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Ruth E. Ryon (born July 16, 1944) is a former celebrity real estate columnist for the Los Angeles Times who retired in April 2008 after more than 23 years of writing the paper's popular "Hot Property" celebrity real estate column. Ryon is widely credited with having created the celebrity real estate journalism genre.

Professional career[link]

Ryon's tenure at the Los Angeles Times dates back at least to the 1970s. Her first byline with the paper was on November 20, 1977.^[1]

Later on, while reading Parade magazine, Ryon got the idea to write a column with short, pithy items about celebrities buying and selling houses, and she received the go-ahead from her editors to do it. Ryon's first "Hot Property" column appeared on November 25, 1984, and was about Johnny Carson paying $9.5 million for a house in Malibu, California.^[2] Ryon went on to write more than 1,300 more "Hot Property" columns, with the column eventually being moved to Page One of the Los Angeles Times' Real Estate section in 1987 and with it also becoming syndicated.^[3] Ryon also spent five years on KNX (AM) radio discussing celebrity real estate.

The column was the first of what eventually became a small stable of regular celebrity real estate columns or features in newspapers and magazines across the country, including "Private Properties" in the Wall Street Journal, "Manhattan Transfers" in the New York Observer, "Upper Bracket" in the Chicago Tribune (from 1998 until 2004), "Gimme Shelter" in the New York Post and "On the Block" in People magazine. Online features that have been created in the image of "Hot Property" include Big Time Listings (http://www.bigtimelistings.com), the Real Estalker (http://realestalker.blogspot.com) and "Real LI" in Newsday (http://weblogs.newsday.com/realestate/blog/).

Retirement[link]

Ryon took a buyout from the Times in April 2008, filing her final "Hot Property" column for the Times' April 13, 2008 Real Estate section. Ryon told readers in a farewell column that she plans to "write that book, work as a consultant, do some freelancing and spend more time with my family, readers, sources and friends."^[4] Ryon and her husband live in Redondo Beach, California.

As of October 1, 2008 Ruth Ryon became a senior real estate news columnist for the REAL ESTATE CHANNEL Internet news network ([http://www.realestatechannel.com/author/ruth-ryon/) with a weekly column called Celebrity Homes.

Legacy[link]

The "Hot Property" column continues today in the Los Angeles Times, even though the paper discontinued its Sunday Real Estate section in 2008.

The Times' "Hot Property" column appears on Saturdays.

References[link]

Bora Yoon
Background information
Birth name	Bora Yoon
Born	1980
Genres	Avant-garde, Contemporary classical
Occupations	Singer-songwriter performance artist multi-instrumental sound architect
Website	www.borayoon.com
Notable instruments
mobile phones, voice, electric viola, musicbox, Tibetan singing bowl, water, synths, guitar, live samples and loops

Bora Yoon (born 1980) is a Korean-American experimental musician and composer who uses unconventional instruments in her music.

Early life[link]

Yoon grew up in the United States outside Chicago, Illinois.^[1] A graduate of Ithaca College’s Conservatory of Music and creative writing program, she is classically trained in the school of studied thought and improvisational sciences, with a first love of choral music.

Musical genre[link]

Yoon's eclectic musical style uses unconventional sources (everyday found objects, chamber instruments and digital devices) to generate music.

She explores where sound connects to the subliminal through the timbre languages offered in the voice, violin (now viola), water, ancient Tibetan singing bowls, cell phones, music boxes, glockenspiel, guitar, walkie talkies, metronomes, shortwave radios, kitchenware, found sounds, and electronics.

Using a sound designer’s approach to performance composition with song form, she can ably tune to sizzling bacon fat and harmonize to the whir of a G5, to create music that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies, with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation.

UK's WIRE magazine noted Yoon's "nuanced timbre and careful of space [as] enchanting attributes of her airy and almost disembodied performance." The Ithacan said "Yoon is a remarkable talent..." while Noise Art Magazine wrote "...operatic and intense, genre-scrambling and iconoclastic... smart and different... a cut or three above the rest." Her work and musical innovations have been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Multi-disciplinary Achievements[link]

Musical work and tours[link]

As a performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork internationally, presenting her works at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the KBS/Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Tonic, Roselee Goldberg’s PERFORMA Arts Biennial, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!Tech conference, MTV Networks, and in universities across the globe, including residencies at Bard College and the Walker Art Center. Additionally, she has curated experimental music for the SummerScreen series in the historic McCarren Pool, premiered a one-woman experimental opera by Paul Steven Ray, and created new vinyl-pressed works in collaboration with Reykjavik-based sound artist Ben Frost (Bedroom Community) for the Journal of Popular Noise (Spring/Summer Issue 08).

Yoon’s wide-ranging talents have led to collaborative performances with electronics giant SAMSUNG, media philosopher DJ Spooky, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata in the America Project and multimedia swansong: The 51st (dream) state. She has performed with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Maestro Helmuth Rilling, members of Bang On A Can All Stars, guitarist Kaki King, multimedia artist R. Luke DuBois, tabla artist Suphala, beatbox artists Adam Matta and Taylor McFerrin, and Voices of Ascension choir.

Spatial Composition & Sound Design[link]

An accomplished composer, Yoon addresses the dimensionality of space and sound in her original works: she conceived the stereophonic sound mural “Doppler Dreams” for seven sopranos on bicycles in Brooklyn’s 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m²), empty McCarren Pool for the site-specific dance piece Agora II, and created and performed the multi-speaker live sound score for the aerial dance piece Rapture, reverberated off the dynamic curves of Frank Gehry’s Fisher Center (Bard College) as part of a collaboration with award-winning choreographer Noémie Lafrance.

On April 27, 2008, the Young People's Chorus of New York City presented the world premiere of Semaphore Conductus, a spatial acoustic choral sound installation inspired by the conduction of energy, signals, and sounding devices (conch, gramophone, megaphone, cell phones) commissioned for, and sung in surround-sound by, the Young People’s Chorus of New York at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.

On January 31, 2009, the SAYAKA Ladies Consort of Tokyo, directed by Ko Matsushita, presented the world premiere of "CPS/RPM", the sequel of Semaphore Conductus, in Casals Hall, Nihon University, Tokyo Japan, to critical acclaim.

Film work[link]

Bora Yoon stars in Samsung Anycall commercial film for the "Talk Play Love" advertising campaign, broadcast in South Korea in 2007-8.

Bora Yoon has provided the musical score for dance film 'Heute Nacht' by An Films, and 'Faces of Seoul', an independent film by Korean filmmaker Gina Kim, due for release in 2010.

Honors and awards[link]

• 2002 International John Lennon Songwriting Contest^[2]
• 11th annual Billboard Songwriting Contest (Jazz Division)
• award recipient of the Arion Foundation

Discography[link]

• Bora Yoon (1999), debut solo album
• JAAM (2000), Mutant Soul Records, Access 58 (UK)& Gerd (Netherlands).
• Proscenium (2003), award winning 2nd full-length solo album
• Sound UnBound (2008), Published by MIT Press, Music Compilation released by SubRosa
• Dreaming of Revenge (2008), featured on violin in "Air & Kilometers", Kaki King (Velour Music).
• Journal of Popular Noise (2008), Vol. 3, Issue 9, 7"45LP with Ben Frost (Bedroom Community)
• ( (( PHONATION )) ) (2008), 3rd solo record

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bora Yoon official website