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| Art, Music and Emii
Emii
Queens Village Age: 19 Height: 5’ 4" Weight: 115 lbs Stats: 34-25-35 This one-named wonder has been a model for the last six years and has been trying to break into music ever since she moved to Queens about a year ago. “I really don’t remember how I got into modeling,” Emii said. “I was a nerdy kid, and this was very out of character. You see everybody shining bright on the television and think ‘I wonder if I can do that.’” And so she stopped wondering and started doing it. The talented singer, whose music can be heard at www.myspace.com/emii, has performed in shows at the U.N. and will sing at this year’s TriBeCa Film Festival. “I really, really love the music,” she said. “As a child I was very artistic.” That feeling has pulled along divergent paths, but two careers that she sees holding a certain similarity. Both the modeling and music are artistic expression,” she said. A good deal of her modeling work has been for makeup artists and photographers looking to present interesting images for their own portfolios. Born in Pittsburgh and working in Ohio by the time she was 14, Emii was thrilled to come to Queens. “I made the move to Queens on my own,” she said. “There’s nothing in Ohio but fields and cows. I love it here.” To her, a highlight of Queens is that it has an atmosphere “somewhere between Manhattan and Ohio. It’s not The City. It’s not too busy. When I want to be busy I go to Manhattan. When I want a slightly slower pace I stay in Queens.” When Emii moved to Queens she started her career over, finding a manager, an entertainment lawyer and onemodelplace.com. Want to know more about Emii? Check out her Web site at www.emiionline.com. |
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| Stark Lesson
John Starks is still slam dunking away, but instead of dunking over Horace Grant and Michael Jordan, he’s slamming down on illiteracy. The former Knick star helped dedicate a new library at the Andrew Landi Child Care Center in Astoria recently.
The library was the ninth library created through a partnership between Starbucks and The Books For Kids Foundation. BFK is an organization that promotes literacy among children, especially the disabled and underprivileged. Starks played on Madison Square Garden hardwood for eight years before moving on to Golden State, Chicago, and Utah. The Knicks traded him back in 1999 in the deal that brought in Latrell Sprewell. The soon-to-be 40-year-old averaged 12.5 points per game in 866 career games. He is still very much involved with the Knicks, holding the position of alumni relations and fan development advisor. |
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| Court Sidebar
Former Prosecutor and current Astoria Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. recently appeared on Court TV offering his comments on the Michael Jackson trial, where the superstar is accused of sexually molesting a child.
For Vallone, the TV appearance is perfectly timed. As a member of the City Council Ethics Committee, he recently finished hearing testimony into a year-long investigation into the bizarre sexual harassment charges against one of his colleagues, Councilman Allan Jennings (D-Jamaica), who was found guilty and punished by the Council. It seems like at least somebody learned from the ordeal. |
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| Heads Up Near Flushing
Just south of Union Tpke. on Surrey Pl, in the area marked by mapquest as Utopia (though in reality at the edge of Jamaica Estates), the Dundee Plumbing and Heating Company sure knows how to advertise its business. Next to their storefront, above a fence in the parking lot, is a toilet with a man’s legs sticking out. Either they are exemplifying what their workers will do to fix a clog, or they are showing the kind of problems they have encountered. Perhaps it's merely because they provide service to their customers in Flushing.
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| Malcolm Plays The Middle
That’s the message Senator Malcolm Smith had for three mayoral candidates who attended his recent fundraiser at Antun’s. Our QConf shutterbug captured this friendly greeting between the St. Albans Democrat and the Republican Mayor.
When asked if this handshake-and-smile moment shed light on his position in the mayor’s race, Smith said, “No, I greeted Freddy [Ferrer] and Gifford [Miller] the same way. I’m one who believes in relationships.” Those “relationships” he likes to build have not led to an endorsement of any of the six mayoral candidates. “Everyone has something they can offer to make the city and state better,” said Smith. |
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| Man of Letters
A posthumous book of writings from powerhouse physicist Richard Feynman hit shelves this month. Feynman, a Far Rockaway resident until he moved onto more exotic locals like the Samba-filled streets of Sao Paolo, Brazil, won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with quantum electrodynamics.
Remembered as much for his gregarious, semi-autobiographical writings on science and the world at large as he is for the Prize, Feynman wrote the letters that make up Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman between his time as a graduate student at Princeton in the 1930s and his death in 1988. Edited by his daughter, it chronicles Feynman’s adventurous career as a Manhattan Project member, nuclear submarine inventor, cultural icon, and one of the scientists who diagnosed the Challenger shuttle disaster in 1986. | |||||||||
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