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| High School Hottie
Home: Woodside
Age: 17 Height: 5’5" Weight: 110 Stats: 34-24-35 After seeing the success of her brother’s girlfriend, Raakhee, who was featured as a Tribune Model of Queens and a contestant in Maxim’s Hometown Hotties, Stephanie Lora decided to seek out similar stardom. Stephanie recently modeled in an Atlantic City car show and in ads for Dong’s Wheels, but it isn’t cars that keep her interest. Stephanie is looking to build her portfolio through modeling shoots. As a junior at the all-girls Mary Louis High School, Stephanie said she is looking forward to the summer months, where she will work part-time as a counselor at the World of Discovery Day Camp in Bayside. A lifetime resident of Queens, Stephanie enjoys hanging out with her boyfriend, her brother and her biggest inspiration, Raakhee. In her spare time, Stephanie reads a variety of magazines and focuses on the models in ads. What she has found is that “not all models are pretty.” She feels fame and fortune seem to only go to the most beautiful. She thinks, however, that models who vary styles are the ones with the most talent. Stephanie explains her comfort in front of the camera very simply: “The easiest thing is being natural. There’s no way to fake natural.” Down the road, Stephanie is looking for a continued career in modeling and a possible future in writing. Stephanie even applied to the Tribune, seeking a position as a columnist, but who needs to write Queens news, when you can have your professional photos spread across the cover and back pages? Ah, what the heck. We’ll let her write, too. |
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| Beer & Politics
Forget the smoke-filled back-rooms that politicians (reportedly) use when making deals.
The Young Democrats of Queens (no relation to the Old Democrats of Queens) are organizing and writing their charter not in the back room of some little-known law office on Queens Boulevard or Austin Street, but in the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria. They may be young, but hopefully they’re over 21. |
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| Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Queens-raised singer Cyndi Lauper has won a court case to recover years of swindled rent money, according to published reports. The company holding the lease on her Manhattan apartment, 390 West End Associates, leased the rent-controlled space — which cost the previous tenant $508 a month — to Shlomo Baron in 1992 for $2,400 a month.
Lauper and her husband, actor Richard Thornton, sublet the apartment from Baron for $3,250 a month. Lauper and Thornton sued Baron in 1996 for the amount above the legally controlled rent, plus damages. Later, they sued the leasing company to have their rent stabilized at the original $508. The NYS Court set the rent at $989 a month instead, but ruled in favor of Lauper and Thornton on the other charges. Lauper, 52, rose to fame in the early 1980s with hits like “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” and “Time After Time.” |
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| Dining With A Spider
Local restaurant critic and food reporter Suzanne Parker has been doing her best to keep Queens on the cultural map. Not only did she recently come out with a new book devoted to Queens dining, Eating Like Queens: A Guide to Food in America’s Melting Pot, Queens, New York, she also lent her house to the producers of Spider-Man for exterior shots of the web-slinger’s home in Forest Hills.
That’s right. The Parker house that appears onscreen (owned by the aunt and uncle of Spidey’s alter ego, Peter Parker) is actually owned in real life by a Parker. Hmmm! But how weird is it that the house right across the street from Parker is inhabited by Terri Osborne, Director of Cultural Affairs & Tourism for the Queens Borough President? Osborne, you’ll recall, was the family name of the wall crawler’s arch nemesis, the Green Goblin. Kinda makes your Spidey-sense tingle, huh? |
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| Mixed On Age Difference
Cougars are on the prowl around Hollywood, scooping up younger men like predator on prey. First, it was Demi Moore stealing the headlines by prancing around the streets with young movie star Ashton Kutcher. Then recently, former “American Idol” contestant Corey Clark got himself in the news by coming out into the public about a fling he had with “Idol” judge Paula Abdul.
With these leading ladies at the forefront of entertainment news, QConf asked Queens residents about their thoughts on younger men dating older women. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it as long as they’re consenting adults”. - Miriam Garcia, Howard Beach “A 60-year-old woman dating a 20-year-old man is ridiculous, but if they’re about 10 years apart and seem to hit it off, then it’s OK.” - Neal Burnstein, Whitestone “It’s actually cool. I’m 14 and I would definitely date a 21-year-old.” - Eric McKenzie, Bayside “As long as they’re adults and they care about one another, it’s nobody else’s business.” - Liz Watt, Howard Beach “It’s kind of weird for someone Ashton Kutcher’s age to go for an older woman. You would think he would want somebody hot and young.” -Melissa Miller, Glendale “I’m 26 an I’m dating a 35-year-old. Age has never really been a factor. We met at a local bar and we hit it off even before I knew she was so much older.”-Henry Drashe, NYHQ Worker |
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