Forest Hills Tour - April 1 "Surrealist County Fair" at the Metro Mall in Middle Village - April 1 (Is this for real? NY Times says so.) Far Out Science Month ... Read More

What great weather we finally had this week! I hope you all get out and frolic this weekend. Maybe go for a run down by Astoria Park, have ... Read More

Manhattan to J.F.K., Well Above the Traffic [NY Times] For the Culinarily Obsessed, a Big Helping of the Jitters [NY Times] Oh, Where, Oh, Where ...[NY Times] Filling a Mall With Art, ... Read More

Photoblogger Dogseat has up on Flickr awesome photos of the Phagwah celebration held a couple weeks ago in Richmond Hill. Phagwah is my favorite parade/party in all of Queens, ... Read More

Lil' Bistro 33, what a wicked cute name for a restaurant in Dutch Kills, a Long Island City neighborhood south of Astoria. Guest writer Annie Miller of Lost in ... Read More

Joe's Best Burger (Flushing) Revamp [Chowhound] Joe's Best Burger gets mango chuntney dipping sauce for new and improved fries HELP! Jackson Heights Indian Vegetarian Wanted [Chowhound] Praise for Dosa Diner (37-47 74th St, ... Read More

Spring! It's here. Plants are already pushing up from the ground. Time to get out and get moving. Forest Park gives a bit of incentive for families ... Read More

Lovely Jackson Heights is urban geographer Jack Eichenbaum's subject later this month. Step away from claustrophobic Roosevelt Avenue and discover the co-ops in the neighborhood's historic district. ... Read More

New York City architecture expert Francis Morrone leads a two-hour of Forest Hills this weekend. The tour starts in Forest Hills Gardens, which is a real treat. ... Read More

The new Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I ---' Shot That has its New York premiere tomorrow March 28, co-presented by the Museum of the Moving Image at the ... Read More

Freddie Hubbard & The New Jazz Composers Octet - March 24 Reggae & Soca Throw Back Night - March 24 Music From the Underground at JCAL - March 25 FluxBox at the Flux ... Read More

If this winter has got you down, stay tuned for the new season of our beloved Hell Gate CSA for your fill of fresh veggies, starting this June. A little ... Read More

Patchwork City - LIC Development [The Architects Newspaper] (via Curbed) Queens Senator Is Accused of Throwing Coffee at Aide [NY Times] Woman Claiming to Be a Victim of Katrina Is Charged With Fraud ... Read More

Give a warm welcome to Annie Miller of the Lost in the Supermarket blog. She just reviewed D&F Italian Deli for Queens.About.com, and promises to share with you more ... Read More

So Long Corona Pork Store [Chowhound] A Corona landmark deli closes its doors for good. Camera in the Kitchen: Cheburechnaya [Gothamist] Gothamist makes it out to Rego Park and falls in love with ... Read More

Sunnyside is a cool little neighborhood that I've been exploring this month. It's no longer the undiscovered country to folks fleeing Manhattan prices, and it's obvious that more money has ... Read More

Groovy, man, groovy. That's the theme and the era this April at the New York Hall of Science. The museum explores science of the 1960s through a Hall of ... Read More

Art collective Flux Factory has some of the most fun events in Queens. They once turned their building into a canvas for paintball paint-by-numbers. Another time they trashed ... Read More

Regular readers have heard me yap plenty about the awesome designer toys at Toy Qube, most recently about last weekend's Trexi art/toy event, where artists made their own interpretations ... Read More

Janis Karpinski, former commanding general at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, joins a panel discussion today, Monday, March 20, with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!; Aseel Sawalha, Professor of Anthropology, ... Read More

Invasion of the Urban Vinyls - Trexi at Toy Qube - March 17 and 18 Maticoor Chutney in Concert at Rum Jungle - March 17 Art Opening @ Repetti - Anne Becker ... Read More

Nope, not just any old weekend is here. It's St. Patrick's Day! Be Irish for a day or two and partake in the fun. Of course, you should hit ... Read More

FDNY Investigates Five-Alarm Fire In Jamaica [NY 1] Attack Ads on Cable TV Join School Financing Fight [NY Times] In a Flash, Teen Snaps Pic of Perv [Daily News) Man Sentenced in Rapes ... Read More

FilmChefs: the blockbuster hit of the year...in my belly [Lost in the Supermarket] I am an evangelical follower of the cult of the cubano and this was one of the best ... Read More

Kingfish, Amos and Andy, an original play at the Black Spectrum Theatre, has been drawing record crowds and rave reviews. The play opened January and has been extended until ... Read More

Blogger Lolita of Latino New York spots out a few of the Latino hot-spots in Queens. She doesn't get out to Corona, but covers Sunnyside, Astoria, and Jackson Heights ... Read More

Foodite, a blogger devoted to eating out and discoveries in the kitchen, got out to Flushing last month and tried Ocean Jewels Seafood Restaurant. His clear language and great ... Read More

On schedule to open this spring, the Shops at Atlas Park is hiring. Eighteen of the new mall's stores will have a job fair this weekend. Shops, restaurants, and ... Read More

Ridgewood looks like Brooklyn more than Queens. Its buildings went up when most of Queens was still farmland, and the brick row houses are even more beautiful today. ... Read More

March Incoming at the Queens Museum of Art - March 12 - July 9 Free Opening Event - March 12 New Photos at the Fisher Landau Center for Art - Through April ... Read More

Here's your to do list for the next couple of days. There is no excuse for not getting out and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather: Joey in Astoria's very own Meg ... Read More

Suspect in St. Guillen Murder May Be Linked to Sexual Assaults in Queens (NY Times) Queens West Tower on Tap (Daily News) Yummy Bingham - New R & B Singer from Jamaica ... Read More

Have you ever been to the Fisher Landau Center for Art? Ever hear of it? Here's your excuse to discover a New York City secret. The private museum recently ... Read More

Baruir's, a Sunnyside coffee shop and roaster, has won the award for Best Coffee Shop in Defiance of Starbucks from the 2006 Independent Food Festival & Awards. The Amuse Bouche blog ... Read More

The Queens Museum of Art (QMA) has a heck of a lot going on these days. This Sunday is the opening for three new shows. Stop by for ... Read More

Minangasli and Padang Jaya are two Indonesian restaurants, just doors away from one another in Elmhurst. Over the weekend , the NY Times explored --The Lemongrass War -- ... Read More

Did you know that Forest Hills was once the home of the US Open? Or that it's new condo The Windsor is one of the most expensive real estate ... Read More

New Astoria blogger Annie strays a bit from the neighborhood in her musings, but her photos, her love of food in all its forms, and her wit more than ... Read More

Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade - March 4 The Movies of Anna May Wong - March 4 - April 16 Queens Jazz Trail Tour - March 4 St. Patrick's for All Parade ... Read More

Well, it's March and snowing, but one thing that says "spring is on the way" is St. Patrick's Day (March 17). The holiday is huge with the 5th ... Read More

Booming Borough (Construction Magazine) Queens Church Gets New Canon (Daily News) North Shore Towers Gadfly (NY Times) A Haunted House, Clinging to Secrets (NY Times) Plan For St. Joseph’s Site Raises Questions In Area ... Read More

The Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade is this Saturday in the Rockaways, but the weather isn't a huge fan of the Irish this year. It'll be sunny but ... Read More

Urban vinyl is where toys become art, and local Flushing store Toy Qube is pushing it this month with a big two-day event -- Trexi Invades New York -- ... Read More

Anna May Wong was a famous actress from the early motion picture industry. She's famous for her roles in movie hits like Piccadilly and The Thief of Bagdad, ... Read More