A lot of talented people upload videos of themselves performing to websites like YouTube on a daily basis. While a lot of these folks are skilled in what they do, most of them don’t make it past the Internet. One gifted lady who is getting the chance at the big time—with her own television show—is Stevie [...]
Our view of art tends to be restricted to the work residing within the frame. The artist decides to start or stop at a certain point, and the audience must find meaning somewhere within that – and that alone. This is the conventional way in which the world views art. But of course, artists will [...]
Nathalie Garcia never acted in a play before. She never sang in front of an audience or read lines from a script. Now, illuminated in the spotlight of her elementary school’s stage, she is a star. On Monday, March 19, the P.S./I.S. 113Q sixth-grader got her first shot at stardom, an opportunity gifted from an [...]
Elliot Lobell first fell in love with stop motion animation when he saw “Star Wars.” From that moment, he knew he wanted to be an animator. One catch – he couldn’t draw. Stop motion animation bridged the gap for the Queens native, bringing anything he dreamed to life. He created figures from clay, fabric and [...]
Dapper, dashing and debonair, the notoriously sophisticated bow tie has acquired an artistic injection from a Queens creative. Nicholas Ruiz constructs imaginative bow ties from found objects, fashioning his original accessories from everything from pills to newspaper, film negatives to wine corks. Originally from Florida, Ruiz attended college at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he [...]
By Louie Lazar On the narrow streets of Kathmandu, the name “Phiroj Shyangden” is more recognizable than that of Bob Seger or Cat Stevens, legendary rockers who have both written songs about this exotic city, located less than 100 miles from Mount Everest. As lead guitarist and vocalist of 1974 A.D., the popular band whose [...]
American Idol went live Tuesday night for the first time this season as Queens’ own Creighton Fraker and Heejun Han sang for their Idol lives in the show’s semifinals. Thirteen men took the stage on the popular singing competition, but only five will continue onto next week’s show. Fraker belted Queens native Cyndi Lauper’s “True [...]
Hundreds of thousands of “American Idol” hopefuls were narrowed down to 24 over the past month, with two Queens crooners making the cut. Heejun Han, of Flushing, and Astoria’s Creighton Fraker both withstood the auditions, Hollywood and a trip to Las Vegas to make it to the shows semifinals round, and now have the opportunity [...]
Tatiana Kochkareva scrolled through lists of albums on iTunes, searching for the perfect one – the first one she would ever buy. She came across Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn… Something about it stood out. She clicked “download” and pushed “play” on track seven, “Fast as you can.” Orchestral and biting, the song dazzled her. [...]
People should get used to pronouncing Creighton Fraker. It’s going to be a household name. An Astoria resident for the past eight years, Fraker grabbed the ultimate brass ring for a star on the rise — a coveted golden ticket on Fox’s “American Idol.” Fraker grew up as a preacher’s kid in South Dakota, finding [...]
