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WNYC / WNYC-FM

City of license	New York City
Broadcast area	New York City metropolitan area
Branding	WNYC 93.9 FM/820 AM- WQXR 105.9 FM
Frequency	WNYC: 820 kHz WNYC-FM: 93.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) 93.9-2 FM: WQXR-FM simulcast 93.9-3 FM: WNYC (AM) simulcast
First air date	WNYC: July 8, 1924 WNYC-FM: March 13, 1943
Format	Public Radio
ERP	WNYC: 10,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) WNYC-FM: 5,400 watts
HAAT	WNYC: 102.6 meters (337 ft) WNYC-FM: 432 meters (1,417 ft)
Class	WNYC: B WNYC-FM: B
Facility ID	WNYC: 73357 WNYC-FM: 73355
Transmitter coordinates	WNYC: 40°45′10.00″N 74°06′15.00″W / 40.75278°N 74.10417°W / 40.75278; -74.10417 WNYC-FM: 40°44′55″N 73°59′08″W / 40.74861°N 73.98558°W / 40.74861; -73.98558
Callsign meaning	W New York City
Affiliations	NPR
Owner	New York Public Radio
Sister stations	WQXR-FM New Jersey Public Radio
Webcast	WNYC (AM) Webstream WNYC-FM Webstream
Website	wnyc.org

WNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations 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 NPR and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs. The stations are known for their nationally syndicated news and culture programming and 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,^[1] and WNYC-FM's transmitter is located on the Empire State Building in New York City.^[2]

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[link]

Early years[link]

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia on his Talk to the People program on WNYC.

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[link]

WNYC's transmitter was moved in 1937 from the top of the Municipal Building to City-owned land at 10 Kent Street 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 (it actually broadcast until 11:00 pm, which was 10:00 pm in Minneapolis, for many of those 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, to protect WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas, which is much farther from New York City than Minneapolis. The Brooklyn transmitters ceased operation, and the AM side moved to Belleville Turnpike in Kearny, New Jersey, sharing space on three towers of WMCA. [1]

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 lending 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[link]

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 Manhattan Municipal Building, WNYC's home from 1922 to 2008.

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[link]

On June 16, 2008 WNYC moved from its 51,400 square feet (4,780 m²) 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 12-foot (4 m) ceilings and 71,900 square feet (6,680 m²) 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.^[3]

Acquisition of WQXR[link]

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.^[4] 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[link]

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.^[5]

Programming[link]

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.^[6]

WNYC broadcasts the major daily news programs produced by NPR, 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 pm It eliminated much of its weekday classical music programming in 2001,^[7] following the advice of consultants^[8] 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^[9]

Listenership and new media[link]

Combined, the WNYC stations and WQXR-FM is the most-listened-to commercial or non-commercial radio station in the borough of Manhattan.^{[citation needed]} 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[link]

• WPXN-TV (channel 31, formerly WNYC-TV)
• Media of New York City

References[link]

External links[link]

• WNYC website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNYC
• Radio-Locator information on WNYC
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WNYC
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WNYC
• Radio-Locator Information on WNYC
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WNYC
• 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 80th Anniversary Timeline (2004)
• WNYC Archives and Preservation Landing Page
• Porter Anderson announces Challenge Grant for WQXR's Q2 Music

Laura Marling
Performing at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, in November 2009.
Background information
Born	(1990-02-01) 1 February 1990 (age 22)
Origin	Eversley, Hampshire, England
Genres	Contemporary folk, folk rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass, piano
Years active	2006–present
Labels	WayOutWest, Virgin
Associated acts	Noah and the Whale, The Rakes, Mystery Jets, Johnny Flynn, Mumford & Sons
Website	LauraMarling.com

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 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.

Biography[link]

Marling was born in Hampshire, England, the youngest of three daughters of a music teacher,^[1] and learned guitar at an early age. Her father, who ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music and shaped her musical taste. This was "a bit of a blessing and a bit of a curse. I couldn’t slot myself into the age-appropriate genre", she later remembered.^[2] Marling was educated at Leighton Park School, a private Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire.^[3] She has said that during this time she felt uneasy around other people and had a fear of death.^[4]

At the age of 16 Marling moved to London, where she soon became part of a cluster of intertwined bands drawn to acoustic instruments and tradition-tinged melodies which formed a movement labelled "nu-folk" by the British press.^[2] She became part of the original line-up of indie folk band Noah and the Whale and was romantically linked with singer/guitarist Charlie Fink.^[3][5] She is featured as a background vocalist on their début 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.^[5][6] 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. Previously, Marling was in a relationship with Marcus Mumford; they broke up around Christmas 2010, but are reportedly still friends.^[7]

[edit] 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,^[8] and later nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize.^[9] 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".^[10]

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.^[11][12]

[edit] 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."^[13] The album is preceded by the singles "Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)", released on iTunes in December 2009^[14] 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.

[edit] 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 the album was released on 12 September 2011.^[15]

Discography[link]

• 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 studio version) and "Such a Shame" (which is neither for sale nor available on YouTube).

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Laura Marling

• Official Website

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

Career[link]

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] Gilden is also the subject of Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden, a documentary produced in 2007.^[4] He has also photographed rural Ireland and horseracing there, as well as voodoo rituals in Haiti.

Awards[link]

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• 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[link]

• The Small Haiti Portfolio (Limited Edition), Helsinki, Finland (1990)
• Facing New York, Cornerhouse Publications, UK (1992) ISBN 978-0-948797-07-1
• 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 978-1-899235-17-9
• Ciganos, Centro Portuguès de Fotografia, Lisbon, Portugal (1999)
• Haiti, Dewi Lewis Publishing and Editions Marval, UK & France (1999) ISBN 978-1-899235-55-1
• Go, Trebruk-Magnum, USA (2000)
• Coney Island, Trebruk, UK (2002) ISBN 978-0-9538901-2-5
• New York City (2004)
• A Beautiful Catastrophe, Powerhouse, USA (2005) ISBN 978-1-57687-238-3
• Magnum Stories (2005)
• Fashion Magazine, Magnum Photos, France (2006) ISBN 978-1-933045-43-6

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bruce Gilden's blog
• Bruce Gilden at the Internet Movie Database
• Magnum Photos Gilden profile
• WNYC Street Shots: Bruce Gilden on Video
• National Public Radio interview with Gilden
• Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

Matt Taibbi
Born	Matthew C. Taibbi (1970-03-02) March 2, 1970 (age 42)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Journalist, political writer, columnist
Relatives	Mike Taibbi (father)

Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi (pronounced /taɪˈiːbi/; born March 2, 1970) is an American author and journalist reporting on politics, media, finance, and sports for Rolling Stone and Men's Journal, often in a polemical style.^[1] He has also edited and written for The eXile, the New York Press, and The Beast.

Early years[link]

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 in Russia. His father is Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter.

Career[link]

Taibbi joined 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."^{[citation needed]} 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 more than 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."^[2][3][4] "I have since learned that there would not have been an opportunity for me to stay anyway," Taibbi later wrote.^[5]

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 website. 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.^[6]

His July 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine" 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."^[1][7]

Tackling the assistance to banks given in foreclosure courts, Taibbi traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to observe the "rocket docket" to process foreclosures without regard to the legality of the financial instruments being ruled upon, speeding-up the process to enable quick resale of the properties while obscuring the fraudulent and predatory nature of the loans, and a reluctance to allow public observance of the court proceedings.^[8] "Invasion of the Home Snatchers" was published in the November 25, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone.

Taibbi was also featured in Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura on an episode regarding Wall Street and its role in the 2008 financial collapse.

Taibbi covered the 2008 presidential campaign for Real Time with Bill Maher,^[9] and he has made several guest appearances on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show^[10] to discuss the 2009 economic crisis. He also appears on Democracy Now!^[11] and serves as a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.^[12] Taibbi is an occasional guest on the Thom Hartmann radio and TV shows.

Sports journalism[link]

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

Awards[link]

In 2008, Taibbi was awarded the National Magazine Award in the category "Columns and Commentary" for his Rolling Stone columns.^[13]

Controversy and confrontation[link]

In March 2001, as editor of the magazine The eXile, 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.^[14]

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.^[15][16] 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."^[17]

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."^[18] Taibbi later said the incident was "an aberration from how I've behaved in the last six or seven years."^[19]

On March 1st, 2011, Taibbi wrote an article for his blog,associated with Rolling Stone, titled "Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche". Taibbi was criticized for his blunt opinion of Breitbart, especially considering it was posted extremely soon after Mr. Breitbart's death.

Bibliography[link]

• 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.^[20]

• 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.

• Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season, (ISBN 978-0307345714). Published by Three Rivers Press (August 22, 2006).

References[link]

External links[link]

• 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
• Matt Taibbi at the Internet Movie Database

Selected works[link]

• 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"
• "Invasion of the Home Snatchers"

Interviews[link]

• "Looting Main Street" video by Democracy Now!
• 23 April 2011, 25 April 2010, 9 July 2009, 14 April 2005 interviews on Behind the News with Doug Henwood

Biographical works[link]

• 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

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.^[1] 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[link]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Sephardic Tinge have toured extensively all over the world and Europe three times.^[1]

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.^[1]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.^[1] 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.^[4]

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.^[1]

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[link]

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.^[3]

He has received grants and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Djerassi Colony, the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Kulturbehörde and the Yellow Springs Arts Center.^[3]

Coleman spent the spring semester of 2003 teaching theory and composition at Bennington College in Vermont.^[3]

In 2004 he was the subject of a three-day festival, Abstract Adventures, in Brussels, Belgium.^[3]

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[link]

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.^[5]

Selected discography[link]

• 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[link]

• 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[link]

• Latvian Counter-Gambit, for chamber orchestra
• Mise en Abime
• Goodbye and Good Luck
• Dancers/Meet The Composer

References[link]

External links[link]

• 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