Act V - The Secret Theatre In LIC

January 9, 2010 / Long Island City LIC. The Secret Theatre just opened a three week series of one act plays in Long Island City. The program includes one week of the first series of five one act plays, the second week includes another series of five one act plays and in the third week the five best plays as selected by the audiences in the first two weeks, will be shown.

The one act plays are all original work and mostly done by local writers, producers, directors, actors and actresses. Our general view of the performances is that they are well worth seeing and provide great entertainment value for the money. Click here to view our review of Act V at The Secret Theatre in LIC Long Island City Queens.

24 Hours @ LPAC

Long Island City / November 7 & 8, 2009. I visited LaGuardia Community College last night to see for myself, exactly what the 24 Hours event was all about. It's essentially a worldwide sharing of original theatre, dance and music via the internet. The international piece [inbound from other parts of the world] was due to resume at 2 am, so I decided to forgo it in favor of sleep, but I did get a chance to talk to the people responsible for the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center as well as their collaborators, the Internationalists, and a few of the students to begin to piece together what the program is all about. Click this link to view the full report about the events of last night at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City.

NYC Marathon Photos 2009

LIC Long Island City Queens / November 1, 2009. We have some great photos of the NYC Marathon that we've just uploaded into a photo album on the site, all of which were taken in Queens. There are approximately one hundred of them, including photos of the runners, the crowds, the water stand workers and a few policemen.

Long Island City is about the fifteen mile mark. We started taking photos of the NYC Marathon 2009 in Queens around 10.30 am, which is about two and a half hours after the handicapped participants had begun and about an hour and a half after the runners had begun. Generally, as you can see by the photos, things were pretty quiet in LIC. We then jumped into the Queens Buzz Sky cam and around 11.30 am took photos of the 2009 NYC Marathon runners crossing the Queens Boro Bridge [click title link above]. Then a bit after 12 noon, we returned to LIC to photograph hordes of nyc marathon runners making the 2009 event theirs in Long Island City Queens. The rest, as they say, is history, although we have one more page of photos of the nyc marathon runners 2009 crossing through Queens.

Click this link to a report we published earlier on the NYC Marathon 2009 event. Have a good day.

Sculpture Center LIC - Leopards In The Temple

January 10, 2010 / Long Island City - LIC. The Sculpture Center of LIC opened a new exhibit this weekend, entitled 'Leopards In The Temple'. The theme encompasses ritual practices, existentialism, alchemy and material transformation ... which is afterall, what sculpture is all about.

In this report we provide an overview of the exhibit including photos taken at the reception on opening night. Click here to view the full report of the opening night of Leopards In The Temple at the Sculpture Center in LIC Queens.

LIC Space Kicks Off Fall Art Season

September 1, 2009. Aaahhh, the fall is finally upon us. Warm dry sunny weather and the Queens fall art season has already begun. Last night LIC Space hosted a closing reception for the fall preview at one of its three spaces. The reception included cheese and wine, as the attendees were surrounded by oil paintings and metallic sculptures. It was an interesting crowd, to say the least, and it looks to be a fun venue.

This report also tells the tale of an enterprising woman who came to New York to make her rendezvous with destiny. She's been working hard the past eight years to help find space for fellow artists to enable them to continue their journey into the vast unknown we call the future. Click here to read a full report including plenty of photos of the lic space reception in long island city.

Secret Theatre White Box Festival

Original & Entertaining Theatre In LIC

Da Gianni's Ristorante - LIC / Long Island City

Long Island City LIC Restaurants. This is a review of the Italian restaurant Da Gianni's Ristorante in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, NY. Da Gianni's restaurant serves home made pastas, veal, seafood and chicken. Da Gianni's Ristorante is a fun, comfortable Italian restaurant that's only a couple of blocks from the Citicorp center in Long Island City.

The restaurant has patio space in the back which receives ample sunlight and a medium sized room upstairs where they host private dinners and parties. They also have a full bar. Click here to view our report on Da Gianni's Italian Restaurant in Long Island City.

Manducatis Restaurant LIC Long Island City

Italian Restaurant In LIC Long Island City

LIC / Long Island City Queens. This is a review of Manducatis Italian restaurant in the LIC / Long Island City neighborhood of Queens NY. The Italian restaurant has a wide selection of authentic Italian appetizers, main entrees and desserts. It has spacious dining rooms with a warm atmosphere.

Click here to read a restaurant review of Manducatis Restaurant in LIC Queens.

Orphan's Thanksgiving

Like Going Home Without The Hassle

LIC - Long Island City / November 26, 2009. I spent the better part of this Thanksgiving with the 'orphans' of The Creek And The Cave in LIC. Seems for the past four years, with one exception, they've been hosting a free Thanksgiving Dinner for their friends and it's open to the public. It's hosted at the Creek and the food preparations, like I remember they used to at home, begin the evening before. This is a story about my Thanksgiving Dinner with them, as I became an honorary orphan this year. Click here to view the full story on an Orphan's Thanksgiving at The Creek & The Cave in LIC Queens.