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With This Heat, It’s Time To Sit Outside; Here’s Our Top Outdoor Places
Well, it’s safe to say that the weather’s improved these last couple of days. The mercury is rising, and so is our thirst. Astoria is jam packed full of places to sit and chill with a nice cold one and some company, so we’ve compiled a little list of some of those places. So if…
Read MoreClip Show: A Sketch Show
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY – The Creek and the Cave is the home to a new sketch show experience. Clip Show: A Sketch Show is a LIVE comedy show made up of real clips from fake shows that never aired in the first place! Join NYC’s best comedy writers and performers, as we sample new…
Read MoreStand-Ups Improvise TED Talks
ASTORIA, NY – Q.E.D. – A Place to Show & Tell is the home to the funniest, most unofficial TED Talk experience in the city. Join host and local Astoria comic, Ryan Stanisz, as he challenges NYC’s best stand-ups to improvise their way through a presentation they’ve never seen before, on a topic that they’ve…
Read MoreAny Given Sunday
A free comedy show at QED featuring the best comics in the city. This month's lineup: Joe List, Sarah Tollemache, Anthony Devito, Julia Solomon, Sam Evans and Steve Forrest. Hosted by Dan Fisher, Mark Walton and Shaun Murphy.
Read MoreThe W Train To Start Service This November
As reported earlier in the year, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans to bring back the W train and it looks like service will start as soon as this November. The annual operating cost is gauged to be around $13.7 million which is already approved in the MTA’s budget and the plan is up for…
Read MoreD.B. Rielly at Doyle’s Corner
D.B. Rielly will be performing at Doyle’s Corner on Saturday, June 18th from 11pm to 2am. Admission is free. Please visit www.dbrielly.com. Award-winning singer/songwriter D.B Rielly and his band will perform a wide-ranging collection of Americana music, spanning several genres including Roots, Zydeco, Blues, and Alt-Country. D.B. promises his listeners an “instantaneous cure for all…
Read MoreFood and Drink Specials For The 2016 Copa America Centenatio At Astoria Tavern!
The 2016 Copa America Centenatio or 2016 Centennial Copa America, is celebrating 100 years this year, making it the oldest international continental football competition, and the American Outlaws Queens is putting together the perfect celebrations. 16 teams from the Americas will compete in 10 cities across the U.S in 32 matches from June 3rd to…
Read MoreThe ‘Donutccino’ Takes Over NYC
We live in a world of hybrids. No longer satisfied with the singular version of something, we simply put two things together and enjoy. The cronut for example has been just that kind of hybrid that will that food lovers to another level. But now, we think we've found a level even the Cronut inventor…
Read MoreSteinway Murderer Found Guilty For Cold Blooded Crime
Wahid Elawame, 39 from Steinway Street was found guilty on the 6th of April for second degree murder and will serve 25 years to life in prison. The verdict was well received after news of the crime began to circulate. It happened at around 11:30pm on May 4th, 2012. Elawame was in his apartment entertaining…
Read MoreAstoria Apartment Building Sells For Over $7 Million
The records are being broken in Astoria. This year we saw a record breaking house sell for $2 million, and now it's a whole apartment building that's breaking records. The 19 unit apartment building which sits on 23-35 29th Avenue, sold for a cushy $7,230,000. The building is four stories high, and is mixed with rent…
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