Astoria Holiday Party

The good folks over at the Greater Astoria Historical Society are throwing their annual holiday party this Monday December 5th at 7pm. Bringing holiday cheer to the party will be the caroling of the Golliard Singers as well as music from Astoria's very own saw lady, Natalia Paruz. You may have seen her playing her saw in Times Square or when she was featured on the Astoria edition of Cool in Your Code (ch. 25 to those with cable, for those w/ satellite like me, we don't get those public channels-bastids). Also featured will be special lecture, "Toon Town: Comic Books and New York City," by noted author and social science professor Dr. Kent Worcester. He'll be dicussing the modern comic books heavy concentration on locales in NYC (Spiderman is from Rego Park-go queens!-and Gotham City and Metropolis are thinly veiled versions of NYC). The event will take place at 35-20 Broadway, 4th floor. If the address throws you off, as it did when I initally discovered we have a historical society, because it would seem to be in the Quinn Memorial Building, you know the funeral home, well it is.