Get 'Discovered' in Jackson Heights

Aspiring Jax Hts actors... and extras... and everyone else, too, put on your 'upscale casual' duds and smile...
Central Casting NY is coming to the hood.

CENTRAL CASTING NY, the Leading Background Casting Company for Film & TV in NYC will be holding an OPEN CALL

WHEN :
SATURDAY - JANUARY 26, 2008

TIMES:
SAG – 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
AFTRA – 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
NON UNION – 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

LOCATION:
Community Methodist Church
81-10 35th Ave @ 82nd Street
Jackson Heights, NY 11372

WARDROBE:
Upscale Casual and come Camera Ready

***Please bring Driver’s License and Social Security Card or your U.S. Passport! No one will be accepted without original IDs (No photocopies!) If you are already registered with Central Casting, please DO NOT attend. NO MINORS ***

For more info, please visit WWW.CENTRALCASTING.ORG or call 646-473-9033

Jax Hts Arts round-up

The Village Voice reviewed the last Y Gallery show (Jean Foos: The Other Me) and the new show's opening should be fun if you can make it...
Jim Avignon:
"i looked in the mirror and i saw a ghost"
Curated by Cecilia Jurado
January 10th to February 9th 2008
Opening reception for the artist: Thursday, January 10th 6-9 p.m.
32-70 85th Street Jackson Heights 11370-2012

www.ygallerynewyork.com


Also check out the sites for these JH artists...
Paul Dacey
http://www.pauldacey.com/paintings.htm

Laura Fayer
http://www.laurafayer.com/index.php

Norma Greenwood
http://www.normagreenwood.com/

JH residents might say 'Not Enough!'...

from DAILY NEWS 'Seeing orange with parking ticket blitz' BY JESS WISLOSKI

The 115th Precinct, which encompasses East Elmhurst, northern Corona and Jackson Heights, issued more parking tickets than any other precinct citywide.

If you ask Will Sweeney, an organizer for the Western Jackson Heights Alliance, it's an honor.

"For the majority of residents, that's great news," said Sweeney. He noted that 66% of households in his neighborhood don't own cars - an unusual figure for Queens, where 66% of the residents own a vehicle, he said...

... double-parked cars and out-of-towners violating traffic laws constantly imperil local residents and shoppers on the bustling commercial streets.

Espresso 77 mentioned in 'Overheard in New York'

'Is Queens the new Brooklyn?' Cartoon

Cartoonist / illustrator and Jackson Heights resident, David Heatley was commissioned by The New Yorker to do a piece for the cartoon issue (but it didn't make the final cut).

'Is Queens the new Brooklyn?'

Let the debates begin...

GREAT French bakery opens in JH

Cannelle Patisserie has miraculously appeared in the Waldbaum's mall off 77th St & 31st Ave.

More pictures of the goods from con-fu-cion on flickr.

[where: Cannelle Patisserie, 75-59 31st Ave. 11370]

Dominican runs JH Polish Deli

Digna Guzman, a Dominican immigrant, has taken over Pol Jackson European Deli Inc on 37th Ave in Jackson Heights, and renamed it My Place Deli... and she still sells Polish delicacies.

Watch a video documenting her story on tanzinavega.com

[where: My Place Deli, 80-10 37th Ave. Jackson Heights 11372]

Jamon Iberico finally available in US... and Jax Hts

Despana Brand Foods in Jackson Heights sells hand sliced Jamon Iberico, previously unavailable in the United States.

Ed Levine reports that it only costs $99 a pound... so it may already be sold out.

[where: Despana Brand Foods, 86-17 Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights 11372]

Not exactly 'More Park, Less Slope'...

... but who can be mad at more trees on the Jax Hts streets (and not just in the co-op gardens)?

via Armchair News

I actually got a tree!

Well, me and the rest of the Jackson Heights neighborhood. I heard this tremendous drilling sound outside this morning while getting ready for work and discovered they were digging up the sidewalk...

When it all stopped, they'd left a sapling behind!

Jackson Heights may be the center of US sherpa culture

from Outside Online,'Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hale, Hearty, Tough-As-Nails, Acclimatized-At-Birth Mountain People' ...By Christian DeBenedetti

via Intelligent Traveler, 'Sherpa in the City' by Janelle Nanos

If the center of worldwide Sherpa culture is the Solu Khumbu, in America it's Jackson Heights, the polyglot epicenter of Queens...

Seth Kugel summarizes 'The Worlds of Queens'

The New York Times' favorite Hampton Court resident pushes the diversity of Queens in 'One Borough, Many Flags'.
Don't skip the video.

'Mr. Warmth' out on DVD 2/19/08

Don Rickles grew up in Jackson Heights.



'Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project' is directed by John Landis.

Veganfriendly RE-reviews Dosa Diner

from Veganfriendly

We reviewed Dosa Diner ... a while back and had some not-so-great things to say about it. But since then we’ve gone back many times and it’s actually become one of our favorite restaurants! I know, it’s shocking. But read on and we’ll reveal the reasons we changed our mind....

[where: Dosa Diner, 3566 73rd St in Jackson Heights, 11372)

Jackson Heights Bookstore steps up to fill need

... sort of...
Barnes and Noble hasn't tapped into the potential market of the JH area but since Librería Lectorum and Librería Macondo have both shut down in Chelsea....

Barco de Papel, a children’s bookstore in Jackson Heights, Queens, has expanded to include all kinds of Latin American literature, including poetry and essays.

“We have to adapt to the new times,” said Ramón Caraballo, the owner of the 80th St. shop. “Some readers who used to go to 14th St. now come to us. So we made all these changes.”

from The Daily News, 'Latino libraries turning the page' by Claudia Torrens

[where: Barco de Papel: 40-03 80th St. Jackson Heights 11372]