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| Model Of Queens: Kate Convery
Kate Convery
Home: Flushing Age: 28 Height: 5’10" Weight: 135 Stats: 35-25-35 It’s not often that advertisers use “normal” women as models to promote their products; typically, models are categorized in two groups, ultra thin or extra heavy. Kate Convery is neither of these extremes: she’s just a regular woman, which is why since the age of 14 she’s been modeling independently, she said. The Flushing resident, who moved there recently from Boston, said she believes in being healthy, not fitting a mold. Most girls can’t live up to the expectation of being rail-thin but they’d also be leaning in an unhealthy direction if they were plus-size, she said. This is why the 28-year-old freelancer, who currently studies nutrition at Hunter College, is blazing a trail on her own. When she’s not trying to change the modeling industry, Kate delves into the art scene in Long Island City and Astoria, visiting the Museum of the Moving Image and modeling for artists like Tony Gonzalez, a photography professor at Queens College. She also bartends at Deluge, a bar in Flushing, to earn money for her studies. Making skin care products, soaps and lotions – several use goat milk as a main ingredient – in her free time, Kate’s creativity oozes through her hands as well as it does though her image. Her versatile look, which in some pictures likens her to Heather Graham and in others to Cate Blanchett, is what lands her work in various fields, including some in catalogs. Kate said she’ll continue to be a freelance model for the rest of her life, as it is something she enjoys greatly — through this she hopes to carve that “normal-woman-model” path. Until then, she’ll just enjoy Queens’ diversity, relatively inexpensive cost of living and close proximity to Manhattan, which is what brought Kate here six months ago. Put simply, to Kate, “Queens is cool.” |
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| Boro Busker In New Books
For those not versed in Shakespearian lingo, a “busker” is a “street performer,” and Queens’ own Natalia Paruz might be NYC's most famous subway musician.
Paruz, also known as the “Saw Lady” for the unique instrument she plays, is featured in two books currently on sale. The first is The Princeton Review’s “120 Jobs That Won’t Chain You to Your Desk,” in which Paruz was chosen out of hundreds of public entertainers to be featured under the job title of “Street Performer.” In an excerpt from the book, Paruz states that “many chose to perform on the street. They like it and they crave that kind of interaction. It’s an art form all its own, and it is a great community.” The second book is a little more animated. It is illustrated featuring imagery and poems inspired by subway musicians and performers, one of which is Paruz. Way to go! |
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| Jonesy’s Juice
Miss (Tarsha) Jones, the raunchy Hot 97 host of the morning show that bears her moniker, is taking her sassy exposés from the airwaves to the printing press.
Her new book, which heated up shelves July 10, is a detailed diatribe about her life growing up in the rap game. Some of the excerpts released were about racy relationships and included venomous tongue-lashings toward other celebrities. In her tell-all “Have You Met Miss Jones? The Life and Loves of Radio’s Most Controversial Diva,” Jones, an Astoria native, steams the pages with her romantic foray with rapper Busta Rhymes. “With Busta, it was only about sex,” Jones writes. “The fact that our lovemaking never lasted too long didn’t bother me, because I didn’t enjoy his drops of sweat raining down on me.” Jones talks about squelching potential confrontations with Lil’ Kim and Faith Evans, wife of Notorious B.I.G. Jones asserted Kim and B.I.G. were lovers. Some of her confrontations include Mary J. Blige and Hollis legend Russell Simmons – surely a short-list of names. Jones claims that rapper Jay-Z hit on her while arm-in-arm with fiancé Beyonce the first time the two divas met, and that the singer’s acting skills “leave something to be desired.” Please, Miss Jones, tell us how you really feel in your next book. |
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| Holy Cow!
A message to Yankee fans in Ridgewood: Remember the name Jayson Stark.
The ESPN baseball insider has recently written a book called “The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History” (Triumph), and it has stirred up the kind of good-natured debate that only America’s pastime can elicit. But if you’re passionate about the pinstripes, Stark’s selection for most overrated shortstop might leave you steamed. It’s Phil Rizzuto. The Scooter, a graduate of PS 71 on Forest Avenue in Ridgewood and Richmond Hill High School, was a five-time All-Star and the American League MVP in 1950. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. Apparently, this is not enough for Stark. And so for his unsolicited slandering of the good Rizzuto name, Jayson Stark has earned a lifetime ban from Ridgewood…the most underrated section of Queens. |
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