History On Northern Boulevard

Queens Theatre kicks off exciting season

Thanks to a busy schedule and high-caliber performances, the stars will surely shine when the lights go down in Flushing Meadows Corona Park as Queens Theatre in the Park launches its 2004-05 season. The exciting venue for acts that rival those produced across the East River has packed a star-studded season that includes two new [...]

Open Studios weekend in LIC is an art attack

Perhaps the biggest two days for art in Long Island City comes this weekend as some two dozen studios and more than 50 individual artists open their doors for all the world to browse. The Long Island City Arts Weekend features many of the lesser-known exhibition and performance spaces, as well as open admission at [...]

A window on immigration

The transition people experience when moving from one town, city or state to another is often overwhelming. That shift in ones life is even more severe when relocating to a new country, speaking a new language and trying to fit in to a new culture while being sure to retain some sense of self and [...]

Satchmo comes home

After decades of sitting silently in the quiet streets of Corona, the non-descript two-story house bought by Louis and Lucille Armstrong a year after their 1942 wedding will once again be filled with the sound of Satchmo’s music and voice. The Louis Armstrong House, preserved by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since the jazz legend’s [...]

Acting on their passion

Far from the bright lights of Broadway, community theaters in Queens are buzzing with activity, getting ready for the upcoming fall season. Sets are being built, actors are learning their lines, lights are being hung and producers are sweating the costs associated with their productions. For Kevin and Judy Vincent of Bayside, production costs mean [...]

Ayers to take stage to help kick off JAMS 2003

For a true musician, the road never ends. In the case of Roy Ayers, who just released his 88th album, the road he most recently traveled took him to Switzerland, Germany and Japan, and the road that lies ahead includes a stop in Jamaica for the Jamaica Arts and Music Summer Festival Friday. The vibraphone [...]

Take a day off in Manhattan, and look what you can do

This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say “To-morrow [...]

Body’s most complex organ on display

There’s so much information available at the New York Hall of Science’s latest educational exhibit that it could make your brain hurt. Of course, there is probably a tidbit or two in the exhibit that would explain why your head will hurt. “Brain: The World Inside Your Head,” a 5,000-square-foot interactive, high-tech exhibit officially opened [...]

A fine pair– Matiesse and Picasso

They inspired each other, were at times jealous of each other and knew each other as friends later in life. Now, decades after their deaths, some of their finest works have been brought together for what is likely to be one of the most exciting exhibits to hit the city this year. Previously exhibited at [...]