TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2014 • 20 It’s In Queens! News From The Queens Tourism Council Say the genre and Queens has it. Catch a Rock & Roll, R & B or Rap concert this August, including Drake vs. Lil’ Wayne at Forest Hills Stadium. If film is more your thing, try any of the outdoor screenings at Cunningham Park and Astoria Park, or the Museum of the Moving Image’s nine-film screening series featuring rare titles imported from Hong Kong. Plus, don’t miss a Mexican night with a costume contest, and an edible plant biking tour in the Rockaways. Here’s the rundown. • Tonight (Thursday) Aug. 14, Passport Thursdays: Cuba, 7 to 10 p.m. Explore a different country each week with live music, dance, and outdoor films. This week features Cuba and The Cimarron Project, an ensemble dedicated to showcasing the diversity of Afro-Cuban music and dance at its most traditional. Plus, the film Habanastation, which traces the lives of two Cuban classmates with different upbringings who form a strong friendship. Free. Queens Museum, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows- Corona Park, www.queensmuseum.org. • Thursday, Aug. 14, The Regulars, 7:30 p.m. A Rock & Roll band that proudly and defiantly stands up to trends and fads and makes the fist-pumping, lighterwaving -SEE TOURISM ON PG. 57- Community CALENDAR Queens & Brooklyn music we all can’t live without. Free. Astoria Park Great Lawn, Shore Boulevard between the Hell Gate Bridge and Astoria Pool, www.centralastoria.org. • Thursday, Aug. 14, Laughing Boy Review, 7 p.m. This Woodside group plays R&B as part of the Woodside Summer Concert Series, presented by the Northwest Woodside Coalition and Goliard Concerts. Free. Sgt. Collins Park, 58th Street and Broadway, Woodside, 1-718-205-1030. • Friday through Sunday, Aug. 15-24, “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Cinema of Patrick Lung Kong.” The Museum of the Moving Image pays tribute to Hong Kong director Patrick Lung Kong, who made his first film nearly 50 years ago, and who had a profound impact on following generations of filmmakers, including John Woo and Tsui Hark. Lung Kong drew on the rich traditions of Cantonese cinema while bringing new social dimensions to genre filmmaking. In addition to the fourteen feature films he wrote and directed between 1966 and 1979, Lung Kong acted in 60 films between 1958 and 2002. Though scarcely shown outside of Hong Kong today, he endures as one of the most original and uncompromising auteurs Hong Kong has ever produced. This program will consist TODAY 104COP will meet at 8 p.m. at the United Talmudical Seminary, 74-10 88th St, Glendale. HIP TO HIP Theatre Company presents Shakespeare in the Park featuring Cymbeline at Cunningham Park Union Turnpike and Francis Lewis Blvd., at 8 p.m. WOODSIDE CONCERT will present Laughing Boy Review at 7 p.m. in Sgt. Collins Park, 38th St. and Broadway, Woodside. Bring your own chair. WATERFRONT CONCERT at Astoria Park between Astoria Pool and the Hell Gate Bridge at 7:30 p.m. featuring The Regulars, pop/rock music. Bring your own chair. GLENDALE KIWANIS will meet at Zum Stammtisch restaurant, Myrtle Ave. and 70th St., at 12:30 p.m. MASPETH KIWANIS will meet at O’Neills Restaurant, 64- 21 53rd Drive, Maspeth at 12:15 p.m.R IDGEWOOD OLDER ADULT CENTER, 59-14 70th Ave., welcomes new members 60 years of age or older. Weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Many programs and meals daily. For more information, call 1-718-456- 2000. REGO PARK SENIOR CENTER, 93-29 Queens Blvd., will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718- 896-8751. RIDGEWOOD-BUSHWICK SENIOR CENTER, 319 Stanhope St., will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-366-3038. PETER CARDELLA SENIOR CENTER, 68-52 Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood, will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-497- 2908. SUNNYSIDE SENIOR CENTER, 43-31 39th St., will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-392- 6944. SELF-HELP MASPETH Senior Center, 69-61 Grand Ave., will hold beading, jewelry and bingo. Hot lunch at noon. Transportation available. For more information, call 1-718- 429-3636. MIDDLE VILLAGE Adult Center, 69-10 75th St., will hold arts and crafts at 10 a.m., sit and be fit at 1 p.m., Tai-Chi-Chuan at 10:15 a.m. For more information, call 1-718-894-3441. THE WOODSIDE CLINIC, 61-20 Woodside Ave., provides support groups, human services, day activity program, food pantry, meals-on-wheels and senior assistance program. For -SEE CALENDAR ON PG. 34-
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