Queens Green Drinks Events In Sunnyside NY

Queens Green Drinks Springs Into 2010

April 26, 2010 / Sunnyside / Queens Buzz. After about a six month hiatus, Queens Green Drinks has resumed making the rounds. The first event was co-sponsored by Queens Harvest Food Coop and held at the Claret Wine Bar in Sunnyside. Helen Ho, environmental activist, eco-super model and academic was on hand to greet the newly energized group of offline environmental social networkers. You can find more about Helen in other stories such as the Queens Is Green Fashion Show [sorry MIA], prior Green Drinks events, the Tour De Queens and other eco-friendly events, by using the search function at the end of each story or in the upper left corner of the site. Click here to view the first of the Queens Green Drinks events in 2010.

St Pat's For All Parade Photos

St Pat's Day Parade Growing In Stature

Sunnyside / March 8, 2010. By all accounts the St Pat's Day Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside was a big success. We estimate that on this fine day the audience count was easily in the thousands [two to three thousand is our estimate]. This was significantly up verus last year, quite possibly due to the nice sunny weather which included temperatures in the fifties, although there was a cool breeze.

The St Pat's For All Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside has been in existence for eleven years now. It's interesting to note that the parade legacy only goes back little more than a decade, given that Sunnyside and Woodside were considered the Irish sections of Queens for the better part of the last century.

The parade began out of a controversy in the late nineties. The Manhattan St Pat's Day Parade forbid non-heterosexuals to march in their New York City parade. Click here to read the rest of this story including a slide show and a link to our album which contains many photos of the St Pat's Day Parade 2010 in Sunnyside and Woodside.

Christmas Tree Lighting In Sunnyside

Running Account Of Xmas Tree Lightings In Sunnyside

The following includes our reports from 2008 and 2009 of the Sunnyside Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies in Joe Sabba Park in Sunnyside. The event was sponsored by the Sunnyside Chamber Of Commerce.

Click here to view our reports on the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies in Sunnyside.

Sunnyside Shorts Film Festival

Sunnyside / Updated September 7, 2009. I had the opportunity to join the film screening committee of the Sunnyside Shorts Film Festival for an afternoon of watching movies. They were in the midst of making their final first cuts as they watched through nearly fifty submitted films that they received over the past year. It was an interesting process as they made judgments based on production quality, story lines, appropriateness for the audience, acting quality and length of film. The festival will be held on Saturday, September 12th in Sunnyside Gardens Park from about 7.30 pm to 10 pm. Click here for a preview of the Sunnyside Shorts Film Festival in Queens.

 Bix Biederbecke Concert Swings Sunnyside

Sunnyside NY / August 8, 2009. This afternoon and into the early evening, residents of Sunnyside and passersby along Queens Blvd at 46th Street, were treated to an excellent jazz concert commemorating Bix Beiderbecke.

Bix Biederbecke you ask? Who is he? He is a one time Sunnyside resident and one of the best jazzmen in the 1920's, the age of jazz. Biederbecke was a contemporary of Louis Armstrong and his improvisational style has been compared to Armstrong's, but Bix was a cornet player while Louis played the trumpet. The cornet is also a valved instrument and member of the trumpet family. Click here to read a full story of the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Concert in Sunnyside Queens including a link to the photo album or click here to go directly to view photos of the Bix Beiderbecke Concert in Sunnyside NY.

Woodside Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremonies In Woodside

Woodside NY / 2008 and 2009. These are our reports on the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies in Woodside, taking place in Sohncke Park. In 2009, due to inclement weather, the ceremony went inside the St Sebastian school auditorium. The event was sponsored by Woodside On The Move and featured a number of school groups who sang Christmas songs.

Click here to view our reports on the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies in Woodside.

St Patrick's Day Parade Queens NY 2010

St Pat's Parade Evolving Into People's Day Parade 2010

Sunnyside & Woodside Queens NY / March 2008 and March 2009. Every first Sunday in March, the St Patrick's Day parade traverses Sunnyside and Woodside. These neighborhoods, once the home to a large concentration of Irish immigrants [and still a bit today], has grown to become one of the more ethnically mixed sections of metro New York City. So it seems only fitting, that as the Manhattan St Patrick's Day parade banned gays from marching in their parade, the Sunnyside / Woodside St Patrick's Day Parade filled in the breach.

The following are brief reports of the parade the past two years including a photo slide show. Click here to view our report on the St Patrick's Day Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside Queens NY.

Unity Stage Company - Six Cylinder Love

Old Script Strikes Contemporary Chord

Sunnyside / June 3, 2010. Unity Stage Company opens Six Cylinder Love on Thursday, June 3rd. I had the opportunity to preview the play the night before the opening.

I went into the review quite skeptical, perhaps because the name of the play just didn't resonate with me. Nor did some of the descriptions I'd read beforehand. It sounded too old and too corny to be of interest.

While everything during the dress rehearsal wasn't quite perfect, there was a lot in this production that made it incredibly relevant to the very times we live in today. The professional cast did a superb job of bringing the characters and themes to life, and I later discovered that this play was written by playwright William McGuire who had won the 1936 Academy Award for Best Picture.

Click here to view our preview of Six Cylinder Love by the Unity Stage Company in Sunnyside.

Sunnyside Events / Woodside Events

Sunnyside / Woodside. This is the Sunnyside and Woodside events section of the site.  In this section you'll find past, present and future events and things to do in the neighborhoods of Sunnyside and Woodside in Queens.

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Sunnyside Neighborhood & Woodside Neighborhood

Sunnyside / Woodside. This is the front page to the Sunnyside neighborhood / Woodside neighborhood section of QueensBuzz.com. This section contains news and information about events, attractions, restaurants and shopping in the Sunnyside & Woodside neighborhoods. Sunnyside and Woodside having thriving artist and musician communities, a wide array of authentic ethnic restaurants and accessible parks, with good commuting distances to the city and other parts of the borough.

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