The annual EDGEfest Back to School Party is planned for Saturday, August 7, 2021 at Whistle Stop Park (651 Roberts Road, Edgewater). This event will be drive through with vehicles entering the park from 28th Street and exiting on to... Read more
Food
Tacos al pastor, with pineapple, and de carnitas, largely hidden beneath onion and cilantro, by a New Jersey visitor to this annual New York festival. Guelaguetza NYC Socrates Sculpture Park, 3201 Vernon Blvd. (at Broadway), Astoria, Queens www.Facebook.com/events/262698332282852 (The 2021... Read more
The journey to Edge of the Knife | SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna starts with Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World, a documentary I saw in the 2015 Windsor International Film Festival. "The scenery is amazing and well worth the price of watching, but you get a cool story about a place that is Canadian and aboriginal with majestic beauty." I didn't even know about Haida Gwaii before the documentary. Haida Gwaii is an archipelago near Prince Rupert and Terrace in British Columbia. You might know Haida Gwaii by the settler name Queen Charlotte Islands. The exciting part of Edge of the Knife | SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna was the idea of an entire film in the Haida language. Like a lot of Indigenous languages, the Haida language is in trouble of becoming irrelevant. Read more
The news we've known for a few months is finally official. U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated David Cohen to be the country's ambassador to Canada. Cohen has worked as a lawyer, lobbyist, and fundraiser for Comcast. His "more relevant" experience was 5 years as chief of staff to then Philadelphia mayor of Ed Rendell in the 1990s. No diplomatic experience. No known ties to Canada. Ugh. We had this scenario with President Barack Obama. A late pick in the first year in office. Fundraisers. Now Obama's picks turned out to be way better than anticipated (low bar). We expected better from Joe Biden, who served as the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he was in the U.S. Senate. Biden was vice president to Obama. Read more
St. Irene Chrysovalantou Festival and Bazaar Thursday through Sunday, July 22-25, 5:00-11:00 Vicinity of the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Orthodox Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou, 3607 23rd Ave. (at 36th St.), Astoria, Queens www.StIrene.org Free admission St. Ann's Italian Festival... Read more
