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WNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations in located in New York City.

WNYC (AM) broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz., and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs. The stations are known for its nationally-syndicated news and culture programming and its Internet radio broadcasts. WNYC reaches more than one million listeners each week and has the largest public radio audience in the United States.

The WNYC stations are co-owned with Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz.), and all three broadcast from studios and offices in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan. WNYC's AM transmitter is located in Kearny, New Jersey, and WNYC-FM's transmitter is located on the Empire State Building in New York City.

WNYC also owns and operates New Jersey Public Radio, a group of four northern New Jersey noncommercial FM stations acquired by WNYC from the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority on July 1, 2011.

History

Early years

WNYC is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States. Funds for the establishment of the station were approved on June 2, 1922 by the New York City Board of Estimate and Apportionment. WNYC made its first official broadcast two years later on July 8, 1924, at 570 AM with a second-hand transmitter shipped from Brazil. With the commencement of WNYC's operations, the City of New York became one of the first American municipalities to be directly involved in broadcasting.

In 1928 WNYC was forced into a time-sharing arrangement on 570 AM with WMCA, another pioneering New York radio outlet. This situation lasted until 1931, when the Federal Radio Commission (a forerunner to today's FCC) moved WNYC to 810 AM. The frequency move did not help WNYC from an operational standpoint as it now shared its frequency with the more-powerful WCCO in Minneapolis, over 1,200 miles to the west. WNYC was now limited to daytime-only operations, broadcasting from sunrise to sunset.

Great Depression and World War II

WNYC's transmitter was moved in 1937 from the top of the Municipal Building to City-owned land in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as part of a Works Progress Administration project. In 1938 the Municipal Broadcasting System was established by the City of New York to run the station. For its first 14 years, WNYC had been run by the New York City Commissioner for Bridges, Plant and Structures. Now, under an agency devoted singularly to its function and with the leadership of new director Morris S. Novik, appointed by Mayor LaGuardia, WNYC became a model public broadcaster. Among its many landmark programs was the annual ''American Music Festival''.

In 1941 the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement shifted WNYC's dial position a second time, to 830 kHz. WCCO was moved to 830 as well, and was given clear-channel authority. WNYC would remain a 1,000-watt, daytime-only outlet for the next 48 years. Later that year, on December 7, WNYC was the first radio station in the United States to announce the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

WNYC began regularly scheduled broadcasts on the FM band March 13, 1943 at 43.9 megacycles. Known originally as W39NY, the FM outlet adopted its present WNYC-FM identity and its present dial position at 93.9 within a few years.

In 1989 WNYC (AM) moved from 830 kHz to 820 kHz, commenced around-the-clock operations, and increased its daytime power to 10,000 watts while maintaining 1,000 watts at night. The Brooklyn transmitters ceased operation, and the AM side moved to Belleville Turnpike in Kearny, New Jersey, sharing space on three towers of WMCA.

Past WNYC radio personalities include H. V. Kaltenborn, who hosted radio's first quiz program on WNYC in 1926, the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'''s "Current Events Bee", a forerunner to shows like National Public Radio's ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' In its early years the station lacked funds for a record library and would borrow albums from record stores around the Manhattan Municipal Building, where its studios were located. Legend has it, a listener began loaning classical records to the station and in 1929, WNYC began broadcast of ''Masterwork Hour'', radio's first program of recorded classical music.

Following the U.S. entry into World War II, New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia made use of the station every Sunday in his ''Talk to the People'' program.

Margaret Juntwait, an announcer and classical music host at WNYC for 15 years who left for the Metropolitan Opera in September 2006, is now the announcer for the Met's Saturday Afternoon Radio Broadcasts and is only the third regular announcer of the long-standing broadcast series launched in 1931, and is also the first woman to hold the position. John Schaefer, a music show host at WNYC for 20 years, has written liner notes for more than 100 albums, for everyone from Yo-Yo Ma to Terry Riley and was named a "New York influential" by ''New York Magazine''.

Independence from the City

The station's ownership by the City meant that it was occasionally subject to the whims of various mayors. As part of a crackdown on prostitution in 1979, then-Mayor Ed Koch tried to use WNYC to broadcast the names of "johns" arrested for soliciting. Announcers threatened a walkout and station management refused to comply with the idea; after one broadcast the idea was abandoned. ''See John Hour.''

In 1995, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani split WNYC Radio from its sister television station, and a risk arose that the radio stations would be sold off to corporate interests. In 1997 the station was saved by its sale to the nonprofit WNYC Foundation. This put an end to the occasional political intrusions of the past. The station's listenership and budget have continued to grow rapidly in recent years.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 destroyed WNYC's FM transmitter atop the World Trade Center. The station's studios, in the nearby Municipal Building, had to be evacuated and station staff was unable to return to its offices for three weeks. The FM signal was knocked off the air for a time. WNYC temporarily moved its offices to the studios at National Public Radio's New York bureau in midtown Manhattan, where it broadcast on its still operating AM signal transmitting from towers in Kearny, New Jersey and by a live Internet stream. The station eventually returned to the Municipal Building.

Move to new studios

On June 16, 2008 WNYC moved from its of rent-free space scattered on eight floors of the Manhattan Municipal Building to a new location at 160 Varick Street (aka 10 Hudson Square) near the Holland Tunnel. The station now occupies two and a half floors of a 12-story former printing building.

The new offices have ceilings and of space. The number of recording studios and booths has doubled, to 31. There is a new 140-seat, street-level studio for live broadcasts, concerts and public forums and an expansion of the newsroom for a capacity of up to 40 journalists. In the Municipal Building, the journalists were not in a centralized newsroom, but scattered over many offices throughout the building.

Renovation, construction, rent and operating costs for the new Varick Street location amounted to $45 million. In addition to raising these funds, WNYC has been raising money for a one-time fund of $12.5 million to cover the cost of creating 40 more hours of new programming and three new shows. The total cost of $57.5 million for both the move and programming is nearly three times the $20 million the station had to raise over seven years to buy its licenses from the City in 1997.

Acquisition of WQXR

On October 8, 2009 WNYC took control of classical music station WQXR-FM. WQXR's intellectual property (call letters and format) was acquired from the New York Times Company as part of a three-way transaction with Univision Radio. WNYC also purchased the 105.9 FM frequency of Univision's WCAA (now WXNY-FM), and moved WQXR-FM there. The deal resulted in WQXR becoming a non-commercial educational station, and WNYC-FM dropped its remaining classical music programming to become a full-time news/talk station.

New Jersey expansion

On June 6, 2011, the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority agreed to sell four FM stations in northern New Jersey to New York Public Radio. The transaction was announced by Governor Chris Christie, as part of his long-term goal to end State-subsidized public broadcasting. The four stations previously belonged to New Jersey Network's statewide radio service. Upon taking control of the four stations on July 1, 2011, they were rebranded as New Jersey Public Radio.

Programming

WNYC produces 100 hours a week of its own programming, including nationally-syndicated shows like ''Studio 360'', ''On the Media'' and ''Radiolab'', as well as local news and interview shows that include ''The Leonard Lopate Show'', ''Soundcheck'' and ''The Brian Lehrer Show''. The entire schedule is streamed live over the internet (and several shows also air over XM Satellite Radio); as a result the station receives listener calls from far-flung states and even has international listeners.

WNYC-FM offers a diverse format of NPR news and cultural programs, while WNYC-AM focuses mostly on news programming.

WNYC has a local news team of 18 journalists.

''Studio 360'' is a weekly one-hour program about arts and culture hosted by Kurt Andersen, the former editor of ''Spy Magazine''. Taking current issues and trends as jumping-off points, the show explores a broad range of cultural ideas. Each program begins with a topical section of stories about the arts and culture from around the United States and around the world.

''On the Media'' is a weekly nationally-syndicated one-hour program hosted by Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield of Advertising Age covering the media and its effect on American culture and society. Many stories investigate how events of the past week were covered by the press. Stories also regularly cover such topics as video news releases, net neutrality, media consolidation, censorship, freedom of the press, spin, and how the media is changing with technology.

''The Brian Lehrer Show'' is a two-hour weekday talk show covering local and national current events and social issues hosted by Brian Lehrer, a former anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Network.

''The Leonard Lopate Show'' is a two-hour weekday talk show hosted by Leonard Lopate, a painter who studied with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko and the brother of writer Phillip Lopate. The show covers a broad range of topics including jazz and gospel music, literature, science and history.

''Soundcheck'' is a one-hour weekday talk show hosted by John Schaefer about music and the arts. The show features interviews with musicians, critics, journalists, authors and others. It also features live musical performances in mix of genres, including indie rock, jazz, classical, and world music. The show also airs on XM Satellite Radio Channel 133.

WNYC broadcasts the major daily news programs produced by National Public Radio, including ''Morning Edition'' and ''All Things Considered'', as well as the BBC World Service and selected programs from Public Radio International like ''This American Life'' and ''A Prairie Home Companion''.

The station airs many long-running cultural and music programs, including ''Folksong Festival'' on Saturday nights that has survived battles with mayors and blacklists. Hosted by Oscar Brand, who debuted the show on December 10, 1945, and who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era, the show was one of the first radio programs in the United States to focus on issues of homosexuality and continues to shake up audiences with anti-American Revolution programs, "bad daddy" shows for Father's Day, "Evil Mothers" for Mother's Day, and more.

In 2006 the station began wnyc2 (lower case letters), an all-classical music channel broadcast on HD Radio and on the Internet. Their slogan is, "Five hundred years of new music", and most of their playlist comes from the late twentieth and twenty first centuries. The station's AM and FM channels carry primarily news and information programming on weekdays but maintain different broadcast schedules. The FM signal broadcasts musical programming after 7 p.m. It eliminated much of its weekday classical music programming in 2001, following the advice of consultants and the example of other public radio stations such as Philadelphia's WHYY.

Locally-produced programs include:

Big Band Sounds - music from the 1920s to the 1950s

Folksong Festival - devoted to the traditional and contemporary folksong

The Infinite Mind - examines scientific, existential, and social issues concerning the human mind with brain researcher Dr. Fred Goodwin

Jonathan Schwartz - American Popular Standards, classical music, rock, and jazz

New Sounds - guest musicians from David Byrne to Meredith Monk to Ravi Shankar, presents performances and premieres new works from the classic and operatic to folk and jazz

The No Show - features music, satire, news commentary and comedy with Steve Post

Radiolab - each episode is a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around one idea

Radio Rookies - Radio Rookies provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.

Selected Shorts - actors read contemporary and classic short fiction, ranging from Chekhov, Maupassant, Malamud, and Singer, to Jhumpa Lahiri and Jonathan Franzen

Soundcheck - daily talk show about music covering all musical genres, the show focuses on the musical passions of performers, composers, and critics as well as the public radio audience

Spinning On Air - specializes in unusual, uncategorizeable music, with an emphasis on in-studio performances

The Takeaway - a weekday morning show co-produced with Public Radio International

Listenership and new media

Combined, the WNYC stations and WQXR-FM is the most-listened-to commercial or non-commercial radio station in the borough of Manhattan. It ranks 13th citywide, however, in competition with salsa, hip hop and light FM, according to the radio ratings service Arbitron. WNYC had 99,378 paying members in 2006, up from 78,866 in 2001. With more than one million unique listeners each week, WNYC has the largest audience of any public radio station in the United States. In 2005, the station won an award for recording the highest audience growth among non-commercial stations in the previous five years.

WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including HD radio, live audio streaming, and podcasting. RSS feeds and email newsletters link to archived audio of individual program segments. wnyc2 is a classical station that is delivered only via Internet and HD radio, 24 hours a day. WNYC also makes some of its programming available on satellite radio.

See also

WPXN-TV (channel 31, formerly WNYC-TV)

Media of New York City

References

External links

WNYC website

WNYC Flickr photo page

Short WNYC News Historical Profile (1978)

Publicradiofan.com listing of all public radio station including WNYC

WNYC (New York Public Radio) Broadcast Schedule

WNYC 80^th Anniversary Timeline (2004)

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Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is a noted street photographer, known for his work in New York City.

Career

While studying sociology at Penn State, he saw Michelangelo Antonioni's film ''Blowup'' in 1968. Influenced by the film, he purchased his first camera and began taking night classes in photography at the School of Visual Arts of New York. Fascinated with normal people on the street and the idea of visual spontaneity, Gilden turned to a career in photography. He routinely uses a flash, alerting his subjects to his presence, unlike most street photographers. His first major project was documenting the sensuality of the bodies of the people at Coney Island.

A member of Magnum Photos since 1998, he shot images of Japan's Yakuza mobsters, the homeless, prostitutes, and members of bike gangs between 1995 and 2000. According to Gilden, he was fascinated by the duality and double lives of the individuals he photographed. Gilden is also the subject of ''Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden'', a documentary produced in 2007. He has also photographed rural Ireland and horseracing there, as well as voodoo rituals in Haiti.

Awards

1979: New York Foundation for the Arts (Artist’s Fellowship), New York, USA; New York Foundation for the Arts (Artist’s Fellowship), New York, USA

1980: National Endowment for the Arts Photographer’s Fellowship

1984: National Endowment for the Arts Photographer’s Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts (Artist’s Fellowship), New York, USA

1992: National Endowment for the Arts Photographer’s Fellowship; New York Foundation for the Arts (Artist’s Fellowship), New York, USA

1994: New York Foundation for the Arts (Artist’s Fellowship), New York, USA

1996: European Publishers’ Award for Photography; Villa Medicis Hors les Murs Artist’s Fellowship

1999: The Japan Foundation Artist’s Fellowship

2000: New York Foundation for the Arts (Artist’s Fellowship), New York, USA

Bibliography

''The Small Haiti Portfolio (Limited Edition)'', Helsinki, Finland (1990)

''Facing New York'', Cornerhouse Publications, UK (1992) ISBN 978-0948797071

''CRP Nord Pas-de-Calais'', France (1994)

''Bleus, Cahier#13'', Mission Photographique Transmanche (1994)

''Haïti, Dreams and Nightmares'', Dewi Lewis Publishing and Editions Marval, UK & France (1997)

''After the Off'', Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK (1999) ISBN 978-1899235179

''Ciganos'', Centro Portuguès de Fotografia, Lisbon, Portugal (1999)

''Haiti'', Dewi Lewis Publishing and Editions Marval, UK & France (1999) ISBN 978-1899235551

''Go'', Trebruk-Magnum, USA (2000)

''Coney Island'', Trebruk, UK (2002) ISBN 978-0953890125

''New York City'' (2004)

''A Beautiful Catastrophe'', Powerhouse, USA (2005) ISBN 978-1576872383

''Magnum Stories'' (2005)

''Fashion Magazine'', Magnum Photos, France (2006) ISBN 978-1933045436

References

External links

Bruce Gilden's blog

Magnum Photos Gilden profile

WNYC Street Shots: Bruce Gilden on Video

National Public Radio interview with Gilden

Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Laura Marling
Background	solo_singer
Birth date	February 01, 1990
Origin	Eversley, Hampshire, England
Instrument	Vocals, guitar, bass, piano
Genre	Contemporary folk, folk rock, Bluegrass music
Occupation	Singer/songwriter
Years active	2006–present
Label	WayOutWest, Virgin
Website	LauraMarling.com
Associated acts	Noah and the Whale, The Rakes, Mystery Jets, Johnny Flynn, Mumford & Sons }}

Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is an English folk musician from Eversley, Hampshire.

Initially prominent within the London folk scene, she has also toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK. Her sound is characterised by striking melodies and poetic lyricism. Her debut album ''Alas, I Cannot Swim'' and her second album ''I Speak Because I Can'' were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She won Best Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards.

Early years

Marling was born in Hampshire, England and learned guitar at an early age. Her father, who ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music. She was educated at Leighton Park School, a private Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire. She has said that during this time she felt uneasy around other people and had a fear of death.

Marling was part of the original line-up of indie folk band Noah and the Whale and was romantically linked with singer/guitarist Charlie Fink. She is featured as a background vocalist on their debut album ''Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down''; however, she left the group before the album's 2008 release and split up with Fink that same year. She also appeared on The Rakes track "Suspicious Eyes", from the band's 2007 album ''Ten New Messages'', credited as 'Laura Marlin'. Marling would later collaborate with Mystery Jets, contributing guest vocals to the single "Young Love", released 10 March 2008.

''Alas I Cannot Swim''

She was personally invited to tour with Jamie T after he attended her second-ever solo gig. She has also toured with a number of other musicians from the UK and beyond, including Adam Green from the anti-folk band The Moldy Peaches. She performed at the 2007 O₂ Wireless Festival and also performed at the first Underage Festival in August 2007 at Victoria Park, East London, before releasing her debut EP "London Town" on WayOutWest Records.

Her debut album ''Alas, I Cannot Swim'' was released on 4 February 2008, and later nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize. The album, as well as subsequent singles, were released on Virgin Records. The third and final single from her album, "Night Terror" was released on 27 October 2008, coinciding with a 6-date "Night Terror tour".

Marling's television appearances include ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'' and ''Later With Jools Holland'', performing "Ghosts" and "New Romantic" respectively. In 2008 she appeared on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show alongside her sister. She once chose to perform on the street after being denied entry to one of her own performances for being underage.

''I Speak Because I Can''

The follow-up to ''Alas I Cannot Swim'', titled ''I Speak Because I Can'', was released on 22 March 2010. Produced by Ethan Johns, the album has a more mature sound and lyricism, dealing with "responsibility, particularly the responsibility of womanhood." The album is preceded by the singles "Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)", released on iTunes in December 2009 and "Devil's Spoke" on 15 March 2010. On 28 March 2010, ''I Speak Because I Can'' entered the UK Albums Chart at Number 4. It was also nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize.

''A Creature I Don't Know''

In 2010, Marling announced that she would release two albums in 2010, the first of which being ''I Speak Because I Can''. She later announced that there was a change of plan and that she wouldn't be releasing a second album that year. She did, however, add that the album would be better due to the delay, and that she hoped to have it finished for February 2011. In June 2011, the new album's title was revealed to be ''A Creature I Don't Know'' and a release date of 12 September 2011 was given.

Discography

''Alas, I Cannot Swim'' (2008)

''I Speak Because I Can'' (2010)

''A Creature I Don't Know'' (2011)

Laura Marling also has recorded various songs such as "Soulless Child", "Candlelight", "Karma" and "Mexico" (all of which can be heard on YouTube but are not yet for sale) as well as "She's Changed" (of which a live version is for sale, but not a pre-recorded version) and "Such A Shame" (which is neither for sale nor available on youtube).

Awards and nominations

Year	Organisation	Nominated work	Award	Result
		''Alas, I Cannot Swim''
RTÉ Radio 1	Album of the Year
	BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards	"Rambling Man"	Best Original Song
		Best British Female
NME Awards		Best Solo Artist

References

External links

Official Website

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
name	Matt Taibbi
birth name	Matthew C. Taibbi
birth date	March 02, 1970
occupation	Journalist, political writer, columnist
relatives	Mike Taibbi (father)
nationality	American
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Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi (born March 2, 1970) is an American author and polemical journalist reporting on politics, media, finance, and sports for ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Men's Journal''. Previously he edited and wrote for ''The eXile'', the ''New York Press'', and ''The Beast''. His July 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine" famously described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."

Early years

Taibbi grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburbs. He attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, and Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, then spent a year abroad at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. His father is Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter.

Career

In 1992 Taibbi arrived in Uzbekistan, but articles critical of the country's president, Islom Karimov, made it prudent for him to leave after six months. Afterwards Taibbi worked for ''The Moscow Times'' as a sports editor, and in Mongolia he worked as a professional basketball player and as a correspondent for Montsame, the Mongolian National News Agency.

Taibbi was among the first Americans to play Russian professional baseball, playing center field for Spartak Moscow. While playing professional basketball in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Taibbi contracted pneumonia and returned to Boston for treatment and recuperation with his family. Post recovery he returned to Russia where he edited the expat paper ''Living Here'', before joining Mark Ames in 1997 to co-edit the controversial English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, ''The eXile''. Of ''Exile'', Taibbi said, "We were out of the reach of American libel law, and we had a situation where we weren’t really accountable to our advertisers. We had total freedom." In the U.S. media, ''Playboy'' magazine published pieces on Russia both by Taibbi and by Taibbi and Ames together during this time.

In 2002, he returned to the U.S. to start the satirical bi-weekly ''The Beast'' in Buffalo, New York, which he eventually left declaring that "Running a business and writing is too much." Taibbi continued as a freelancer for ''The Nation'', ''Playboy'', ''New York Press'' (where he wrote a regular political column for over two years), ''Rolling Stone'', and ''New York Sports Express'' (as Editor at Large). Taibbi said being a journalist was a "career failure. I wanted to be a novelist," he announced at an NYU lecture.

Taibbi left the ''New York Press'' in August 2005, shortly after his editor Jeff Koyen was forced to quit over issues raised by Taibbi's column "The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope." "I have since learned that there would not have been an opportunity for me to stay anyway," Taibbi later wrote.

Taibbi became a Contributing Editor at ''Rolling Stone'', penning feature-length articles on domestic and international affairs, along with a weekly political online column titled "The Low Post" for the magazine's web site. Taibbi writes for the print edition of ''Rolling Stone'', and contributes to their website in his current blog, "Taibblog." A later online column titled "Year of the Rat" was meant to document the 2008 election season, but it ended after only a few postings.

Taibbi covered the 2008 presidential campaign for ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', and he has made several guest appearances on MSNBC's ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' to discuss the 2009 economic crisis. He also appears on the progressive Democracy Now! show and serves as a contributor on ''Countdown with Keith Olbermann''.

Sports journalism

Taibbi also writes a column called "The Sports Blotter" for the free weekly newspaper the ''Boston Phoenix''. The column provides a rundown of the arrests, civil suits, and criminal trials involving professional athletes.

Awards

In 2008, Taibbi was awarded the National Magazine Award in the category "Columns and Commentary" for his ''Rolling Stone'' columns.

Controversy and confrontation

In March 2001, as editor of the magazine ''The eXile'', Matt Taibbi burst into the office of ''New York Times'' Moscow bureau chief Michael Wines and threw a cream pie into his face, after Taibbi's magazine had awarded Wines the title of "worst journalist" in Russia.

In March 2005 Taibbi's satirical essay, "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope", published in the ''New York Press'' was denounced by Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, Abe Foxman, and Anthony Weiner. The editor who approved the column lost his job. Taibbi defended the piece as an "off-the-cuff burlesque of truly tasteless jokes" written to give his readers a break from a long run of "fulminating political essays" of his. Taibbi also said he was surprised at the vehement reactions to what he wrote "in the waning hours of a Vicodin haze."

Journalist James Verini, while interviewing Taibbi in a Manhattan restaurant for ''Vanity Fair'', said Taibbi cursed and threw a coffee at him, and accosted him as he tried to get away, all in response to Verini's volunteered opinion that Taibbi's book, ''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia'', was "redundant and discursive." Taibbi later said the incident was "an aberration from how I've behaved in the last six or seven years."

Bibliography

''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia'' (ISBN 0-8021-3652-4). Co-authored with Mark Ames, and published in 2000 with a foreword by Edward Limonov. A movie based on the book is under development by producers Ted Hope and James Schamus of Good Machine.

''Spanking the Donkey: On the Campaign Trail with the Democrats'', (ISBN 1-56584-891-8). A campaign diary from the 2004 US presidential election, published by New Press in 2005.

''Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire'', (ISBN 0-8021-7041-2). Published by Grove Press, Black Cat in 2007.

''The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire'', (ISBN 0-385-52034-4). Published by Spiegel & Grau in 2008.

''Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America'', (ISBN 0-385-52995-3). Published by Spiegel & Grau in 2010.

References

External links

Matt Taibbi's Blog at Rolling Stone Magazine

Matt Taibbi on The Young Turks Show

Matt Taibbi's Blog at The Smirking Chimp

Matt Taibbi's (now defunct) Blog at True/Slant

Selected works

Archive of ''Rolling Stone'' "The Low Post" articles

Archive of Taibbi's articles in ''The Nation''

Archive of Taibbi's AlterNet articles

"Wall Street's Naked Swindle"

"The Truth About the Tea Party"

"The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman-Sachs Blew up the Economy"

"Looting Main Street" video by ''Democracy Now!''

Biographical works

Lloyd Grove column featuring denouncements, The New York Daily News

Background: Matt Taibbi in ''Bullpen'', a publication of the New York University school of journalism

"Fed Time for Gonzo at Rolling Stone: Political Reporter Matt Taibbi Surrounds Capitol Hill With Barbed Ire", The Washington Post

"Lost Exile: The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper. ", Vanity Fair

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
name	Anthony Coleman
background	solo_singer
birth date	August 30, 1955
origin	New York City, United States
instrument	Piano, trombone, sampler, percussion, voice
genre	Free jazz, improvised, klezmer, contemporary classical
occupation	Performer, composer
years active	1977–present
label	Tzadik, Knitworks, Hat Hut
associated acts	Sephardic Tinge, Selfhaters
notable instruments	}}

Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an American musician. Coleman is a piano and keys player, trombonist and vocalist mainly working within the free improvised and avant-garde jazz scenes in downtown New York during the late 1970s through to the present day. His greatest impact was during the 80s and 90s when he worked with rising avant-garde star John Zorn on such seminal works as ''Cobra'', ''Kristallnacht'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Archery'' and ''Spillane'' and helped push forward modern Jewish music into the 21st century.

Career

At the age of thirteen, Coleman started studying piano with Jaki Byard. At the New England Conservatory he studied with George Russell, Donald Martino and Malcolm Peyton.

Coleman's collaborators over the years have included guitarist Elliott Sharp, trumpeter Dave Douglas, accordion player Guy Klucevsek, composer David Shea, former Captain Beefheart bandmember Gary Lucas, classical and Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist Greg Cohen, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Roy Nathanson.

Coleman's own compositions and solo work reflect his interest and exploration of his Jewish background and Jewish musics. His groups Sephardic Tinge and Selfhaters in the '90s explored both the lively, rich and exuberant musical legacy as well as darkly described the lamentation of a minority culture in Diaspora.

Sephardic Tinge have toured extensively all over the world and Europe three times.

Coleman's ''Disco by Night'' is a work inspired by his visit to his family's homeland of Yugoslavia and was his first major solo record released by Japan's Avant label in 1992.''Shmutsige Magnaten'', in which he played the songs of Yiddish folk composer Mordechai Gebirtig, a victim of the Holocaust was also released by Tzadik Records in 2006. It was recorded live at midnight in the oldest synagogue of Krakow, Poland, a few steps away from Gebirtig's birthplace during the annual Krakow Jewish Music Festival in 2005.

His duo albums, ''The Coming Great Millennium'', ''Lobster & Friend'' and ''I Could've Been A Drum'' with Roy Nathanson, mostly explore the fun, frivolous and joyous alongside the nostalgic hearts and minds of Jews in modern and old America. These recordings typify Coleman's "free" playing style as well as his multi-instrumental capabilities with him also operating samplers, trombones, percussion as well as piano and voice. Coleman and Nathanson have performed all over the U.S. and Europe.

Coleman is also an accomplished composer with many works being commissioned by numerous ensembles including the 2006 work ''Pushy Blueness'' which was released on Tzadik Records.

Other activities

Coleman has degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and the Yale School of Music and attended Mauricio Kagel's seminar at Centre Acanthes in Aix-en-Provence, France.

He has received grants and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Djerassi Colony, the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Frei und Hansestadt Hamburg Kulturbehörde and the Yellow Springs Arts Center.

Coleman spent the spring semester of 2003 teaching theory and composition at Bennington College in Vermont.

In 2004 he was the subject of a three-day festival, ''Abstract Adventures'', in Brussels, Belgium.

Coleman writes articles for internet avant-garde jazz review and discussion websites AllAboutJazz.com and BOMB Magazine and was contributor to John Zorn's avant-garde essay collection ''Arcana: Musicians On Music'' in 2000.

Films

In the mid 90s Coleman was filmed, interviewed and acted for Claudia Heuermann's documentary film ''Sabbath In Paradise'' about the explosion of new Jewish music in the avant-garde downtown scene in New York at the time. This was followed by another Heuermann documentary about John Zorn ''A Bookshelf On Top Of The Sky'' and then a short recapping follow-up of ''Sabbath'' with the 2006 documentary ''Following Eden''. In 2005 Coleman was interviewed for the French Marc Ribot documentary ''The Lost String'', directed by Anais Prosaic.

Selected discography

''Secret Curve'' (2011) Tzadik

''Freakish'' (2009) Tzadik

''Pushy Blueness'' (2006) Tzadik

''Shmutsige Magnaten'' (2006) Tzadik

''Our Beautiful Garden Is Open (2002) Tzadik

''The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same'' (1998) Tzadik

''Morenica'' (1998) Tzadik

''I Could've Been A Drum'' (1997) Tzadik

''Selfhaters'' (1996) Tzadik

''Sephardic Tinge'' (1995) Tzadik

''Lobster & Friend'' (1993) Knitting Factory Works

''The Coming Great Millennium'' (1992) Knitting Factory Works

''Disco by Night'' (1992) Avant

''Back To The Future'' (2005) Ictus

''With Every Breath: The Music Of Shabbat At BJ'' (1999) Knitting Factory Works

''Music For Children'' (1998) Tzadik

''New Traditions In East Asian Bar Bands'' (1997)

''Duras: Duchamp'' (1997) Tzadik

''Shoe String Symphonettes'' (1997) Tzadik

''Bar Kokhba'' (1996) Tzadik

''Kristallnacht'' (1994) Tzadik / Eva

''Camp Stories'' (1994) Knitting Factory Works

''Spillane'' (1988) Tzadik / Nonesuch

''The Big Gundown'' (1986) Tzadik / Nonesuch

''Cobra'' (1987) Hat Hut

''Archery'' (1980) Tzadik / Parachute

Filmography

''Following Eden'' (2006) as himself

''The Lost String'' (2005) as himself

''A Bookshelf On Top Of The Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn'' (1999) as himself

''Sabbath In Paradise'' (1997) as himself

Compositions

''Latvian Counter-Gambit, for chamber orchestra''

''Mise en Abime''

''Goodbye and Good Luck''

''Dancers/Meet The Composer''

References

External links

All About Jazz: "Ambiguity Is A Richness", an article by Coleman

New Music Box an article by Coleman

Discography (1998)

Anthony Coleman Interview at allaboutjazz.com

Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:American pianists Category:Jewish American musicians Category:American composers Category:Tzadik Records artists

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