Surge Protector IPA and more in the QNYC Evening Edition for Tuesday January 22, 2013

Los Verdes yums

The folks from Sunnyside Food checked out Los Verdes last week and gave it a thumbs up. The milkshakes are particularly delicious sounding. Another great thing about this place is that they are open into the wee hours of the morning – 3am on weeknights and 6am on weekends. Nice. We’ll be by soon to try some of their tasty looking Colombian grub.

Beastie Boys and the Unisphere

We love this photo of Mike D, MCA, and Ad-Rock at the Unisphere in 1986.

Image source: Queens County Market

Surge Protector IPA launches tonight

There’s a new beer in town and it’s available tonight at Alewife in LIC – Surge Protector IPA. It’s a project of Sandy Relief Beer, and is the end product of multiple Long Island breweries banding together to make something to help raise money for hurricane relief efforts. Half the proceeds from sales will go to Long Island Cares, a food bank and hunger assistance organization out on the Island. Oceanside’s Barrier Brewing Company will also benefit, since their relatively new brewing space was trashed during Hurricane Sandy, and they are working to start up again (one of the owners is a Queens resident, too). It’s a bit poetic that Alewife is the place to get this beer, as they suffered a lot of damage from the hurricane and are back up in part because of the kindness of friends and strangers. So stop by and have a drink and know that by imbibing, you are helping folks get back on their feet.

Did you know? Why the Rockaways are named so.

From the Rockaway Emergency Plan Facebook page:

The name Rockaway comes from the Native American tribe that lived on the peninsula long before us. “Reckonwacky” and “Reckanawahaha” means “place of laughing waters” and “land of our people” but also “lonely place.

Queens and the Oscars

When we learned about Sunnyside’s own Benh Zeitlin, director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, who has been nominated for two Academy Awards this year, it got us thinking about what other Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmakers and actors are from Queens. So, we put a list together – it’s pretty impressive. Check it out!