Future Star
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| Edie Monroy
Home:Elmhurst Age: 25 Height: 5’3" Weight: 125 lbs Stats: 34-27-39 |
Having just graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in June, this future star is “all about acting.”
“I was just trying to get out there in that world, to experience things for myself,” Edie Monroy said. Having signed up to a casting Web site, she started to get calls for print model and promotional auditions, so she jumped right in.
“It’s fun; you do your make up and walk around,” she said.
Work has been good, the modeling has been a blast and she gets to pretend to be a lot of different characters.
“I love being other people,” Edie said. “I was just murdered on Sunday. Last month I was killing zombies, the month before that I had HIV.”
Having wanted to be an actress for as long as she can remember, Edie worked hard to get into theater school and continues that hard work beyond. “It’s hard,” she said. “It’s not easy at all.”
Edie grew up in Parkchester in the Bronx and moved to Queens when she was 11. Her favorite hangouts these days are in Astoria, “or Actor-ia, as it is known. I have a lot of friends who live there.”
Acting and modeling are not her only passions. Edie is a violinist and also picked up belly dancing from her mother.
“My mother started dancing seven years ago,” she said. “After a year of watching her do it I wanted to do it.”
As for the violin, Edie picked that up at IS 73 in Maspeth, and then joined a teenage orchestra that met at Russell Sage in Forest Hills and even landed her performances at Carnegie Hall.
In an upcoming NYU student film she's working on her first “really evil” character and then working on another film that she describes as “Tim Burton meets Moulin Rouge.”
“I love these roles that stretch you and make you seem different,” she said.
For The Ladies
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What would women’s history be without Fran Drescher?
After all, the nasal-tone Queens gal, who has been rumored to be considering a run for political office, has been shedding her “Nanny” image to take on the more important role of advocate for ovarian cancer research.
On April 12, Good Housekeeping Magazine will present a one-night Women’s History Museum benefit performance at City Center touted as “a salute to influential and inspiring American women of the past 125 years, from Icons to Goddesses and Visionaries to Hellraisers.”
The night will feature performances by Drescher, Kristen Bell and Meryl Streep, as well as Broadway luminaries Laura Benanti, Kelli O’Hara, Ann Hampton Callaway and others.
Tickets are available at nycitycenter.org. Better grab ’em up quick, the stars only align like this rarely.
RoadPatcher To The Rescue
If you were able to afford to cross the city’s bridges and tunnels, the roadways on them that have been eaten up by potholes, are being well taken care of. |
| The MTA's "RoadPatcher" continues to work in spite of financial crises and cutbacks. |
Not to worry though, as the “RoadPatcher,” this allows for a speedy pothole repair that permits drivers to drive over the fixed pothole immediately and can fix 100 potholes in a single shift.
According to the MTA, they have so far used 3,200 gallons of liquid asphalt emulsion, 55 tons of stone aggregate, eight tons of hot asphalt and 5 tons of cold patch mix to patch potholes, which leads us to wonder if it’s just cheaper to build new bridges and tunnels.
Even if it was, it’s not like the MTA would go for a “cheaper” alternative.
Hair Today, Goat Tomorrow
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| Hair today: Queensbridge's Ron Artest. |
Ron Artest could have been the one to inspire the Lakers. He could have been the one to resurrect the NBA Champions from their funk. It seems that he was not to be the inspiration. He would not be the one who’d stand out from the rest and say, “follow me.”
Instead, Artest shaved off what was to save the Lakers’ season.
Artest, a Queensbridge native, dyed his hair blond and scrawled “defense” into his head with purple dye in three different languages—Hebrew, Japanese and Hindi.
It’s as if the Chicago Bulls were resurrected to their heyday. Kobe Bryant as Jordan, Artest as Dennis Rodman and you get to choose who’d play Scotty Pippen. It was the beginning of Laker dominance.
Rodman, er… Artest… had other plans. And as quickly the dynasty emerged, Artest shut it down. The following day he showed up to the arena sporting a shaved head and mere shades of what was. Will this be what happens to the Lakers? Will there only be shades of what was?
Donkey King
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Queens doctor breaks record. |
A Queens doctor has earned “legendary gamer” status by breaking the all-time record in the classic arcade game Donkey Kong.
Dr. Hank Chien raised the bar 10,000 points to 1,061,700 points, according to Twin Galaxies, an organization that keeps track of these sorts of things. (Yeah, we at QConf didn’t believe it either, but they’re actually legit).
“It’s something to add to my resume and it’s something I can be proud of,” Chien told the Daily News.
Yeah, and it also totally gives everyone the right to give him noogies and steal his lunch money. Nerd.
