Sounds like a one-stop shop for an epic birthday party! The Shops at Skyview just signed lease agreements to bring a bowling arcade, a trampoline park, and a Korean restaurant to Flushing. Details follow. Round 1 Bowling & Arcade The first Round 1 (top photo) in the five boroughs will be on level 3 near…
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#Newsflash | Sunny Jain Brings His Ecclectic Indian-Jazz-Global Music to Queens on Feb. 15
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Jazz comes in many forms. This one is explosive, energetic, and tireless…It’s also a lot of fun. Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East takes over LeFrak Concert Hall in Queens College on Saturday, Feb. 15, at 8 pm. Jain, who was born in Rochester to Indian parents, plays the dhol (a double-headed drum) and drums with…
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#Newsflash | Skyview Celebrates the Year of the Snake with Live Mural Painting, K-POP + Dance
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HoJin Im is a doodle, animation, digital, and documentary artist who’s known for his distinctive character-driven pieces and his use of pop culture to connect communities. On Wednesday, Jan. 29, the South Korea native will be in Flushing to host a Year of the Snake Live Mural-Painting and K-Pop Party at The Shops at Skyview…
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#PickoftheWeek | Welcome the Year of the Snake with the Nai-Ni Chan Dance Company in Queens this Weekend
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Intuition, transformation, and wisdom are the main buzzwords of the approaching Year of the Snake. Celebrate this spirit with colorful costumes, graceful movement, and maybe even a dragon or two. The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company offers two shows at Queens College’s Goldstein Theatre this weekend. Consider it a “vibrant weave” as performers bring ancient choreography…
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#Newsflash | NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis Headlines MLK Day Ceremony at Queens College on Jan. 19
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NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis is taking his talent to Queens College. The three-time Grammy-winning saxophonist headlines an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Ceremony at Colden Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 19. Known for telepathic interplay and extraordinary energy, the Branford Marsalis Quartet – which includes Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass, and…
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Civil rights are human rights. They’re also the main focus of a great new photo exhibition at the Queens Historical Society. Remonstrance! A History of Social Justice in Queens is on view until June 2025. About 30 images – all from QHS archives; mostly black and white – are on display in the first floor’s…
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Nature lovers just got 25 more reasons to visit Flushing. New Crabapple trees were recently planted in Queens Botanical Garden, thanks to The City Gardens Club of New York City. All members of the Malus species, the group includes seven Royal Raindrops, five Golden Raindrops, eight Prairiefires, and five Donald Wymans. About four years old,…
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Got literary skills? Here’s the chance to make them soar. The Lewis Latimer House Museum is currently accepting applications for its Spring 2025 Memoir and Autobiographical Writing Workshop series. The program’s themes are race and immigration, and the facilitator is Abeer Hoque. Born in Nigeria, Hoque is a writer, photographer, editor, and educator. In 2016,…
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#PickoftheWeek | Bria Skonberg Offers ‘Jingle Bell Swing’ with Brass-and-Sass on Dec. 7
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Here’s a great way to get in the holiday spirit. Bria Skonberg brings her Jingle Bell Swing to the Kupferberg Center for the Arts on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 8 pm. The multiple award-winning trumpeter adds her brass-and-sass – aka smoky vocals and fiery trumpet – to such classics as “Let It Snow,” “What Child…
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#PickoftheWeek | New York Theatre Ballet Presents ‘The Nutcracker’ in Queens on Dec. 1
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Tickets are selling like sugar plum hotcakes for The Nutcracker at Queens College’s Colden Auditorium on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 3 pm. New York Theatre Ballet offers this rendition of the timeless Christmas classic, which has a 1907 Art Nouveau theme with mischievous mice, sparkling snowflakes, dancing flowers, a time-bending clock, and a luminous owl….
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