FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com NOVEMBER 14, 2013 • BUZZ • THE QUEENS COURIER 77 buzz SUNDAY, NOV. 24 Adapted for the stage by playwright and lyricist Greg Gunning, “The Little Engine that Could Earns her Whistle” is an uplifting story of an ordinary train that does extraordinary things. Single tickets are $14; $10 for families with a family fl ex pass. The performance is from 1 until 3 p.m. at Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Avenue South Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. For tickets and more information call 718-760-0064. The Laughing Devil will be hosting brunch and a movie! A $5 draft beer special and a marathon of classic Buster Keaton fi lms to kick your Sunday afternoon off right! Tickets are $7. The Laughing Devil is located at 47-38 Vernon Boulevard Long Island City. For tickets and information call 347-913-3845. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27 Penthouse808 is hosts “Starlight Social” featuring live jazz by Dandy Wellington and his band plus a prefi xed menu by Chef Seth Levine. For more information call 718-289-6118 or email [email protected]. Penthouse808 is located at 8-08 Queens Plaza South Long Island City. THURSDAY, NOV. 28 Thanksgiving dinner in Queens! Restaurants throughout borough are serving a turkey dinner and all the appropriate holiday trimmings on Thanksgiving Day. Listed below are a few local restaurants. Make sure to call for reservations. Danny Brown Wine Bar and Kitchen, 104-02 Metropolitan Avenue Forest Hills, 718-261; Ben’s Deli, 211-37 26th Avenue Bayside, 718-229-2367; Vesta Trattoria and Wine Bar, 21-02 30th Avenue Astoria, 718-545-5550. FRIDAY, NOV. 29 “Songwriters in the Round” featuring Nicolas Howard, Paul Wilmot ad Jaclyn Monroe begins at 8 p.m. at the Waltz Astoria. There is no cover charge, though there is a $10 food/ drink minimum. The Waltz Astoria is 23-14 Ditmars Boulevard Astoria. For more information call 718-956-8742. EDITOR’S PICK SATURDAY, NOV. 30 This is your chance to attend a Haitian post-Thanksgiving bash! Dance the night away! Brothers Production Presents: “Brothers 9th Anniversary- Cho Cho Net DISIP vs. KLASS” at Amazura. Amazura is located at 91-12 144th Place Jamaica. Tickets are $35 in advance. For more info call 347-234-3332. ONGOING Bring your friends, bring a scarf and gloves and remember to lace up tight! Ice skating season has begun at World Ice Arena at Flushing Meadows- Corona Park! Admission is $5 for all ages on weekdays and $8 on weekends and holidays. To rent skates be sure to bring socks and an additional $5. Monday through Friday the rink is open from 9 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. On weekends it is open: 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Friday nights; noon. until 4:45 p.m. and 8 p.m. until 9:50 p.m. Saturdays and noon until 4:45 on Sundays. Information is subject to change, to inquire about any changes call 718- 760-9001. World Ice Arena is located at Avery Avenue and 131st Street Flushing. Art in the Garden: Deconstructed Flowers at the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Building. Gallery Photographer H. David Stein’s intricate photographs give fl owers a particularly layered, multi-dimensional presence, See fl owers angles you thought impossible! The Queens Botanical Garden is located at 43-50 Main Street Flushing. For more information call 718-463-0263. Legacy: Photographs Emily Fisher Landau’s Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art at the Fisher Landau Center for Arts. The collection includes 419 works, namely installations, sculptures, drawings, photographs, etc. by numerous key fi gures in contemporary American Art. FREE. Exhibition hours are Thursday through Monday, noon to 5 p.m. The Fisher Landau Center for Arts is located at 38-27 30th Street Long Island City. For more info call 718-937-0727. Legacy: Photographs Emily Fisher Landau’s Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art at the Fisher Landau Center for Arts. The ‘PEOPLE’S UNITED NATIONS’ SUNDAY, NOV. 24, Pedro Reyes’ “People’s United Nations” (pUN) invited 195 New Yorkers from the 195 member states of the real U.N. to gather together at the Queens Museum. These everyday delegates will be led by Reyes in theatre games and group therapy to engage global issues at hand. This high-spirited and light-hearted venture is supposed to create the optimistic and open dialogue that might one day change the world. The program is FREE with Museum admission. The event will be held from noon until 6 p.m. The Queens Museum of Art is located at New York Avenue Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. For more information, call 718- 592-9700. collection includes 419 works, namely installations, sculptures, drawings, photographs, etc. by numerous key fi gures in contemporary American Art. FREE. Exhibition hours are Thursday through Monday, noon to 5 p.m. The Fisher Landau Center for Arts is located at 38-27 30th Street Long Island City. For more info call 718-937-0727. The Museum of the Moving Image invites all to experience its core exhibit: “Behind the Screen.” “Behind the Screen” conveys the techniques and creative processes that ultimately amount to motion pictures. The exhibit boasts over 1,4000 artifacts from the museum’s collection of the material culture of the moving image, computer-based interactive experiences that includes recording their own images, audio-visual material that encompasses over four hours of various types of film clips and projections and commissioned artworks constructed exclusively for “Behind the Screen.” For more information call 718-777-6888. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT APPEAR HERE POST IT @ QUEENSCOURIER.COM Douglaston Community Theatre presents the dramatic comedy Daughters by John Morgan Evans at 8PM Fridays and Saturdays November 15,16,22,23,29,30 and matinees at 2PM on Saturday, November 16 and Sunday, November 24 at Zion Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Church Street Entrance (formerly 44th Avenue) off Douglaston Parkway, Tickets $17 Adults ($15 Seniors, Students with ID). Presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, Inc. Call 718-482-3332 for reservations. THE KILLING KOMPANY presents Comedy Mystery Dinner Theatre Shows with Broadway, TV and film actors starting at $45 per person for dinner and the show at such restaurants as Riccardo’s in Astoria, The Views at Mount Fuji in Hillburn, Minerals Resort & Spa in Vernon, NJ, and Dilettos in Westbury. Private events also available. Special New Year’s Eve Show at Doubletree Hilton in Tarrytown For info, call 1-888-SHOOT-EM or visit www.killingkompany.com
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