The United Artist movie theater in Sheepshead Bay months back (somewhere around the star trek release) added I-MAX to its venue. The theater was opened in an attempt to draw more audiences and give Sheepshead Bay access to IMAX. The question is, “Is it the real I-MAX?”

Turns out…The screen is just slightly bigger than the UA’s normal screens and NOT the usual standard huge 72 ft IMAX screen. This trickery is happening all over at Regal and AMC theaters.

If you don’t want the whole long story, there is this article that explains it. Basically IMAX is selling their brand name and trying to trick people. These new “IMAX” theatres are really just nice digital screens with good sound, but they ARE NOT IMAX, in that they don’t have the huge 72 ft gigantic screen which people would expect. However, they still charge $5 more for tickets as they would for the regular IMAX.

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Wow!

“RUSSIAN GIRLS are just prettier than American girls,” Anastasia Somchyk, a Russian beauty pageant contestant, told the Brooklyn Diary last week, matter-of-factly.

“That’s 100 percent,” she added.

Somchyk, a 22-year old advertising sales woman from Sheepshead Bay, is vying to become Miss Russian New York, a pageant in its seventh year that will crown one lucky Russkie its princess when the finals take place this fall.

This year’s competition, which began with more than 100 Russian speaking girls last fall, has since been whittled down to just 10 finalists, including Somchyk, who said she learned how to sing in order to compete in the musical portion.

“It shows your hidden talent,” said Somchyk, who sang a version of “Orientation North,” a hit by Russian pop songstress Lolita, during an early round of the pageant.
“I never thought ‘l could sing, and now I started.” The Russian dolls will perform in Central Park later this month, and the winner will snag her tiara in October.