It’s In Queens! News From The Queens Tourism Council The momo is a Himalayan dumpling that is usually stuffed with chicken, beef or yak. It is also the focus of an intense food walk this week. Other exceptional options include Martha Redbone and her mix of poetry and Native American music, two comedy extravaganzas, various foreign films, and discussions on Queens and the Federal Reserve. Here’s the rundown. • Friday, Nov. 21, Martha Redbone, 7:30 p.m. Powerful singer/songwriter Martha Redbone fuses 18th century poetry with her Native American and African- American roots. $15/$10 for students. Flushing Town Hall, 137- 35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, www.flushingtownhall.org. • Friday, Nov. 21, The Yellow Bittern, 7:30 p.m. Watch a movie on the raucous life of Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of the Irish band The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Maken, that was outselling the Beatles in its heyday. This darkly revealing portrait, which features unseen archive footage and audio recordings, goes behind the performer’s mask and delves into Clancy’s psyche. $11/$8 for students, seniors, and the unemployed. New York Irish -SEE TOURISM ON PG. 55- Community CALENDAR Queens & Brooklyn Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., LIC, www.nyirish.org. • Friday, Nov. 21, Business Forum Breakfast, 8 a.m. Michael McKee, an economics editor at Bloomberg TV and Radio and cohost of Bloomberg Surveillance, enlightens on the economy and the Federal Reserve. $25 suggested donation, RSVP at 1-718-997- 5252. Queens College, Student Union Ballroom, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, www.qc.cuny.edu. • Friday, Nov. 21, Light of Summer, 7 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image (MMI) is doing a retrospective on iconoclastic French director Jean Grémillon. Arriving at a remote mountaintop hotel, Parisian Michèle gets involved in a love triangle with a worker and an aristocrat whose neighboring castle will be the scene of a show-stopping costume ball in Light of Summer. MMI, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.movingimage.us. • Saturday, Nov. 22, Momo Crawl 2014, 2 to 5 p.m. This third annual event visits all restaurants and street vendors that sell momos in the half-mile around the Jackson Heights subway station. Special $1 per momo price to those in possession of a 2014 Momo Map TODAY UNITED FORTIES CIVIC ASSOC. will meet at 7 p.m. at St Teresa’s Parish Center, 44th St., off 50th Ave., Woodside. FARMERS OVAL CIVIC ASSOC. will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Ridgewood Baptist Church, 64-13 Catalpa Ave., Ridgewood. STATE SEN. JOSEPH ADDABBO Mobile Care Clinic providing free digital mammograms and clinical breast exams to women over 40 with health insurance and 50 and over without health insurance, current New York City residents and those who have not received mammograms in the past 12 months are eligible. Clinic will be stationed at Maspeth Federal Savings Parking Lot, 69th St., and Grand Ave., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 1-718- 738-1111 for an appointment. REGO PARK JEWISH CENTER, 97-30 Queens Blvd., will hold Knitting Circle at 2 p.m. Bring your knitting and crocheting. GLENDALE KIWANIS will meet at Zum Stammtisch restaurant, Myrtle Ave. and 70th St., at 12:30 p.m. MASPETH KIWANIS will meet at O’Neill’s Restaurant, 64-21 53rd Dr., Maspeth at 12:15 p.m. RIDGEWOOD 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 -SEE CALENDAR ON PG. 33- TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 • 20
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