Superheroes and villains from various universes will do battle in Queens this weekend. Wintercon: New York Sci-Fi Expo will fill Resorts World New York City with characters from Star Trek, Star Wars, X Files, Doctor Who, Terminator, and maybe even Lethal Weapon on Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 3. Now in its ninth year,…
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3AM Theatre hosts Esrever nightly from Thursday, Nov. 29, through Sunday, Dec. 2. Where to begin? How about, what’s 3AM Theatre? It’s a multidisciplinary company and performance space at Unit 3N at 9-20 35th Ave. in Long Island City. The troupe blends contemporary circus, modern dance, and physical theater with sculpture and lighting design to…
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Black Friday can’t compare to Astoria Weekend! QED will host the tenth annual Makers Market from noon to 5 pm on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26. Several dozen Queens-based artisans and crafters will sell such handmade, homemade, and small batch products as candles, jewelry, prints, and pottery with the promise that “you won’t find this…
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Heeeeeey, ho, heeeeeey, ho! It’s the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop, and celebrations are taking place throughout New York City this year. Queens, where the genre really caught fire in the 1970s, gets into the game with a pop-up museum in Jamaica. Hosted at King Manor Museum via a collaboration with Jamaica Center for Arts &…
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Take a stroll under a magical night sky. Queens Botanical Garden unveils Astra Lumina NYC on Friday, Nov. 24, at 5:30 pm. Open for one-hour sessions, participants discover visiting stars through projections, lighting, music, and astral energy in mile-long walkway that weaves through the Flushing green space. As the night unfolds, the stars regenerate, rise,…
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Now that it’s getting cold outside, stay indoors and enjoy some climate-controlled ice-skating. The SciSkate rink is inside the New York Hall of Science through April 8, 2024. Okay, it’s not exactly ice. The surface is an eco-friendly, polymer-based substance called “Glice” manufactured by a company with the same name. It contains internal lubricants that…
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It’s amazing what an artist can do with the CMYK color model! MoMA PS1 unveils Leslie Martinez’s first New York museum exhibition, The Fault of Formation, on Thursday, Nov. 16. (It’ll be on display at the Long Island City gem until April 2024.) Martinez embraces “rasquachismo,” a Mexican-American art concept of making the most from…
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Find out why they’re known as “The Rat Pack of Opera.” Tenors Unlimited perform at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Nov. 19, at 3 pm. British crooners Jem Sharples and Paul Martin return to the United States with an eclectic selection from the opera, musical theater, and pop worlds. They’ll take the audience…
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Celebrate the Festival of Lights with Indian art, dance, food, and music. Flushing Town Hall kicks off a four-hour Diwali Extravaganza on Sunday, Nov. 19, at noon. The ninth-annual event begins with master teaching artist Abha Roy and members of her Queens-based Srijan Dance Center providing a primer on Bollywood, Bhangra, and Kathak dance moves. Then,…
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Check out living animals during the day … and illuminated ones at night. Queens County Farm Museum unveils the Winter Lantern Festival on Friday, Nov. 17. This fourth annual holiday treat features more than 1,000 lanterns in shapes of Chinese folklore characters and animals — all handmade by artisans with decades of dedication to their…