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| The World's Her Stage
Michelle Sokolowski
Home: Ozone Park Age: 25 Height: 5’ 6" Weight: 120 lbs Stats: 34-25-34 Michelle Sokolowski has been modeling for three years, allowing a slew of photographers to capture her unique Polish/Brazilian beauty. In those three years, she has gained a great deal of experience. Recently, Michelle was featured in a print ad for a beauty product company called “Ruby’s Beauty Shop.” She was also featured on Maxim Magazine’s Web site as a “Bonus Babe.” Growing frustrated with waiting around for agencies to find opportunities for her to show her pretty face, Michelle has taken up most of her project assignments herself. “It can be hard trying to do it all on your own,” she said. “It definitely helps to have someone guiding you, but I just got tired of waiting around.” By day, Michelle is a stage manager for International Creative Management, which is based out of Manhattan. When asked if she’d consider modeling as a full time job, she said, “I’m not really sure. If I did get wildly successful at it, I would maybe do it, but my true love is theatre. Modeling is just something for me on the side.” Bringing her enthusiasm for theatre to life, Michelle became an intern for the Broadway Production of “Chicago,” handling administrative and office duties. Receiving a degree in theatre from Hunter College, she then became a stage manager at Lincoln Center before joining ICM. A graduate of Queens’ Townsend Harris High School, Michelle recalled fond memories of frequently venturing to Austin Street in Forest Hills with friends to enjoy the area’s shops and restaurants. Though she hangs out mostly in Manhattan these days, she frequently invites her “amazing friends” to her Ozone Park home to watch television and spend time. |
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| Rev Run's Kid
Angela Simmons, daughter of the Rev Run and niece of Russell Simmons, has launched her own magazine.
The monthly teen magazine, Angela’s Rundown target 14-18-year olds and will cover music, fashion, celebrity interviews and teen issues. Auntie Kimora Lee will be featured in the first issue, alongside Chris Brown, Ne-Yo and Bow Wow. Brother Daniel “Diggy” Simmons also writes a column “Diggy’s Doin’ It.” Meanwhile Angela also begins taping for the new season of “Run’s House,” the Rev’s reality TV show on MTV begins Sept. 26. |
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| Essence
Prior to her surprise Primary defeat, embattled Sen. Ada Smith made this month’s list of Essence magazine’s “Their 15 Minutes of Shame: Sometimes Good Black Women Have a Bad Day.” Ada has had several bad days from biting a police officer to throwing coffee in an staffer’s face and more. She was recently ordered to take anger management classes by an Albany Court judge.
Essence dubbed Ada as the Wild Woman of Albany for her string of tantrums and lists her among Naomi Campbell, who attacked her former maid with a cell phone, and Lil’ Kim, who spent 10 months in jail. While Essence questions whether the media only highlights Black women when they get mad, we wondered if there ever was a time when Ada isn’t mad. The voters agreed. |
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| Great Expectations
When the Queens-based band Emmure signed recently to Victory Records, which has put out such current acts as the Smoking Popes and Bayside (see our Aug. 31 QConf), the band set its sights somewhat high.
“We’re looking to be the heaviest, most emotionally moving band out there.” guitarist Jesse Ketive said. The band, which comes from Queens and Fairfield, Conn., met on the Internet three years ago and has been writing their material since, playing plenty of shows and getting ready to cut an album, which they will do with Victory Records some time in the winter. Ketive describes the band’s sound as “very brutal rock that’s still easy to understand and connect to.” “This is aggressive music for what many feel are frustrating times,” Victory owner Tony Brummel said. “There are many negative ways to deal with frustration in one’s life. Emmure provides a positive alternative. Sonically and emotionally they reflect the power that music can have.” |
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| Man On Train
Traveling along the city’s Subway lines, people can come across many strange things.
In this picture, a white-bearded businessman traveling on the F Line into the Union Turnpike Station is casually reading a newspaper. Little did he know that a QConf reporter was sitting right across from him with a camera at the ready. Note the similarity between the reader and the fellow on the right side of the newspaper advertisement. We couldn’t let an amusing image like this one slip away. Let this be a lesson to always look out for QConf. |
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| Political Cliffhanger
John Sabini’s night did not start well. As the first election district reports were written onto giant sheets of paper that lined the wall of Betty’s catering Hall in Corona, where the Senator’s friends and followers gathered in hopes of celebrating his victory, the numbers were clearly in challenger Hiram Monserrate’s favor. He was leading in almost every district reported from the first six or seven polling places, mostly squeaking out a difference of five or 10 votes, but some by 20 or 40.
Sabini paced, left arm across his chest, holding his right elbow as his right hand tugged at his chin and he occasionally bit a nail. Runners from the various polling sites continued to filter in, and suddenly there was an explosion – a loud “Yes!” was heard echoing through the narrow hallway, and runners began posting new numbers that showed 50-100-vote differences in Sabini’s favor. The veteran Queens politico stopped holding his elbow and was now high-fiving, pumping his fist in the air and getting celebratory back pats. Less than an hour later, in the main hall, a great cheer erupted as the DJ began to play the haunting opening of U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name,” its growing, pulsing beat bringing the crowd to its feet as they surrounded Sabini as he entered the main hall to claim victory in the race. | |||||||||
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