Telly’s Taverna is the perfect place to warm up and enjoy the cuisine from the sunny isles of Greece while you escape the winter doldrums. One of the sunnier personalities you’ll find is its celebrated owner, Nana Loiselle, who greets you at the door and welcomes you with a heartfelt kali spera!. It’s no wonder that for the past 20 […]
Van Bramer And Queens Council On The Arts Honor Local Artists
On February 3, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside joined the Queens Council on the Arts to celebrate the artistic achievements of their 2011 Queens Community Arts Fund and Arts in the Schools Grant recipients at the Water’s Edge Restaurant in Long Island City. Forty-eight Queens arts organizations and 18 individual artists received the 2011 Queens Community Arts Fund awards, which […]
Gazette Calendar Of Events
Valentine’s EventsTo Feb. 11 (donation deadline), Ann-MargaretCarrozza/Jefferson Dem Club/Dr. RobertMittman, Valentine’s for Vets Gift Drive, 213-3840th Ave., 213-33 39th Ave., Suite 238 or 38-21Bell Blvd.; for information call 718.224.4746.Feb. 11, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, “TheAntonio Carlos Jobim Songbook”, NorthernBoulevard, Flushing; 718.463.7700, x. 222.Feb. 12, Barnes & Noble, Valentine’s DayStorytime, 176-60 Union Tpke., FreshMeadows.Community MeetingsDates & times are subject to […]
The Pulpit
Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. All Nations Baptist: •Sunday, 2:30-5:30 p.m., for three months, free English classes which have already begun, registration required, limited space, 86-76 80th St., Woodhaven; 718.296.2025. **** All Saints’: •Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Join the Sunnyside Drum Corps Marching Band, boys/girls ages 7-17; band information. 43-12 46th St., Sunnyside; […]
Amalgamated Bank To Present Workshop On Small Business Financing
Focusing on how small business owners can build useful alliances with a financial institution, Amalgamated Bank will offer a free workshop entitled Financing Your New or Established Small Business: Where to Look and What You Need to Prepare. Amalgamated Bank Vice President Erik Shumar will also be presenting. Workshop materials, which each attendee will receive, cover many topics and include […]
Mary Louis Academy To Celebrate 75th Anniversary
The Mary Louis Academy, 176-21 Wexford Terr., Jamaica Estates will be celebrating 75 years of excellence in education by having an anniversary dinner dance, to be held on March 25 at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach. The Academy can be reached at 718- 297-2120, by email at marylouisacademy@aol.com or, visit www.tmla.org.
Super Bowl Sunday Generates Most Memorable Ads
Every year, Americans swarm around their televisions for Super Bowl Sunday for two reasons: football and commercials. The final football game of the season is probably the only time of the year that commercials are not used for bathroom and food breaks and would rather not be missed, a tradition started as the ads became funnier and funnier. Now ad […]
Reserve Now For Second Annual Frank Justich Memorial Fundraiser
City firefighters will gather at a Long Island City beer garden next month to join family and friends at the second annual Frank Justich Memorial Dinner, to raise funds to benefit the wife and children of the sanitation worker killed on the job in Astoria in January 2010. Frank Justich, 41, assigned to the Queens West 1 Sanitation garage in […]
Trustees OK Waterfront Library Plans
The Long Island City waterfront is soon-to-be the home of Queens’ newest public library—a 20,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art, reading, reference and community center. The Queens Library Board of Trustees last month approved the design of the Hunters Point Community Library. The long-anticipated $28 million project by architect Steven Hoil, a collaboration with his partner Chris McVoy, is slated to begin construction […]
Bill Helping Small Businesses Thru Tax Credits Passes State Senate
State Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. is rooting for the Assembly to pass an omnibus tax bill which already passed the senate because it helps small businesses and also attacks the unemployment problem. Addabbo admits he has some reservations about the major legislation because it siphons off a lot of tax revenue for the state, but he’s willing to overlook that […]