NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SOH DAIKO Saturday, March 24 at 3:00 p.m. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College Mainstage Theater 31-10 Thomson Avenue | Queens Soh Daiko shatters the boundaries of traditional taiko drumming. This New York–based Japanese drumming collective’s […]

Verdant Definition: (adjective) Green with vegetation; covered with green growth. Synonyms: Green, Lush Usage: Habituated to arid landscapes, the desert dwellers were shocked by their first glimpes of the verdant pastures.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877) As a Swiss explorer traveling in North Africa, Eberhardt often dressed as a man to move more freely through Arab society. Intensely independent, she took the side of Algerians fighting against colonial French rule. She converted to […]

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Chairman Crowley Statement on the Lunar New Year (Queens, N.Y.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) issued the following statement on the Lunar New Year: “Gung Hay Fat Choy to all Asian American and Pacific Islander families in […]

Chairman Crowley Announces Guest for the 2018 State of the Union Address (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) announced today that Romer Cisneros, a DREAMer from Queens, will be his guest to President Trump’s State of […]

Chairman Crowley, Ranking Member Larson Lead Letter Urging President Trump to Support Increased Funding for the Social Security Administration (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) and Congressman John B. Larson (D-CT), the Ranking Member for the […]

2018 HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS ISSUES CONFERENCE (Washington, D.C.) – Members of the House Democratic Caucus will meet in Cambridge, Maryland for the 2018 Issues Conference from Wednesday, Feb. 7th to Friday, Feb. 9th, 2018. The theme of this year’s Issues […]

Inhale Definition: (verb) Draw in (air). Synonyms: Breathe in, Inspire Usage: Every morning they go out to the yard, close their eyes, inhale the fresh mountain air, and meditate for an hour.

Irena Sendler (1910) Working with Polish resistance groups and a network of helpers, Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children during WWII by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, sometimes hidden in suitcases. After changing the children’s names and arranging for […]

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle […]