Where: LeFrak Concert Hall,
153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing
Cost: $10
The Roast of 2018 — Say
goodbye to 2018 in style with
The Roast of 2018- a lovingly
irreverent comedy show
where all the celebrities who
died this year come back from
the grave for ONE NIGHT ONLY
to roast each other senseless.
If you’re easily offended,
stay home. But if you want
to see what kind of acerbic
one-liners Stan Lee would aim
at Stephen Hawking, then this
is the show for you.
When: Monday, Dec. 31, from 7
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: The Creek and Cave,
10-93 Jackson Ave., Long
Island City
Cost: $5
Virtual Reality vs. Retro
Games — It’s old school
versus the newest gaming in
technology, Virtual Reality vs.
Retro Games!
When: Wednesday, Jan. 2,
from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Queens Library Long
Island City Branch, 37-44 21 St.,
Long Island City.
Cost: Free
Step Into VR — Swim
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
TimesLedger Newspapers
Dec. 28 Jan. 3 2018
By Ed Canty
The Big Apple
Across
1. Remain unsettled
5. 20% of MCCLV
9. Atkins diet no-nos
14. Pack away
15. Muddy up
16. Ready for anything
17. "No problem"
18. "The ___ Love"
(Al Jolson tune)
19. Craze
20. Busy area of
Manhattan
23. It precedes "the
land of the free"
24. Hindu Mr.
25. Scuttlebutt
27. GI's cureall pill
30. Stains
32. Marchers' beliefs
36. Vaughan of jazz
38. 15-ball cluster
40. Numero uno
41. Big Apple tourist
attraction
44. NASA subj.
45. Calculus
calculation
46. The Little Mermaid
47. Batik artist's skill
49. E.P.A. concern
51. Doctor's charge
52. Glow
54. Something often
twisted apart
56. "60 Minutes" airer
59. Big Apple
landmark
64. Monopoly
purchase
underwater, travel to a foreign
country, jump off a skyscraper
— these are just some of the
virtual reality experiences
that will be available. While
wearing the virtual reality
headset, you will be able to
“look around” the artifi cial
world, move about in it, and
interact with features or items
that are depicted inside the
headset.
When: Wednesday, Jan. 2,
from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Queens Library
Seaside Branch, 116-15
Rockaway Beach Blvd.,
Rockaway Park.
Cost: Free
LAST
WEEK'S
ANSWERS
ALL CAPP'S WORLD
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A L D O L U R E R A N N E
F E A R L E S S F O S D I C K
E X P A T R I O T C A T
C I T R T E N A T I O N
O S S E R A D A R A D O
R U S D I S A S T E R
D A I S Y M A E A B N E R
T I G E R R A G L S U
O R R O U T E R B A S S
M E E T U P O C T C P A
E A T S E C R E T A R Y
S A D I E H A W K I N S D A Y
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36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43
44 45 46
47 48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
64 65 66 67
68 69 70
71 72 73
66. Like a good loser?
67. Civil War's Robt.
___
68. Battery terminal
69. It helps you get
a leg up
70. Great review
71. Pop choice
72. Fringe
73. PGA part
Down
1. Attention-getter
2. Case for tweezers
and such
3. Standard
4. Hardly Mr. Cool
5. Singing Bing
6. Vanquisher
7. In ___ of
(replacing)
8. Trojan War epic
9. Cell phone feature
10. Miss. neighbor
11. Attorney General
Janet
12. French cheese
13. Christmas tree
topper
21. Hindu holy man
22. Talk show host
Lake
26. Potato, e.g
27. Syrian president
28. Easy mark
29. Orange container
31. Hotel amenities
33. Printing flourish
34. First name in
perfume
35. Newspaper
section
37. Skylit lobbies
39. A loud and
persistent noise
42. Tidal bore
43. Bread boiled
and baked
48. Cores
50. Creamsicle color
53. Cavern, in poetry
55. Met offering
56. Crack from
dryness
57. Shade of white
58. VCR button
60. Impact sound
61. "Poor me!"
62. Tach units
63. Sharp
65. Asner and
Begley
THE ARTS ENTERTAINMENT
For the most up-to-date listing of events happening
in Queens, check TimesLedger’s website at
www.timesledger.com/sections/calendar
EVENTS
Remake The Holidays —
Families bend, twist, light,
sculpt and animate a new
version of the holiday season
with workshops, demos, artist
installations and more. ReMake
the Holidays is a response
to increased consumption
and waste during the holiday
season and an attempt to give
people inspiration and options
to do things differently while
having fun.
When: Thursday, Dec. 27, from
12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: New York Hall of
Science, 47-01 111th St., Corona.
Cost: Free with NYSCI
admission.
Collage Selfi es — Using a
mirror, you will make a selfportrait
and create a collage
selfi e using color paper and
cutouts from magazines.
When: Thursday, Dec. 27, 12 p.m.
to 2 p.m.
Where: Queens Museum, New
York City Building, Flushing
Meadows Corona Park.
Cost: Free.
Spanish Music for Tots
— Come sing and dance to
children’s songs! All songs are
in Spanish.
When: Thursday, Dec. 27, from
12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Where: Queens Library Corona
Branch, 38-23 104 St., Corona
Cost: Free
The Cultural Review Show —
Join British comedian Dominic
Fogarty as he brings his BBC
project live to the stage at the
Creek and the Cave! Joined
by some funny friends, he
attempts to understand the
delicacies and intricacies of
American culture.
When: Thursday, Dec. 27, from
10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Where: The Creek and Cave,
10-93 Jackson Ave., Long Island
City
Cost: Free
Dress Like Marvel Day: Stan
Lee Birthday Celebration —
Come to the Hillcrest Library
dressed as your favorite
Marvel Character or wearing
Marvel apparel. Try to draw
superheroes like Stan Lee,
create your own comic book
story, and enjoy a superhero
storytime! For all ages.
When: Friday, Dec. 28, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Where: Queens Library
Hillcrest Branch, 187-05 Union
Tpke., Flushing.
Cost: Free
Skip the Small Talk — Do you
wish you could have more of
the kinds of conversations
you have late at night where
for some reason, you feel safe
talking about the things you
actually care about? Bring your
friends (or come by yourself
– most people do) and spend
your Friday night at an event
where you know everyone else
is there for the same reason.
When: Friday, Dec. 28, from 6
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Katch Astoria, 31-19
Newtown Ave., Astoria.
Cost: $15
Screening and Live Event:
“Minding the Gap” — This
breakthrough fi lm by fi rsttime
director Bing Liu is a
coming-of-age saga about
three skateboarding friends
straining against the bounds
of their Rust Belt hometown,
struggling with diffi cult family
histories, and navigating their
evolving relationships with one
another. Long a co-conspirator
in their group schemes, Liu
refashions himself along the
way into a proper chronicler,
training his camera on friends
Keire and Zack as they grow
from teenagers into grown
men in their twenties, taking
on jobs and raising families of
their own. As they face adult
responsibilities, unexpected
revelations threaten their
decade-long friendship.
When: Friday, Dec. 28, at 7 p.m.
Where: Museum of the Moving
Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria
Cost: $15, $11 seniors and
students, $9 youth, free for
children under 3 and Museum
members
Screening & Live Event: An
instant classic of long-form
documentary that’s also one
of the year’s most urgent and
revelatory fi lms, America to
Me sees two-time Academy
Award-nominee Steve James
(Hoop Dreams, Abacus: Small
Enough to Jail) examine racial,
economic and class issues
in contemporary American
education. Poignant and funny,
epic and intimate, America to
Me is a ten-part unscripted
series captured over the
course of an academic year
at Chicagoland’s elite Oak
Park and River Forest High
School (OPRF), where diversity,
opportunity and fairness are
championed, but not always
easy to implement or achieve.
Throughout, students, families,
faculty and administration
tell stories of the pressures
and challenges teens face
today in their own words,
while James and three other
fi lmmakers (including Minding
the Gap’s Bing Liu) witness
events as they transpire in the
classroom, on the ballfi eld,
at home, and everywhere inbetween.
Courtesy of Starz.
When: Saturday, Dec. 29, 1 p.m.
Where: Museum of the Moving
Image -- Bartos Screening
Room, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria
Cost: $15 ($11 seniors and
students / $9 youth (ages 3–17)
/ free for children under 3 and
Museum members at the Film
Lover and Kids Premium levels
and above).
At the Feet of the Elders: A
Kwanzaa Celebration — Join
us as we celebrate Kwanzaa
in a community celebration.
Come learn about the history,
principles, values, and customs
of this African American
holiday. We will do a craft
activity and hear from our
community elders. All are
welcome.
When: Saturday, Dec. 29 from
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Queens Library
Cambria Heights Branch, 218-13
Linden Blvd., Cambria Heights.
Cost: Free
Line Dance and Fireworks
— Join us for this Sunday
Family Workshop where we
will be learning how to line
dance. Families will be able to
master the moves and dance
together in line formation. On
the side, we will be creating
crafts resembling fi reworks
to celebrate the upcoming
New Year.
When: Sunday, Dec. 30, from
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Where: Queens Museum, New
York City Building, Flushing
Meadows Corona Park.
Cost: Free
Queens Symphony
Orchestra: Family Concert
Series - “Happy Holidays” —
Music Director Martin Majkut
and the Queens Symphony
orchestra offer a plethora
of the beloved seasonal
tunes. Featured repertoire
will include Christmas and
Hanukkah music as well as the
popular winter fare, including
Humperdick’s Hänsel and
Gretel, Prokofi ev’s Troïka
and Anderson’s Sleigh Ride.
A holiday treat for the whole
family!
When: Sunday, Dec. 30, at 3
p.m.
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