Just made my second visit to Nourish NYC, Sunnyside's new alternative to schlepping things home from Whole Body.
The store is beautifully designed, with a restful, spa-like atmosphere and the kind of selection that makes a natural/organic-junkie like myself swoon. I spent a little more than I intended but felt the pricing was appropriate.
Owner Claire Carson lives in Sunnyside and was very helpful when I stopped by today to stock up on prenatal vitamins and a calcium supplement. She really wants to hear from people in the neighborhood about what products you want to be able to buy without using your Metrocard or paying shipping fees.
There's a juice bar that also offers a selection of organic teas that I'm interested in trying.
It's a welcome (if luxurious) addition to the neighborhood. I hope for peaceful coexistence with the more downmarket health food store just up the street.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Nourished on the Boulevard
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Macbeth/Socrates Saturday/Sunday
Come check out The Red Door Theatre Company's production of Macbeth this weekend at Socrates Sculpture Park as part of their 7th Annual Halloween Harvest Festival.
SATURDAY 10/20: The festival takes place, rain or shine, starting at 11am
MACBETH will start at 3:30 pm
SUNDAY 10/21: two shows! One at NOON and one at 3pm.
And it's all free!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Halloween Harvest Festival--Socrates Sculpture Park
OCTOBER 20, 2007, 11AM-3PM (RAIN OR SHINE)
FREE
with a special performance of William Shakespeare's Macbeth by The Red Door Theatre Company at 3:30PM
Medieval costume making workshops with Socrates Sculpture Park artists: Jane Benson, McKendree Key, Catarina Leitão, and Deborah Fisher
Enjoy jugglers, stilt walkers and musicians from Circus Amok
Play spooky games with Free Style Arts Association
Enter a raffle and win a pumpkin, carved or painted by a Socrates Sculpture Park artist
Have your face painted by Agostino Arts
Experience Electroception with artists Lilah Freedland and Mitch Miller
Dress up your dog for the third annual Canine Costume Contest
at 2pm or just watch the show!
Plus, you can purchase a treat from the famed
Once Upon a Tart!
This program is made possible by a generous grant by Con Edison.
Socrates Sculpture Park is grateful for the support of the City of New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, City Councilmember Eric Gioia, and the City of New York Department of Parks &
Recreation, Commissioner Adrian Benepe.
Additional support has been provided by Hunters Point Condos
Monday, October 08, 2007
Neville Dance Theatre's Memento Muerto
This event is not happening in Queens, but it features my friend Karen, who has lived in Astoria for as long as I've known her, going on a decade now! I caught this show a few years back and it's a great family event.
TICKETS NOW ON SALE: www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444
Neville Dance Theatre's expanded narration:
Memento Muerto
A 'Days of the Dead' Dance Narrative
Thursday-Saturday
October 25, 7:30pm – Halloween Reception
October 26, 7:30pm
October 27, 7:30pm
The 14th Street Y Theatre
344 E. 14th Street @First Avenue (L, Q, R, 4,5,6 subways)
General Admission $20 / Halloween Reception $25
Halloween and Mexican Day of the Dead traditions come to the stage in Neville Dance Theatre's expanded dance narrative Memento Muerto. Ghosts, spirits, skeletons and even La Muerta (Lady Death) enter the land of the living and utilize ballet, Flamenco, Mexican and Argentine Tango to take viewers on an emotionally charged journey along the paths of family unity, cultural tradition and the everlasting bonds of love.
The evening's program also includes premieres of:
THE RAVEN- a dance drama based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem.
NIGHT MOVEMENTS - a contemporary ballet work
FLAMENCO SEGUIRIYA - with guest performer Silvia Siller and musicians Dominico Caro and Jed Miley.
"wide ranging and imaginative" -Jeni Breen, Sandra Cameron Dance Center
"impressive…I was struck by the company's strength and versatility of
disciplines" -Aurora Reyes, Flamenco Latino
"…a moving medley of dances that create a journey through life and
death" -Professor David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona
STARRING:
Allison Jay (Movin' Out - Ballet Met)
Chi-Tsung Kuo (Jennifer Muller/The Works)
Karen Lacy (Metropolitan Opera Ballet)
Jennifer Yackel (Richmond Ballet - Ballet Theatre of Maryland)
Plus: Fayzah Claudia Chisholm, Romina Rodriguez-Crosta, Ammon Dennis, Travis Gallagher, Miha Glockenspiel, Brenda R. Neville, Michelina Piazza, Dante Polichetti, Emily Santoro, Silvia Siller.
Don't miss this enchanting holiday celebration of traditions both old and new!
www.nevilledance.com
718.963.2009
Sunnyside Gardens Park Pumpkin Patch and Oktoberfest
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
(Rain date Sunday, October 14th, 2007)
Sunnyside Gardens Park
718-672-1555
48-21 39th Avenue
Between 48th and 50th Streets
(take #7 train to 46th Street)
Sunnyside, Queens New York
Noon to dusk
3 Acre Park Open to All for the day!
Pumpkin Patch
Children’s Arts & Crafts
Oktoberfest Barbeque
Autumn Produce Greenmarket
Face painting
Music
