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This event will never get stale. The New York Panettone Festival returns to Long Island City from Friday, Dec. 15, to Sunday, Dec. 17. (Hours are daily from noon to 6 pm or until the products sell out.) First organized in 2021, this three-day culinary extravaganza attracts a mix of everybody from artisanal-new generation bakers…

Manfred Kirchheimer is a documentarian whose films explore urban life. The tireless 92-year-old is also a professor at the School of Visual Arts. Meet him and watch three of his shorts — including two world premieres — during the Celebrating Manfred Kirchheimer program at the Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday, Dec. 9, at…

Every year, Ebenezer Scrooge sees the light and gets into the holiday spirit. But in 2023, he does it in three distinct Queens venues. Perseverance Production’s National Touring Company offers the classic Charles Dickens play A Christmas Carol at Queensborough Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Dec. 21, at 7 pm. This play overflows with music,…

Take an enchanting trip through traditional Irish music with a few holiday-themed songs every now and then. Kupferberg Center for the Arts presents Cherish the Ladies: A Celtic Christmas in Flushing on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 8 pm. This all-female ensemble has played traditional Irish music for more than 40 years. But on this night,…

Santa Claus might not make his regular rounds this year. He’s heading to The Shops at Skyview on Dec. 1, and he might stay at the Flushing shopping center for the entire month to enjoy crafts workshops, gingerbread, tree-lightings, shopping specials, and photo ops. To begin, a friendly Holiday Tree Celebration runs the whole month….

Build it, and they will come! (Of course, the word “they” refers to humans, rabbits, turtles, guinea pigs, iguanas, and even some chinchillas.) The Alley Pond Environmental Center will hold a ribbon cutting to unveil its new headquarters on Monday, Dec. 4, which also happens to be World Wildlife Conservation Day. The program begins at 11…

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…

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 &…

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…

Put the pedal to the medal, but in reverse. The BHS Vintage Car Show is in Bayside on Sunday, Nov. 19, from 9 am to 3 pm. Several dozen antique automobiles are expected to pull up to this annual event, which is presented by the Long Island Sound Region of the Classic Car Club of…