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Three Queens residents — Modesto Jimenez (Ridgewood), Jude Chehab (Richmond Hill), and Arthur Oh (Woodside) — are among the 188 recent recipients of extremely prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships. Each one receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work. Oh has had solo exhibitions at such venues as Eleni Koroneou Gallery (Athens), Kathryn Brennan Gallery (New York),…

The temperature is heating up in Queens, and Socrates Sculpture Park is on fire! The Long Island City green space unveils The Cubes during a special event on Friday, April 19, at 10 am.  Two-stories-high, the park’s first-ever permanent structure features 2,640 square feet of interior space with a 960-square-foot, multi-purpose indoor area where as…

Flushing Meadows Corona Park has become the center of excellence! Queens Night Market, which has a soft opening there this Saturday, was recently deemed the Best City Food Festival in the entire United States by USA Today.  Not to be outdone, the Queens version of the Water Lantern Festival, which is the country’s best festival…

Rivkah Lapidus is a multi-degreed psychotherapist, harm reduction advocate, painter, writer, collagist, and occasional poet who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. But the grandmother is also a Queens girl through and through (or true and true). She’ll discuss her memoir, The Middle: Growing Up in Flushing, at the Queens Historical Society on Sunday, April 14, at…

Four dapper gentlemen. Four groovy genres. One concert. The Suits will croon, boogie, and generally get down at Queensborough Performing Arts Center on Sunday, April 14, at 3 pm. Attendees can expect hits from the 1950s through the 1980s with a heavy dose of Motown, Doo Wop, Pop, and Soft Rock fused with smooth choreography…

It’s a BBQ meat-centric feast, but attendees will also rave about the sauces, bourbon, whiskey, and beer. Brisket King® NYC returns to Pig Beach Queens in Astoria for its 12th lip-smacking year on Wednesday, April 17, from 5 pm to 9 pm.  This walk-around, sampling event features more than two dozen chefs from around the…

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. and the Queens Economic Development Corporation have announced the 15 finalists in the 2024 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge, a five-month instruction-and-funding competition. A panel of business experts selected the finalists — three each in five distinct categories — from a pool of 132 applications. These finalists will make…

Do you think you know this town? Well, here’s your chance to prove it. Take the Panorama Challenge at the Panorama of the City of New York (where else?) at Queens Museum on Friday, April 12, from 6 pm to 9:30 pm. Presented via a partnership with the Municipal Art Society of New York and City…

​They’ve known him as Fatboy Slim, Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz, Fried Funk Food, Cheeky Boy, and DJ Quentox (The OX that Rocks). Regardless of his stage name, his parties are absolute blowouts. Take part in the Big Beat experience when the British DJ, musician, and record producer performs at Knockdown Center on Saturday, May 25,…