It’s a marriage between the borough’s biggest music icon and the biggest industrialist. The Poppenhusen Institute hosts A Queens Icon: Louis Armstrong, The Man and His Music in celebration of Black History Month on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 3 pm. Jimmy Owens, a trumpeter and flugelhornist who has shared the stage with Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus,…
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Let’s call it a day. Night at the Museum is at MoMA PS1 on Friday, Feb. 23, starting at 8 pm. Attendees to this closing party for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s A LOT OF PEOPLE exhibition get after-hours access to interactive works, special performances, dances, and DJ sets by Spencer Sweeney, while all exhibitions are open. General admission…
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Lewis Latimer (1848–1928) was a true Renaissance Man. When not inventing devices, he wrote poems, played musical instruments, installed large-scale lighting, co-founded a church, and even taught himself mechanical drawing. And of course, the African American lived in Queens, and his house is now a museum and historic landmark. To celebrate Black History Month, the…
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#InTheLoop | More than 80 Entities Participate in Lunar New Year Specials in Long Island City in February
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The LIC Lunar New Year Celebration is back by popular demand…and it’s a day longer as February has 29 days, thanks to leap year. Head to Western Queens to savor delicious food, dance with dragons, revel in hot fashion, meet people, spoil your pets, and support Long Island City’s flourishing Asian/Asian-American community…and everybody else. The…
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#InTheLoop | Queens Public Library Celebrates Black History Month with Art, Books, Fashion, Films + Panels
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Queens Public Library celebrates Black History Month by presenting more than 100 events that celebrate African American artists, directors, musicians, performers, politicians, writers, and others in February. Activities include art workshops, book talks with bestselling authors, concerts, movie screenings, panel discussions, and theater performances. The schedule follows. Feb. 1 to Feb. 29 Ralph McDaniels, who…
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A multi-purpose space for art, culture, education, and journalism with a podcast studio and video creator lab is coming to Queens. Epicenter-NYC has just received $250,000 from the Mellon Foundation to establish a community hub. According to its press release, the “community hub will serve as a space for content creation, dedicated art exhibits and…
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#MonthlyPicks | Artist. Academic. Administrator. What Does Julia Del Palacio Love About Queens?
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Richmond Hill resident Julia del Palacio is a dancer, historian, and arts administrator. In addition to performing with Radio Jarocho, she wears many hats at Queens College. Here are some things she loves about the World’s Borough. Good Eats I recently had dinner with friends at La Sala on Metropolitan Avenue in Kew Gardens, and…
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Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning is beaming into another dimension. Get the details at JCON 2024, a Sci-Fi-Fantasy-Horror convention to happen from noon to 6 pm on two Sundays – Feb. 3 and Feb. 17. Attendees can expect an artist market, live commissions, workshops, artist talks, and maybe even some Star Trek costumes. Attendance…
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#InTheLoop | Tech Meets Art! Queens Expo Features AR Sculptures, Video Games, Net-Based Interactives
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Technology keeps advancing…and so does art…and so does Auriea Harvey. Marvel at how everything mixes and matches at her My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard, which opens at the Museum of the Moving Image on Friday, Feb. 2. On display until July 7, the expo features more than 40 of Harvey’s…
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It’s cold out, but it’s warm inside. In other words, it’s the perfect time to kick off the winter theater season in Queens. First up is Genesis, which is at Queens Theatre from Feb. 2 to Feb. 11. Produced by the resilient, borough-based Titan Theatre Company, this Mercedes White masterpiece is a de facto prequel…