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| Her Heart Is In Fine Art
Annie Home: Astoria Age: 33 Height: 5’ 9" Weight: 145 Stats: 36-30-44 For Annie, the daughter of a professional photographer, modeling has almost always been a part of her life. “When [my father] needed a shoot for little kids, he would tell me that I would be in it,” Annie said in a recent interview. “I took a long break from it,” she explained, “but after Burning Man four years ago, I said I would never work in an office again.” Burning Man is an annual, weeklong counter-culture festival that culminates in the stunning burning of a mammoth man-like totem. “I decided to start modeling,” Annie said. “I would go to test shoots, but I have been my most successful in fine art. I love the fact that I am in museums as a sculpture or as an oil painting.” When not modeling, Annie splits her time between costume design and hula hoop performances. “I love the hooping,” she said with a certain amount of glee. “I’m getting ready for a huge event – 7/7/7, World Hoop Day. My main goal is to give hula hoops to all the poor children of the world.” Annie said that people can go to worldhoopday.com to sign up for the event. “I have been traveling around as much as possible to spread the word – be happy, healthy and hoopy.” Annie has spent the last 14 years in New York, and has lived in her Flatiron-style building in Astoria for the last four. “It’s great – it’s creaky, which is sometimes not so great, but I love that I am a couple of blocks from the water – that I can actually see Manhattan.” The local food and the people are what makes Astoria feel like home, Annie said. “The people aren’t trying to pretend like in Brooklyn where they’re trying to be too cool,” she said. “The neighborhood is family oriented which is great, and the thrift shops are phenomenal.” |
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| What Is In A Name?
Yes, God created the people who eventually become criminals, but thank goodness God didn’t also give them extra intelligence—especially the ones who tried to rip off the parishioners of St. Mel’s on Christmas Day.
God must’ve forgotten to wave the Smart Wand over the two crooks who not only parked in plain sight in front of the church with the car’s real license plates in view, but left other clues. One of the men went as far as introducing himself to an eyewitness—using his real name. According to the NY Post, “one of the men identified himself as ‘Dennis’ and said he and his accomplice were making repairs to the recently installed elevator,” before driving off in a Lincoln Navigator with the estimated $20,000 in Christmas collections. Last week police arrested Daniel Morales and Dennis Almodovar in connection with the holiday heist. Perhaps they should have gone by the No. 1 rule of single City girls: never give out your real name to a stranger. Try “Bob” next time. |
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| He’s Back
We’ve been told that this guy would be back one day, we just didn’t expect to see him on the corner of Austin Street and 63rd Drive in Forest Hills—and just in time for his birthday. Thanks to Tribune reader Richard Schwartz of Rego Park for the keen eye.
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| 20 Percent Queens
The Serious Eats Web site, which is one of many great foodie sites throughout the web, decided to tackle the idea of sending noteworthy noshes to friends and family throughout the world – to Jew and gentile alike – and considered a number of classic sources of Old World (and new) favorites.
In its Top 10 list of the best of the best included one “Best” and a boro “Oasis.” That’s right, Rego Park’s Ben’s Best was named as having the best Pastrami to put in your holiday spread next to the kugel and kreplach. Also, Bagel Oasis, on Horace Harding in Fresh Meadows, was listed as the top spot for bagels, with their crisp-baked exterior and chewy inside. The rest of the top 10 rounded out with selections from the city, but for a good brunch, it seems that Queens’ Kosher cuisine reigns supreme. |
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| Tracking More Than Cars
For those who don’t know, LoJack is a vehicle tracking system you can get as an option in your car that allows police to track your vehicle once stolen, helping speed the vehicle’s recovery before it gets chopped up for parts or put on a cargo freighter headed overseas.
But what you might not know, is that one of LoJack’s best recoveries of the year happened on the streets of Queens. Among its most outstanding recoveries of the year, LoJack reported the finding of a Jeep Grand Cherokee stolen off the streets of Queens. Not only did police recover the vehicle within a very short amount of time, but the thieves inside were wanted for committing a string of 32 armed robberies. It seems that in Queens, the criminals need to find another way to get around. |
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| MulchFest
Now that the holiday season is coming to a close, and the lights of the holidays have lost a little of their luster, it might be time to send that Christmas tree packing.
Traditionally, the citizens of Queens, and the entire nation, just drag that old tree out to the curb, sometimes bereft of ornaments, sometimes not, and forget about it. This year, we’d like to suggest something a little different. The NYC Parks Department is hosting MulchFest 2007. Jan. 6 & 7 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and you can bring your tree to one of six locations in the borough. Once there, the tree will be converted to woodchips suitable to fertilize even the most anemic garden. Queens residents can bring their tree to Astoria, Juniper Valley, or Cunningham Park, the Bandshell at Forest Park, the Queens County Farm Museum, or Rockaway Beach. As sad as it may be to watch that old Tannenbaum of yours get ground up like dead wood, you can rest easy knowing that your tree is giving back to the environment, not rotting in Fresh Kills. | |||||||||
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