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| Hometown Hottie! - Raakhee
Raakhee
Born: Forest Hills Home: Jamaica Height: 5’4’’ Weight: 110 lbs. Stats: 34-24-37 You can find her in the provocative online contest “Maxim Magazine’s Hometown Hotties” – www.maximonline.com/hotties/voting. This Forest Hills native, who currently resides in Jamaica, is hoping to garner enough votes to win a grand prize of a professional photo shoot and an appearance in Maxim. You can help her by logging onto the site above and voting for Raakhee and nine others. Not that this half Indian and Guyanese 23-year-old beauty needs Maxim to tell its readers how hot she is, viewers on the Maxim website can vote one time each, until April 11th to pick the winner. Our sources say she has a good shot. Raakhee graduated from Forest Hills High School and is close to earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Long Island University. She currently works as a reporter for the quarterly hip-hop and fashion magazine Floss. Raakhee hopes that after she graduates, her experience at Floss will enable her to pursue a career in publishing her own magazine. But if she wants at shot at community journalism, we know of one paper that is interested. Claiming to be “a home body,” Raakhee, whose birth name is Elizabeth Gopaul, said she doesn’t hit the club scene or even attend many of the industry parties. But that doesn’t mean she can’t be found in Queens — Raakhee enjoys Austin Street and its many clothing stores and restaurants. As far as her modeling career, she is featured in a number of professional photos on the onemodelplace.com website. With an array of styles, it is evident that Raakhee has a broad range of fashion opportunities. However, she has found it somewhat difficult because of the fashion industry, which she says, “is dominated by a certain look.” She’s been told that trimming her 37-inch hips down to 34 would make her more appropriate for various types of shoots and catwalks. Raakhee’s experience modeling in lingerie and swimwear has so far produced no complaints. So, vote early and vote often — http://www.maximonline.com/hotties/voting/ |
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| Knicks Bowl 6
Knicks Bowl 6 to benefit Red Holtzman Cheering for Children Foundation at Chelsea Piers, (l-r): Brittny and Lisa Gastineau; Victoria's Secret model Ines Rivero and daughter; Spike Lee.
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| Tongue-In-Cheek Show
Gene Simmons, lead singer of KISS and Queens native, is back in the action, again.
The man who claims to have slept with over 3,000 women in his autobiography will pass the tongue to the winner of the Oxygen channel’s search for the next Fabio. In the show, 12 men will compete in America’s first “man pageant” on the new reality series called Mr. Romance created by Simmons. The winning “Adonis” will receive $50,000, a lifetime gym membership and a contract to appear on the cover of future Harlequin romance novels. The show made its debut Monday night, and will air for the next six weeks at 10 p.m. on the Oxygen channel. |
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| Ode To Queens
Madeleine Begun Kane @ MadKane.com
Both a county and a borough, Part of New York City too. On Long Island, yet not of it. I’m confused as hell. Are you? A diverse United Nations. Queens folk come from far and wide. Ethnic food that beats Manhattan. You won’t read that in the guides. Crime is low and people friendly. Safer here than in the burbs. Merit Scholars by the bushel, And the sunsets are superb. Home to airports rather major, And the Tennis Open’s here. Then there’s theater, art, and baseball, And our Jazz Trail has no peer. Though I hail from mid-Long Island, They will never move me back. Bayside, Queens, my hometown village, Off the Apple’s beaten track. |
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| 50 & The Game
Queens’ native 50 Cent and Los Angeles’ own The Game have decided that they “don’t really wanna fight no more.” The two gangsta rappers shook hands and offered public apologies last week at a press conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
Incidentally, last week was also the eighth anniversary of the murder of Biggie Smalls. Biggie had been in a feud with Tupac Shakur, the typical East Coast versus West Coast rap conflict. 50 did not say if he would reinstate Game to his G-Unit record label. |
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| Call Me Rev Al
This town apparently is big enough for two Rev. Al’s. That informal moniker is often ascribed to the political heavy weight, and civil rights activist Al Sharpton. But there’s another politico laying claim to the famous name.
Forest Hills-native and State Comptroller Alan Hevesi reminded a television reporter recently that he was awarded an honorary doctorate of theology last year. That, Hevesi said, gave him rights to the name, Rev. Al. | |||||||||
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