Donovan’s Pub has been a hub of Woodside life since 1966. Patrons have flocked to the Irish-heavy establishment for award-winning hamburgers, music nights with local talent, family reunions, friendly bartenders, and countless sporting events over the decades. Thus, it has survived urban flight, parking problems, crime spikes, economic downturns, and even blackouts. But COVID has

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a horror story about a scientist who creates a sapient human (homo sapien) in his laboratory. It’s loosely based on historical reports of an alchemist who lived in Germany’s Frankenstein Castle and Jewish folktales about a creature called “The Golem.” The 1818 novel gets a full makeover in The Securely Conferred,

In basketball, Mr. Inside-Outside can shoot from long distance with accuracy and bang around for rebounds near the hoop. Queens is Mr. Inside-Outside this weekend, but in a natural kind of way. Stay inside for the Web-Based Winter Waterfowl Workshop on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 11 am or head outside for a Winter Plant Walk

Cinemas are closed, but the Double Feature concept is alive and kicking. The Museum of the Moving Image has partnered with Art House film distributors to stream new blockbusters from Friday, Jan. 22, until Monday, Feb. 8. Identifying Features uses Magical Realism to build suspense as Magdalena searches for her son, Jesús, who left Guanajuato

Jeffrey Gibson wears many artistic hats — and he’s going to try on a few new ones. The MacArthur Genius Grant winner has been exhibiting Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City since this summer. Now he’s going to premiere collaborations with indigenous artists

Take five, New Orleans. Catch your breath, Chicago. It’s coda time, Kansas City. Queens is the Jazz Mecca. Louis Armstrong lived in the borough. So did Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie. And that’s just the tip of the list, which includes one of the genre’s most unsung heroes: Alfred McCoy Tyner (above). The