Friday Holiday Open House at Queens County Farm Museum Matinee Screenings of Oliver! at MMI Saturday Pomanders and Noisemakers at King Manor Fowl Prowl at Baisley Pond Park Winter Waterfowl at ... Read More

Seeing as how this weekend can basically be described as "PARTY," we here at JIA thought it would be great to sum up our past year. There is no real ... Read More

Crime During Christmas Mass Proves Far From Perfect [NY Times] In old Queens nabe, just a good guy (James Brown Lived in St. Albans) [Daily News] A biographical sketch of ... Read More

NYC's 10th annual Mulchfest is coming up. Give the Park rangers your tree or wreath. If you have a bag, they'll give you mulch for your garden. ... Read More

A Korean-Chinese Hybrid With an Oniony Bite [NY Times] The paper of record continues to eat its way through the best East Asian restaurants in Queens. This time it's ... Read More

It's the day after Christmas in NYC and you're overflowing not just with holiday cheer and new socks, but discarded wrapping paper and packaging. But when to put the ... Read More

Holiday Events in Queens More Christmas - Santa Claus Sightings in Queens, NY Top Weekend Activity - Christmas Light Cruising Saturday Nutcracker at Flushing Town Hall The Lost Highway - Explore Abandoned Vanderbilt Motorway ... Read More

Happy Holidays everyone! It's a big holiday weekend and I hope you are exactly where you want to be with shopping, eating, and celebrating. I know Astoria ... Read More

Queens Arm Wrestlers Are Best In The World [Chronicle] Team Party Crash: 29th Annual Empire State Golden Arm Tournament of Champions @ Galloping Green Tavern [Gawker] Long Island City's Hackett ... Read More

Chinatowns: Dim Sum, Borough by Borough [NY Times] Ha! Flushing in the Travel section of the Times! Taiwanese restaurant Gu-Shine (135-38 39th Ave, Flushing) or ... Read More

Queens has its second Survivor winner in Yul Kwon. He joins fireman Tom Westman who won the reality TV show in its spring 2005 Palau season. Kwon -- this season's ... Read More

Festivus -- the Festivus for the rest of us, and the holiday of Seinfeld's Costanza family -- is this Saturday, December 23! Celebrate with friends, family, and ... Read More

Happy Hanukkah in Queens The Holidays Are Upon Us - Holiday Events in Queens More Christmas - Santa Claus Sightings in Queens, NY Friday The Shoemaker and the Christmas Elves at Queensborough College ... Read More

Friday break out the soofganiot and grab a match, Happy Hanukkah to all! Not doing the holiday thing? Languages and culture a topic of conversation? Well, it will be on Friday ... Read More

Hackett Building Slated For Demolition [Chronicle] St. John’s To Embark On Major Expansion [Chronicle] In Queens, 2 Marches and 2 Philosophies on Police Shooting [NY Times] The Duel Over ... Read More

Flavors of a Faraway Home [NY Times] Roundup of five restaurants in downtown Flushing, including the still wonderful soup dumplings of Joe's Shanghai (136-21 37th Ave). Masso Running ... Read More

It was curious to see a New York Times article over the weekend -- "The Duel Over Cool" -- that compared Long Island City to Williamsburg. The two areas ... Read More

Wooden Toys at the Slovak-Czech Varieties Store The walking penguin. Get it. Unique World's Fair and Queens Souvenirs For anyone who was at the 1964-65 World's Fair. Designer Toys - Unique Toys ... Read More

The Holidays Are Upon Us - Holiday Events in Queens More Christmas - Santa Claus Sightings in Queens, NY Friday Queensboro Potters Sale - Going Out of Business Holiday Sale - Friday, ... Read More

Holy moly, it's a gonna be cold on Friday! A little warmer on the weekend but not by much. It's a good weekend to stay inside if you ... Read More

Sean Bell - All Articles on Shooting [NY Times] Fatal Shootings by Police: Hard to Investigate, Even Harder to Prosecute [NY Times] TEACH AND PREACH - CLASS ACTION VS. COPS AT ... Read More

Follow the Yellow Silk Road [Village Voice] Robert Sietsema loves the manti, "obese wontons," served Uyghur style (a cuisine from China's Central Asian Xinjiang province) at Arzu ... Read More

Voting Closed on December 18 Yesterday you voted on the Best of Queens 2006 with the new restaurant Masso running away with it. Now let's get to the snarky negative ... Read More

Voting Closed on December 18 As we wind down the clock on 2006, it's about time to figure out Best of and Worst of lists. Let's start positive (tomorrow we'll ... Read More

The Holidays Are Upon Us - Holiday Events in Queens Friday Tatlin's Monument at Flux Factory - Opens Friday - Through December 22 Alejandro González Iñárritu - Director of Babel and ... Read More

December brings shopping on the brain! Ease into the weekend Friday, Candy Plum is throwing a trunk show by a local designer. Not enough to get you over there? Well ... Read More

For 5 Officers, No Shots Fired for Years, and Then 50 at Once [NY Times] A Fatal Shooting in Queens (Maps and Images) [NY Times] In Queens, Closed Nursing Home ... Read More

The big news in all of New York City this week has been the death of Sean Bell on the morning of his wedding, killed by a barrage of police ... Read More