This past June, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz swore in Astoria resident and Queens native Maria Lisella as the new Queens Poet Laureate. Maria will be joining us at Central Library on Sunday, October 11 at 2:00 p.m. for our Open Mic for Poets.Maria Lisella is the sixth…
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Looking for new music? Look no further than your local Queens Library! Every month, our expert staff will bring you the best of what's new in our collection. Check out these music recommendations for October! The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness The Weeknd (real name Abel…
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Looking for new music? Look no further than your local Queens Library! Every month, our expert staff will bring you the best of what's new in our collection. Check out these music recommendations for September! Lila Downs, Balas y Chocolate Lila Downs is an American-Mexican…
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Award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter David Spaltro, whose credits include The Cat’s Cradle (2014), Things I Don’t Understand (2012) and …Around (2008), will present an advance screening of his new horror movie, In the Dark (2015), at Central Library on Wednesday, September 9…
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Patricia Park’s debut novel, Re Jane, is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre that takes its Korean-American heroine, Jane Re, on a journey from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul—and back.Patricia was born and raised in Queens and is a graduate of Bronx High…
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