This weeks Page Three model, Brandi Ray of Madison, struck a relatively modest pose outside our Adams Farm offices normally her modeling work is a bit racier. My favorite thing to do is fantasy art, she says, like where models pose in fetish outfits and stuff like that.

When Chastity Childress of Greensboro entered the Miss Twin City Cyclones Pageant last month, she knew she had a distinct advantage: experience. I was a pageant girl, she admits. Ive been in a few. The last title I won, I was 16 years old and I was Miss NC Tarheel State.

Amanda Hollis, our Page Three model this week, rarely feels intimidated. But while hiking at Table Rock Park near Linville Gorge last summer, she came face to face with a full-grown black bear.

It’s hard to believe Julia Manning, this week’s Page Three model, suffers from shyness. Manning, the lead singer for Top 40 cover band Suckerpunch, traces her demure nature back to childhood.

This weeks Page Three model, Caitlin Stroczkowski, should have you seeing red this Valentines Day and not just because her name is so hard to spell. I love Valentines Day, she says. I love pink and I love hearts and kisses and purple and Valentine cards and flowers so, yeah.

Only a hack would point out the leonine qualities of a woman named Tigress McDaniel, so I’ll focus here on her musical talents

Say “So long” to Winston-Salem resident Daivonne Rios. This week’s Page Three model has joined the Army, something she’s wanted to do since a recruiter came to her high school when she was 15. “Actually, I just passed my ASVAB Test,”

For this weeks Page Three shoot, we lured photographer Chris Cooke out from behind the lens and put him through the paces. This will have to do until he finds more work. I am looking for a job, he states unequivocally. Pretty much I am paying the bills with photography right now barely.

This week's Page Three model, 21-year-old Megan Lennex of Belews Creek, has three semesters to go in the UNCG nursing program, where her worldview has been rocked pretty well. "We've seen a whole lot of different cultures and beliefs and everything" she says.

Melanie Saxton has cool hair. And well she should. This weeks Page Three model is a 22-year-old stylist at Regis Salon, in the Four Seasons mall, a position she took after finishing at Leons Beauty School in June. And her hairstyle is nothing less than a billboard for her services.

This week's Page Three model, Ashley Flaherty, is a young lady we'd like to have on our side. A UNCG senior majoring in human development, Ashley aspires to one day get her law degree and become an advocate for at-risk youth. She credits her grandfather, David, with sparking her interest in politics and law.

This week's Page Three model, Charity Lewallen, doesn't need your handouts. She's a career gal, with a gig at Citigroup she's been working at for the last eight years. "I just moved to Greensboro from Julian, which was closer to work" she says. "I moved here to get to know more people.

This week’s Page Three layout lends itself to the seasonal beauty of Awake the White and Wint’ry Queen, a concert and performance composed and produced by Triad artist Scott Fray. The Winter Solstice celebration, according to a press release, “is a winter concert meant to evoke the sentiments of the season while maintaining an ancient and ageless awareness.”

What is a cool dude like Rashone Washington, formerly of Newark, NJ, doing in Greensboro? Beginning the next act of his life. The first one is documented in his new film, One Foot In, One Foot O ut , which begins shooting locally this winter. Were gonna start it out as a short, says the writer, producer and star.

Five years from now, in a perfect world, Anna Knott will be a jet-setting, trend-making fashion designer. For now, she’s an art student at Forsyth Tech Middle College and the Career Center, and her own personal designer and model.

Take a look at Eric Dobell its a sure bet that hes watching you. Dobell is a magician and mentalist. Thats right: He knows what youre thinking, sometimes before you do. You kind of learn to read people, body language and things like that, he says. There are a lot of different ways of doing what I do. I use my skills as a magician to give the illusion of mind reading. Some of it is observation. Some of it is just trickery. Dobell will be performing at Greensboros Festival of Lights on Dec. 5 as a strolling magician. Street magic, he says. Ooooh. Check out his website at www.ericdobell.com, but dont try to put one past him he knows when youre lying. The really bad liars dont look at you, he says. When Im lying, I look you right in the eyes.

Ready for your medicine? Amber Kimball, 19 going on 20, is studying to be a nurse at Alamance Community College. But she has already started helping people. My favorite class is psychology. The study of the mind is useful for a lot of things, like sleeping problems, and especially boys, she says. Now my friends all come to me for help. Especially with boys. Im not going to say Im always right, though. Her own love life, however, is fairly stable. Ive been with my boyfriend for about a year. I think psychology helped us sort out some problems. Kimball is cruising through the first semester of her two-year nursing program. The hardest part is prioritizing. Taking four classes at once is quite a lot to accomplish. But Im passing them, so its all good.

Jenny Saavevra undergoes a transformation while performing onstage. Saavevra, a belly dancer and member of Three Graces Professional Dance Troupe, earned the nickname, Metamorphosis, from her aunt Marizela.

You get better stories at some jobs than others — those moments that are touching or funny or really make you think. Cops and EMTs have great work stories. Flight attendants have great work stories. So do bartenders, strippers and cabbies. And according to this week’s Page Three model, Jason Holdaway, so do tattoo artists.

Julie Gann used to live in Arkansas. She has modeled in motorcycle magazines and has been to the big rally in Sturgis, SD. She has a wicked sinus infection. And she plans to be at the inaugural YES! Weekly pool party on Saturday, July 26, where she'll be celebrating her 23rd birthday.