....April 30, 11:24 AM
 
 
 
Write On!
Kew Gardens native Clara Paterniti was strolling home with fistfuls of cupcakes for her 4-year-old son’s birthday.

The mom and bartender has been finding her way through life and toying with a modeling career.

“I meet a lot of people that want to manage my career. It’s crazy. They’re like vultures,” Paterniti said.

She’s had offers for reality shows and music videos, and has had a role in a spoof 50 Cent YouTube video. That’s all nice to her, but her real dreams lie on the page.

“I want to be a writer,” she said, her voice reaching an excited pitch. What else would you expect from the daughter of a poet?

Paterniti guiltily admits to a reality TV addiction and uses Queens as her favorite shopping stop.

For now she’ll carry on modeling as it comes, and most of all work on – of course – a screenplay.

Clara Paterniti
Home: Kew Gardens
Age: 22
Height: 5’6"
Weight: 130 lbs
Stats: 36-25-40
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Joe: Getting Into The Act

Joe Crowley sings at the Kennedy Center.
Congressman Joe Crowley participated in an “informance” last Wednesday evening, playing guitar on stage with award-winning musicians at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. The evening was hosted by the Center for American Progress and Music National Service, and featured other political and musical notables, like Josh and Cora Dunham, who are the husband & wife rhythm section for Prince, as well as Congressman Dennis Moore of Kansas on guitar, Peggo Horstmann Hodes, the wife of Congressman Paul Hodes of New Hampshire, and others.

We’ve known for a while that Crowley likes to rock out; he’s performed at Queens Theatre in the Park, and his own fundraisers.

And we were there more than a quarter of a century ago when Joe was just completeing college and he played State Senator Gary Ackerman's Birthday Roast.
Keep rockin’, Joe.
Tea For Toby

State Senator Toby Stavisky wasn't happy about being tea-bagged.
An unusual package reached State Sen. Toby Stavisky’s Albany office with a strange powder lurking inside. Albany police found it contained a tea bag and a letter reading “NO TAXATION WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION.”

Regular Tribune letter writer Michael Chimenti sent the package as part of conservatives’ tea bag protests.

The incident led Albany police to call Chimenti on his work, home and cell phones, reaching him and saying Stavisky could press charges for receiving a “suspicious substance” if she chose so, according to Chimenti.

“How this was a suspicious substance is beyond me. It was clearly an intact tea bag with a letter marked TEA PARTY,” Chimenti wrote on parcbench.com.

Stavisky’s spokesman said that wasn’t the case at all. The Senator received a letter with powder, handed it off to the authorities who found it to be a tea bag, and responded with a brief thank you note.

Next time, send it with some honey.
Councilmember's Counsellor

Joseph Tacopina
At least the guy has experience.

Joseph Tacopina was hired by Senator Hiram Monserrate to help defend him against the assault charges he faces in court on June 26th.

Tacopina’s other noteworthy client? Disgraced City Councilman Dennis Gallagher, who was charged with rape and took a no-jail plea deal on lesser charges.

You can bet Monserrate is hoping Tacopina has better luck this time around.
Jim’s Green Apple
Councilman Jim Gennaro is at it again, solving New York’s problems one environmental issue at a time. The newest resolution the councilman is putting forth is making the Newtown Pippin apple the official fruit of New York City.

It is believed that the fruit was first grown in Newtown, now Elmhurst, in 1730.

We can understand why a recession, budget woes and cutting back of MTA services can take a backseat to designating the official fruit of this fair city. Thanks, Jim.

Taken Out Of The Ballgame

Queens resident Bradford Campeau-Laurion is suing the City after police threw him out of Yankee Stadium when he left his seat to use the bathroom during the playing of “God Bless America.”

According the lawsuit, Campeau-Laurion passed by a police officer and was blocked from proceeding. The officer than grabbed his arm and twisted it, then marched him out of the stadium and told to leave the country if he didn’t like it.

A police spokesman said the officers ejected the man because they “observed a male cursing, using inappropriate language and acting in a disorderly manner while reeking of alcohol.” The lawsuit alleges Campeau-Laurion was enjoying the game quietly.

You would think that by now those Yankee fans would have learned their lesson. Mr. Met would be happy to greet you with open arms.
Bonnie, Clyde & The Kids

Last week, Hugo Lantigua of Corona and Erika Santana of Flushing allegedly broke into a Maspeth house with the help of a Brooklyn accomplice and stole $1,500 cash, jewelry and electronics. Later that day they are said to have performed another heist in Woodside, where cops caught them.

What the police didn’t expect was to find two young girls in the van – Santana’s 5-month-old and 4-year-old daughters.

The children were placed in the custody of Santana’s sister and the trio was arrested.

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