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QNYC Event Highlight: Christmas in Vienna
Images Source: Vienna Boys Choir Some people consider them the original boy band. The Vienna Boys Choir, which traces its roots back to 1498, consists of four divisions that give roughly 300...
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Queens Borough President Helen Marshall’s final State of the Borough speech
Image source: DNAinfo NY1 reported on Queens Borough President Helen Marshall’s final State of the Borough speech, which happened this past Tuesday at Queens College. Her term – the last of three she...
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Queens Small Business Achievement Awards: Who will you nominate?
The Queens Tribune has announced the inaugural Queens Small Business Achievement Awards and Breakfast, scheduled for April 19 at Queens College. The awards is public and you can submit your own...
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Bill Cosby cracked up 2,000 at Queens College
On Saturday, April 6th, the great Bill Cosby drew over 2,000 patrons to the Colden Auditorium at Queens College from all over the NY metro area. The audience laughed with Mr. Cosby as he spun stories...
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Event Highlight: Jamaica Bay Community History Night
Image Source: Arcadia Publishing: Jamaica Bay It’s a chance to make history, star in a movie and live on in perpetuity. Dan Hendrick, who is currently working on the documentary Jamaica Bay Lives, and...
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First-Ever Exhibit on Painter Janice Biala Coming to Queens College
Polish-born painter Janice Biala (1903-2000) was known for her intimate interiors, powerful landscapes and personal portraits of famous artists she befriended, such as Willem de Kooning. Living in New...
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All-Day “Quintessential Queens” Celebration
No local stone will be left unturned next Friday, when Queens College hosts Quintessential Queens: Celebrating America’s Fourth Largest City, an all-day, eight-hour conference. As part of ongoing 75th...
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Neil Berg Presents 101 Years of Broadway with Help from Many Former Stars on...
Does Neil Berg live for theater or does theater live thanks to Neil Berg? The owner of Leftfield Productions has produced more than 1,000 Broadway-level shows. He has composed music and written lyrics...
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Masterworks of Korean Hangeul on Display at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum Until...
Hangeul, the Korean writing system (or alphabet), was invented in the 15th century. It is somewhat unique because the script was created from scratch, rather than evolving from pictographs or other...
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More Than 30 Local Politicians to Perform Legislative Acts in Flushing this...
They’re not actors. They’re politicians playing actors. This Saturday, elected officials from around the borough will star in Legislative Acts, a show which will let them display their musical,...
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J. Cole Kicks Off Six-Concert, Pre-Game Super Bowl Blitz in Flushing on...
The Super Bowl is coming to Queens! Well, some of the pre-game hype is. On January 27th, J. Cole (above and below) will open the six-concert VH1′s Super Bowl Blitz at the Kupferberg Center for the...
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Queens Symphony Orchestra Gives Free Concert at Queens College on Sunday
These fables are timeless, ageless and great with musical accompaniment. On Sunday at LeFrak Concert Hall, the Queens Symphony Orchestra will present Peter and the Wolf, the classic Russian tale of a...
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Love (and a Discount) Will Be in the Air at LeFrak Concert Hall on...
It’s extremely romantic, and thanks to a special discount, it’s a cheap date. Put simply, Christine Andreas and Martin Silvestri are the masters of the amorous ballad. This husband-and-wife team makes...
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The Fab Faux Pay (and Play) Tribute to 50 Years of The Beatles in the U.S. on...
Remember: In Strawberry Fields, nothing is real. The Fab Faux, a world-renown Beatles tribute band whose members include Will Lee of Late Night with David Letterman and Jimmy Vivino from Conan...
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Artwork by the ‘Martin Luther King of Brazil’ on Exhibit at Flushing’s...
They call him the “Martin Luther King of Brazil.” Abdias Nascimento was an author, playwright, senator and artist who was also a founding force in his South American country’s Black Pride movement. On...
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Broadway Legend Barbara Cook Performs Jazz, Swing and Classics in Flushing on...
Basically, she arrived on Broadway in the 1950s and never left. After being the ingénue in Flahooley in 1951 and then starring in the original musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The...
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Salsa, Jazz, and Dance at Louis Armstrong Music Festival Near Unisphere on...
It was a very good day for Satchmo. On June 30, 1964, the World’s Fair organizers declared the date “Louis Armstrong Day,” and the legendary Corona resident and his All Stars performed at the Singer...
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Mobb Deep Homecoming Part of SummerStage Concerts in Queensbridge
There’s no place like hip-hop home. The rappers Havoc and Prodigy, who work together as the infamous Mobb Deep (above), will return to their native Queensbridge housing projects to give a free concert...
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Andy Warhol’s ‘Photo-Aesthetic’ on Display at Queens College Museum until...
Andy Warhol is coming to Queens as part of an exhibition that examines the pop artist’s “photo-aesthetic,” including his use of silkscreens, Polaroid photographs, silver gelatin prints, and...
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Upcoming Events Focus on Steve Martin, The Jerk, Gloria Steinem and That Girl
The Museum of the Moving Image is showing its bookish side. Next week, the Kaufman Arts District venue will host two events featuring prolific authors. On Sunday, Robert E. Kapsis, a professor of...
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