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| Lighting The Way
Luz Falcon Home: Woodhaven Age: 37 Height: 5’3" Weight: 129 Stats: 34-29-38 Luz Falcon has brought a great deal of Puerto Rican flava to modeling for the past 13 years. A resident of Woodhaven, Luz has done promotional modeling for alcoholic beverage companies including Budweiser, Coors, Heineken, Corona, and Johnny Walker. Her experience does not end there, as she also served as a ring match girl at a Madison Square Garden boxing match between prize fighter Felix Trinidad and Troy Waters in 1997. Though she strutted around the ring in a packed arena of more than 20,000 people, Luz wasn’t nervous in front of the big crowd. “There’s so much light that you don’t see anything,” she said. “Everything’s black. They can see you, but you don’t see them.” Luz has also been featured in a number of Puerto Rican pageants throughout the city. She even was a singer and dancer in different bands, including an all-girl band called “Las Chicas de Nueva York.” One of her favorite experiences in modeling, she said, was having the opportunity to meet famous Puerto Rican singer Tito Rojas at a promotional event. It was Rojas’ birthday, and Luz got to toast him with champagne. A veteran of the modeling world, Luz displays her beauty on camera as a side gig. She has worked for the past 16 years in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Federal Plaza. In her free time, Luz likes to dance and go to salsa clubs in the city. One of her favorite hangout spots in Queens is Austin Street, where she likes to shop and eat. Still living in Woodhaven, Luz certainly enjoys being a Queensite. “You have everything close. You have the malls, stores, theatres, restaurants,” she said. “What I love about Queens is you’re right in the middle of everything.” |
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| Shirtoff
A press release came to the attention of QConf this week from Councilman James Sanders’ office addressing the Secretary of Homeland Security. The letter, which asked for the Secretary’s help in fighting the renewal of a federal holding facility in Springfield Gardens, was addressed to Michael Shirtoff – not Chertoff.
By the time Sanders’ office had caught up on the error, our newsroom had already had a good laugh about images of the Homeland Security Secretary taking his shirt off. Even though Michael kept his shirt on, Sanders was caught with his pants down. |
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| Rap Non-Violence
As hip hop continues its spread of ongoing violence and negativity, perhaps some of the stars today might learn something from a man who “started out in the park.”
MC Shan, whose real name is Shawn Moltke, earned his fame and fortune in Queens some 20 years ago with the hip hop classic, “The Bridge.” Now, he says, rappers need to learn that wars should only be fought with microphones. Once they’re turned off, it should be all about respect In a recent interview with the online magazine allhiphop.com, Shan said his legendary feud with Bronx rap legend KRS One revolved solely around words on stage – the two even looked out for each other when they had to. Shan’s song, “The Bridge,” which some say hinted that rap was started in Queens, caused lyrical fury with KRS One, whose “The Bridge is Over,” still serves as one of hip hop’s classic anthems. “In the old days, we used to do shows together,” said Shan. “If a promoter didn’t want to pay Kris, we wasn’t performing…If we fight and argue, we ain’t going to make no money. We came to that conclusion early.” If only that lesson still was taught today… |
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| Mural Mess-Up
An 8-by-20-foot mural that “celebrates, in 13 languages, how we learn” was unveiled earlier this week at Queens College’s Student Union Building.
In all their celebration, though, the students failed to “learn” that the portion of the mural that is in Hindi (circled bottom right side and above) was painted upside down, requiring one to stand on their head in order to read it. |
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| It Was Facinelli
Ozone Park native Peter Facinelli and his celebrity wife, Jennie Garth of 90210 fame, are going to be one happy couple as they are expecting their third child this week.
Already busy with two daughters, the young married couple is currently living in California. Facinelli, who has starred in movies like “Can’t Hardly Wait” and “The Scorpion King,” and shows like “Six Feet Under,” did an interview with the Queens Tribune back in May. When recently congratulated via email by QConf for the baby on the way, Facinelli replied, “Yes, N. 3 is two weeks away. I took the summer off to be with the family.” The locally rasied Facinelli also said he is working to get financing for a screenplay he wrote called “Loosies,” which he hopes to begin shooting by next spring. Between Facinelli and Garth, the new baby will not be short of any good-looking genes. |
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| The Clothes Off Our Back
Calm down now. Don’t get your panties or boxers, or whatever you happen to be wearing, in a twist. Just because the charity organization is running with the name “The Clothes Off Our Back,” doesn’t mean there actually are naked people walking around.
It just means that some celebrities believe the very clothes that have touched their skin happen to be good enough for people to spend a little more on, but all to help others, of course. Queensites Susan Sarandon and David Schwimmer think their pre-warn garb is worth an extra buck or two. Sarandon recently handed over a pair of earrings from “Alfie” for the Milo Gladstein Foundation for Bloom’s Syndrome. And Schwimmer pulled his Zegna tux from “Friends” out of the closet. The Clothes Off Our Back also sponsors other charities where clothing and accessories by top designers, worn by celebs, are offerred for bid for kid's charities including: the emergency relief efforts in Darfur, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Save the Children and Friends of the World Food Program, as well as Children’s Defense Fund and Cure Autism Now. And to think a mere pair of Versacci jeans could feed a kid in Africa. Check it out online at: www.clothesoffourback.org. | |||||||||
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