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| Music And Modelling
Nataly Mosquera
Home: Elmhurst Age: 21 Height: 5’8" Weight: 123 Stats: 33-28-37 Look out for Nataly as she climbs through the ranks of Queens models. Born in Elmhurst, Nataly is currently a college student looking to make her mark in the modeling world. Only a novice as an adult model, she has strictly posed for only photographer Terel Belin. However, Nataly’s experience with modeling dates back to when she was a child. Once she started attending school, however, her focus turned towards her studies. “It’s fun as a hobby, but if it doesn’t work out, then I have other options,” she said. “I’ve always enjoyed doing it, but the time and effort that it takes is not always easy.” A student at Five Towns College, Nataly is studying music business. She said that she’s always had a strong passion for music and can play the cello. One particular artist that she said she would love to manage is Alicia Keys. “My dream is to manage someone unknown, and then help bring them to the top,” she said. Nataly enjoys going to the Queens Center Mall, and one location that she holds dear is the Queens Theatre in the Park in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Her father serves as a house manager and she has worked there in the past as a box office attendant. Other family members have worked at the theater as well. Our lovely Queens native sees Queens as a balance between the laid back suburbs and wild Manhattan, but she said there is always something for her to do in Queens. “I have to be doing something, I can’t sit down.” |
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| Censoring Kids?
The American Library Association’s “Library Bill of Rights” states: “Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.”
Now if Queens Public Library were paying attention to that Bill of Rights, right there they wouldn’t be taking the latest issue of IndyKids out of the stacks, or so says NYC Indymedia, a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice. Indymedia was just hoping to empower kids to “become the media” by providing democratic access with the IndyKids (youth allies group) newspaper, so what’s so wrong about that? Queens Library will tell you, they said the publication is not balanced. And all of a sudden Indymedia is screaming censorship. Well actually, they started screaming it after all 63 branch libraries took more than 3,000 copies out of the stacks. Now Indymedia is just waiting to see when Queens Library plans to take The O’Reilly Factor for Kids, by the right-wing Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly, out of circulation. |
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| Lucky No. 20
Kew Gardens Hills -- that's right, not Forest Hills -- legend Paul Simon might be hoping that 20 is the luckiest number of them all.
In 1966 he and buddy Art Garfunkel released the album “Sound Of Silence,” which has been hailed as one of the greatest folk rock albums of all time. Then, 20 years later, after breaking up with his Forest Hills High School buddy Art and having a good solo career, he spent some time in South Africa and hit gold, recording “Graceland,” one of the best albums of the 1980s, and ranked right up there with his 1966 classic as one of the best rock albums of all time. So it should come as no shock to see that his newest album, released 20 years since “Graceland,” has a bit of a buzz. “Surprise” features producer Brian Eno, who has put out some of the best work by U2, the Talking Heads and David Bowie, and looks like the Queens kid should get some real interest again. |
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| Hip-Hop Split?
Russell Simmons and his longtime wife Kimora Lee are getting divorced. The word on the street is that Russell has been seeing 23-year-old yoga-loving model Denise Vasi.
Vasi is said to be just enjoying the relaxation of yoga with Simmons but according to rumors she is the reason behind the much talked about split. The hip-hop power couple, however, have bigger fish to fry as they spend time in Jamaica, W.I., with Louis Farrakhan, Freddie Jackson and Roberta Flack for the inauguration ceremony of the island’s first female Prime Minister. Though they may be together in paradise, they are far apart in reality. |
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| Queens Bee
Queens had produced its share of champions – in baseball, basketball, tennis, etc. – but now the borough can add spelling to the list.
Yu Jin Ling, 12, a Forest Hills resident, recently won the Daily News annual spelling bee, which qualifies her to compete in the televised Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 31. Making the victory all the more sweet for Queens, Ling, who attends PS 101, beat out a Manhattan contestant to claim first prize, correctly spelling “annulet,” meaning a small ring. Ling said she didn’t study much for the competition, instead improving her spelling by reading avidly during her spare time. Originally born in South Korea, Ling has only lived in the U.S. for four years and learned English mostly through reading books. Hopefully she’ll bone up a little bit before taking on the rest of the country. Good luck, Yu Jin, make our borough pruod…oops, we mean, proud. |
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