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Bayside Beauty: Sweet Sixteen
Julia This
beautiful Bayside gal is 16 years old and a senior at Bayside High School
– participating in the Major Art Program. She
also has good taste in newspapers. “I
have been reading your column 'Models of Queens' for a few months and I
enjoy it very much,” Julia said. Julia
has taken part in some pretty exciting modeling gigs over the course of the
past five years, including being photographed for Working Mother
magazine, modeling prom dresses on FOX 5’s “Good Day, New York” and
modeling at the 2001 Licensing Show at the Jacob Javits Center. In
addition to modeling, Julia is interested in becoming a fashion designer.” “ I have just completed a college level fashion design course at the Fashion Institute of Technology,” Julia said.
Julia
said she has always felt comfortable in front of the camera and has always
been attracted to the glamour side of modeling and fashion. When
Julia’s not busy with school and modeling, you might be able to find her
at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in Bayside. Her
favorite spots there – Jack’s Pizza and Applebees, she told us. Glowing
Reviews
When
Mira Nair, director of the recent box office boom, “Monsoon
Wedding,” discovered Akari lamps designed by master sculptor and artist
Isamu Noguchi, she indulged her passion for artwork in beautiful textures
and shapes. The famed Noguchi Garden Museum, nestled in Long Island City, and one of Queens' treasures, is home to an extensive collection of artwork in a garden setting.
Noguchi
light sculptures, near weightless paper lamps made in the 1950s, caught the
eye of Nair, who will soon have a collection of seven: two each in her
Manhattan apartment, her mother’s home in New Delhi and her in-laws' home
in Kampala, Uganda. The
seventh is en route from Japan and was purchased by Nair in April when she
flew to Japan for the opening of her new production.
The Noguchi fan discovered it was a bargain at $60 when she checked
it out at and found a price of $125 for the same lamp. Queens
On EBay Queens
collectibles are “hot items” on ebay lately, and one recent offering
caught the eye of QConfer who knew the identity of the high bidder. The
popular internet auction website featured an unused, circa 1915 postcard,
with a view of the “New” 1899 County Building in Jamaica with people
walking by. The publisher was Valentine Souvenir Co. and the seller was from
the Great Northern Catskills. But
it was no surprise that the high bid of $4.49 was made by a regular with an
ebay name beginning with “jtrent.” Jim
Trent is the president of Queens County Farm Museum, and one of the
borough’s leading preservationists. Trent
told us that the Italian Palazzo style building, now landmarked, is
presently utilized as the Jamaica Arts Center at 162nd Street, leased to
them by the City. The building was also known as the register building. The
borough historian is gathering material for a proposed book about the
borough and frequently surfs ebay for memorabilia. Trent had some inside
information to share about the buying habits of some other Queens buffs. “This
card was quite reasonable,” he said, “but some people have deep pockets.
I’ve seen people pay over $100 for a postcard.” Trent
is collecting postcards with views of Queens up to the 1950s, and “wants
to jar people about what we’re losing.” Birds Take
a walk around Smokey Oval Park on Atlantic Avenue in Richmond Hill on a
Sunday morning during the summer months and find a new Queens
sport—singing lessons for black finches. Bird
owners, or minders as they are called, are from Guyana, Trinidad and
Suriname. They are carrying on
the tradition of taking their birds out for a walk in the park on Saturday
and Sunday and train them to sing and whistle. Birds
are trained when they are young and only the male birds whistle. Training
is done by placing a cloth cover over their cage and surrounding them by
other birds that they can only hear, but cannot see. Owners claim that the
less they see each other in the beginning, the better they perform. Competitions
are also set up by owners occasionally to see which birds sing louder,
faster, and more aggressively. But
one finch had his own ideas for a Sunday morning outing. Instead of
participating in the competition, he was in his cup taking a bath. Two
examples of Noguchi table lamps.
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