Get your art and gifts at the Art-O-Mat. It's a new store on Vernon offering art and handmade gifts. There's an opening this Thursday evening of Nancy Weinberg's ... Read More

Morning Glory in Flushing is all about the Hello Kitty. The business's website might say it's a fancy stationery store, but the focus is great Hello Kitty and ... Read More

The Third Annual Queens International Poetry Festival brings together 13 poets from NYC and overseas for an evening of poetry readings at LaGuardia Community College. Plus ... Read More

Jack Frost hosts a holiday celebration this Friday and Sunday at Queensborough College in Bayside. The musical performance will include a space-age Little Red Rocket Hood and a country-western ... Read More

Ever wonder what's the best McMansion in Queens? My vote goes for one in Malba featured in a NY Times article over the weekend. It's a ... Read More

The Fort Totten Rangers hold their first bird count at the new Fort Totten Park. Until this year Fort Totten was a military base, which help make it a ... Read More

More Satchmo at Louis Armstrong House - all weekend Laurel and Hardy at the Museum of the Moving Image - November 26-27 Jason Gersing Trio at LIC Bar - November 27

There are two ways to handle Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. Go join the masses and shop until you drop at stores across Queens. Or ... Read More

The holidays also bring cheer in the liquid form. A bottle of wine is a convenient gift for a holiday party, and it goes well with a big meal. ... Read More

Thanksgiving already! With Christmas decorations out since Halloween, I'd actually forgotten that the holiday season has finally arrived. Here's a rundown on holiday events in Queens. A biggie coming up ... Read More

The Louis Armstrong House has expanded its archives devoted to the jazz great through the acquisition of the Jack Bradley-Louis Armstrong Collection, the world’s foremost private collection of Armstrong memorabilia. ... Read More

No turkey, no problem. There are plenty of restaurants in Queens serving turkey and all the extras this Thanksgiving. Make sure to call today for ... Read More

The story of Long Island City's transformation, particularly Hunters Point, from industrial to residential real estate hit the NY Times over the weekend. The number and scale of building ... Read More

The NY Post included Forest Hills in its article "Suburbs in the City." It's a good overview of single-family detached homes in Forest Hills Gardens (average price $1.5 ... Read More

Queens Film Festival 2005 - November 18 - 20 Carol Sudhalter's 10-Piece Jazz Band: "Women Composers of Queens" - November 18 Din Tai Fung - Soup Dumpling Expo - November 18 ... Read More

I know you're exhausted from last night's 11:59 debut of Harry Potter, so tonight pick up a bottle of wine and Netflix it. It's no news to you that our ... Read More

- Two brutal crimes shocked Queens residents on Wednesday. A school teacher was knifed twice and her car stolen at 9:30 a.m. in front of P.S. 86 at ... Read More

Manhattan folks still don't get that Queens is great. That's why I just loved reading neighborhood blogger Joey in Astoria tell it like it is to Curbed, the snarked-out ... Read More

Urban geographer Jack Eichenbaum leads a tour of Jamaica Avenue this weekend, going from eastern Brooklyn to Woodhaven, and then ending in downtown Jamaica at the King Manor Museum. ... Read More

The Queens Film Festival hits its stride and its third year, opening this Thursday at the Museum of the Moving Image. From the scheduled showings of international features, documentaries, ... Read More

Famed Taiwanese restaurant Din Tai Fung is in Flushing this week for cooking demonstrations and food tastings at the downtown Sheraton. Gothamist reported on Din Tai Fung's soup dumplings, ... Read More

Rather relax than cook for hours on Thanksgiving Day? Here are three restaurants and one fine food store in Queens that will cater your meal. They'll cook the ... Read More

In 1996 Megan's Law began to require convicted sex offenders to register with the government. Their names, addresses, and "risk of reoffense" are all available for public knowledge. ... Read More

Veteran's Day Tribute at St. John's University - November 11 Machinima Festival 2005 at the Museum of the Moving Image - November 12 Family Art Workshop and Music for Tots at Flushing ... Read More

We have to wait another week to see Daniel Radcliffe on the big screen. In the meantime, get your fantasy/sci-fi film fix Saturday at the Machinima Film Festival at MMI. ... Read More

Yesterday Queens-born rapper 50 Cent's new movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' opened up nationwide. It's gotten a lot of heat for its depiction of drug violence. ... Read More

Need a quick weather forecast super fast? Type weather plus your zip code into Google (or your Google toolbar) and up pops a simple weather forecast for ... Read More

Election 2005 brought few surprises to Queens. We reelected Mayor Bloomberg by a wide margin, and returned Helen Marshall to another term as Borough President. Thankfully for all ... Read More

Sure, you can bet our borough is named for a Queen, but which one? Here's the answer to Queens name. Queens, or western Long Island, was once called Sewanhacky ... Read More

The polls are open in Queens, and they close at 9 p.m. tonight. Why is it important to vote on a day when Bloomberg appears to have a second ... Read More

The Michelin Guide, the famed guide to the best restaurants in France and Europe, has published its first New York edition (thanks Daily News. It includes 13 Queens ... Read More

Aqueduct Horse Racing Track opened for the fall season on November 3. The fall season runs until December 31, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays except for today, Election Day. ... Read More

The Daily News has named Bayside one of the best bets for renting in Queens. It's LIRR station makes it a short 20 minute ride to Penn Station, they're ... Read More

Jackson Heights earned high kudos in this weekend's New York Times. The real estate column "the Hunt" chronicled a couple discovering the great neighborhood, searching for an apartment, ... Read More

Jazz at Flushing Town Hall - Concert and Tour - November 4 & 5 This May Be What Parallel Play Looks Like at SculptureCenter - November 5 Musica Reginae Concert - November ... Read More

The freaks running the New York Marathon will whiz by Long Island City Sunday morning. You can catch them at your favorite Vernon Blvd haunt and you should. It's your duty as ... Read More

- This week the news in Queens is all about real estate development. CitiGroup broke ground on a new facility in Long Island City's Court Square, adding to the ... Read More

The Queens Country Farm Museum has picked its first harvest of grapes -- 400 pounds of Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Cabernet Franc grapes -- from its one acre vineyard. ... Read More

Musica Reginae is a Queens group supporting young musicians. This Sunday it's presenting Third Annual Tomorrow’s Artists Today, with a guitar quartet performing "12 Armenian Songs" by Alan Hovhaness and ... Read More

Ever had tapioca in your tea? Starbucks has nothing on this drink fashion. Originally a kid's drink, bubble tea or boba tea is sweet, milky iced tea served ... Read More

This weekend there are two events for jazz fans at Flushing Town Hall. On Friday night the Eddie Allen Quintet plays in the Flushing Town Hall Gallery. Eddie Allen ... Read More

Queens Plaza, what should be one of the best locations in the whole borough, is a throwback to the Times Square of the 1970s and 1980s and Taxi Driver. A Daily ... Read More

The SculptureCenter presents a special group video show this Saturday afternoon. Video in the last decade has been a major medium in the art world, and the program looks ... Read More