July 2023

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER: With greater than 25 billion downloads and 25 million-plus social media followers, Indignant Bird has evolved into greater than an amusing mobile game. The most recent sign of that burgeoning enterprise, which incorporates two feature movies and a Netflix series, is the opening of the primary Indignant Birds retail café. Interestingly (and strategically), the iSwii by Indignant Birds outpost won't be based in the guts of the tourist-flooded Times Square, but in Flushing, Queens. The three,300-square-foot space debuts Saturday inside Tangram, a 1.2 million-square-foot engaging mixed-use development. Within the Instagrammable café, shoppers and Indignant Bird players can attempt to buy the stylish bubble teas and pastries, do some gaming, buy Indignant Birds merchandise and, after...