Apparantly several local businesses were destroyed last night in a four alarm fire. I hope everyone's okay!!! http://www.ny1.com/ny1/Bo...

Do you want to spend a little quality time with your community on September 17th? a) Nah. I don't care about the environment, my neighbo...

Yum. Originally uploaded by maura . This is a flickr yoink of a great capture of the new place on Broadway.

This piece on the Istra Sport Club illustrates the reason restaurant reviews exist. A hearty thank you to Josh Ozersky for one of the most...

Enjoying the storm a few weeks ago.

This is from the film this past Wednesday at Socrates.

We're almost back to school, folks. Boo! Soak up the last of summer. Sniff sniff. Catch the sun still low in the sky from the East River...

This is random, but I gave blood for the first time today. Apparantly the blood banks are really, seriously, depleted. It was so easy to do....

Help plan for the big day . Planning meeting at GAHC at 7pm, Thursday.

WNYE TV show Cool in Your Code will feature Astoria on channel 25 at 10pm tonight and rerun at 8pm on Saturday.

Heh. What brilliant timing. Maybe Assemblymember Gianaris (D-Astoria) is one of my readers! He's in a rage over Google maps. See article...

Where you at? If you love google maps half as much as I do, then sign into my community map of Astoria . Put a marker at you and a few of yo...

Tonight after work, catch the 7:30 at the Museum of the Moving Image, The Robin Harris Story: We Don't Die, We Multiply . It's the o...

Fellow Astorian, savortooth, blogs Philoxenia . I've got to get over there. I always think that place is called Phylloxera which, as th...

Head's up. Kurtis Blow will will be in Queensbridge Park on Tuesday. Let's just hope the event doesn't knock the rest of the ...

Did you not summer in the French countryside this year? Maybe this will help you get your fix. I'd keep hearing little blips now and the...

Okay folks, I'm going to try a little experiment here. I've set up an online petition to plead with Seaburn to alphabetize thier bo...

This bookstore can't even alphabetize its books and it gets a write up in the Daily News. I am all for independant bookstores (believe...

I am hereby re-dubbing the area North of Queens Plaza & Northern Blvd, but south of Broadway, as "Sunwick". It's too far S...

Be the first of your friends to Float through Socrates Sculpture Park. The new exhibit opens this weekend. Then stroll down Vernon to Queen...