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Charles Barsotti
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Charles David Saxon (November 13, 1920-December 6, 1988) was an American cartoonist.
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Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His works include Being John Malkovich; Human Nature; Adaptation.; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; and Synecdoche, New York. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Eternal Sunshine.
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Creflo Dollar
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David Remnick
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the Washington Post, he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book . He has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He has edited several collections of writings from The New Yorker and in 1999, he was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age. Mr. Remnick is also on the New York Public Library's board of trustees.
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Edward Benjamin "Ed" Koren (born 1935) is a writer and illustrator of children's books and political cartoons, most notably in The New Yorker.
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Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English theatre and film actor.
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American author who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. Her book ''The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, is a National Historic Landmark and open to the public as a museum.
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Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations.
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George W. Bush
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Haruki Murakami
is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore.
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Helen E. Hokinson
Helen Elna Hokinson (June 29, 1893 – November 1, 1949) was an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Over a 20-year span, she contributed 68 covers and more than 1,800 cartoons to The New Yorker.
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Irwin Shaw
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James Thurber
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
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John Cheever
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. Sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs," his fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Five-Forty-Eight," "The Country Husband," and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote a number of novels, such as The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), and Falconer (1977).
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John Hersey
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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John McCain
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John McNulty
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John O'Hara
'''John Henry O'Hara' (January 31, 1905–April 11, 1970) was an American writer born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He initially became known for his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist whose works include Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8''. He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue. O'Hara was a keen observer of social status and class differences, and wrote frequently about the socially ambitious.
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John Seabrook
John Seabrook is an American journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He is widely known as host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009, he published a work of nonfiction entitled Eating Animals.
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Lee Lorenz
Lee Lorenz (born 1933) is an American cartoonist, most notable for his work in The New Yorker. Lorenz is an alumnus of Carnegie Tech and the Pratt Institute. His first published cartoon appeared in 1956, and he began working for The New Yorker as a commissioned artist from 1958 onwards.
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Leo Cullum
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Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She attended the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia High School.
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Marlon Brando
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Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.
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Michael Romanoff
Michael Romanoff (born Hershel Geguzin) was a Hollywood restaurateur and actor born 20 February 1890 in Lithuania. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, on 1 September 1971. He is perhaps best known as the owner of '''Romanoff's''', a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with Hollywood stars in the 1940s and 1950s. The restaurant closed on New Year's Eve in 1962.
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Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian.
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Osama Bin Laden
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Otto Soglow
Otto Soglow (December 23, 1900 in Yorkville, Manhattan -April 3, 1975 in New York City) was a Jewish-American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Little King.
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Pat Byrnes
Pat Byrnes is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Monkeyhouse, which ran for three years. He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 2001, with an additional nomination for 2000, and nominations for their Gag Cartoon Award for 1999 and 2000.
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Peter Arno
Peter Arno (January 8, 1904 – February 22, 1968) was a U.S. cartoonist.
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award, and became a major celebrity with the publication, in 1969, of the controversial ''Portnoy's Complaint'', the humorous psychoanalytical monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," filled with "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language."
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Rea Irvin
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Richard Decker
Richard Decker (born 1907), a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art and became famous for his cartoons published in The New Yorker.
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Rick Meyerowitz
Rick Meyerowitz (born November 29, 1943, The Bronx, NY) is an American artist. He started drawing during his childhood and attended art school at Boston University. Meyerowitz was a frequent contributor to National Lampoon magazine; his notable artwork for it included the 'Mona Gorilla' (the Mona Lisa as a gorilla) and the widely recognized poster for the movie Animal House. His book about National Lampoon artists and writers, called Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great, was published by Abrams in the fall of 2010.
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Ricky Jay
Richard Jay Potash (born 1948), better known by the stage name Ricky Jay, is an American stage magician, actor, and writer. He is a sleight-of-hand expert and is notable for his card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter.
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Roald Dahl
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Robert Mankoff
Robert Mankoff is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for 20 years.
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Roger Angell
Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920), has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He has written many memorable essays on baseball as well as numerous fiction, non-fiction, and criticism pieces, and formerly wrote an annual Christmas poem for the magazine.
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Roz Chast
Rosalind "Roz" Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an [[United States|American] [cartoonist] and a staff cartoonist for [The New Yorker]. She grew up in the [Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush] section of [Brooklyn], the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and [The Village Voice]. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in [Scientific American] and the [Harvard Business Review].
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Sally Benson
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Sam Cobean
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Sarah Palin
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Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.
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Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment block on Manhattan's Upper West Side (but shot mainly in Los Angeles), the show features a host of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, including George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer. Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and distributed in association with Columbia Pictures Television and Columbia TriStar Television; Sony Pictures Television has distributed the series since 2002. It was largely co-written by David and Seinfeld with input from numerous script writers, including Larry Charles, Peter Mehlman, Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Carol Leifer, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Steve Koren, Jennifer Crittenden, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Charlie Rubin, Alec Berg, and Spike Feresten.
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St. Clair McKelway
St. Clair McKelway (February 13, 1905 - January 10, 1980) was a writer and editor for The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1933. He was brought up in Washington D.C., and began his journalistic career as an office boy at the Washington Herald. While working at the New York Herald Tribune, he was described by Stanley Walker as, "One of the twelve best reporters in New York." He served as a managing editor for journalistic contributions at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1939, after which he was a staff writer. During World War II, he held public relations posts for the Army Air Force, leaving the service with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
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Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( or born on May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.
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Tad Friend
Tad Friend is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His current focus of coverage is the entertainment industry, and he often writes the "Letter from California" for The New Yorker. His memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, was published by Little, Brown in September 2009.
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The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publishers, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. The current editors are founder William Kristol, and Fred Barnes. Other frequent contributors include Christopher Hitchens, P.J. O'Rourke, Charles Krauthammer, David Frum, Stephen Schwartz, Matt Labash, and Stephen F. Hayes.
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Tina Brown
Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, United Kingdom) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984. At the age of 25 then, she had been the editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine, and rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of the magazines Vanity Fair from 1984 to 1992 and of The New Yorker from 1992 to 1998. In 2000 she was awarded the C.B.E (Commander of the British Empire) for her services to overseas journalism and in 2007 was inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. As an editor, she has also been honored with four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club awards, and ten National Magazine Awards. In October 2008 she partnered with Barry Diller, chairman of IAC to found and edit The Daily Beast.
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Truman Capote
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Ved Mehta
Ved Parkash Mehta (Born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis. Because of the limited prospects for blind people in general, his father, a doctor, sent him over 1,300 miles away to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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William Shawn
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William Steig
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Introducing the New Yorker iPad App
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- Published: 24 Sep 2010
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Jason Schwartzman demonstrates The New Yorker's new app. www.newyorker.com
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Clay Marzo - The New Yorker
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- Published: 07 Jul 2012
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
"Brah, Gino's Pizza, its gotta be good it's the same name as my dad". - Clay Clay went to NY to compete in the Quikie Pro trials . Clay isn't that fond of big city's, and avoided driving into the city to be filmed walking around little Italy like his sponsors were trying to force him to do. The food and waves in Long Beach were all Clay needed to feel right at home. The water was even trunkable, well for Clay at least due as Aspergers gives him a larger tolerance to pain and extreme temperatures. Clay and I met some really great people on this trip. A big shout out to Mother Mary and Ohana, (Ballsacks mum) for taking care of us as if we were her own. Also a big thank you to Anthony Salerno for the sharing his local knowledge and helping us find uncrowded perfect surf and the best damn underground Deli's and returaunts in Long Beach. Anthony was living in his hurricane flooded house and taking care of his family while still finding time to take us in like family. Much Mahalos Presented by Westside Pride Media Surfing by Clay Marzo Shot by Adam Klevin (additional footage: Jamie Tierney) Edit by Shaun Swink Music: Looney Bin - "Supa Nova Over", "Chapter 2 Life" www.facebook.com Sage Maestro - "The Void" www.soundcloud.com www.reverbnation.com
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Daphne Guinness At Home
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- Published: 20 Sep 2011
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Daphne Guinness gives an unorthodox tour of her New York City apartment.
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Improv Everywhere - Star Wars Subway Car
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 14 Jul 2010
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
More info: improveverywhere.com Facebook page: facebook.com For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car. Produced and Created by Charlie Todd improveverywhere.com Produced and Edited by Matt Adams www.mattadamsapple.com Music by Tyler Walker tylerwalkermusic.com This is one of over 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed since 2001 in New York City. Others include the Frozen Grand Central, the Food Court Musical, and the famous No Pants Subway Ride, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made. http Be the first to find out about the next video we create by subscribing to our YouTube channel: youtube.com RSS feed: www.improveverywhere.com You can also join our Facebook group: facebook.com Or follow us on twitter: twitter.com Buy the Improv Everywhere book: www.amazon.com
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Regina Spektor - The New Yorker Festival Interview Pt 1
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- Duration: 11:55
- Published: 04 Oct 2010
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Regina chats with Michael Specter at the New Yorker Festival on Oct 2, 2010. www.reginaspektor.org
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New Yorker - Free Drinks and Animal Analysis
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- Published: 02 Apr 2011
- Updated: 24 Feb 2012
Go to www.babelgum.com to see all the new cartoons!. Nude on a plane What animals are thinking. by Leo Cullum and Jack Ziegler
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New Yorker - Curfew, Confusing Competition and A Regular Thing
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- Published: 15 Feb 2011
- Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Go to www.babelgum.com to see all the new cartoons!. Their son made it home on time. A peculiar competition. The First Thanksgiving.
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If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent
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- Published: 16 Nov 2008
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers
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Kelefa Sanneh Interviews Michael Savage for Article in The New Yorker on Sale August 3rd - (7/27/09)
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- Published: 28 Jul 2009
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
Kelefa Sanneh Interviews Michael Savage for Article in The New Yorker on Sale August 3rd - (7/27/09)
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The Moth and the World Science Festival Present Andy Borowitz: An Unexpected Twist
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- Duration: 18:09
- Published: 13 Oct 2011
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
A man navigates the medical system with humor. Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears in The New Yorker and at his satirical website, BorowitzReport.com, which has millions of readers around the world. He became the principal host of The Moth in 1999. He is the editor of a new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor From Mark Twain to The Onion. For more information, go to www.BorowitzReport.com.
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New Yorker - The Big Guy, Sausage Fest, Par 1 and Only You
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- Published: 27 Dec 2010
- Updated: 30 Mar 2012
Go to www.babelgum.com to see all the new cartoons! Free iPhone app: www.ringtales.com By Bob Mankoff, Alex Gregory and Leo Cullum. St. Peter describes God. A hot dog vendor discovers what sells. Golf: the early years. Smokey the Hungry Bear.
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New Yorker - Beer Pitcher, Best Birthday Ever, Ripped Ranger and Thanksgiving Tradition
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- Published: 20 Nov 2010
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Go to www.babelgum.com to see all the new cartoons! Free iPhone app: www.ringtales.com by Leo Cullum, Charles Barsotti, Danny Shanahan and John Jonik
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New Yorker - Transformer For Grownups, April Showers and Penalties and Interest Will Apply
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- Published: 18 Apr 2011
- Updated: 02 Apr 2012
Go to www.babelgum.com to see all the new cartoons!. "And if she doesn't file?" By Charles Barsotti, Mick Stevens and Danny Shanahan.
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New Yorker - Collection of Dog Cartoons Vol. 1
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- Published: 21 Mar 2009
- Updated: 13 Sep 2012
Free iPhone app: www.ringtales.com by Sam Gross, Peter Steiner, Jack Ziegler, Alex Gregory and Leo Cullum. RingTales presents an Animated New Yorker Cartoon. A collection of The New Yorker's Best Dog Cartoons.
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New Yorker - 12 Step Programmer, Buzz Management, Imperfect Union and Mommy's Little Hack
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- Published: 29 Apr 2011
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Email support group. Coffee buzz leads to Martini buzz. How the 4th of July was chosen. Child architect has a crisis. by David Sipress, Leo Cullum, Peter Steiner and Bruce Eric Kaplan
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The Daily Show Writers - Is Obama Funny? (Paley Center, 2008)
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- Duration: 4:30
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Moderator David Remnick (editor, The New Yorker) asks Daily Show writers Rory Albanese, DJ Javerbaum, JR Havlan, Steve Bodow, and Jason Ross how they will satirize Barack Obama. Daily Show correspondents John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac wonder if Barack Obama can be funny. For more information on this event, please visit www.paleycenter.org ABOUT THE PALEY CENTER: In an era of rapid change in media and technology, the not-for-profit Paley Center for Media explores the evolving ways in which we create, consume, and connect through media. With locations in New York and Los Angeles, and the foremost public archive of television and radio programming, the Paley Center produces and curates programs, forums, and educational activities that engage the general public, industry professionals, and the creative community in an ongoing conversation about the impact of media on our lives. The Paley Center for Media is a hub of innovation and connection for entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers with its finger on the pulse of the next big thing in media. Go to www.paleycenter.org to learn more.
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Chairgate: will the feds investigate the new yorker
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- Published: 07 Oct 2012
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
www.huffingtonpost.com
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FRONTLINE | Doctor Hotspot (full report) | PBS
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- Published: 03 Aug 2011
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
www.pbs.org New Yorker writer and FRONTLINE correspondent Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, NJ, who actually seeks out the community's sickest — and most expensive — patients. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner is a local physician who some believe might have the model to solve one of America's most intractable problems: lowering the cost of health care. While analyzing medical billing data in Camden, NJ, he mapped out "hot spots" of the impoverished city's high-cost patients. By targeting unique care -- including home visits and social workers -- at the city's most costly patients, he developed a program that he argues has both lowered health care costs and provided better care in Camden. But can his model work for the rest of the nation? Dr. Brenner's organization, the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (www.camdenhealth.org and other similar models were the subject of a January 2011 feature in The New Yorker by journalist and physician Dr. Atul Gawande (www.newyorker.com Watch more than 100 full FRONTLINE episodes at pbs.org
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New Yorker - Duck-to-Door Preaching, Miracle Off Ice and Handy Mantis
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- Published: 10 May 2011
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
RingTales presents The Animated New Yorker Cartoons. by Matthew Diffee, Sam Gross and Joe Dator. Jehovah's Ducks. A penguin can fly. Death after sex, except after shelves.
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"Edge of Glory" PS22 Chorus @ New Yorker For New York Gala (Soundcheck)
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- Published: 24 Aug 2012
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
ps22chorus.blogspot.com http twitter.com Here's a pretty amazing performance of "Edge of Glory" by Lady Gaga that was performed at the soundcheck for the New Yorker for New York Gala back in February! Although the kids were only warming up without an audience, we felt this performance was so good that it finally deserved one! So here are Kiarah and the chorus at the top of their game!
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ODYSSEY Native New Yorker
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- Published: 01 Apr 2009
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Rest in peace to Lillian Lopez Callazo-Jackson. She died Sept.4th, 2012 of Stage 4 cancer.Lillian is singing lead on Native New Yorker. A CLASSIC SONG MIX OF POP, R&B, DISCO, SWING, JAZZ.ONE OF THE BEST NEW YORK SONGS. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE OVER 700000 VIEWS. Odyssey was a New York based dance music band. It grew out of the talent of the Virgin Islands born Lopez sisters: Lillian Lopez (born 16 November 1945), Louise Lopez (born 22 February 1943), and Carmen Lopez who later dropped out of the group.Tony Reynolds was added, at which point the band became known as Odyssey. The group was best known for its December 1977 hit "Native New Yorker", which reached #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was later covered by Frankie Valli. Although a string of albums and singles followed, the group managed only one other R&B chart smash, the Slave produced "Inside Out", written by Jesse Rae, which peaked at #12 in 1982. Reynolds, for unknown reasons, left after the first album and was replaced by Fayetteville, North Carolina native William "Bill" McEachern, who remained with the group throughout the remainder of its RCA record label output. Tony Reynolds passed away on February 4,2010 while residing in his home in Jamaica, Queens, New York. In the United Kingdom, the band with its gentle Caribbean style had more success, totalling five Top Ten hits between 1977 and 1982. One of them, "Use It Up and Wear It Out", reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in 1980 <b>...</b>
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Arrested Development New Season and Movie Confirmed!
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- Published: 03 Oct 2011
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development, confirms that a new season of the show and a movie is coming! This was filmed at the New Yorker Festival where the entire principle cast had a reunion.
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Native New Yorker - Odyssey (1977)
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- Published: 19 Mar 2011
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Native New Yorker is a song written by Sandy Linzer & Denny Randell & was a 1977 hit single for the dance band Odyssey, which reached number five on the UK charts. In the US, the song went to number three on the disco chart. Native New Yorker also went to number six on the soul chart & number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also recorded by Frankie Valli in 1977, Esther Phillips in 1978 & Black Box in 1998. The song was later sampled by Rich Cronin's band Loose Cannons for their song New York City Girls.
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![Red-tailed hawk in Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A free season of events (Summer on the Hudson) takes place throughout Riverside Park between May and October and hosts dozens of fun events for all including movies, concerts, and children's shows.](http://web.archive.org./web/20121008042631im_/http://cdn9.wn.com/pd/a8/d5/bfed12a4c5354bca74eb962b3838_small.jpg "Red-tailed hawk in Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A free season of events (Summer on the Hudson) takes place throughout Riverside Park between May and October and hosts dozens of fun events for all including movies, concerts, and children's shows.")
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US Coastguard / U.S. Coast Guard Photo/Petty Officer Seth Johnson![A walkway near the West Side Highway at around 108th Street. Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A bicycle/skating/scooter pathway, part of the Hudson River Green way, leads from 125th Street to 59th Street.](http://web.archive.org./web/20121008042631im_/http://cdn9.wn.com/pd/59/c0/adcee239b9939a0f14531bd9c68c_small.jpg "A walkway near the West Side Highway at around 108th Street. Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A bicycle/skating/scooter pathway, part of the Hudson River Green way, leads from 125th Street to 59th Street.")
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![Red-tailed hawk in Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A free season of events (Summer on the Hudson) takes place throughout Riverside Park between May and October and hosts dozens of fun events for all including movies, concerts, and children's shows.](http://web.archive.org./web/20121008042631/http://cdn3.wn.com/pd/a8/d5/bfed12a4c5354bca74eb962b3838_medium.jpg "Red-tailed hawk in Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A free season of events (Summer on the Hudson) takes place throughout Riverside Park between May and October and hosts dozens of fun events for all including movies, concerts, and children's shows.")
![A walkway near the West Side Highway at around 108th Street. Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A bicycle/skating/scooter pathway, part of the Hudson River Green way, leads from 125th Street to 59th Street.](http://web.archive.org./web/20121008042631/http://cdn3.wn.com/pd/59/c0/adcee239b9939a0f14531bd9c68c_medium.jpg "A walkway near the West Side Highway at around 108th Street. Riverside Park is enjoyed by New Yorkers and tourists of all ages.[6] A bicycle/skating/scooter pathway, part of the Hudson River Green way, leads from 125th Street to 59th Street.")
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America's longest war entered its 12th year Sunday, with the anniversary marked by a Taliban statement claiming that NATO forces are "fleeing Afghanistan" in "humiliation and disgrace". The US led the...
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It’s getting tiresome; every other month a Clásico is contested in some competition (La Liga? The Copa del Rey? The Champions League? The Supercopa de España?). At least that’s how it appears. Though...
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Manila: The Philippine government and Muslim rebels have agreed a peace deal for the country's troubled south, President Benigno Aquino announced on Sunday, signalling an end to a 40-year conflict...
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Protesters are appearing in court in the Greek capital Athens a day after a rally by shipyard workers against job cuts descended into violence. A line of blue police lorries flanked the courthouse as...
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Imran Khan says two-day convoy has been a success despite failing to reach intended destination Imran Khan addresses a peace rally in Tank. Photograph: A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images...
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AFP - A relieved Barack Obama basked Saturday in shock good news as unemployment dipped below eight percent to the lowest point of his presidency, stealing headlines from Mitt Romney's thumping debate...
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Print Email 2 October 2012 – Tanzania has made significant advances in cutting maternal deaths thanks to a United Nations-sponsored programme that brings public and private sectors together to...
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If Mitt Romney wins the Nov. 6 election, would he become our most religious president? It's an odd question, but one that has come up in recent days after writer Nicholas Lemann said as much in a that...
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If you can make it here, you can truly make it anywhere — and these five young New York City residents have made it through the blind audition stage of the hit reality singing competition on NBC's“The Voice.” This...(size: 1.4Kb)
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"The Receptionist," by Janet Groth (Algonquin Books) During the peak of the "Mad Men" era and beyond, Janet Groth spent over two decades — 1957 to 1978 — as a receptionist for The New Yorker, watching a parade of famous writers, poets, cartoonists and editors pass by her desk on the 18th floor of...(size: 2.6Kb)
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Posted: October 6, 2012 The New Yorker‘s new cover recalls Clint Eastwood’s strange “empty chair” RNC speech, summing up the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney accurately, and without a single word. The October 15, 2012 New...(size: 8.8Kb)
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are eating out at the same clip as recent years, but they're spending less in restaurants and ordering fewer take-out meals, according to the new Zagat restaurant survey. There were twice as many restaurant openings than closings in New York over the past year and...(size: 16.6Kb)
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| File:Original New Yorker cover.png First issue's cover with dandy Eustace Tilley, created by Rea Irvin. The image, or a variation of it, appears on the cover of The New Yorker with every anniversary issue. |
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| Editor | David Remnick |
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| Categories | Politics, social issues, art, humor, culture |
| 47 per year | |
| Total circulation (2011) |
1,035,579[1] |
| First issue | February 21, 1925 |
| Company | Condé Nast |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Website | www.newyorker.com |
| ISSN | 0028-792X |
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast. Starting as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans.
Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of New York. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers; its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana; its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews; its rigorous fact checking and copyediting; its journalism on politics and social issues; and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue.
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The New Yorker debuted on February 21, 1925. It was founded by Harold Ross and his wife, Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine different from perceivably 'corny' humor publications such as Judge, where he had worked, or Life. Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann to establish the F-R Publishing Company and established the magazine's first offices at 25 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Harold Ross famously declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: "It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque."[2]
Although the magazine never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a pre-eminent forum for serious fiction literature and journalism. Shortly after the end of World War II, John Hersey's essay Hiroshima filled an entire issue. In subsequent decades the magazine published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ann Beattie, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, John McNulty, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, John O'Hara, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and E. B. White. Publication of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" drew more mail than any other story in The New Yorker's history.
In its early decades, the magazine sometimes published two or even three short stories a week, but in recent years the pace has remained steady at one story per issue. While some styles and themes recur more often than others in New Yorker fiction, the magazine's stories are marked less by uniformity than by variety, and they have ranged from Updike's introspective domestic narratives to the surrealism of Donald Barthelme, and from parochial accounts of the lives of neurotic New Yorkers to stories set in a wide range of locations and eras and translated from many languages.[citation needed] Writers like Kurt Vonnegut said that The New Yorker has been an effective institution for getting a large audience through the learning process required for appreciating modern literature.[3]
The non-fiction feature articles (which usually make up the bulk of the magazine's content) cover an eclectic array of topics. Recent subjects have included eccentric evangelist Creflo Dollar, the different ways in which humans perceive the passage of time and Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
The magazine is notable for its editorial traditions. Under the rubric Profiles, it has long published articles about a range of notable people, from Ernest Hemingway, Henry R. Luce and Marlon Brando to Hollywood restaurateur Michael Romanoff, magician Ricky Jay and mathematicians David and Gregory Chudnovsky. Other enduring features have been "Goings on About Town," a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and "The Talk of the Town," a miscellany of brief pieces—frequently humorous, whimsical or eccentric vignettes of life in New York—written in a breezily light style, or feuilleton, although in recent years the section often begins with a serious commentary. For many years, newspaper snippets containing amusing errors, unintended meanings or badly mixed metaphors ("Block That Metaphor") have been used as filler items, accompanied by a witty retort. There is no masthead listing the editors and staff. And despite some changes, the magazine has kept much of its traditional appearance over the decades in typography, layout, covers and artwork. The magazine was acquired by Advance Publications, the media company owned by S.I. Newhouse, in 1985.
Ross was succeeded by William Shawn (1951–1987), followed by Robert Gottlieb (1987–1992) and Tina Brown (1992–1998). Brown's nearly six-year tenure attracted the most controversy, thanks to her high profile (a marked contrast to that of the retiring Shawn) and the changes she made to a magazine that had retained a similar look and feel for the previous half century. She introduced color to the editorial pages (several years before The New York Times also did so) and photography, with less type on each page and a generally more modern layout. More substantively, she increased the coverage of current events and hot topics such as celebrities and business tycoons and placed short pieces throughout "Goings on About Town", including a racy column about nightlife in Manhattan. A new letters-to-the-editor page and the addition of authors’ bylines to their "Talk of the Town" pieces had the effect of making the magazine more personal. The current editor of The New Yorker is David Remnick, who took over in 1998 from Brown.
Wrote Tom Wolfe about the magazine's style: "The New Yorker style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological and litotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine’s pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause and appository modifier."[4]
As far back as the 1940s the magazine's commitment to fact-checking was already well known.[5] Yet the magazine played a role in a literary scandal and defamation lawsuit over two articles by Janet Malcolm about Sigmund Freud's legacy, that appeared in the 1990s. Questions were raised about the magazine's fact-checking process.[6] As of 2010, The New Yorker employs 16 fact checkers.[7]In July, 2011, the magazine was sued for defamation in United States district court for a July 12, 2010 article written by David Grann.[8]
Since the late 1990s, The New Yorker has used the Internet to publish current and archived material. It maintains a website with some content from the current issue (plus exclusive web-only content). Subscribers have access to the full current issue online, as well as a complete archive of back issues viewable as they were originally printed. In addition, The New Yorker's cartoons are available for purchase online. A digital archive of back issues from 1925 to April 2008 (representing more than 4,000 issues and half a million pages) has also been issued on DVD-ROMs and on a small portable hard drive. More recently, an iPad version of the current issue of the magazine has been released.
A New Yorker look-alike, Novy Ochevidets (The New Eyewitness), was launched in Russia in 2004. It folded in January 2005 after five months of circulation.
In its November 1, 2004 issue, the magazine for the first time endorsed a presidential candidate,[citation needed] choosing to endorse John Kerry over George W. Bush.[9] They continued this in 2008, endorsing Barack Obama over John McCain.[10]
Cartoons[link]
The New Yorker has featured cartoons (usually gag cartoons) since it began publication in 1925. The cartoon editor of The New Yorker for years was Lee Lorenz, who first began cartooning in 1956 and became a New Yorker contract contributor in 1958. After serving as the magazine's art editor from 1973 to 1993 (when he was replaced by Françoise Mouly), he continued in the position of cartoon editor until 1998. His book, The Art of the New Yorker: 1925–1995 (Knopf, 1995), was the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of the magazine's graphics. In 1998, Robert Mankoff took over as cartoon editor, and since then Mankoff has edited at least 14 collections of New Yorker cartoons.
The New Yorker's stable of cartoonists has included many important talents in American humor, including Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Charles Barsotti, George Booth, Roz Chast, Tom Cheney, Sam Cobean, Leo Cullum, Richard Decker, Helen E. Hokinson, Ed Koren, Mary Petty, George Price, Charles Saxon, David Snell, Otto Soglow, Saul Steinberg, William Steig, Richard Taylor, James Thurber, Barney Tobey and Gahan Wilson.
Many early New Yorker cartoonists did not caption their own cartoons. In his book The Years with Ross, Thurber describes the newspaper's weekly art meeting, where cartoons submitted over the previous week would be brought up from the mail room to be gone over by Ross, the editorial department and a number of staff writers. Cartoons would often be rejected or sent back to artists with requested amendments, while others would be accepted and captions written for them. Some artists hired their own writers; Helen Hokinson hired James Reid Parker in 1931. (Brendan Gill relates in his book Here at The New Yorker that at one point in the early 1940s, the quality of the artwork submitted to the magazine seemed to improve. It was later found out that the office boy (a teenaged Truman Capote) had been acting as a volunteer art editor, dropping pieces he didn't like down the far edge of his desk.)[11]
Several of the magazine's cartoons have climbed to a higher plateau of fame. One 1928 cartoon drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by E. B. White shows a mother telling her daughter, "It's broccoli, dear." The daughter responds, "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." Three years later, the Broadway musical Face the Music featured a musical number named "I Say It's Spinach".[12] The catchphrase "back to the drawing board" originated with the 1941 Peter Arno cartoon showing an engineer walking away from a crashed plane, saying, "Well, back to the old drawing board."[13][14]
The most reprinted is Peter Steiner's 1993 drawing of two dogs at a computer, with one saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". According to Mankoff, Steiner and the magazine have split more than $100,000 in fees paid for the licensing and reprinting of this single cartoon, with more than half going to Steiner.[15][16]
Over seven decades, many hardcover compilations of cartoons from The New Yorker have been published, and in 2004, Mankoff edited The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, a 656 page collection with 2004 of the magazine's best cartoons published during 80 years, plus a double CD set with all 68,647 cartoons ever published in the magazine. This features a search function allowing readers to search for cartoons by a cartoonist's name or by year of publication. The newer group of cartoonists in recent years includes Pat Byrnes, Frank Cotham, Michael Crawford, Joe Dator, Drew Dernavich, J.C. Duffy, Carolita Johnson, P.C. Vey, Zachary Kanin, Farley Katz, Glen Le Lievre, Michael Maslin, Ariel Molvig, Paul Noth, Barbara Smaller, David Sipress, Mick Stevens, Julia Suits, Christopher Weyant and Jack Ziegler. The notion that some New Yorker cartoons have punchlines so non sequitur that they are impossible to understand became a subplot in the Seinfeld episode "The Cartoon", as well as a playful jab in an episode of The Simpsons, "The Sweetest Apu".
In April 2005, the magazine began using the last page of each issue for "The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest." Captionless cartoons by The New Yorker's regular cartoonists are printed each week. Captions are submitted by readers, and three are chosen as finalists. Readers then vote on the winner, and any U.S. resident age 18 or older can vote. Each contest winner receives a print of the cartoon (with the winning caption), signed by the artist who drew the cartoon.
Films[link]
The New Yorker has been the source of a number of movies. Both fiction and non-fiction pieces have been adapted for the big screen, including: Flash of Genius (2008), based on a true account of the invention of the intermittent windshield wiper by John Seabrook; Away From Her, adapted from Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain", which debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; The Namesake (2007), similarly based on Jhumpa Lahiri's novel which originated as a short story in the magazine; The Bridge (2006), based on Tad Friend's 2003 non-fiction piece "Jumpers"; Brokeback Mountain (2005), an adaptation of the short story by Annie Proulx which first appeared in the October 13, 1997, issue of The New Yorker; Jonathan Safran Foer's 2001 debut in The New Yorker, which later came to theaters in Liev Schreiber's debut as both screenwriter and director, Everything is Illuminated (2005); Michael Cunningham's The Hours, which appeared in the pages of The New Yorker before becoming the film that garnered the 2002 Best Actress Academy Award for Nicole Kidman; Adaptation (2002), which Charlie Kaufman based on Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, written for The New Yorker; Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, which also appeared, in part, in The New Yorker in 1996 before its film adaptation was released in 1999; The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993), both inspired by the work of famed New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams; Brian De Palma's Casualties of War (1989), which began as a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang; Boys Don't Cry (1999), starring Hilary Swank, began as an article in the magazine, and Iris (2001), about the life of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, the article written by John Bayley for the New Yorker, before he completed his full memoir, the film starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent; The Swimmer (1968), starring Burt Lancaster, based on a John Cheever short story from The New Yorker; In Cold Blood (1967), the widely nominated adaptation of the 1965 non-fiction serial written for The New Yorker by Truman Capote; Pal Joey (1957), based on a series of stories by John O'Hara; Mister 880 (1980), starring Edmund Gwenn, based on a story by longtime editor St. Clair McKelway; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) which began as a story by longtime New Yorker contributor James Thurber; and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), adapted from Sally Benson's short stories.
The history of The New Yorker has also been portrayed in film: In Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, a film about the celebrated Algonquin Round Table starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker, Sam Robards portrays founding editor Harold Ross trying to drum up support for his fledgling publication. The magazine's former editor, William Shawn, is portrayed in Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006).
Style[link]
One uncommonly formal feature of the magazine's in-house style is the placement of diaeresis marks in words with repeating vowels—such as reëlected, preëminent and coöperate—in which the two vowel letters indicate separate vowel sounds. The magazine also continues to use a few spellings that are otherwise little used, such as "focusses", "venders", and "teen-ager".
The magazine does not put the titles of plays or books in italics but simply sets them off with quotation marks. When referring to other publications that include locations in their names, it uses italics only for the "non-location" portion of the name, such as the Los Angeles Times or the Chicago Tribune.
Formerly, when a word or phrase in quotation marks came at the end of a phrase or clause that ended with a semicolon, the semicolon would be put before the trailing quotation mark; now, however, the magazine follows the more commonly observed style and puts the semicolon after the second quotation mark.
The magazine also spells out the names of numbers, such as "twenty-five hundred" instead of "2500", even for very large figures. It also spells out professional sports leagues with periods, e.g. N.B.A.
The New Yorker's signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above The Talk of the Town section, is Irvin, named after its creator, the designer-illustrator Rea Irvin.[17]
The body text of all articles in The New Yorker is set in Adobe Caslon.[18]
Readership[link]
Notwithstanding its title, The New Yorker is read nationwide with 53% of its circulation in the top ten U.S. metropolitan areas. According to Mediamark Research Inc., the average age of the New Yorker reader in 2009 is 47 (compared to 43 in 1980 and 46 in 1990). The average household income of The New Yorker readers in 2009 is $109,877 (the average income in 1980 was $62,788 and the average income in 1990 was $70,233).[19]
Also according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, The New Yorker's renewal rate (the percentage of subscribers who renew their subscription each year) is 85%—one of the highest reported rates in the industry. Mediamark Research Inc. reported that readers spend, on average, 81 minutes each week reading The New Yorker.
Eustace Tilley[link]
The magazine's first cover illustration, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor, based on an 1834 caricature of the then Count d'Orsay which appeared as an illustration[20] in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The gentleman on the original cover, now referred to as "Eustace Tilley", is a character created by Corey Ford for The New Yorker. The hero of a series entitled "The Making of a Magazine", which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer, Tilley was a younger man than the figure on the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning coat and striped trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous. "Eustace" was selected for euphony, although Ford may have borrowed the name from Eustace Taylor, his fraternity brother from Delta Kappa Epsilon at Columbia College of Columbia University.
Tilley was always busy, and in illustrations by Johann Bull, always poised. He might be in Mexico, supervising the vast farms that grew the cactus for binding the magazine's pages together. The Punctuation Farm, where commas were grown in profusion, because Ross had developed a love of them, was naturally in a more fertile region. Tilley might be inspecting the Initial Department, where letters were sent to be capitalized. Or he might be superintending the Emphasis Department, where letters were placed in a vise and forced sideways, for the creation of italics. He would jump to the Sargasso Sea, where by insulting squids he got ink for the printing presses, which were powered by a horse turning a pole. It was told how in the great paper shortage of 1882 he had saved the magazine by getting society matrons to contribute their finery. Thereafter dresses were made at a special factory and girls employed to wear them out, after which the cloth was used for manufacturing paper. Raoul Fleischmann, who had moved into the offices to protect his venture with Ross, gathered the Tilley series into a promotion booklet. Later, Ross took a listing for Eustace Tilley in the Manhattan telephone directory.
The character has become a kind of mascot for The New Yorker, frequently appearing in its pages and on promotional materials. Traditionally, Rea Irvin's original Tilley cover illustration is reused every year on the issue closest to the anniversary date of February 21, though on several occasions a newly drawn variation has been substituted.
Covers[link]
"View of the World" cover[link]
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Saul Steinberg's "View of the World from Ninth Avenue" cover.
Saul Steinberg created 85 covers and 642 internal drawings and illustrations for the magazine. His most famous work is probably its March 29, 1976 cover,[21] an illustration titled "View of the World from 9th Avenue", sometimes referred to as "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World" or "A New Yorker's View of the World", which depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers.
The illustration is split in two, with the bottom half of the image showing Manhattan's 9th Avenue, 10th Avenue, and the Hudson River (appropriately labeled), and the top half depicting the rest of the world. The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing "Jersey", the names of five cities (Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Las Vegas; Kansas City; and Chicago) and three states (Texas, Utah, and Nebraska) scattered among a few rocks for the U.S. beyond New Jersey. The Pacific Ocean, perhaps half again as wide as the Hudson, separates the U.S. from three flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia.
The illustration—humorously depicting New Yorkers' self-image of their place in the world, or perhaps outsiders' view of New Yorkers' self-image—inspired many similar works, including the poster for the 1984 film Moscow on the Hudson; that movie poster led to a lawsuit, Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 663 F. Supp. 706 (S.D.N.Y. 1987), which held that Columbia Pictures violated the copyright that Steinberg held on his work.
The cover was later satirized by Barry Blitt for the cover of The New Yorker on October 6, 2008. The cover featured Sarah Palin looking out of her window seeing only Alaska and in the very background Russia.[22]
The March 21, 2009 cover of The Economist, "How China sees the World", is also an homage to the original image, but depicting the viewpoint from Beijing's Chang An street instead of Manhattan.[23]
9/11[link]
Hired by Tina Brown in 1992, Art Spiegelman worked for The New Yorker for ten years but resigned a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. The cover created by Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly for the September 24, 2001 issue of The New Yorker received wide acclaim and was voted in the top ten of magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors, which commented:
- New Yorker Covers Editor Françoise Mouly repositioned Art Spiegelman's silhouettes, inspired by Ad Reinhardt's black-on-black paintings, so that the North Tower's antenna breaks the "W" of the magazine's logo. Spiegelman wanted to see the emptiness, and find the awful/awe-filled image of all that disappeared the on 9/11. The silhouetted Twin Towers were printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four color printing inks. An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.
At first glance, the cover appears to be totally black, but upon close examination it reveals the silhouettes of the World Trade Center towers in a slightly darker shade of black. In some situations, the ghost images only become visible when the magazine is tilted toward a light source.[24] In September 2004, Spiegelman reprised the image on the cover of his book In the Shadow of No Towers, in which he relates his experience of the Twin Towers attack and the psychological after-effects.
"New Yorkistan"[link]
Main article: New Yorkistan
In the December 2001 issue the magazine printed a cover by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz showing a map of New York in which various neighborhoods were labeled with humorous names reminiscent of Middle Eastern and Central Asian place names and referencing the neighborhood's real name or characteristics (e.g. "Fuhgeddabouditstan", "Botoxia"). The cover had some cultural resonance in the wake of September 11 and became a popular print and poster.
Controversial covers[link]
Crown Heights in 1993[link]
For the 1993 Valentine's Day issue, the magazine printed a cover by Art Spiegelman depicting a black woman and a Hasidic Jewish man kissing, referencing the Crown Heights riot of 1991.[25][26] The cover was criticized by both black and Jewish observers.[27] Jack Salzman and Cornel West describe the reaction to the cover as the magazine's "first national controversy."[28]
2008 Obama cover satire and controversy[link]
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Barry Blitt's cover from the July 21, 2008 issue of The New Yorker
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"The Politics of Fear", a cartoon by Barry Blitt featured on the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue, depicts then presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in the turban and salwar kameez typical of many Muslims, fist bumping with his wife, Michelle, portrayed with an Afro and wearing camouflage trousers with an AK-47 assault rifle slung over her back. They are standing in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden hanging on the wall and an American flag burning in the fireplace in the background.[29]
Many New Yorker readers saw the image as a lampoon of "The Politics of Fear", as the image was titled. Some of Obama's supporters as well as his presumptive Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, accused the magazine of publishing an incendiary cartoon whose irony could be lost on some readers. The New Yorker's editor David Remnick said: "The intent of the cover is to satirize the vicious and racist attacks and rumors and misconceptions about the Obamas that have been floating around in the blogosphere and are reflected in public opinion polls. What we set out to do was to throw all these images together, which are all over the top and to shine a kind of harsh light on them, to satirize them,"[30] citing the excesses in the image to rebuff the concern that it could be misunderstood, even by those unfamiliar with the magazine.[31][32] In an interview on Larry King Live shortly after the magazine issue began circulating, Obama said "Well, I know it was The New Yorker's attempt at satire... I don't think they were entirely successful with it..." But Obama also pointed to his own efforts to debunk the allegations portrayed in The New Yorker cover through a web site his campaign set up: "[They are] actually an insult against Muslim-Americans, something that we don't spend a lot of time talking about.""[33][34]
Later that week, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart continued The New Yorker cover's argument about Obama stereotypes with a piece showcasing a montage of clips containing such stereotypes culled from various legitimate news sources.[35] The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008, cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed exclusively for the magazine in New York City on September 18.[36]
New Yorker covers are not always related to the contents of the magazine or are only tangentially so. In this case, the article in the July 21, 2008, issue about Obama did not discuss the attacks and rumors but rather Obama's political career to date. The New Yorker later endorsed Obama for president.
See also[link]
Books[link]
- Ross and the New Yorker by Dale Kramer (1951)
- The Years with Ross by James Thurber (1959)
- Ross, the New Yorker and Me by Jane Grant (1968)
- Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill (1975)
- About the New Yorker and Me by E.J. Kahn (1979)
- Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White by Linda H. Davis (1987)
- At Seventy: More about the New Yorker and Me by E.J. Kahn (1988)
- Katharine and E.B. White: An Affectionate Memoir by Isabel Russell (1988)
- The Last Days of The New Yorker by Gigi Mahon (1989)
- Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel (1997)
- Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and the New Yorker by Lillian Ross (1998)
- Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta (1998)
- Some Times in America: and a life in a year at the New Yorker by Alexander Chancellor (1999)
- The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury by Mary F. Corey (1999)
- About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagoda (2000)
- Covering the New Yorker: Cutting-Edge Covers from a Literary Institution by Françoise Mouly (2000)
- Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee (2000)
- Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker, by Renata Adler (2000)
- Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross edited by Thomas Kunkel (2000; letters covering the years 1917 to 1951)
- New Yorker Profiles 1925–1992: A Bibliography compiled by Gail Shivel (2000)
- NoBrow: The Culture of Marketing – the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook (2000)
- Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker by David Reminick and Henry Finder (2002)
- Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art (2003)
- A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford (2003)
- Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker by Angela Bourke (2004)
- Let Me Finish by Roger Angell (Harcourt, 2006)
Movies[link]
- Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker (Carousel Film and Video, 2001, 47 minutes)[37][38]
References[link]
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- ^ Kurt Vonnegut (1974) interview with Joe David Bellamy and John Casey, published in The New Fiction and in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut quote:
One thing we used to talk about – when I was out in Iowa – was that the limiting factor is the reader. No other art requires the audience to be a performer. You have to count on the reader's being a good performer, and you may write music which he absolutely can't perform – in which case it's a bust. Those writers you mentioned and myself are teaching an audience how to play this kind of music in their heads. It's a learning process, and The New Yorker has been a very good institution of the sort needed. They have a captive audience, and they come out every week, and people finally catch on to Barthelme, for instance, and are able to perform that sort of thing in their heads and enjoy it. I think the same is true of S. J. Perelman; I do not think that Perelman would be appreciated if suddenly his collected works were to be published now to be seen for the first time. It would be gibberish. A learning process is required to appreciate Perelman, although it's very easy to do once you learn how to do it. Yeah, I think the readers are coming along; that's a problem; I think writers have tried to do it always and have failed because there's been no audience for what they've done; nobody's performed their music.
- ^ Tom Wolfe, "Foreword: Murderous Gutter Journalism," in Hooking Up. Farrar Straus Giroux: New York. 2000.
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| Turn On the Bright Lights | ||||
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| Studio album by Interpol | ||||
| Released | August 19, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | November 2001 Tarquin Studios, Bridgeport, Connecticut[1] |
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| Genre | Post-punk revival | |||
| Length | 49:02 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer | Peter Katis, Gareth Jones | |||
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Turn On the Bright Lights is the debut studio album by American post-punk revival band Interpol, released in August 2002. The album was recorded in November 2001 at Tarquin Studios in Connecticut, and was co-produced, mixed and engineered by Peter Katis and Gareth Jones. It was released on August 19, 2002 in the United Kingdom and August 20 in the United States, through independent record label Matador Records. Upon release, the record peaked at number 101 on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number 158 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, as well as spending 73 weeks in the Billboard Independent Albums, peaking at number five.
"PDA," "NYC," "Obstacle 1" and "Say Hello to the Angels" were the singles from Turn On the Bright Lights, and a video was shot for each with the exception of "Say Hello to the Angels."
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on August 29, 2011 for shipments of 500,000 copies.[2]
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Promotion and release[link]
The release of Turn On the Bright Lights was preceded by the marketing of the band's self-titled Interpol EP in June 2002, their first release for Matador. The EP contained three tracks: radio single "PDA", future single "NYC", and "Specialist". All three tracks later appeared on the album, with "Specialist" included as a bonus track in Australian and Japanese editions. Further promotion continued at the beginning of the following year, when the band played the 2003 NME Awards Tour alongside The Datsuns, The Polyphonic Spree and The Thrills.[3]
Track listing[link]
All tracks written by Interpol.
- "Untitled" – 3:56
- "Obstacle 1" – 4:11
- "NYC" – 4:20
- "PDA" – 4:59
- "Say Hello to the Angels" – 4:28
- "Hands Away" – 3:05
- "Obstacle 2" – 3:47
- "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down" – 6:28
- "Roland" – 3:35
- "The New" – 6:07
- "Leif Erikson" – 4:00
Bonus tracks on Australian edition[link]
- "Specialist" – 6:39
Bonus tracks on Japanese edition[link]
Two different versions exist. One version has the following bonus tracks:
- "Interlude" – 1:02
- "Specialist" – 6:39
The other version has the following bonus tracks:
- "Hands Away" (Peel session)
- "Obstacle 2" (Peel session)
- "PDA" (video)
- "NYC" (video)
- "Obstacle 1" (video)
Bonus tracks on Mexican edition[link]
- "Interlude" – 1:02
- "Specialist" – 6:39
- "PDA" (video)
- "NYC" (video)
- "Obstacle 1" (video)
Critical reception[link]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [4] |
| Drowned in Sound | (9/10)[5] |
| NME | (8/10)[6] |
| Pitchfork Media | (9.5/10)[7] |
| PopMatters | (9/10)[8] |
| Q | [9] |
| Robert Christgau | C+[10] |
| Rolling Stone |  [11] |
Interpol's debut album gained so much critical success that not only was it hailed as one of best debuts of 2002, but is considered by some to be one of the best records of the decade. Turn On the Bright Lights made several critics' Top 10 lists of 2002.
- Thee-O – #1
- Michael Azerrad – #1
- Chris Baldwin – #10
- Greg Beets – #2
- Eric Broome – #8
- Dana Buoniconti – #5
- Nick Catucci – #6
- Paul Clements – #4
- Dave Clifford – #4
- Ethan Covey – #8
- Corey du Browa – #8
- Cyndi Elliott – #7
- Norm Elrod – #3
- John Elsasser – #7
The rest of the list is located at The Village Voice.
Awards[link]
- #1 – Pitchfork Media: Top 50 Albums of 2002
- #3 – Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of 2000–2004
- #20 – Pitchfork: Top 200 Albums of 2000s
- #5 – Stylus: Top 20 Albums of 2002
- #6 – Stylus: Top 50 Albums 2000–2005
- #13 – Stylus: Top 100 Albums of 2000s
- #10 – NME: Albums of 2002
- #8 – NME: Top Albums of the 00s
- #59 – Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the Decade
Personnel[link]
- Paul Banks – lead vocals, guitar
- Daniel Kessler – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Carlos D – bass, keyboards
- Samuel Fogarino – drums, percussion
Chart performance[link]
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| UK Albums Chart[12] | 101 |
| U.S. Billboard 200[13] | 158 |
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Independent Albums[13] | 5 |
Certifications[link]
| Region | Certification | Shipments |
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| United States (RIAA) | Gold[14] | 500,000 |
References[link]
- ^ "Matador Records - Interpol Biography". Matador Records official website. http://www.matadorrecords.com/interpol/biography.html. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database#
- ^ Kershaw, Richard (14 February 2003). "Review / Interpol @ Astoria, 9/02/03". Drowned in Sound. http://drownedinsound.com/gigs/658/reviews/6069-interpol-at-astoria-london-sun-09-feb. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ Kellman, Andy. "Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Frankowski, Andy (16 August 2002). "Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights". Drowned in Sound. http://drownedinsound.com/releases/3034/reviews/4605-. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Segal, Victoria (12 September 2005). "Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights". NME (IPC Media). ISSN 0028-6362. http://www.nme.com/reviews/interpol/6645. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Carr, Eric (18 August 2002). "Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights". Pitchfork Media. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/4113-turn-on-the-bright-lights/. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Powers, Devon (30 August 2002). "Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/i/interpol-turn.shtml. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Q: p. 137. August 2010. "5 Stars - Classic - '…No one does icy existential detachment better in modern rock…'"
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "Interpol". robertchristgau.com. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=interpol. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (14 August 2002). "Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights". Rolling Stone. ISSN 0035-791X. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/turn-on-the-bright-lights-20020814. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Rogers, Simon (19 November 2009). "NME's top 50 albums of the decade: how high did they get in the charts?". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/nov/19/nme-top-albums-decade-noughties-strokes. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ a b "Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/artist/interpol/447165#/album/interpol/turn-on-the-bright-lights/542915. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database#
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| Daphne Guinness | |
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| Born | (1967-11-09) 9 November 1967 (age 44) Hampstead, London, England |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Hair colour | Brown and Platinum Blonde |
| Eye colour | Brown |
| Weight | 58 kg (127.87 lbs) |
Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness (born 9 November 1967) is an artist of both British and Irish nationality. She also serves as an inspiration and muse to other artists of the avant-garde.[citation needed] She is an heir by direct descent of Arthur Guinness, the 18th-century inventor of the beer that still bears his name.
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Early life[link]
Her father is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, and the eldest son of Diana Mitford Mosley and Bryan Guinness. Diana was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, the father of the celebrated Mitford sisters. Guinness's mother, Jonathan's second wife, was Suzanne Lisney (died 2005), of Cadaques, Spain, and Paris. Lisney was an artist and muse to Man Ray and Dali. When Daphne was 13, she became aware that she had a further three half-siblings by Susan "Shoe" Taylor, her father’s mistress.[1]
Guinness is the granddaughter of The Hon. Diana Mitford, who first married Bryan Walter Guinness. Mitford divorced Guinness and married the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley. Daphne has said she did not know of Mosley's political affiliations, before she heard, in 1980, on the BBC news that he had died.[1]
Her great-aunt Jessica gave her a taste for music, literature and politics. Jessica Mitford's causes included her involvement in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and then in the Communist Party in America.
As a child, Guinness grew up in the country houses owned by her family in England and Ireland. Holidays were spent in an 18th-century monastery in Cadaques, Spain. There her neighbours included Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth, and Richard Hamilton.[2]
She remains close to her last remaining great-aunt Deborah, 'Debo', the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, whom she accompanied on her recent trip to NYC: a lecture tour promoting her latest memoir, ‘Wait for Me!’
Controversy[link]
She insists that she is not eccentric. ”I loathe the word," she says. "It has become devoid of meaning: it is a blanket statement hinting at lunacy. Perhaps 'bohemian' might be considered as an alternative word, if one needs to be labelled."[3] She has maintained in statements published on her Twitter account that she did not refer to Victoria Beckham as an "ugly pig", as was alleged by the Sunday Times (UK).[4][5] She also claimed to have used nail polish to color her lips.[6]
Fashion[link]
Daphne Guinness is an important figure in the world of fashion, as a notable face, a collector, and an icon. At the request of Fashion Institute of Technology director Valerie Steele, she spent two years mounting an exhibition of a hundred displays of her clothing, which was staged within the context of her other projects, film and modelling. She is courted by many of the best-known names in fashion (such as Karl Lagerfeld, NARS, MAC, Akris, and Philip Treacy), working with them artistically or as a model or both.
Her best-known friend was the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Scheduled to model for charity on the runway the day his suicide was announced, Guinness veiled herself in mourning.
In January 2011, she was asked by Tom Ford to close his brilliant comeback womenswear show.
She creates and invents many objects herself, many inspired by her fascination with armour. She is known for a taste for skinny pants and platform pumps.[7] She designs fashion, jewelry, and perfume for herself when she cannot find exactly what she wants to wear or buy. She has said that she created more than 100 pieces in 2010 alone.
Since 1994, she has been on the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame, which seeks to identify the best-dressed women in the world. In 2011, she created a make-up line for MAC cosmetics.[8]
Inspiration and muse[link]
Daphne Guinness seeks to inspire young women through her intensely cultivated style and elegance. Lady Gaga is among them, as she discussed on a broadcast featured on SHOWstudio.com. Cathy Horyn of the New York Times asked Gaga about any influence by Isabella Blow and Daphne Guinness. Lady Gaga replied: “Isabella and Daphne are two exceptional human beings, women, icons. And more than that! They have helped me look inside myself. I’ve examined their lives and their personalities in order to understand myself better. Daphne, like Isabella, is a huge source of inspiration for me. I cherish their lives. I cherish them both. It is as if we are all cut from the same cloth”.[9]
Maecenas[link]
She donates a signification portion of her assets to help artists, theatres, or libraries in difficulties in London.
Charity work[link]
She has walked in two of Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief shows with the purpose of raising funds for disaster victims. In the same vein, in April 2008, she auctioned off a part of her wardrobe, with the entire proceeds going to a struggling British charity called Womankind Worldwide, which deals with women’s issues at home and abroad, such as domestic violence.
On 27 June 2012, through the auction house Christie's, she will auction off a hundred pieces of her clothing to raise money for the Isabella Blow Foundation, which Guinness founded to commemorate her late friend and bring attention to mental health issues.[10][11]
Commitments[link]
In June 2010, for an undisclosed sum, she blocked the planned Christie’s auction of the wardrobe of Isabella Blow, her friend who committed suicide in 2007. This collection had inestimable artistic value. Asked by Suzy Menkes, and the Financial Times, why she intervened, she simply declared that she was not going to stand by whilst the memory of her friend "was scattered to the four winds". She intends for the Blow archive to be seen by students.
Art[link]
Daphne Guinness has worked in a variety of roles: artist, actress, muse, model, collector and designer.[1] She is the muse of many photographers who are fascinated by her beauty and feel for artistic performance. Steven Klein, the renowned photographer of such celebrities as Madonna and Lady Gaga, chose Guinness for two Vogue Italia covers. In the first, she plays Jean Seberg in Romain Gary’s "Les Oiseaux vont mourir au Perou” In the other, she embodies Delphine Seyrig in Alain Resnais' masterpiece, ‘L’annee derniere a mariebad’.
David LaChapelle is a longtime friend and collaborator, and chose her to appear in his Maybach advertising campaign in two intricate pictures for the car's Zeppelin model. On another occasion, when working for LaChapelle, she spent six hours in a tank of water, immersed for up to two minutes at a time, to produce two underwater images, including the famous "Daphne Guinness in Water".
She is also featured in the series "Return to Eden", which has not yet been released.
In September 2011, more than half a million visitors attended the Alexander McQueen exhibition “Savage Beauty”, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Shortly thereafter, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology devoted one of its galleries to about a hundred of Daphne’s most important pieces.[12]
On 31 January 2012, Styleite.com reported that Guinness had put her art-filled Fifth Avenue apartment for sale for $14M USD.[13]
Filmography[link]
Film producer[link]
Daphne Guinness has produced and edited three short films :
- "Cashback", short film nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, was later made into a feature-length version. Guinness produced this film for the photographer Sean Ellis.[1]
- "The Phenomenology of Body" was a hymn to the evolution of the female wardrobe over millenia, and is available on the NY Times website.
- "Mnemosyne" was an 'anti-commercial' made to comment on the scent, "DAPHNE", that Guinness made at the request of Comme des Garcons. It was distinct enough from the product it supported that that the film was nominated for a Webby award and garnered independent attention.
Acting[link]
- In 2011, Guinness starred in Joe Lally’s film, "The Murder of Jean Seberg". Seberg was the tragic American actress who was Jean-Luc Godard's muse, and the one-time wife of the French writer Romain Gary. Seberg was politically engaged and would fight alongside the Black Panthers.[2]
- In December 2011, she was photographed, while recorded livestream, by Nick Knight of SHOWstudio.com for 36 hours, resulting in five short films which were played in the windows of the Parisian department store, Le Printemps. In several of these films, Guinness, a soprano, sang opera arias, making her public musical debut.
- At the end of 2011, photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani, Daphne Guinness, and stylist GK Reid produced "The Legend of Lady White Snake", a film based on an ancient Chinese legend, wherein Daphne played the complex central role of Lady White Snake.[14] Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote her dialogue for the film.[15] This was made possible by Guinness's large collection of contacts. The icon was instructed to wear her most reptilian pair, and to make sure they matched.[16]
Personal life[link]
In 1985, when she moved to New York City, she "inherited" many of her sister Catherine's friends. In this way, Guinness came to know Andy Warhol, for whom her sister had been a personal assistant for many years. In 1987, she married Spyros Niarchos, the second son of Stavros Niarchos, the shipping magnate. The couple had three children. Her settlement, obtained at the time of her 1999 divorce, is for an undisclosed sum, which was added to her Guinness inheritance.
She lives in London and Manhattan with her three children: Nicolas Stavros Niarchos (born 1989), Lex Spyros Niarchos (born 1991), and Ines Sophia Niarchos (born 1995).[1]
She has been romantically involved with French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy for a number of years, and cuts a lone figure at events.[17] Since 2008, the couple have appeared publicly more often together. In an issue Harper's Bazaar (USA) dated February 2011, Guinness confirmed to journalist Derek Blasberg: ‘He is obviously the love of my life.”[5]
References[link]
- ^ a b c d e Garratt, Sheryl. Daphne Guinness's glove story, Daily Telegraph, June 25, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ a b http://showstudio.com/contributor/daphne_guinness
- ^ Sauers, Jenna. Field Guide: Daphne Guinness and Her Thoughts on Hitler, Jezebel, September 22, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ Attwood, Naomi. Daphne Guinness defends herself on Twitter and denies she was rude about Victoria Beckham!, Grazia Daily, March 14, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Blasberg, Derek. The Real Daphne Guinness, Harper's Bazaar, February 11, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012. Page 2
- ^ Wellman, Victoria. Daphne Guinness admits she's worn nail polish on her LIPS (so how on earth did she get it off?), Daily Mail, December 21, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ http://www.zimbio.com/Daphne+Guinness
- ^ http://www.maccosmetics.com/whats_new/8276/index.tmpl
- ^ Daphne Guinness for MAC, Style and Wisdom, December 12, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ http://www.zimbio.com/Daphne+Guinness/articles/IOdRIGXeqsn/Daphne+Guinness+auctioning+clothes
- ^ Rawi, Maysa. The Daphne Guinness collection: Heiress' wardrobe set to fetch thousands at charity auction, Daily Mail, April 13, 2012. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ Mead, Rebecca. Precarious Beauty, The New Yorker, September 26, 2011. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ Fenner, Justin. Daphne Guinness’s Fifth Avenue Apartment Is On The Market For $14M, Styleite, January 31, 2012. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ Sparks, Cator. Do It Daphne! Guinness Shines in Short Film Based on Ancient Chinese Legend, Stylelist, March 4, 2012. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ Feitelberg, Rosemary. Daphne Guinness and 'The Legend of Lady White Snake', Women's Wear Daily, February 7, 2012. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- ^ Trujillo, Krissy. [1] Accessed May 12, 2012.
- ^ http://stylecelebration.blogspot.com/2011/11/daphne-guiness-finally-admits-to.html
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| Date of birth | 9 November 1967 |
| Place of birth | Hampstead, London, England |
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| Regina Spektor | |
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 Regina Spektor playing an electronic piano in 2006 |
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| Background information | |
| Native name | Реги́нa Ильи́нична Спе́ктор |
| Born | (1980-02-18) February 18, 1980 (age 32) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Origin | New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Anti-folk, indie rock, baroque pop, blues, pop |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Piano, vocals, guitar, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Sire/Warner Bros. Records |
| Associated acts | Sondre Lerche, Ben Folds, Kill Kenada, the Strokes, Dufus |
| Website | http://www.reginaspektor.com |
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Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Russian: Реги́нa Ильи́нична Спе́ктор, IPA: [rʲɪˈɡʲinə ˈspʲɛktər], English: /rɨˈdʒiːnə ˈspɛktər/; born February 18, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.
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Early life[link]
Spektor was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1980 to a musical Russian Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.[1] She has a brother Barry (Bear), who was featured in track 7, "* * *", or "Whisper", of her 2004 album, Soviet Kitsch.
She learned how to play piano by practising on a Petrof upright that was given to her mother by her grandfather.[2] She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union.[1] The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika, when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind.[3] The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving the USSR, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to the ethnic and political discrimination that Jews faced.[4] Spektor is fluent in Russian and reads Hebrew, and has since paid tribute to her Russian heritage, quoting the poem February by the Russian poet Boris Pasternak in her song Après Moi, and stating “I’m very connected to the language and the culture.”[5]
Traveling first to Austria and then Italy, the family was admitted to the United States as refugees with the assistance of HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) and settled in The Bronx, where Spektor graduated from the SAR Academy, a Jewish day middle school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She then attended high school for two years at the Frisch School, a yeshiva in Paramus, New Jersey, but transferred to a public school, Fair Lawn High School, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where she finished the last two years of her high school education.[6]
Career[link]
In New York, Spektor studied classical piano with Sonia Vargas, a professor at the Manhattan School of Music, until she was 17; Spektor's father had met Vargas through her husband, violinist Samuel Marder.[7] Although the family had been unable to bring their piano from Russia, Spektor found a piano on which to play in the basement of her synagogue, and also practiced on tabletops and other hard surfaces.
Spektor was originally interested only in classical music, but later became interested in hip hop, rock and punk as well.[1] Although she had always made up songs around the house, Spektor first became interested in more formal songwriting during a visit to Israel with the Nesiya Institute in her teenage years when she attracted attention from the other children on the trip for the songs she made up while hiking and realized she had an aptitude for songwriting.[4]
Following this trip, she was exposed to the work of Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, and other singer-songwriters, which encouraged her belief that she could create her own songs.[4] She wrote her first a cappella songs around the age of 16 and her first songs for voice and piano when she was nearly 18.[1]
Spektor completed the four-year studio composition program of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College within three years, graduating with honors in 2001. Around this time, she also worked briefly at a butterfly farm in Luck, Wisconsin,[8] and studied in Tottenham, ( a suburb of London) for one semester [9].
She gradually achieved recognition through performances in the anti-folk scene in downtown New York City, often as a duo with drummer Anders Griffen, and most importantly at the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe, but also at the Living Room, Tonic, Fez, the Knitting Factory, and CB's Gallery.[citation needed] She also performed at local colleges (such as Sarah Lawrence College) with other musicians, including the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. She sold self-published CDs at her performances during this period: 11:11 (2001) and Songs (2002). In 2004, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers' record label Sire Records to publish and distribute her third album Soviet Kitsch, originally self-released in 2003.
Spektor is married to Jack Dishel, guitarist with the band The Moldy Peaches.[9]
Style[link]
Spektor has said that she has created a great number of songs,[10] but that she rarely writes any of them down. She has also stated that she never aspired to write songs herself, but songs seem to just flow to her.[11] Spektor's songs are not usually autobiographical, but rather are based on scenarios and characters drawn from her imagination.[4][12] Her songs show influences from folk,[13][14] punk, rock, Jewish,[12][15] Russian,[12] hip hop,[13][16][17] jazz,[13][16] and classical music.[12][16] Spektor has said that she works hard to ensure that each of her songs has its own musical style, rather than trying to develop a distinctive style for her music as a whole.[11]
It doesn't feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head - I can't help it.[18]
Spektor has a broad vocal range and uses the full extent of it. She also explores a variety of different and somewhat unorthodox vocal techniques, such as verses composed entirely of buzzing noises made with the lips and beatbox-style flourishes in the middle of ballads, and also makes use of such unusual musical techniques as using a drum stick to tap rhythms on the body of the piano or chair.[4][19] Part of her style also results from the exaggeration of certain aspects of vocalization, most notably the glottal stop, which is prominent in the single "Fidelity". She also uses a strong New York accent on some words, which she has said is due to her love of New York and its culture.[1]
Her lyrics are equally eclectic, often taking the form of abstract narratives or first-person character studies, similar to short stories or vignettes put to song.[1][19] Spektor usually sings in English, though she sometimes includes a few words or verses of Latin, Russian, French, and other languages in her songs. She also plays with pronunciations, which she said on a NPR interview to be a remnant of her early years when she listened to pop in English without understanding the lyrics. Some of Spektor's lyrics include literary allusions,[4] such as to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway in "Poor Little Rich Boy", The Little Prince in "Baobabs", Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood in "Paris", Ezra Pound and William Shakespeare in "Pound of Flesh", Shakespeare's Hamlet in "The Virgin Queen", Boris Pasternak in "Après Moi", Samson and Delilah in "Samson", and Oedipus the King in "Oedipus", Billie Holiday in "Lady" and Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome in "2.99 cent blues". She alludes to The Beatles and Paul McCartney in the song "Edit". She also used a line from Joni Mitchell's California in her song "The Devil Came to Bethlehem". Recurring themes and topics in Spektor's lyrics include love, death, religion (particularly Biblical and Jewish references), city life (particularly New York references), and certain key phrases have been known to recur in different songs by Spektor, such as references to gravediggers, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the name "Mary Ann". Spektor's use of satire is evident in "Wasteside," which refers to The Twelve Chairs, the classic satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, and describes the town in which people are born, get their hair cut, and then are sent to the cemetery.
In Spektor's early albums, many of her tracks had a very dry vocal production, with very little reverb or delay added. However, Spektor's more recent albums, particularly Begin to Hope, have put more emphasis into song production and have relied more on traditional pop and rock instruments.[3] Spektor says the records that most impact her are those of "bands whose music is really involved",[20] specifically naming The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Radiohead, Tom Waits, and Frédéric Chopin as primary influences.[20][21]
In her songs, "Eet", "Us" and "Après Moi" the titular sounds are used as the focal point throughout. (In "Dance Anthem of the 80's", the sound "eet" is also used often, on words such as "meat", "street", and "eat").
Performances[link]
Spektor's first nationwide tour was accompanying The Strokes as the opening act on their 2003–2004 Room on Fire tour, during which she and the band performed and recorded "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men". Kings of Leon were the second opening act on that tour, and they invited Regina to open for them on their own European tour right after The Strokes tour. In June 2005, Spektor was the opening act for the English piano rock band Keane on their North American tour, during which she performed at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2005.[22] During her 2006 headlining tour in support of the Begin to Hope album, Spektor sold out a performance at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and two shows at Town Hall Theater in New York City on September 27 and September 28, 2006.[23]
Spektor has appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (once), Late Night with Conan O'Brien (three times), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (twice), Jimmy Kimmel Live (twice), Last Call with Carson Daly (five times), Late Show with David Letterman (twice), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (twice), CBS News Sunday Morning, Good Morning America (twice), Australia's Rove Live, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (twice).[24] On October 10, 2009 she performed on Saturday Night Live.
Since January 2005, Spektor has performed on a bright red Baldwin baby grand piano.[25] At the present time she uses exclusively Steinway & Sons pianos. She plays a seafoam Epiphone Wildkat archtop hollow-body electric guitar.[26]
Although she generally only performs original material, Spektor occasionally performs covers. Most famous of these covers were her performances of songs by Leonard Cohen and Madonna, for the 2nd Annual Jewish Music & Heritage Festival at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.[4] In 2006 and 2007, Spektor embarked on a headlining tour of the U.S. and Europe, selling out numerous clubs and theaters. She covered John Lennon's "Real Love" at the performance arts center of her alma mater, State University of New York at Purchase, on March 28, 2007, at a benefit concert for the Conservatory of Music.[27] In 2007, Spektor recorded "Real Love" for the Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur CD, which was released in June of that year. She recorded a version of the song for Triple J's Like a Version radio segment which was shown on jTV.
On March 8, 2007, Spektor appeared on the British ITV network's Loose Women, promoting and performing "Fidelity" live, and on April 20, 2007, she performed on the Late Show with David Letterman. On Saturday, April 28, 2007, she appeared at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. On Friday, May 18, 2007, she appeared on BBC1's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. On June 16, 2007, she performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival and later performed at the 2007 Lollapalooza on August 4, 2007 and Virgin Festival on August 5, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland. On September 16, 2007, she performed at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and recorded a set for the Austin City Limits TV show the following day. She performed acoustic at the Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 27 and October 28, 2007.
On November 14, 2007, at her concert at Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville, it was announced that Spektor collapsed during the sound check and was taken to a local emergency room. According to the statement given to the audience, Spektor was fine, but doctors said that she could not perform that night. It was later reported that the cause of the collapse was an inner ear infection which caused intense vertigo. The show was initially rescheduled for December 6, 2007,[28] but the date was once again rescheduled, and the concert finally occurred on February 29, 2008.[29] After her initial collapse in Nashville, she was able to perform in concerts at Mountain Stage on November 18, 2007,[30][citation needed] and at Duke University on November 19, 2007.[31]
In conjunction with the release of her 2009 album Far, Spektor was headlining at Serpentine Sessions, a series of concerts London's Hyde Park on June 29, 2009. Other European performances in 2009 include Glastonbury Festival, Hultsfred Festival, Oxegen 2009, T in the Park, Paradiso (Amsterdam), Latitude Festival, and Rock Werchter. Spektor has invited Brooklyn-based rock band Jupiter One to open concerts on her 2009 North American tour. As a part of that tour, on October 14, 2009 Spektor headlined a concert at the Radio City Music Hall in NYC.
On July 7, 2010, Regina performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland.[32] Her cellist, Dan Cho, drowned the day before while swimming in Lake Geneva near the Chillon Castle.[33][34] She was described as distraught, shaken, and in tears and took several breaks to regain her composure.[35]
Media coverage[link]
Since 2005, Spektor's music has been used in various television programs and commercials. In late 2005 "Us" (from Soviet Kitsch) was used in a commercial as part of the What Do You Want To Watch? series for the United Kingdom's British Sky Broadcasting. The advert features a clip from a documentary on skateboarder Danny Way. In the summer of 2006, a clip from "Us" was used for the teaser website for Microsoft's Zune project at ComingZune.com, as well as for a promotional campaign for MtvU. The same track is used by Dutch telecom company KPN in a commercial. "Somedays" was used in a 2005 episode of CSI: NY and "Samson" was used in a 2006 episode of the same series. "On the Radio" was used in an episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy. "Field Below" was used in a 2006 episode titled "The Last Word" of CBS's Criminal Minds. "Fidelity" has also been used in an episode of Grey's Anatomy titled "Six Days, Part 2", Veronica Mars titled "Wichita Linebacker", Brothers & Sisters titled "Sexual Politics", during the end credits of Love and Other Drugs, and in the Brazilian telenovela A Favorita. "Better" is currently being used in a commercial for XM Satellite Radio, an episode of "How I Met Your Mother", and the popular film My Sister's Keeper. Her song "Music Box" is currently being used in a commercial for JC Penney. Spektor also sang the title song "Little Boxes" of Showtime's television series Weeds in the episode "Mile Deep and a Foot Wide" (2006) and her "Ghost of Corporate Future" was used both at the beginning and end of the episode.[36] On January 21, 2007, she was featured on CBS News Sunday Morning.[11]
Spektor received increased attention in 2006 when her video for "Fidelity" was viewed over 200,000 times in two days on YouTube. On Sirius Radio's Left of Center channel, her single "Fidelity" was voted by listeners as the #1 song of 2006. Towards the end of 2006, VH1 showcased her as part of their "You Oughta Know: Artists on the Rise" featurettes: they played clips from the "Fidelity" music video and showed parts of an interview with Spektor during commercial breaks on the channel.[37] Spektor's video for "Fidelity" reached #3 on VH1's Top 20 Countdown.[citation needed]
Peter Gabriel recorded a version of "Après Moi" on his 2010 release Scratch My Back.
In Australia, Spektor's music has rapidly gained popularity in mainstream culture primarily due to Begin to Hope being played on the nation-wide radio station Triple J, where it eventually became a feature album. Prior to Begin to Hope, Spektor had only a small following in Australia in comparison to the US and Europe.
Spektor reached #33 on Blender magazine's top 100 of 2006 and was also listed as one of the "Hottest Women of...Rock!".[38] "Fidelity" was also used in a 2007 television commercial in New Zealand advertising Yahoo!Xtra, a new partnership between Yahoo! and Telecom's Xtra ISP. Also in 2007, the mobile phone company Vodafone used her lyric, "Come into my world..." from the track, "Hotel Song" on Begin to Hope, in an extensive TV advertising campaign in the UK and Ireland.
On October 1, 2007, Spektor's new video for "Better" was released on VH1 and YouTube, where it was viewed more than 100,000 times within the first 24 hours. "Fidelity" was used in the trailer for the film 27 Dresses, released on October 3, 2007.[39]
Her song "The Call" appeared prominently in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,[40] as part of the film's finale sequence. Spektor's song "Better" was used in the movie My Sister's Keeper, loosely based on the novel of the same name by Jodi Picoult. A section of "That Time" was featured in the film In Bruges. Additionally, "Us" and "Hero" are both featured on the soundtrack for the film (500) Days of Summer. Spin magazine profiled Spektor in their July 2009 issue, where she discussed her just-released album Far. The story was released in their digital edition that month, as well.[41] In August 2009, the song "Two Birds" was used in the 2009 Fall Campaign of the Polish TV station TVN. Also Regina's song "Eet" debuted on the show 90210 in April 2010.
On September 16, 2009, it was announced that Spektor would write the music for the musical Beauty, a modern adaptation of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, which is set to open during the 2011–12 Broadway season.[42]
In May 2010, Spektor performed for President Obama and his wife Michelle along with hundreds of other guests at the White House reception in honor of Jewish Heritage Month. She sang "Us" and "The Sword & the Pen", receiving a standing ovation begun by Michelle Obama.
The song "Human of the Year" featured prominently in the trailer and first episode of the 2011 HBO series Enlightened.
The song "All the Rowboats" was featured on The CW's Ringer in March 2012.
The Song "Hotel Song" was featured in the opening of the movie Friends with Kids.
Philanthropy[link]
In 2007, she covered John Lennon's "Real Love" for Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. The following year, she participated in Songs for Tibet, an initiative to support the human rights situation in Tibet and the 14th Dalai Lama. The album was issued on August 5, 2008, via iTunes and on August 19 in music stores around the world.[43] On January 22, 2009, Spektor performed at the third annual Roe On The Rocks gig at the Bowery Ballroom to raise money for Planned Parenthood New York City.[44] Also, continuing with her support for Tibet, Regina Spektor played for Tibet House's annual concert at Carnegie Hall on February 26, 2010. Less than one month later, on March 23, 2010, Spektor gave a concert at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York City to raise funds for the work of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. Also, on April 27, she released a cover of Radiohead's song "No Surprises" with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders to help the earthquake victims in Haiti and Chile.
Discography[link]
Main article: Regina Spektor discography
Albums[link]
- 2001: 11:11
- 2002: Songs
- 2004: Soviet Kitsch
- 2006: Begin to Hope
- 2009: Far
- 2012: What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Singles[link]
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. | UK | IRE | AUS | NZ | BEL | SWE | |||||||||
| 2004 | "Carbon Monoxide" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Soviet Kitsch | ||||||
| "Your Honour / The Flowers" | — | 104 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2006 | "Us" | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "On the Radio" | — | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | Begin to Hope | |||||||
| "Fidelity" | 51 | 45 | — | 50 | 16 | — | — | ||||||||
| 2007 | "Hotel Song" | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "Samson" | — | 174 | — | 22 | — | 30 | 29 | ||||||||
| "Better" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2009 | "Laughing With" | 14* | — | — | — | — | 34 | — | Far | ||||||
| "Eet" | — | — | — | 79 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2010 | "No Surprises" | — | — | — | 96 | — | — | — | Charity download | ||||||
| 2012 | "All the Rowboats" | — | — | — | 91 | — | — | — | What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | ||||||
| "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes singles that did not chart. * Hot 100 Singles Sales; did not chart on Billboard Hot 100 |
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Awards[link]
- Begin to Hope – Shortlist Music Prize (nominated)
- Studio8's Female Voice of August 2009 (won)
References[link]
- ^ a b c d e f Soundcheck (2004-11-18), "Hot Hot Hot" New York Public Radio
- ^ "Regina Spektor - Refugee from Soviet kitsch". The Independent. 2009-07-03. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/regina-spektor--refugee-from-soviet-kitsch-1729328.html. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ a b Aizlewood, John (2006-08-24). "Regina Spektor: A Triumph That Began With Hope". thislondon.co.uk. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23351811-details/Regina+Spektor/gigReview.do?reviewId=23364423.
- ^ a b c d e f g Soundcheck interview (2005-09-13) "From Russia with Love". New York Public Radio.
- ^ Piano Woman June 12, 2006, New York Magazine/
- ^ Morrisset-Solo Forums
- ^ Roeschlein, Shane. "Regina Spektor: The Red Princess". themusicedge.com. http://www.themusicedge.com/moxie/news/featartist/regina-spektor-the-red-pr.shtml.
- ^ Versatile Regina Spektor floats among her song stories, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), October 12, 2006
- ^ a b "Regina Spektor: 'Art comes from a different place'" 12 May 2012 Guardian.
- ^ Orloff, Brian. "Regina Spektor's Got New "Hope"". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9485254/regina_spektors_got_new_hope.
- ^ a b c Orloff, Brian (2007-10-21). "Regina Spektor's Boundless Talent". CBS News. CBS. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/18/sunday/main2371910.shtml.
- ^ a b c d Alonzo, Rod. "Making Stuff Up: An Interview With Regina Spektor". WOMANROCK.com. http://www.womanrock.com/features/regina_spektor.html.
- ^ a b c Murphy, John. "Regina Spektor – Mary Ann Meets The Gravediggers (review)". musicomh.com. http://www.musicomh.com/albums/regina-spektor_0106.htm.
- ^ Bridge, Colette (July 2006). "Nottingham Music: Paolo Nutini / Peaches / Regina Spektor: Tis the period of the singer / songwriter". BBC – Nottingham. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/music/2004/07/paolo_nutini_peaches_regina_spektor.shtml.
- ^ Holub, Annie (2006-11-02). "Spectral Musings: Six lines that will make you fall in love with Regina Spektor". Tucson Weekly. http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=88732.
- ^ a b c MySpace: Regina Spektor
- ^ National Public Radio. "Regina Spektor in Concert". http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6161219.
- ^ Rolling Stone magazine issue 694, September 2009. "New York Screwball Pop Queen" by Jenny Eliscu, page18.
- ^ a b Block, Melissa. "Stories in Song: Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope". National Public Radio – All Things Considered. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5518985.
- ^ a b Regina Spektor | The A.V. Club
- ^ "Spectacular Spektor", by Susan Visakowitz (from Billboard.biz, 13 January 2007)
- ^ Music Snobbery: Regina Spektor Tells a Guy To Fuck Off
- ^ Music Snobbery: Regina Spektor @ Town Hall: Moscow on the Hudson
- ^ ABC News: Regina Spektor Rocks 'GMA'
- ^ "Regina Spektor in a Piano Shop". WNYC – New York Public Radio. 2005-01-28. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/tnbt/episodes/2005/01/28.
- ^ Epiphone Musical Instruments
- ^ http://www.nynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/ENTERTAINMENT/703290453
- ^ Bill Friskics-Warren (2007-11-14). "Spektor rushed to the hospital before Ryman show". Tennessean.com. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071114/ENTERTAINMENT01/71114057.
- ^ the Historic Ryman Auditorium
- ^ mountainstage.org
- ^ Spektor's official web site
- ^ Facebook post about by Regina Spektor on the death of Dan Cho
- ^ Swiss Newspaper 24Heures
- ^ GenevaLunch >> Montreux Jazz Festival: Regina Spektor and former Katy Perry bandmember dies
- ^ Spinner.com: Daniel Cho, Cellist for Regina Spektor, Reportedly Drowns in Lake Geneva
- ^ "Music from the hit series, Weeds". [[Showtime (TV network)|]]. http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/music.do.
- ^ "New Music Artists Info on You Oughta Know, Rising New Artists, See Photos & Watch Videos Online". VH1.com. http://www.vh1.com/artists/you_oughta_know/index.jhtml?extPop=popVspot(1537507).
- ^ "Hottest Women of... Rock!". Blender. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2295&src=blender_ed.
- ^ "27 Dresses Movie Trailer". [1]. 2007-10-03. http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/03/27-dresses-movie-trailer.
- ^ "Pandora". http://www.pandora.com/music/song/regina+spektor/call#lyrics.
- ^ Digital Spin
- ^ Playbill.com article on "Sleeping Beauty"
- ^ E-Online (July 22, 2008) Sting, Matthews, Mayer Gamer for Tibet Than Beijing
- ^ NME.com (Nov. 17, 2008)
External links[link]
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- Official site
- Regina Spektor at the Internet Movie Database
- Regina Spektor at the Open Directory Project
- "Regina Spektor" interview by Noel Murray (from The A.V. Club, 21 June 2006)
- Interview from Soundcheck, WNYC, 13 September 2005
- Interview from All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 28 June 2006
- Strangers Almanac Column on Regina Spektor from Glide Magazine
- NPR - All Songs Considered 7/22/2009 - Regina Spektor: When Every Sound Sings
- NPR All Things Considered 5/24/2012 - Regina Spektor Still Doesn't Write Anything Down
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| Name | Spektor, Regina |
| Alternative names | Реги́нa Ильи́нична Спе́ктор (Russian) |
| Short description | American singer-songwriter and pianist |
| Date of birth | February 18, 1980 |
| Place of birth | Moscow, Soviet Union |
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