This year we interviewed just under 300 people. From die hard New Yorkers to those just passing through our fair city, here are some our faves. And if you really wanna get reflective, here's our best of interview post from 2007.
The AP notes how CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric has been hitting a new high note in her career with her series of interviews with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and is finally getting respect. (It's better than rumors that she's moving on). Couric, though, says, “I’ve never really lost confidence in my abilities, which I guess is pretty miraculous. I didn’t really have a lot of platforms to do what I excel at, which is talk to people and do interviews.”
The police, already fearing retaliatory violence, say the youths were exchanging gang signs, wearing T-shirts with a gang name and bounding atop cars when they were arrested. Parents and teachers of the group and witnesses said that they were no more boisterous than any group of teenagers would be in similar circumstances, and that they did not see any youths atop cars.Continue reading "Paying Your Respects, Getting No Respect"
Swanson: Law & Order called my agent and said that they're doing the Anna Nicole Smith story. They knew I had just given birth a month before and asked, "How does she feel and how does she look?" My agent said, "Well, she's a little heavy, because she just had a baby," and they told him it would work for the story, because the character just had a baby, so she's up a few pounds, too. [Laughs] So after much discussion with [boyfriend] Lloyd, I decided to do the show...
EVENT: Bluestockings is a great little place on Allen St, if you haven't already checked it out. Tonight the UnCoolKids tell us this bookstore (and more) is having an event called "Where Have You Been? Conversations on Travel":
A look at some noteworthy televison shows this week:
If you count yourself as a New Yorker and a movie lover, it's tough to not have a special affinity for films by Woody Allen. Practically the filmmaker laureate of the city, Allen's prolific 40 plus year career is getting a three week long screening series at Film Forum starting this Friday. Gothamist loves Allen's movies (both the highs and the lows) so much that we thought we'd chat with an Allen expert, Queens College professor Bob Kapsis, about how to plan our screening calendar during "Essentially Woody."
, showing that they truly believe in protecting Piazza, even now that's he's a Padre.
New York magazine brings the funny this week with a cover story about Conan O'Brien as well as some other NYC-comedy features. The Conan story delves into his "unsuave" persona and the possibilities of bringing his style to the rest of America when he takes over the Tonight Show (he says, "I’m open to going to L.A. Mostly because it won’t be my choice."). Gothamist highly recommends you read it, but we have pulled out his thought about the city:
"New York is a social experiment—the results aren’t in yet, it may not have worked, they took way too many people with a large disparity of wealth, stacked them on top of each other, and sprinkled bagels over the whole thing. Contrast breeds comedy, and the more extreme the contrast, the better the comedy."We just want to know what kind of bagels O'Brien thinks are sprinkled on top of the city - H & H, maybe? And is there lox involved? Anyway, Gothamist wonders if now is too early to start a petition to keep him in NYC, but a sunblock pharmaceutical will probably lobby to send him to L.A.
The Conversation is also the lesser-lauded but truly incredible Francis Ford Coppola film starring Gene Hackman. Gothamist will be watching the Golden Globes (and some pre-show as well - we're only human and we will be seething at both the Rivers sideshow and Star Jones Reynolds...as for the telecast, expect some tsunami shout-outs), and then blogging into the wee hours with a wrap-up post. [Gothamist on the nominations and our commentary from last year's telecast]
This week, a Gothamist Interview subject comes back to interview for us!
Candice Holmes is a native New Yorker, representing as a Hunter High and Wesleyan grad. Since her Gothamist interview, she found a job as a media buyer for a marketing company where she spends her days chained to her desk and conversing on IM. Pastimes include staying out too late on work nights, being a jaded partygoer, watching VH1 Classics, shilling for her favorite bands, and occasionally writing about things with far too many words (and no pictures) on her blog.We're glad to have you here, Candice.
Sarah Robbins's first job was roasting, salting, and packaging peanuts at her family's Toledo warehouse. She now lives under the shadow of the JMZ tracks and makes a living freelance writing and editing for magazines such as the American Book Review, TimeOut New York, and Glamour. At present she's at work on a reader's companion to The Grapes of Wrath and her own first novel, which, when compared to Steinbeck's, is ... shorter.Today, Sarah interviews songwriter and producer Alexander Perls.
David S. Hirschman is news editor at Mediabistro and a reporter at Metro. He subsists on a strict diet of gin, gummy bears and coconut-breaded jumbo shrimp, and blames all of his problems on an upbringing that was not nearly repressive enough. Eager to sell out, he will write just about anything if you offer him $100,000.In the meantime, David is selling laterally, starting with today's interview with Jill Singer, Deputy Editor at Mediabistro. Welcome, David!
A note about the Interviews: Many people have wondered, been confused by/upset at/shocked by this week's questionless format. Gothamist's decision was to let our guest interviewers find their own interview style and rhythm that they feel comfortable with and feel would suit their subjects. We love K. Thor's questionless style - it's a way of really being inserted into the subject's mind - as much as we love the traditional Q&A style, and we hope you don't miss out on these interviews. That said, we're pretty sure that our cast of guest interviewers lined up through the early fall will be using some sort of Q&A format, but it will not be settled until we announce a new interviewer willing and able to take up the task of producing one new interview each weekday - it's much harder than it looks! Thanks for all of your feedback.
This week, Ask Gothamist looked at brokers, at squatters, and at subletting apartments, and getting in shape for this weather.
Plus, the week in review from Ask Gothamist and this week's Gothamist Interviews. You can also check the weather for today! And the week in full.
Some (okay, it was MemeFirst...again!...they are Gothamist's secret legal counsel) have said that The Big Smoker has Gothamisty roots.
We visited the Holy Land, a.k.a the set of Law & Order. Check out some of this past week's Gothamist Interviews. Plus the week in full.
Read today's interview with funny Chelsea Peretti.
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