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CONTENTS Happy Halloween, BORO readers!

Get your costumes ready, because we’ve gathered some great Halloween events for you (page 10)—and you don’t even have to leave Queens!

Plus, there are a few other ways to spook yourself in the pages of BORO. Vampires will take over Astoria when a new web series, “You Only Die Once,” is filmed here (page 22). Get some friends together and get your hearts racing as you try to beat the clock at Locked, the new escape the room game right in our neighborhood (page 38). Or, if you’ve always KATRINA MEDOFF been afraid of needles, perhaps now’s the editor-in-chief time to face your fears, because community acupuncture (page 45) will now be available near the Ditmars stop (you know you’ve always wanted to try it).

Got any tips, news or stories you’d like to share with BORO? Send them to katrina@boromag.com. And make sure to share your Halloween photos with us on social media! You can find us on Twitter (@BOROMAG) and Instagram (@boromagazine).

Hoping you have a haunted holiday, Katrina Medoff

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L U F T H G I R F FUN Halloween events in western Queens and beyond

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La Sala Astoria favorite La Sala will be celebrating not one but two events this October: El Dia de Los Muertos on Friday, Oct. 28, and an Addams Family theme party on Monday, Oct. 31. Both parties start at 5 p.m. for happy hour with themed cocktails through the night, but you won’t wanna miss the contest for best costume on Monday night. Visit lasalanyc.com for more information.

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If you’re into bottle service and don’t mind traveling farther into Queens, you’re going to love Upscale Society’s Halloween event, A Night of Nightmares, at Lime Lounge on Saturday, Oct. 29. Doors open at 10 p.m., and word is everyone who RSVP’d gets in free before midnight. (What’s your zodiac sign?

If you’re a Scorpio, you can get in for free all night with an RSVP ticket!) And no, it doesn’t end there. You still have free jello shots and $10 fishbowls before the clock strikes 12. Top this off with a costume contest (cash prize giveaway), special guest DJs and guest bartenders, and this chaos of a night is almost too good to be true for the avid club goer. Call or text 347741-1193 to RSVP. Visit eventbrite.com and search “A Night of Nightmares” for more info.

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Bohemian Beer Garden On Saturday, Oct. 29, your favorite beer garden will be coordinating a Halloween celebration equipped with a costume contest and drink specials.

Prizes will be given out for best homemade costume, crowd favorite and scariest costume.

With no cover charge and DJ Izzy E performing from 5 to 10 p.m., the beer garden remains a hot item on the list of things to do this fall. The event will be 21 and over. Visit bohemianhall.com for more info.

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Horseman’s Hollow If you’re looking to go all out this year and really embrace the Halloween festivities, the Horseman’s Hollow is a celebration worth visiting. The event is known as Sleepy Hollow’s premier haunted attraction, where elaborate costumes and the most prestigious makeup artists ensure that your experience is all too real. Visitors will encounter creatures and strangers lurking in the shadows as they walk the haunted trail made by the Headless Horseman in Philipsburg Manor.

Advance tickets are required and they sell out quickly! Make sure to purchase your ticket for $20. An additional $15 for the fast track pass is available to participants. Visit hudsonvalley.org for more information.

HOW TO GET THERE: Transportation is available by Metro-North’s Hudson Line departing from Grand Central or by New York Water Taxi from Manhattan. For those coming in by car, use the address 100 Continental St., Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 in your GPS and park in the Philipsburg Manor overflow parking lot.

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For an artistically noteworthy celebration, you’ll need to visit MoMA PS1 and Susanne Bartsch’s legendary Halloween Ball on Saturday, Oct. 29. Running on its fifth year, this year’s theme is The White House of Horror. The event will feature live performances, DJs, dancing and some bonafide creative ensembles. The celebration runs from 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $18 in advance and the price at the door is TBA. Visit momaps1.org for more information.

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If you’re looking for a light, brisk version of Halloween, join Photo: Katrina Medoff/BORO the Greater Astoria Historical Society for their walk along the Long Island City/Astoria waterfront on Saturday, Oct. 29. At noon, participants will meet at the Hell Gate Bridge, Shore Boulevard and Ditmars Boulevard.

Tag along for some mystery and history during the 2.5-hour walk along the East River, ending at Socrates Sculpture Park. The fee is $15 for non-members, $10 for GAHS members and $5 for people in costume. For more information, visit astorialic.org.

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Event Title: Stand-Ups Improvise TED Talks Cost: $5 advance/$7 at door Location: Q.E.D. Phone: 347-451-3873 Address: 27-16 23rd Ave. URL: StandUpsImprovise.com Other Contact Info- Ryan Stanisz/Ryan@ RyanStanisz.com Saturday, Oct. 15 – Sunday, Oct. 16 Time: Oct. 15 at noon to Oct. 16 at 6 p.m.

Event Title: Queens Beer Festival Location: LIC Flea Phone: 718-224-5863 ext. 264 Address: 525 46th Ave., LIC URL: https://queensbeerfestival. splashthat.com/ Sunday, Oct. 16 Time: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Event Title: Astoria Alive Street Festival Cost: FREE Location: 31st Street between Ditmars Boulevard and 21st Avenue Phone: 718-726-0034 URL: http://www.queensbuzz.com/ queens-street-fairs---street-festivals-inqueens-nyc-cms-387#astorialic Sunday, Oct. 16 Time: 6 p.m.

Event Title: Quiet Clubbing Sunday Funday Cost: $10-$25 Location: LIC Landing Phone: 347-706-4696 Address: 52-10 Center Blvd., Queens URL: https://quietevents.com/events/ sunday-funday-quiet-clubbing-party-10/ Monday, Oct. 17 Time: 8:30 to 10 p.m.

Event Title: The Ted Alexandro & Friends Cost: $6 Location: Q.E.D – A Place to Show and Tell Phone: 347-451-3873 Address: 27-16 23rd Ave., Astoria URL: https://qedastoria.com/collections/ shows/products/the-ted-alexandrofriends

Saturday, Oct. 22 Time: 10 a.m.

Event Title: Life and Art Along the L Train Cost: $49 Location: Location announced upon payment Contact: For a complete prospectus, email jaconet@aol.com URL: http://www.licpartnership.org/ events/life-and-art-along-the-l-train Other: This tour requires registration and payment in advance and is restricted to 25 participants.

Saturday, Oct. 22 Time: 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Event Title: The Improviser’s Guide to Being a Better Birth Partner Cost: $10 Location: Q.E.D – A Place to Show and Tell Phone: 347-451-3873 Address: 27-16 23rd Ave., Astoria URL: http://qedastoria.com/products/ the-improvisers-guide-to-being-a-betterbirth-partner Wednesday, Oct. 26 Time: 7 p.m.

Event Title: SC Conversations: Diedrich Diederichsen Cost: $5 Location: Sculpture Center Phone: 718-361-1750 Address: 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City, NY 11101 URL: http://www.sculpture-center.org/ eventsEvent.htm?id=116144 Saturday, Oct. 29 Time: 2 to 3 p.m.

Event Title: Public Tour with Artist Leah Raintree Location: Noguchi Museum Phone: 718-204-7088 Address: 9-01 33rd Rd. (at Vernon Boulevard), LIC URL: http://www.noguchi.org/programs/ public-tour-leah-raintree-october-29-2016 Saturday, Oct. 29 Time: 6 p.m.

Event Title: Lewis and Clark Expedition Musical Stage Reading Location: The Creek and The Cave Phone: 646-944-9255 Address: 10-93 Jackson Ave., LIC URL: http://creeklic.com/events/ lewis-and-clark-expedition-musical-stagereading/

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Sunday, Oct. 30 Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Event Title: Halloween Party with DJ John Cost: FREE Location: Vite Vinosteria Phone: 718-278-8483 Address: 31-05 34th St., Astoria URL: vitevinosteria.com Other: Call for reservation Sunday, Oct. 30 Time: Noon to 6 p.m.

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Event Title: QED Official Halloween Party!

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Sleeping Beauty While a local artist’s son naps, she makes gorgeous watercolor creations.

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ven at a young age, watercolor artist Consuelo Reinitz maintained a perfectly ordered Sanrio pencil case. She always knew who had borrowed her favorite eraser, because they were all her favorite erasers. Her pencils were neat, and her colors were in order. Who knew she’d be this way forever?!

Reinitz grew up in Nicaragua and moved to New York after college. She now lives in Astoria, where she moved with her husband just before her adorable son, Lucas, was born. While Lucas was napping, Reinitz had some extra time on her hands, and she began trying her hand at DIY activities. After trying baking, cooking and several other crafts, Reinitz got bored. The household hobbies weren’t cutting it until she stumbled across some watercolors at a supply store and sat down to try them out as she made thank-you cards to send to her friends.

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The hobby she started that day quickly developed into something more. After casually posting photos of her thank-you cards on social media, her friends began contacting her to commission custom cards for themselves. Reinitz found herself opening both Instagram and Etsy accounts to satisfy these personal requests. Etsy had created a perfect platform for the custom craze of DIY artists, much like herself. So that’s where she chose to share her craft with the world without having to worry about mass production or venue approval.

Reinitz launched Pink Fries Paperie in November of 2015 and began taking orders that very week. Since then, she has collaborated with brides, mothers, boutiques and more. Her professional experience in account management has given her the business “know-how” required for collaboration, while her blossoming creative side is genuinely excited to create things from scratch.

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custom strokes of beauty with the brush. It seems like a novel idea, but what it’s really doing is bringing us back to the way we used to communicate, before the age of screens: it’s an invitation for handwritten letters, thoughtful messages and personal touch.

With an array of products ranging from family portraits, to boutique signs, to nursery prints, to wedding packages, Consuelo has discovered a market for one-of-a-kind artistry.

“It’s funny because I’ve learned a little bit about trends from what people want. I like the one-on-one with clients. Besides, I don’t always have to come up with an idea. Sometimes you help someone else finish theirs and putting that together is a cool new experience for me,” Reinitz said.

After she made an illustration of The Beatles as babies — complete with facial hair — for her son’s room, requests came in for paintings of baby Phish and baby Bob Marley, among others.

“It has been a truly happy discovery for me that I shared this with the world and have received a positive response,” she said.

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manda Goodman watched “The Goonies” every Sunday as a child, and as an Astoria resident, she loved that the ‘80s adventure comedy took place in Astoria, too. What she didn’t realize was that it was set in Astoria, Oregon; she had just assumed that the scenes were in a 22 I BOROMAG.COM I OCTOBER 2016

part of Astoria she didn’t know, and she’d walk around thinking, “I’m like the Goonies!”

Now, the screenwriter and filmmaker understands that it’s not her hometown in that film. Still, Astoria has always inspired her to tell stories.

“I don’t really get this feeling in Manhat-

tan or Brooklyn, but in Astoria, wherever I am, I’m creating stories in my mind, and it’s all inspiring,” Goodman said. “What is the story here? What could happen here?

What’s interesting about this location? And I think that’s just a testament to Queens in general. It’s a very cinematic location.”

towns, or even in Manhattan, she said, but “Queens, especially Astoria, is just so gothic and so meant for horror; it’s amazing to me that it’s not featured more.”

The horror genre has always been a big part of Goodman’s life.

“Not a lot of girls my age were writing these horror screenplays and short stories,” she said.

She now uses that childhood interest to make her own work. “I thought, why not use two things that make me unique—that I am someone in this industry who is from Astoria and my deep understanding of the horror genre—and that’s where I am now.”

I don’t really get this feeling in Manhattan or Brooklyn, but in Astoria, wherever I am, I’m creating stories in my mind, and it’s all inspiring.”

That’s why she’s setting and filming her upcoming vampire web series “You Only Die Once”—inspired by a short film she shot of the same name—right here in our neighborhood.

Most popular vampire films and television shows take place in California, in small

Goodman’s first short film was a femaledriven horror comedy called “Cori’s First Horror Movie,” which was shot in one day around Halloween of 2015 in her apartment in Astoria.

“It got a lot of good reception in terms of people understanding what my voice was, and that was the first time I really delved into filmmaking in that way,” she said. “I think I’ve always been a director; since I was a kid I would do ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketches and all that kind of stuff, and weird little comedy things. But this was the first time that I wrote a script that I produced.” She also directed and acted in the short.

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pilot: it’s so cheaply made, and some of the actors never even made it to the show, but it’s still one of those really great things—I have it on VHS, actually; I bought it on eBay.” Goodman had an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for the series, but she’s keeping it fairly low-budget.

“I’ve always been very good at making a really good genre product at a very decent price, because I think with a lot of genre films in general, it’s about the director using their imagination to create things,” she said.

“You don’t always have to have high, Hollywood, blockbuster budgets to make things that are really effective.”

She wanted to make the web series

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me because I had no expectations. I just had this really fun story, and it turned out that people really, really responded well to the humor and the style and just the understanding of the genre in general.”

Goodman wrote the screenplay for the short film “You Only Die Once” around Thanksgiving and shot it in Astoria a few months later. She had a premiere party on Friday the 13th at Q.E.D. Astoria, which she said has been “so supportive” of her project.

“I was a nervous wreck,” she said, “because you spend so much time with it. To have a ton of strangers be in the room, and to hear the reception at the Q&A, that’s when the idea sparked about the [web] series, be-

cause people were asking, ‘Oh, so this continues now, right?’ And I was like, ‘No.’” So a month after she premiered the film online, she started writing a web series, without even planning for it to go into production. But after she wrote it, she fell in love with the story and the characters and wanted to dive into it again.

She views the film as a pilot for the series in a way, but she says that “the series is written in a way that if you see the film it adds to it, but we start from a place where it’s not confusing. If they go back and watch the film, it’s kind of like an added layer. I like to say it’s kind of like the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ 24 I BOROMAG.COM I OCTOBER 2016

grander than the short film and up the production value, she said. She’s working with some of the same crew, and the web series will have all of the original cast members, with some new characters added.

“All the stakes are higher—I hate saying ‘stakes,’ because I keep saying vampire puns every time I talk about the project,” she said, laughing. “But it’s true.”

Also working on the web series are Astoria actor Lyssa Mandel, who regularly performs her show “The Bitch Seat” at Q.E.D., and Astoria makeup artist Lenore Koppelman. Koppelman has a background in facepainting and only recently began working

on movie monster makeup, Goodman said.

“We’re getting grosser and grosser, so she’s excited,” Goodman said of Koppelman.

“She’s a big horror fan, too, so I write these really gross visual things and she’s like, ‘I can’t wait to do that,’ so that’s what’s really fun.”

Astoria residents might just see some of Koppelman’s work being filmed in Astoria Park later this year.

“People might be seeing a crazy halfzombie vampire when we shoot outdoors in December. People can see that there are lights and cameras, so hopefully no one calls the police and goes, ‘There’s a monster in Astoria Park,’” Goodman joked.

Goodman already has plans to shoot another project in Astoria Park. She is currently writing a feature-length screenplay called “The Change” that she describes as a “mother-daughter werewolf horror comedy,” and the climax takes place on top of the Hell Gate Bridge.

So can we expect a season two of “You Only Die Once”?

“I would love to keep it going,” Goodman said, depending on logistics. Like the short film, the first season of the web series will have an ending, but it will leave the audience with “kind of a fun teaser.”

“I just believe so much in this project and the people involved,” she said, “and giving a voice to not just women in film but women in the horror genre and to Astoria.”

“You Only Die Once” will be hosting two events later this month: an Undead Ball at The Black Rose (117 Avenue A, Manhattan) from 8 to 11 p.m. on Oct. 22, complete with a costume contest, drinks, giveaways, a tarot card reader, and the series’ makeup artist, who will be doing gory makeup on guests, and an event at Q.E.D. (qedastoria.com) on Halloween night.

The web series will be filming later this year, with its released date to be announced.

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alobar restaurant (A,4) 718-752-6000 46-42 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.alobarnyc.com Astor room (C,2) 718-255-1947 34-12 36th St., Astoria www.astorroom.com Bierocracy 718-361-9333 12-23 Jackson Ave., LIC www.bierocracy.com Botana 718-361-6535 34-18 Steinway St., Astoria www.thebotana.com Bread Box Cafe (A,4) 718-389-9700 4711 11th St., LIC www.breadboxcafelic.com Brick Cafe (B,2) 718-267-2735 30-95 33rd St., Astoria www.brickcafe.com Burger Garage (B,3) 718-392-0424 25-36 Jackson Ave., LIC www.theburgergarage.com

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Michael’s Cafe (B,3) (located inside Four Points Sheraton) 347-536-3633 27-05 39th Ave., LIC www.michaelscafeny.com

184

Via Vai (B1) 31-09 23rd Ave, Astoria 347-612-4334 viavai-ny.com

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Mojave Restaurant (B,1) 718-545-4100 22-36 31st St., Astoria www.mojaveny.com

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MONIKA’S CAFE BAR 718-204-5273 3290 36th St., Astoria www.monikascafebar.com New York Dog House 718-274-3647 37-06 30th Ave., Astoria www.newyorkdoghouse.com

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Nosh Borough (B,1) 347-746-5542 25-17 Astoria Blvd., Astoria noshborough.com

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Number 5 718-361-6930 35-43 37th St., Astoria www.no5nyc.com

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OFF THE HOOK (B,1) 718-721-2112 28-08 34th St., Astoria (one block from 30th A) www.offthehookastoria.com

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Butcher Bar (c,2) 718-606-8140 37-08 30th Ave., Astoria www.ButcherBar.com

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Ornella Trattoria Italiana (B,1) 718-777-9477 29-17 23rd Ave., Astoria www.ornellatrattoria.com

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Cavo (C,2) 718-721-1001 42-18 31st Ave., Astoria www.cavoastoria.com

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Ovelia (B,2) 718-721-7217 34-01 30th Ave., Astoria www.ovelia-ny.com

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Crescent Grill (B,3) 718-729-4040 38-40 Crescent St., LIC www.crescentgrill.com

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DiWine (C,2) 718-777-1355 41-15 31st Ave., Astoria www.diwineonline.com

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DUTCH KILLS CENTRAAL (B,3) 718-606-8651 38-40 29th St., Long Island City www.dutchkillscentraal.com

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The Brass Owl (C,1) 347-848-0905 36-19 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria www.thebrassowl.com

Victory Garden Café 718-274-2087 2169 Steinway St., Astoria www.victorysweetshop.com

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Inside Astoria (C,1) 718-956-4000 28-07 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria

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Vite Vinosteria 718-278-8483 31-05 34th St., Astoria www.vitevinosteria.com

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LIC: living (A,4) 718-361-5650 535 51st Ave., LIC www.licliving.com

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WARIQUE 718-726-5555 47-17 30th Ave., Astoria

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Lockwood Shop (C,2) 718-626-6030 32-15 33rd St., Astoria www.lockwoodshop.com

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william hallet (c,2) 718-269-3443 36-10 30th Ave., Astoria www.williamhallet.com

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Loveday 31 (B,2) 718-728-4057 3306 31st Ave., Astoria www.loveday31.com

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Winegasm Bar and Eatery (c,2) 718-932-3331 31-86 37th Rd., Astoria www.winegasmeatery.com Yajai (b,2) 718-956-9559 33-16 30th Ave., Astoria www.yajaithaifood.com

BAKERIES 115

60 bean coffee & tea (C,1) 347-987-3994 36-02 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria

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Astor Bake Shop (a,2) 718-606-8439 12-23 Astoria Blvd., Astoria www.astor-bakeshop.com

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Astoria Coffee 30-04 30th St Astoria, NY, 11102 (347) 410-7399

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Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company 718-777-1121 35-09 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria (C,1) 36-14 30th Ave., Astoria (C,2) 35-05 Broadway, Astoria (C,2) www.bkbagel.com

RETRO PIZZA CAFE 347-612-4460 Fax: 347-813-4039 41-02 Broadway, Astoria

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IL Fornaio Bakery (B,2) 718-267-0052 29-14 30th Ave., Astoria

Penthouse 808 (A,3) 718-289-6118 8-08 Queens Plaza South, LIC www.penthouse808rooftop.com Queens Comfort (c,2) 718-728-2350 40-09 30th Ave., Astoria www.queenscomfort.com

Flo Lounge Restaurant (C,2) 718-204-6096 37-20 30th Ave., Astoria www.flocafeny.com

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Rèst-âü-Ránt (B,2) 718-729-9009 30-01 35th Ave., Astoria www.rarbarlic.com

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Ok café (B,1) 718-440-8789 22-04 33rd St., Astoria www.okcafeastoria.com

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Hibino LIC (A,4) 718-392-5190 10-70 Jackson Ave., LIC www.hibino-lic.com

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S Prime Steak House (c,2) 718-707-0660 35-16 36th St., Astoria www.sprimenyc.com

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Sweetleaf (A,4) 917-832-6726 10-93 Jackson Ave., LIC www.sweetleaflic.com

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Il Bambino (C,2) 718-626-0087 34-08 31 Ave., Astoria www.ilbambinonyc.com

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Sac’s Place Coal Oven Pizza (B,2) 718-204-5002 2541 Broadway, Astoria www.sacsplace.com

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leng thai (b,2) 718-956-7117 33-09 Broadway, Astoria www.lengthainewyork.com

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Sage General Store (b,4) 718-361-0707 24-20 Jackson Ave., LIC www.sagegeneralstore.com

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LAS MARGARITAS Restaurant Lounge (C,2) 38-01 Broadway, Astoria 718-777-1707 www.lasmargaritasny.com

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Shi (a,4) 347-242-2450 4720 Center Blvd., LIC www.eatdrinkshi.com

Maiella 4610 Center Blvd., Long Island City 718-606-1770 www.maiellalic.com

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Skinny’s (a,4) 718-806-1068 47-05 Center Blvd., LIC

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Maizal Restaurant (B,2) 718-406-9431 32-07 34th Ave., Astoria www.maizalrestaurant.com Malagueta Restaurant (B,2) 718-937-4821 25-35 36th Ave., Astoria www.malaguetany.com Manducatis Rustica (A,4) 718-937-1312 46-3 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.manducatisrustica.com

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MEET THE MEAT 23-92 21st St., Astoria 917-832-7984 www.meetthemeat.net

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MexiBBQ (c,2) 718-626-0333 37-11 30th Ave., Astoria www.mexiqny.com

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Mezze Place (B,2) 718-777-2829 31-18 Broadway, Astoria www.mezzeplace.com

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Snowdonia Pub (B,2) 347-730-5783 34-55 32nd St., Astoria www.snowdoniapub.com

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Sugar Freak (C,2) 718-726-5850 36-18 30th Ave., Astoria www.sugarfreak.com

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LIC Veterinary Center (A,4) 718-383-8387 48-18 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.licvets.com

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MY DOG NEEDS A WALK 347-323-4549 23-12 29th St., Astoria www. mydogneedsawalk.com

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Steinway Court Vet (c,2) 718-728-2822 32-41R Steinway St., Astoria www.steinwaycourtvet.com

FLORISTS 160

Off Broadway Florist (B,2) 718-728-2828 3204 31st St., Astoria www.offbroadwayflorist.com

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Floresta (A,4) 917-612-4446 51-02 Vernon Blvd., LIC 4-85 47th Rd., LIC www.florestanyc.com/blog NYC FARM CHIC Flowers www.nycfarmchicflowers.com Petals and Roots (B,2) 718-267-1700 31-27 31st St., Astoria www.petalsandroots.com

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Food Cellar 718-606-1888 43-18 Crescent St., LIC www.foodcellarandco.com

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Admiral lock and Key (C,2) 718-274-2491 37-17 Broadway, Astoria www.admirallockandkey.com

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Astoria 35 Laundry & Fine Dry Cleaning (B,2) 718-392-9692 3505 34th St., Astoria Astoria35laundry.com

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Astoria Center of Israel 718-278-2680 27-35 Crescent St., Astoria www.astoriacenter.org

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Astoria Cleaners (B,1) 718-545-0680 28-19 Astoria Blvd., Astoria astoriacleaners.com

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Avenue Chemists Pharmacy 718-545-1010 45-01 30th Ave., Astoria

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Blue Bird Child Care 347-832-0103 25-58 48th St., Astoria www.bluebirdchildcareastoria.com

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Met Fresh and Organic Supermarket Located in the heart of Astoria on 34-14 Steinway St.

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Yogurt La Crepe (B,1) 917-832-6930 29-02 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria www.yogurtlacrepe.com

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The Bonnie 718-274-2105 29-12 23rd Ave. Astoria www.thebonnie.com

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Astoria wine and spirits (C,2) 718-545-9463 3412 Broadway, Astoria www.astoriawines.com

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Tru Astoria 35-19 Ditmars Blvd. Astoria 646-878-6000 www.truastoria.com

Grand Wine and Liquor (B,2) 718-728-2520 30-05 31st St., Astoria www.grandwl.com

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City Vet (A,4) 718-433-1334 45-44 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.cityvetnyc.com

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Vesta (a,2) 718-545-5550 2102 30th Ave, Astoria www.vestavino.com

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Food Cellar (A,4) 718-606-9786 4-85 47th Rd., LIC www.foodcellarandco.com

Astoria Park Wine and Spirits (b,1) 28-07 24th Ave., Astoria www.astoriaparkwineandspirits.com

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Château le Woof 718-626-WOOF 30-02 14th St., Astoria www.chateaulewoof.com

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Testaccio (a,4) 718-937-2900 47-30 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.testacciony.com

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Astoria Bier & Cheese (C,2) 718-545-5588 34-14 Broadway, Astoria

The Last Word 31-30 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria www.tlwastoria.com

Sofia’s Consignment Shop (B,2) 718-775-8455 32-02 34th Ave., Astoria www.sofiasconsignment.com

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ASTORIA BOOKSHOP (b,2) 718- 278-2665 31-29 31st St., Astoria www.astoriabookshop.com babyNOIR (B,1) 646-470-4728 26-16 23rd Ave., Astoria www.babynoir.net

SERVICES

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Bookkeeping & Payroll Services Sparklelink 718-812-9616 3537 36th St., Astoria Crescent Apothecary (B,1) 718-777-1110 25-01 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria www.crescentapothecary.com Dr. Panagiotis Pagonis, M.D. (b,2) 718-278-0300 30-16 30th Ave., Astoria www.drpagonismd.com

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FERRARI Driving School (c,2) 718-278-6679 3232 Steinway St.

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Hero computer repair nyc 347-670-4376 Apple/Mac Computer Repair Specialist hero@iamhero.net | www.iamhero.net

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John Savignano Accountants & Advisors 718-707-0955 47-46 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.savignano-cpa.com

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718-707-0295 41-20 Crescent St., LIC www.savignano-cpa.com

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The Learning Station Montessori Inc. (c,2) 347-523-0906 31-32 47th St., Astoria www.thelearningstationmontessorischool.com

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Mathnasium (c,1) 718-726-6284 43-32 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria www.mathnasium.com/astoria

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Montessori Kids of LIC (B,3) 347-746-5542 5 Court Square, LIC mklic.com

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MPN Law Firm (C,2) 718-777-0400 3403 Broadway, Ste. 200, Astoria www.mpnfirm.com

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MY DOG NEEDS A WALK 347-323-4549 23-12 29th St., Astoria www.mydogneedsawalk.com

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Gotham lasik 718-440-3131 30-80 21st St., Astoria www.gothamlasik.com

QNS COLLECTIVE (c,3) 718-280-5122 36-27 36th St., 2nd floor, Astoria www.qnscollective.com RCN (A,3) Digital TV and High-Speed Internet Services 212-842-7981 33-16 Woodside Ave., LIC www.rcn.com/boromag

Super Nova Tattoos (c,1) 718-274-5712 38-01 23rd Ave., Astoria www.supernovatattoo.com

BEAUTY

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Carl Clarke AesthetIques (B,2) 347-631-0922 32-12 Broadway, Astoria www.defineyourlook.com

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European Wax Center LIC (A,4) 718-482-9299 4545 Center Blvd., LIC www.europeanwaxcenter.com

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HAPPY DaY NAIL SPA (B,2) 718-728-8886 31-35 31st St., Astoria Rejuvenate face and body (B,1) 718-626-4434 26-17 23rd Ave., Astoria www.Rejuvenatenyc.com Shade Organic Spa and Salon 718-278-7892 36-05 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria

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SCULPTURECENTER (B,3) 718-361-1750 44-19 Purves St., LIC www.sculpure-center.org

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Primp AND Tease SALON (a,4) 718-472-2001 5-02 50th Ave., LIC

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Break (B,2) 718-777-5400 3204 Broadway, Astoria www.break-ny.com

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RedkEn SALOON Salon (c,2) 718-956-3366 36-17 30th Ave., Astoria www.redkensalon.com

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shade organic spa and salon (C,1) 718-278-7892 36-05 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria shadebarspa.com

Brick Bar (B,2) 718-267-2735 30-95 33rd St., Astoria www.brickcafe.com

Socrates Sculpture Park (A,2) 718-626-1533 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Astoria www.socratessculpturepark.org

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Studio Nova 718-392-4962 37-01 36th Ave., Astoria www.studionovanyc.com

The Brewery Bar & Kitchen 718-777-8007 49-18 30th Ave., Astoria www.thebrewery.nyc

Ten10 Studios (A,4) 917-449-9539 10-10 47th Rd., LIC www.ten10studios.com

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Domaine Wine Bar (A,4) 718-784-2350 50-04 Vernon Blvd., LIC www.domainewinebar.com

the art house (c,2) 516-724-1562 31-06 35th St., Astoria www.gabrieleperici.com

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Dominies of Astoria (C,2) 718-706-6531 34-07 30th Ave., Astoria www.dominiesnyc.com

The Paint Place (NYC Painting Classes & Parties) 31-21 31st St Astoria, NY 11106 929-522-0086 www.thepaintplaceny.com

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SCULPTURE SPACE NYC (c,3) 718-806-1709 47-21 35th St., LIC www.sculpturespacenyc.com

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The Secret Theatre (B,3) 718-392-0722 44-02 23rd St., LIC www.secrettheatre.com

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The Cotton Bride (B,3) 718-729-9878 Fax: 718-729-9740 39-13 23rd St., LIC www.thecottonbride.com

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Anthea Yoga & Healing Arts center (c,2) 718-606-0049 34-01 45th St., Astoria www.antheacenter.com

Katch Brewery & Grill (B,2) 718-777-2230 3119 Newtown Ave., Astoria www.katchastoria.com

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Astoria Complex (c,2) 718-729-7163 34-38 38th St., LIC www.ascsports1.com

Locked -Escape Room NYC 718-274-9700 22-56 31st St., Astoria www.escapelocked.com

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CKO Kickboxing (C, 1) 347-669-0494 40-06 Astoria Blvd., Astoria www.ckoastoria.com

Mosaic Craft Beer & Wine Bar (B,1) 718-728-0708 25-19 24th Ave., Astoria www.mosaicastoria.com

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Passage Irish bar and kitchen 917-832-6680 40-11 30th Ave., Astoria www.passageastoria.com

FITNESS 58

Studio Sq. Beer Garden (C,3) 718-383-1001 35-33 36th St., Astoria www.studiosquarenyc.com

175

Vespa Queens (b,3) 718-786-7772 37-43 Crescent St., LIC www.vespaqueens.com

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Crank Cycling Studio (a,4) 718-606-6309 4630 Center Blvd., LIC www.cranknyc.com

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Voice Music Studio (A,1) 646-309-3429 23-11 21st St., Astoria

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CROSSFIT Dynamix Gym (C,1) 718-606-0381 36-05 20th Ave., Astoria www.dynamixgym.com

Sweet Afton (C,2) 718-777-2570 30-09 34th St., Astoria www.sweetaftonbar.com

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NEXUS NYC (C,3) 718-204-2091 36-58 37th St., LIC www.nexusnyc.com

Tantra Lounge (b,2) 718-937-4574 35-50 31st St., Astoria www.tantraloungenyc.com

PNT Fitness (A,4) 347-396-5809 10-68 Jackson Ave., LIC www.pntfitness.com

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FOUNDRY (a,3) 718-786-7776 42-38 Ninth St., LIC www.thefoundry.info

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Renaissance Event Hall (A,1) 718-274-4590 27-34 21st St., Astoria www.renaissanceeventhall.com

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Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden (B,1) 718-274-4925 2919 24th Ave., Astoria www.bohemianhall.com

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Club Fitness (b,2) 718-545-0004 31-11 Broadway, Astoria www.clubfitnessny.com

Ravel (a,3) 718-289-6101 8-08 Queens Plaza South, LIC www.ravelhotel.com

QUEENS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (C,2) 347-505-3010 37-11 35th Ave., Astoria www.queenscouncilarts.org

RoGallery.com (C,3) 800-888-1063 or 718-937-0901 47-15 36th St., LIC - by appointment www.rogallery.com

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When Sunnyside resident Grace McLean saw the final performance of “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” at Ars Nova in 2012, she had no idea the show was going to change her life.

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he didn’t have a ticket because it was sold out, so she decided to get there an hour early and see if she could get in. The standby line was already long, but she happened to know the first two people in line (who didn’t know each other), and they offered for her to be their plus one. The three of them got in, and no one else did.

“I had an amazing time at this show,” McLean said. “I thought it was so beautiful and so fun. I remember watching it and thinking, ‘Oh, if I were in this show, I’d probably be that part right there.’”

She saw the show in October or November, and by December, she had decided that in a year’s time she was going to be out of New York City.

“I just wasn’t happy, and I felt like I was struggling in a way that I didn’t feel like I deserved to be,” she said. “I wanted to do something else. And I felt really good about that decision. I’d just been dumped, and I was like, I don’t need this. I feel free.

I’m gonna get out of here.”

Then in January of 2013, Ars Nova asked her to audition for “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” because it was transferring to an off-Broadway space. Ars Nova had asked the whole cast back, but one actress wanted to take another job in Chicago—the one who played the character that McLean had felt she was right for.

“I thought, that’s so funny, because I don’t do this anymore, but I’ll just go in and sing a song that I wrote, and tell them how much I 34 I BOROMAG.COM I OCTOBER 2016

liked it,” McLean said. “And somehow I kept getting called in.”

She’s been with the show ever since.

On Oct. 18, “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” will begin previews on Broadway, starring Denée Benton as Natasha and Josh Groban as Pierre. McLean plays Marya, Natasha’s strict yet kind godmother.

The musical is based on a 79-page section of “War and Peace.”

The story is so simple and identifiable,” she said. “‘War and Peace’ seems like such a big meal, but this is really just one amuse-bouche; it’s not the whole thing.

It’s a love story, basically.

Who doesn’t love a love story? And who doesn’t love a love story that makes you cry and think about your own mortality? That’s the best kind,” she said, laughing.

“That’s the Tolstoyan kind.”

McLean said that “The Great Comet” is for fans of musicals like “Fun Home,” “Hamilton” and “Futurity”—shows that are challenging the notion of musical theater.

“Rachel Chavkin, our director, refers to it as ‘theater 360’ in that it happens all around you,” McLean said. There’s no fourth wall separating the stage and the audience. “It’s at once more blown apart than that and

more intimate, because there’ll be people sitting on the stage. They’re building performance spaces for us in the traditional audience; they’re building staircases from the balcony down to the orchestra. It’s all just levels, so that everything in the space is connected. Audience is everywhere; actors are everywhere. So at once you get great distance from people, and then sometimes we’ll be right up next to you and we’ll talk right to you.

“It’s adapted from a book, and there’s no hiding that,” she said. “Often characters will talk about themselves in the third person, describing themselves and what they’re doing.”

The music is very eclectic, McLean said.

“There are some classical elements, but also folk, but also Russian folk, but also rock, but also electronica. A lot of things are going on at once. And I like the way that [composer]

Photos courtesy of Grace McLean

Dave [Malloy] talks about that, because there have been these critiques about the show like, ‘There’s all these different styles going on in here!” but that’s exactly what happens in ‘War and Peace.’ It’s a mishmash of styles. There’s a narrative, but there’s also philosophy, but there’s also history, and it’s all things at once jumbled together, and that’s what makes it so beautiful.”

McLean has also performed in “Sleep No More,” “Brooklynite,” “The World is Round,” “Bedbugs!!!” and more.

As a singer, McLean writes and performs original music with her band, Grace McLean & Them Apples. She said that her boyfriend describes her music as “blueeyed funk soul,” whereas she calls it “loopy soul pop—loopy both in that it’s, ‘She’s weird!’ but also that I use a looping station.”

She got a looping station a few years ago so that she could accompany herself with

her voice. Her last EP was “all looping stuff,” she said, and the full-length album that her band will release next year is a mix of songs with and without the looper (visit gracemclean.bandcamp.com for free singles being released in the year leading up to the album release). The band consists of her, a percussionist and a bassist who also plays keys at the same time.

Grace McLean & Them Apples has performed at venues like Rockwood Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova and The Flea Theater. They performed at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook two years in a row. In April 2015, the band traveled to Pakistan on an artistic ambassadorship program through the U.S. State Department.

McLean is also writing a musical, “In the Green,” about 12th-century nun, mystic, musician and artist Hildegard von Bingen.

McLean studied medieval art in college,

and von Bingen’s work stood out to her because “her work wasn’t like anything else that was happening at the time” and because she’s one of the first composers students learn about.

On top of all that, McLean teaches voice lessons, focusing on “the voice as it connects to body and emotions and psychology.”

“I’m interested in the human voice and all of its potentials and all of its ugly, raw, broken sounds, because those are a part of it, and I don’t want to scrub anything clean for anybody, but I want people to embrace all aspects of it, because when you can acknowledge that all of this stuff is in there—all of the weird screamy stuff and the broken things—it makes the stronger stuff stronger and more honest.”

Visit greatcometbroadway.com and gracemclean.com for more information on the show and McLean’s other projects.

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y teammates and I scurried around the dimly lit dorm room, looking for a clue—any clue. Someone overturned a rug, while another crouched to peek under the bed. But I was the one who happened upon the right hiding place; a key clattered to the ground.

“See if it opens that lock,” I said, tossing the key across the room to one of my friends. It did.

And we were off.

Over the next 60 minutes, my team solved clue after clue to figure out what happened to Spooky Room 479’s fictional occupant, Sarah, who had mysteriously disappeared, and to escape the room before her ghost haunted us forever.

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ghost, and gamely stuck our hands in an unknown substance, all in the name of getting out of the room before the timer ran out.

And we did—with 5 minutes and 2 seconds to spare, we tumbled out of Spooky Room 479, laughing and cheering.

T UN Escape rooms are growing in popularity, popping up all over the country and around the world, but Locked, at 22-56 31st St., is the first to come to Astoria. It opened in August and offers two challenges: Vendetta and Spooky Room 479.

In the mafia-inspired Vendetta room, your team is part of a mob family trying to break into a secret bank account before midnight, when the $300 million kept in the account will be lost to you forever. It’s open to kids as young as 8 (with adult supervision) and has an escape rate of 38 percent.

One of the owners, Sandra Anagnostos, who was born and raised in Astoria, said that kids actually do better than adults on some of the clues.

“Kids sometimes find the obvious

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clue, where adults will tend to overthink it,” she said.

Spooky Room 476 is “more immersive” than Vendetta, Anagnostos said.

“In Vendetta you know what your goal is, while in Spooky Room it’s more of a storyline; you’re trying to figure out what happened to Sarah,” she said. “It’s more of a mystery.”

Spooky Room 479 isn’t scary, per se (OK—I’ll admit that something made me

jump), but with the dim lights and bloody handprints on the walls, it is a bit creepy. That, in addition to its increased difficulty level, is why it’s for ages 14 and older.

About 25 percent of groups make it out of Spooky Room 479 before the hour’s up, but teams have fun no matter what, Anagnostos said.

“We found that no matter if you get out of the room or you don’t solve it within 60 minutes, the feedback has been tremendous,” she said. “People have a great time and they absolutely love it. Our main concern is for the cusOCTOBER 2016 I BOROMAG.COM I 39

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tomer to come out of there high-fiving us, whether they escaped or not, for the customer to have a great experience where they’re going to want to go try another escape room.”

A “gamemaster” introduces teams to the game and is able to give clues through a TV screen mounted on a wall in the room when teams get stuck. If a team doesn’t make it out of the room in the allotted time, the gamemaster will explain what steps they needed to take to escape.

“We’ve had a lot of groups that do one room and then if the second room is available, they’ll do it right away on the same day,” Anagnostos said. “And then as soon as they finish both rooms, they’re like, ‘OK, when are you coming up with new rooms?’”

Locked won’t be changing their rooms for at least a year. First of all, it takes about two to three months to create a room, from coming up with an idea and implementing it to doing beta testing (“It’s a lot of trial and error,” Anagnostos said). While some escape room companies buy pre-made challenges from outside vendors, Locked’s rooms are all original. One of the Locked partners, Vassilis Matsos, has an escape room in Greece, and Spooky Room 479 (which he created) is the most popular room at that location. The Locked team adapted that room for the Astoria location, so you won’t find this challenge anywhere else. Vendetta is a combination of two rooms that Matsos had in Greece, plus some added technological aspects.

Additionally, the rooms won’t be changing for a while because they’re hoping to draw customers from not only western Queens, but also Manhattan, since the area is so accessible by the subway.

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tion and fell in love with it right away,” Anagnostos said. “Astoria is just such a great neighborhood, and the Ditmars area is very vibrant right now. You have great restaurants, coffee shops, some art galleries, and being that our location is literally steps from the N train, we just think that it’s so convenient for people to hop on the train, come do the escape room and then go out to a great restaurant, bar or coffee shop.”

Locked is looking to partner up with a few restaurants in the area to offer birthday packages. The escape room has already had a few birthday parties for kids and teens. Anagnostos said that escape rooms are great team-building activities for corporations or offices, and that it’s also fun for bachelor or bachelorette parties or date night.

“The idea of escape rooms is that you get together with a group of friends and it’s something different to do,” she said. “We also feel that everybody’s so attached to their technology these days, and this is just a different way to have fun.”

One escape room enthusiast who’s done 106 rooms said that Spooky Room 479 was one of the best rooms he’s ever done, Anagnostos said. He later came back so he could do Vendetta, too.

I’ve done nowhere near that many escape rooms—only a couple—but I had the most fun at Locked, where there was a greater variety to the clues, more technological elements, and small team sizes that allow everyone to have a major role in escaping.

“It’s just a little escape from reality,” Anagnostos said. “Our goal is to add a little mystery to everybody’s everyday lives.”

Escape games at Locked are $28 per person, and teams that want to guarantee having the room to themselves should book the whole room. For more information and for booking, visit escapelocked.com.

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ust around the corner from the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard train stop sits a converted factory building that houses several successful small businesses, and it is common to spot musicians, tattoo aficionados, gym-goers and yogis headed toward its doors.

But those “in the know� find themselves headed up the steps for their preferred answer to their medical ailments.

Functional Health Acupuncture is only a year old, but already, owner and practitioner Devin McGilvery has gained enough clients to expand his business from a one-man show into a wellness clinic.

All of his success so far has come from word of mouth or referrals, and McGilvery has been busy treating patients one at a time with acupuncture, massage therapy, cupping, gua sha, laser acupuncture and facial rejuvenation. He felt it was time to add a community OCTOBER 2016 I BOROMAG.COM I 45

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acupuncture clinic (in which multiple patients are treated simultaneously in one room) and hire two acupuncturists and a receptionist so that he could treat more people. He is also looking to rent out space to other massage therapists and/or acupuncturists.

“I see people walking down the street who could use some help and I'm ready to spread the word that these types of treatments are available right in our neighborhood,” he said.

Community acupuncture, he said, is a great way to make the treatment accessible to more people.

“There are a lot of insurance companies that still do not cover acupuncture and then when they do, it is pretty much just for pain,” McGilvery said. “But acupuncture can help with so much more, from anxiety and depression to addiction and autoimmune diseases. Community acupuncture brings the prices of a treatment to what a person would 46 I BOROMAG.COM I OCTOBER 2016

have to pay for their co-pay with insurance. It is a way to help all of those people who otherwise cannot afford the proper care.”

The community acupuncture room, like

the rest of the healing oasis on the first floor of 38-01 23rd Ave., is calm, quiet, green and serene. The patients at Functional Health Acupuncture are 18 to 80 years old, but McGilvery is hoping that his business will soon treat younger patients, too.

“Eastern medicine can benefit children as well, and I hope to expand my modalities to all age groups in the near future,” he said.

Clients generally come to McGilvery with a specific issue, and he is able to deal with that problem—and more.

“I mainly work with people who are in pain or dealing with some movement or performance issue,” he said. “But what I love about eastern medicine is that there is so much more that we can help with. The human body tells us what is going on, and my whole goal is to make the individual function better internally and externally.”

McGilvery, a grounded presence with a joyful soul and a welcoming smile, is in-

The energy, the people, the culture—I learned more in the first two years living on my own in New York than I had in my entire life."

Devin McGilvery The services offered at FHA are varied and provide a wide array of healing techniques while keeping it simple for the patients:  Acupuncture is the use of small, very thin needles to stimulate points on the body to help treat conditions and bring balance to the body’s internal systems, providing better functionality and increased overall health.  Massage therapy and other modalities such as cupping and gua sha help relax tight muscles and connective tissue so that the patient can move and perform better and deal with the stress people put on themselves on a daily basis.  Laser acupuncture is becoming more widely used as it doesn’t involve needles but can stimulate key areas to help treat a client’s specific conditions.  Facial rejuvenation is another acupuncture treatment that FHA provides that helps patients look more youthful and can reduce fine lines and wrinkles over time.

terested in learning a client’s entire story so that he can best provide a holistic approach to improving quality of life. It is no surprise that many of his patients consider him a friend and can say without hesitation that he was “born to heal.”

McGilvery grew up in Southern California and moved to New York City with the intention of studying 3-D animation and architecture at the Pratt Institute.

But the move to New York dramatically changed his path, as he was first exposed to eastern medicine once he lived on the East Coast.

“The energy, the people, the culture—I learned more in the first two years living on my own in New York than I had in my entire life,” he said. “This place is magical.

It’s not easy living here, but I had the support of my family and friends and worked my butt off every day.”

He went to massage school at the Swedish Institute, and after graduating, he took a course in personal training at the same college. After spending some time working in Astoria as a massage therapist and personal trainer, McGilvery felt that acupuncture was the next step.

He then earned his master’s degree in acupuncture at Pacific College.

McGilvery has lived in Astoria for seven years—“I couldn’t see myself living anywhere else,” he said—and with the population boom in western Queens, it was the perfect place for his rapidly growing business.

“It is a growing neighborhood with a very diverse group of people. I love the beauty of Astoria Park, the amazing views, all of the old and new restaurants and bars opening in the area,” he said. “And the people! This place is a melting pot but still has a very strong Greek and Italian heritage to it. Even though I am a transplant and neither Greek nor Italian, I love this area in Queens. Astoria is everything.”

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he passing of Tony Mazzarella, a pillar of a man in Long Island City, was deeply felt in the early months of 2015. A retired boxer and relentless giver, Mazzarella’s contributions went far beyond charity or money. His restaurant, Waterfront Crabhouse, provided a place for the community to gather, for fellow former pugilists to catch up, and for local families to mark moments in their lives.

The old Waterfront Crabhouse was as beloved by the people of Long Island City as Mazzarella, and when it followed its founder into the great beyond just a month after Mazzarella’s death, its absence was felt keenly.

Thankfully, local restaurateur Joseph Licul and his partners, known for their work at Skinny’s Cantina and SHI, saw an opportunity to rescue a cherished neighborhood institution from the fate of being turned into another Hunter’s Point high-rise. Working closely with the Mazzarella family, their team gave Waterfront Crabhouse a modern update while preserving elements from the previous iteration: the iconic street lamp in front of the restaurant, the ivy hanging from the chandeliers—and the dedication to seriously good crabs.

Rebranded as Crabhouse and reopened in August, the restaurant offers both a

crabhouse and a steakhouse experience.

Fried soft-shell crabs share table space with luxuriously tender rib eyes, while diners clink glasses of dry red wines or fruity whites over lobster arragiata. If you like chicken, beef, pork or fish, you’ll find something you like here.

General manager Sean Cummings provided us with the ultimate Crabhouse experience, starting with the Ringside Tiki cocktail, a tribute to the previous restaurant’s important place in New York City’s boxing scene. The delightfully

fruity rum drink was perfect for that extra warm week or two when summer always manages to sneak into fall. After that, we proceeded to sample from the beer taps, all dispensing local Queens beers. We sampled drafts from Singlecut and the LIC Beer Project, but there were also entries from IcoNYC, Big Alice Brewing, Rockaway Brewing Company and more.

While I’m more than content with a frosty pint in front of me, Cummings was eager to share his wine list with us — and let it never be said that a BORO writer turned down an opportunity to be plied with more booze.

Cummings prioritized quality and value in the curation of the restaurant’s wine list, and he made a point of including a plethora of New York state offerings. We sampled Sauvignon Blancs, Sancerres, Bordeaux and more, and were just as impressed with the wine as we were with the beer.

We showed up hungrier than we were thirsty, and we weren’t left unsatisfied for long. Our first course, roasted garlic-chili blue crabs and fried soft-shell crabs in a mind-blowing butter sauce, graced our table quickly. After one bite of the soft shell, we knew we had to place our next order immediately—these babies were going to go fast. There was an unexpected (yet welcome) subtle sweetness to the softshell crab that played nicely with the butter sauce. Grab an order for the table when you go.

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Next up was rib eye served on a massive butcher’s block. It was savory, juicy and tender, and while the restaurant recommends you pair it with a 2008 Les Allées de Cantemerle Bordeaux, Singlecut’s Weird & Gilly IPA paired with it remarkably well, too.

Not far behind the rib eye was lobster arragiata, a cracked whole Maine lobster, lightly fried and served over spaghetti with broccoli rabe. It was paired with a 2013 Jura Chardonnay, described as a “burgundy-like white wine” by Cummings. I may not know enough about wine to know if it tastes like a burgundy, but I know when a wine just works.

And with this lobster, it undeniably did.

If you like lobster, you’ll like this dish. If you don’t like lobster, you’ll still like this dish. If you’re allergic to lobster, this dish is worth a trip to the ER. Sweet and succulent, tangy yet savory at the same time, the lobster arragiata runs the gamut of what you’d expect from lobster, and then it hops the fence and starts pulling from other cuisines.

Its sauce had the tangy, lemony flavor one would expect, but there was a spiciness that managed to be attention-grabbing without being overwhelming at the same time. It was one of the most interesting takes on lobster I’ve ever experienced.

As we finished our wine and built up a desperate mental fortitude to fit the last lingering pieces of succulent lobster and steak into our stomachs, Cummings brought out yet another member of his impressive team: Belin the pastry chef.

The pastry chef.

While something in me cried out in silent protest (I assume the part that evolved to keep me from gorging myself into becoming an easy meal for an extremely lazy jaguar), the rest of me told that part of me to shut up and make some room. Blueberry cheesecake and a triple chocolate cake came out, followed by a 2014 Vidal Blanc ice wine from Standing Stone Vineyards in the Finger Lakes.

The blueberry cheesecake was sweet and thick, and its crust (arguably the best part about any proper cheesecake) was delicious.

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The triple chocolate cake was surprisingly light and, I feel, a misnomer: chocolate cake, chocolate filling, white chocolate crumbles and a hard chocolate shell icing on top is a decidedly quadruple chocolate cake. But I wasn’t there to quibble about semantics, I was there to eat ridiculously decadent food.

It was when we were offered espresso and coffee that I simply had to start refusing.

I am only one man, with one stomach, after all. I have limits, whether I like them or not.

Our night at Crabhouse was wonderful and full of great drinks, amazing food and improperly named chocolate cakes. Should you decide to swing by, order the fried soft-shell crabs for the table and some tasty Queens beers, and try the lobster arragiata.

If you’re not in a shellfish mood, the rib eye is your friend, or simply ask any of their incredibly helpful staff for their suggestions.

The Crabhouse will be rolling out a full brunch menu soon, and the staff has already started testing out a Bloody Mary bar. With valet parking returning soon and stunning skyline views a short post-dinner walk away, you’d be hard-pressed to find a bad thing about Crabhouse.

The restaurant might not be as boxingcentric as it used to be. Fight cards and boxing gloves no longer adorn the walls, and with new management has come new takes on classic dishes. But if Tony Mazzarella’s goal was to provide a place for a community he loved to celebrate their lives with good food and drink, then his legacy is in good hands.

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