Participants walk in procession through the streets, making several symbolic stops to request shelter. When the group gets to the final stop, everybody sings Latino holiday music. Free. ARROWCommunity Center, 35- 30 35th St., Astoria, 1-718-261-7664. • Saturday, Dec. 20, Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim, 7 p.m. TheMuseum of the Moving Image (MMI) is presenting an ongoing series celebrating the Brazilian film industry. This documentary is about Jobim, but includes performances by Judy Garland, Caetano Veloso, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra. MMI, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.movingimage.us. • Saturday, Dec. 20, Aaron Short Band, 2 to 4 p.m.Aconcert featuring popular holiday songs and some classics. The Aaron Short Band has been performing regularly since 2010 as such venues as The Bitter End and Red Lion. Free. The Shops at Skyview Center, 40-24 College Point Blvd., Flushing, www.shopskyviewcenter.com. • Saturday, Dec. 20, See It Big! Animation: Coraline in 3-D, 1 p.m; and Waltz with Bashir, 4 p.m. The See It Big Series is presenting 16 contemporary animated films. In Coraline, an inquisitive girl discovers a parallel universe that isn’t as perfect as it seems in a marriage of old-school stop-motion puppetry with digital 3-D. Waltz is a documentary based on interviews of veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Astoria District, www.movingimage.us. • Sunday, Dec. 21, Handel’s Messiah, 4 p.m. The Oratorio Society of Queens and Maestro David Close perform their annual holiday concert with excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, Christmas carols and Chanukah favorites. This institution has a 125-plus member chorus. $35/$30 for seniors (62+) and students with ID/$10 for children 12 and under. Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, www.queensoratorio.org. • Sunday, Dec. 21, Maker Workshops, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. In the first session, participants design and create winter wonderland snow globes. In the second session, participants make winter lanterns. New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St., Corona, www.nysci.org. • Sunday, Dec. 21, Shadow Puppets, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Children (ages 5-12) and their adult companions use papercutting techniques to create shadow puppets and shadow boxes. Queens Museum, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows- Corona Park, www.queensmuseum.org. • Sunday, Dec. 21, Winter Solstice Cookies and Crafts, noon to 4 p.m. Families are invited to the Fort Totten castle to craft delightful decorations celebrating the winter season. Includes hot cocoa, cookies, and Santa. Free, $2 for photo with Santa. Bayside Historical Society, 208 Totten Ave., Fort Totten, Bayside, www.baysidehistorical.org. • Sunday, Dec. 21, See It Big! Animation: Toy Story 2, 1 p.m; and Sita Sings the Blues, 3:30 p.m; Ratatouille, 7 p.m. The See It Big Series is presenting 16 contemporary animated films. With the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, Toy Story 2 is the sequel of a tale about a boy who is growing up and outgrowing his toys. Sita is a multicultural reworking of the Indian epic Ramayana as a series of love stories depicted with a mix of traditional and collage animation, backed by a soundtrack from 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw. Ratatouille is about a rat that teams up with a young chef to take over a French restaurant. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Astoria District, www.movingimage.us. The “It’s In Queens” column is produced by the Queens tourism Council with the hope that readers will enjoy the borough’s many attractions. More info available online at www.itsinqueens.com. News From The Queens Tourism Council Author Taps Into His Glendale Past To Tell The Tale Of His Native Neighborhood -CONTINUED FROM PG. 21- SShhoopp LLooccaallllyy!! SSuuppppoorrtt YYoouurr NNeeiigghhbboorrhhoooodd MMeerrcchhaannttss!! mailed to a third party, or if necessary, a representative payee can receive their funds. Social Security also collaborates with other agencies to help the homeless. At www.socialsecurity.gov/homeles sness/collaborations.htm, you can read more about the Health Care for the Homeless program that provides grants to a network of local public and non-profit private organizations. Social Security also participates in the Federal Interagency Reentry Council, as well as the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program. PATH helps people with serious mental health issues or people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Every day, and especially on December 21, remember those living without a place to call home. Homelessness is a complicated and emotional issue, but we can help our brothers and sisters—friends and family—access the safety net that Social Security provides. Visit www.socialsecurity.gov/homeles sness to learn more. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 22- Social Security News -CONTINUED FROM PG. 37- TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014 • 64 and new gives the overall picture of Glendale that I wanted to present.” Exploring Glendale’s roots In Brady’s Glendale, readers are treated to a brief history of the neighborhood, beginning with its earliest days as a rich woodland hunting ground for the nearby Rockaway tribe. The 17th century brought early Dutch and English settlers to Glendale, then known as Newtown. The area encompassing Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood and Glendale became known as “Greater Ridgewood” shortly after the American Revolutionary War. According to Brady, developer George Schott gave Glendale its name back in 1860 after he was awarded the land as a debt settlement. Brady follows Glendale’s rise from rural farmland populated by German immigrants of the 18th century to Manhattan’s default graveyard in the 19th century and on to its present-day role as a bustling industrial and retail enclave. Some of the earlier photographs in Glendale date as far back as the late-1800’s and depict pastoral homesteads of the former rural farming community. Early photos of the first row houses, businesses and Long Island Rail Road stations chronicle Glendale’s evolution from a sleepy agricultural village into a bustling small town at the turn of the century. Photographs of hardware stores, butcher shops, markets and saloons depict some of the area’s first entrepreneurs. Points of interest The book also explores the construction of well-known landmarks, houses of worship, transit systems and roadways. Portraits of pre-war lumber companies, textile factories and coal processing plants highlight Glendale’s rich manufacturing past. It was this connection to the neighborhood’s industrial legacy that led Brady to Finback Brewery. “Ridgewood and Glendale have a time-honored tradition of brewing beer and enjoying it in taverns and beer gardens, but the brewing part of that was lost in the days of Prohibition,” he explained, “Now, with the opening of Finback Brewery, that tradition has been brought back to life.” A special section of the book is devoted to dining and recreation. It features many photographs of beloved local eateries, including a mid-century view of the dining room at Durow’s restaurant. Brady also reminisces about the early days of the famed Glendale Diner, originally known as Bob’s Diner in the 1940’s, and includes a photograph of the eatery’s original streamlined stainless steel exterior and neon signs. In the “Just for Fun” section of the book, readers can explore traditions and celebrations throughout the decades, including Myrtle Avenue’s German- American Steuben Day Parade. The author’s personal photos depict neighborhood teens in the 1950’s enjoying local summertime traditions, such as hanging out on each other’s stoops or dancing in backyards and garages. Readers are also treated to fun pop cultural facts, such as the location of the Cooper Avenue home that was used as the exterior of Archie Bunker’s house in the iconic 1970s Norman Lear sitcom All in the Family. The personal connection Brady’s own Glendale upbringing greatly inspired his desire to curate this photographic tribute to the neighborhood. “I was born in Glendale and lived here until I went into the Army,” he explained. “I was an altar boy at St. Pancras Church, a drummer in the St. Pancras marching band and a proud member of Boy Scout Troop 383. Glendale will always be a part of me.” Brady thanked Finback Brewery’s founders Basil Lee and Kevin Stafford for their support and praised them for their role in Glendale’s rebirth and future legacy. “Thank you Basil and Kevin for giving me this opportunity to talk about my book and for all that you are doing to become a vital part of the Glendale community,” Brady exclaimed, “A hundred years from now, when someone is writing a new history of Glendale— if people still write books then—that author is going to list this very place as a historic site, and note that it was here that the Glendale/ Ridgewood tradition of brewing beer was reborn.”
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