Posted in Books | September 14, 2012
Our borough is the source of countless stories, some recorded and ready to be discovered—in the Queens Library collection, in the Archives at Queens Library, and on the Queens Memory Project website, a collaboration between Queens College and the Archives at Queens Library—and…
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Posted in Movies | September 12, 2012
The classic film Casablanca—ranked number three on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 movies—celebrates its 70th anniversary this year and you can mark the occasion in a variety of ways with Queens Library, starting this weekend with a free screening of the film…
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Posted in Music | September 7, 2012
Louis Armstrong, the legendary jazz musician and longtime resident of Corona, Queens, bequeathed a huge legacy to the world, with much of it right at our fingertips, right here in our borough! This weekend Lincoln Center Local and Queens Library will be partnering to present “It…
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Posted in General | August 16, 2012
This week at Steinway’s Garden Club, we planted various beautiful flowers all around the garden. We also played a game in the garden where the kids had to guess what each plant/vegetable was by either looking at the plant or by smelling it. A few of the kids were stumped on some…
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Posted in General | August 16, 2012
The detective story is not usually a genre that is well carried in video games. As a medium that favors more dynamic visuals and faster paced stories, the slower feel found in crime noir and private eye stories are usually relegated to lower budget projects, or at best the…
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