As a kid, I read the Sherlock Holmes stories and the mysteries of Agatha Christie. As an adult, I wrote four mysteries that focused on a Quaker heroine solving crimes she happened across in her religious community. (I published them using my grandmother’s name – Irene Allen – as a pseudonym.) And, as a geologist, I’ve read about real-life criminal […]

A new panoramic video installation, A Memory of Astoria, by New York-based artist Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), opened on September 24 at Museum of the Moving Image, located at 36-01 35th Avenue. The artwork, commissioned by the museum for its 50-foot-long entry wall, is an impressionistic portrait of the blocks surrounding the museum in Astoria. The result […]

Several thousand years of Chinese history and culture will be illuminated when the Godwin-Ternbach Museum opens Highlights of The Daghlian Collection of Chinese Art on November 19. The show, which runs through Jan. 10, 2015, features ceramics, jade, pottery, and wood objects dating from the Stone Age (ca. 6000–2500 BCE) to the Ming dynasty (ca. 1368–1644). The 60 items on […]

On September 28, from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Queens Botanical Garden invited the public to join them for a deeper look into the garden’s origins at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky, executive director of the New Haven Museum and former QBG staff member, drew back the curtain on the origins of our “urban oasis” with […]

Fans of the Beatles and rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s and 1960s are invited to St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst for its annual Music Festival on Sunday, October 12 at 2 p.m. to hear the golden voice of Billy J. Ray. An original member of the Broadway show Beatlemania, Ray (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sir Paul […]

On September 23 at the City Council’s Stated Meeting, Councilmember Peter Koo introduced Resolution No. 417 which, if adopted, would recognize and commemorate January 13 as Korean American Day in the City of New York. Jan. 13, 1903 marks the date when the first Korean immigrants came to America. According to the 2010 United States Census, there are now over […]

The community of Immaculate Conception Church will celebrate 90 years of living the Catholic faith in Astoria. The thriving, diverse congregation, consisting of all ages and backgrounds and gathered from all corners of the world, continues to flourish with the faith, pageantry and traditions first fostered by founder, Fr. Michael D. Lopez. To honor their history of faith and service, […]