The gang is getting together on August 3rd, Thursday. Go be part of the creative scene, in Astoria.

BQUACK!
(BOROUGH OF QUEENS UNITED ARTISTS COLLECTIVE KUM-BA-YA) …A MONTHLY MIXER IN QUEENS FOR ARTISTS OF ALL KINDS

Astoria, NY - BQUACK (http://www.bquack.com) will have its fifth gathering on Thursday, August 3, at Waltz (http://www.waltz-astoria.com), located at
23-14 Ditmars Boulevard. Artists and performers of all kinds are invited to attend. There is no admission charge, but reservations are requested. To be added to the mailing list and get future Evites, email BQUACKMAIL@yahoo.com.

BQUACK launched in Astoria in March 2006, with a lively gathering of painters, actors, directors, sculptors, playwrights, photographers and comedians at Waltz. BQUACK was founded by five Queens residents in the arts with the goal of uniting the tremendous variety of creative people in Queens. The first meeting was covered by The Daily News.

The evening will include a performance at 8:30pm by singer/songwriter Amy Rachman, whose new album will be released in the fall. To learn more about Amy, visit http://amyrachman.com.

BQUACK was started by Jen Ryan (performer/writer of The Leni Show), Rik Sansone (Rik’s Graphiks graphic design), Leonard Jacobs (Back Stage Theater Editor), David Gibbs (DARR Publicity) and Andrea Reese (Writer/Performer of the one-woman Jackie O. play, Cirque Jacqueline).

Founder Rik Sansone’s illustration "Pepper" will be published in the book Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of The Fab Four this August. See http://riksgraphiks.com for more information and news.

WHEN: Thursday, August 3rd, 8-10pm
WHERE: Waltz, 23-14 Ditmars Boulevard between 23 & 24 Streets in Astoria, Queens.
DIRECTIONS: N or W train to Ditmars Boulevard.
Walk 6 blocks towards Astoria Park.
ADMISSION: No admission charge.

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At Tuk Tuk, they said the juice was only half-on. Overnight, LICNYC HQ had a quick on-off moment.





Pictured, the local substation. May not work but sure looks fabu.

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Becoming...Super 24

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Line up for your tax breaks.

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They print all kinds of colorful placards at night in LIC. The stench of the ink is murderous. Tonight it was Funkmaster Flex Night.

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Already well underway.

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A measure of the reach of yuppiedom is how and where you get this rag. Well, it's here at Ctown on 21st.

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Warm Up was rocking this weekend, despite the overcast skies.

More about Warm Up's schedule for the summer

Meanwhile, the new show are up and some are fantastic. Into me/Out of me -- the flesh show -- has some of the all time famous cult performance pieces (e.g., Chris Burden gets shot) and depictions of physical extremes that make the supercool austerity of much other contemporary work look boring. And some other pluses: the roof is open ("Fourth floor") and you can check out the views while you cool off; they have reconfigured one of the big gallery rooms on the third floor to let the windows peek through (back to the way it looked a few years ago).

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LICNYC remembers the day when 'Sunday' and 'Monday', the Brooklyn Union Gas storage tanks, went down.





It was long long ago - even before LIC was the next hot nabe!





Memorialized by the artist and pet photographer, Michelle Levant, who you can check out at www.photozoology.com to read about her Un-Destinations projects.

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Greenpoint festival coming this week

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The best near-LIC cafe

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The building is building. The first entry on LIC 'park ave' - the blac and white Badge Building.

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Start lining up!

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Fireworks!

LIC on the big East River night.

This year, LICNYC took a trip to the "other side" and watched the lights rain down over a fast-growing LIC skyline. Last year: 2 Queens West towers and Citibank. This year: 3 Queens West towers, the Citi and UNFCU bank towers and the rising figure of Citi 2. And all that real estate heat left a big halo too.

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Printed by a reader. Reverse Pepsi logo. (Get it?)

Buy it

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Friend of LICNYC, RR, passes on word that there is a new development site available near the 50th Ave projects (the Gantry and the other brick-style one).

LICNYC likes the location, though things sure are getting crowded down there huh? Can't hurt to displace a few shoddy looking garage-fronts like this one. Click for a couple of pictures

Meanwhile, word is (hot of the gossip wire) that the Arris Lofts have put their ground floor commercial up for lease -- grocery stores only! (Dry cleaners or steel fabricators need not apply...apparently)

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