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| Tantalizing Tamara
Tamara Jackson
South Ozone Park Age: 15 Height: 5’7" Stats: 34-28-43 Tamara Jackson is a sophomore in the Hillcrest High School Theatre Institute and a finalist in the Miss New York Teen USA Pageant. The event will be televised on NBC in April as well as on other television stations in Albany. Tamara won the gold medal for excellence in the Miss New York Teen USA Pageant and received a certificate of achievement for being one of the finalists. She has appeared in the Hillcrest High School productions of T-Bird, Tourist, Army and Mechanic. She has also appeared in the school’s International Festival as a solo dancer and was given the title “Best Reggae Dancer.” Tamara has also taken courses at John Roberts School in Image Modeling and Commercial Acting. She also choreographed moves for a group called Mix and has performed for DNV Productions in a play, “Never Give Up” at the Oberia Center, Manhattan. Her plans for the future include pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Designing. Go get ‘em, Tamara. |
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| Ramone Way
The fate of the club where the Ramones, the punk legends from Forest Hills, got their big break is up in the air.
CBGB’s, on Bowery Street in Manhattan, used to cost owner Hilly Kristal just $800 a month in rent when he started renting the lounge in the early 1970s. But times and tunes have changed. From the Ramones to some of today’s bigger heavy acts, it seems every band pays their dues by coming through CBGBs. But now, according to published reports, the world-famous lounge and bar costs $20,000 a month in rent - which may double to $40,000 a month when the lease expires in August. It seems that soon, the club that made the Ramones famous will no longer exist, though the street sign - Joey Ramone Way - that hangs outside should last longer. |
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| Mayor Mike And The New York Press
The City Hall press corps and metro media people took a special interest in a recent report by the Daily News, which submitted a Freedom of Information request to retrieve undisclosed details of Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s private schedule.
Notoriously sensitive reporters took offense - but were not surprised - to learn that hizzoner had time to grant interviews to a host of non-news types, including an unknown author writing a book about Eagle Scouts, but hasn’t had an on-the-record chat with a daily paper journalist since Christmas 2003. If Mayor Mike has kept the city’s typing classes at bay for so long, QConf staffers have been the notable exceptions to the rule. Michael Schenkler, Publisher of the Queens Tribune when not editing this page, had a lengthy for-publication chat with Bloomberg in December 2004. According to Schenkler, "The Mayor was available, and direct has been accessible to the Trib and the city's major weekly papers." |
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| Hot 97: Center Of Action
Queens’ own 50 Cent recently took fellow bullet taker and up and coming rapper The Game under his wing, and after 50 announced on Hot 97 that he was dropping The Game from the G-Unit record label, the obvious ensued - a shootout outside of the studio.
The positive outlook that can be said about the shooting, one that wounded a member of Game’s posse, was that Councilman John Liu (D-Flushing) was not present protesting the Tsunami Song. Hot 97 seems to continue in the crossfire in addition to last week’s shootout and John Liu’s attack on their tsunami take-off of We Are The World, female rapper Lil Kim is currently on trial for a shooting that occurred, also outside of their studio. |
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| Totten Salute
Mathew McConaughey honored by Fort Totten's General Holt and the 77th RRC aboard the Intrepid for the screening of his new film Sahara, the first movie ever shown on the Intrepid Air & Space Museum.
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