DEE’S, family-owned and operated 27-year-old-restaurant in Forest Hills, just unveiled their “NYC holiday window.” The theme of the installation is “Gratitude,” created to give thanks and spread a bit of holiday cheer to all! DEE’S hopes to bring some joy to the streets of Queens with its lively holiday window display, Gratitude, that is decked out in gold with the […]

Dear Dr. Universe: Why does water in ponds not get soaked up by the dirt at the bottom? —Rocky, 11, California Dear Rocky, That’s a great observation. If we investigated the bottom of a pond, we might find a few different things. Besides a few fishes and frogs swimming around, we might observe mud, algae, rocks and soil at the […]

Santa Claus is coming to town — via Zoom. In-person visits with Santa Claus at shopping malls, or Santa breakfasts hosted by community groups, are likely to be casualties of the ongoing Covid19 pandemic in many parts of the United States. Fortunately, Santa has gone virtual. The website VisitWithSantaClaus.com brings the magic of Christmas directly to families in their homes. […]

Art Talks At The Queens Public Library: Devices Of Wonder: Scale Models In The Urban Imagination – Monday, December 28, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, online. Based on the Queens Museum exhibition Bringing the World into the World (2014), Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions and Programs, hosts an examination of the largest object in the Queens Museum’s collection, the Panorama […]

The holiday known as Christmas arose in the fourth century A.D. as the Christian religion, still in its infancy, struggled for supremacy with the official Roman state religion, Mithraism. Over the centuries, customs and traditions from many different cultures came together eventually to result in the familiar holiday season. The date of the birth of Christ is still unknown. In […]

Have you ever read a warning like the following? Don’t ever let your kids eat the poinsettias! They are deadly poisonous, and every year several poor unsuspecting little ones are killed at Christmastime by taking just the slightest nibble from a poinsettia plant. Scary stuff. Luckily for us, it’s not true. It’s a wonderfully persistent myth though, and it seems […]

The holidays are quickly approaching and lots of people gift their loved ones boxes of gourmet chocolates. However, can dogs eat chocolate? Of course they can’t! So, how do we include our cherished furry family members in this loving tradition? What does a box of “chocolates” look like for a dog? Or more importantly, what does it smell like? In […]