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Nikita
Home: Flushing Age: 24 Height: 5’ 6" Weight: 110 lbs Stats: 32-25-34 Seeing her pictures in magazines and newspapers in Hong Kong was an adrenaline rush for Nikita Kwong, but three years ago the aspiring model chose to reach for more. She knew that her modeling days, however glamorous, wouldn’t last forever. Nikita decided to relocate to our continent and pursue a degree in journalism and media studies at Queens College. In a role reversal she finds delightful, the 24-year-old stepped behind the camera and started snapping photos and making videos on her own. “As I get older I think it’s better to get a real job,” said Kwong, who lives in Flushing. “I stopped modeling when I got here because I didn’t know much about the States.” Kwong has been a TV news anchor and a radio DJ for local Chinese media outlets, but said she preferred to be behind the camera than in front of it. The craft she savors most is putting video packages together and editing. She’s currently interested in production assistant jobs and would be thrilled to work on TV shows or movies. In addition, as she closes in on her degree, Kwong is also rekindling her modeling career. She had a casting call last week but said it might take time for her to get a gig. She said most agents she has dealt with in the U.S. look for women who are 5-foot-9, but she isn’t losing any sleep over it. |
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| Poetic License
Cars of business people who believe in putting their license plates to work were evident in the parking lot of Terrace On The Park at the Queens Chamber of Commerce Business Expo.
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| Bada Baby!
There’s a bada-bun in the oven for Whitestone’s Drea de Matteo.
The 35-year-old actress, who played Adriana La Cerva on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” recently announced that she and boyfriend, country singer Shooter Jennings, are expecting their first child. De Matteo played Chris Moltisanti’s fiancé for the first five seasons of the organized crime drama before getting famously whacked in one of the series’ finest episodes. She also appeared in such films as “Assault on Precinct 13,” “Swordfish,” and “The Perfect You.” Let’s hope her foray into motherhood is a lot better than her time on “Joey,” NBC’s awful “Friends” spinoff. Congratulations. |
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| Satellite Party
What do Jane’s Addiction, Lollapalooza, and Queens have in common?
Perry Farrell. After a four-year musical hiatus, the legendary rocker, DJ, producer and trendsetter has reinvented himself yet again. Farrell and his new band Satellite Party just released their conceptual debut album, “Ultra Payloaded,” on Columbia Records. Spin.com calls it a “star-studded collaboration” that straddles “the line between dance pop and edgy rock.” The album also features “Woman in the Window,” an unreleased vocal track from the Doors’ Jim Morrison – the first unheard Morrison performance in almost 30 years. The recently-turned 48-year-old revolutionary from Queens seems to get better and bolder with age. |
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| Joey Ramone InSoul
A new ad campaign featuring rockers that have gone to the great beyond is causing quite a stir, and one of Queens’ own rock idols is at the center of the controversy.
Doc Martens, the shoe company that has provided punk rock, grunge, and countless other musical stylings with hardcore footwear over the years has started an ad campaign that seeks to highlight the “never-ending” durability of their shoes by displaying departed rockers in Heaven, still wearing their trusty Doc Martens. The departed musicians included in the campaign are Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Joe Strummer of the Clash, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, and Queens own Joey Ramone of the Ramones. Sure, these counter-culture icons did love their non-descript black footwear, but would Sid Vicious and Joey Ramone be comfortable shilling shoes? |
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| Perfect
Whitestone's Michelle Betos, the two-time St. Francis Prep CHSAA Player of the Year, is returning to a local soccer team and hopes to continue her scoreless ways.
The goalie who attends the University of Georgia backed up the Long Island Fury’s first-string keeper last year for a few games and did not give up a single goal. The 2007 season is underway and so far, so good for Betos, who also plays for the Albertson Fury 87s in the LI Junior Soccer League. The Long Island Fury play their home games at Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale, and their next game is Friday, June 15, at 5:30 p.m. vs. Connecticut. For info: www.lifurysoccer.com or call (516) 764-4588, and be sure to root for our gal. | |||||||||
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