) is a new cafe/lounge in Astoria, and it's holding a stitch n' bitch each Saturday starting at noon. If you knit, crochet, and partake in any other fiber craft, come on by to enjoy fellow needle nerds, and perhaps you'll even come away with something new for your stash. What a nice way to spend an afternoon.
Since the kids (including kids at heart) are home a long stretch this weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image (35th Ave at 37th St) will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during Thanksgiving weekend with hourly screenings of short animated films from Pixar. Screenings include Luxo, Jr. (1986, 2 mins); For the Birds (2000, 3 mins); Jack-Jack Attack (2005, 5 mins); and Presto (2008, 5 mins).
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