The Weekender

This is the stuff, everything is coming to life, and so is our hood.
As usual tonight Waltz and Mezzo bring us the tunes and the laughs respectively.

Astoria gets in on Earth Day celebrations this weekend with a bunch of activities all listed on the Astoria Waterfront Group's website. Here's a taste of what's going down:

• Earth Day Celebration at Rainey Park-Saturday Noon-4pm.
• 1st ever Queens is Green Fashion Show-Saturday 4-6pm (Green Space, 37-24 24th St. #301)
• Bike Riding Workshop for the kiddies at Rainey Park-11-3pm
• Walking tour of the Astoria/LIC waterfront parks-Starts at Astoria Park (Ditmars @ Shore drive) at 10am and winds it's way to Rainey park for the Earth Day Celebration

This weekend is it for Flux Factory in thier current LIC home. They're going out with a bang though hosting the Make It Go Dance Party as the finale to Everything Must Go (they're quite literal about that-they've got a bunch of art and stuff for sale). The free party goes down Saturday at 7, with a performance at 8 of Wooden Box-a super secret play. Head over and show your support.

Although the rumor has it that the Beer Garden will be finished with their renovisions by next weekend, The Water Taxi Beach is set to open up on Sunday. Beach. Here. Now. is from 1-10pm, with a $20 in advance, more at the door cover charge. Comes with a boatload of tunage.

Sunday, from 11-2pm Soctates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum team up once again to bring us Kite Flight. This year, children and their families will find an excellent new use for plastic bags by transforming this durable, and light weight material into beautiful recycled kites! Participants will have the opportunity to build and decorate their kites, then fly them in the Park. Don't forget to preregister for this limited space event.

And of course-pub trivia at the Rover Sunday at 7:30.

Check this out. John at about.com pointed something out on his blog that has been bugging me for a while-when you drive into one of the boroughs there's usually some catchy slogan-but not with Queens. We're just Welcome to Queens. So he's opened up his comments for suggestions to ammend that. What slogan would you come up with for Astoria?

That's it for this weekend kiddies. Make it a great one!