Anil Dash describes himself as a “blogger, entrepreneur, and geek living in NYC.” His blog, started in 1999, was one of the first on the web. He was the first employee of Six Apart, the blogging company behind TypePad and Moveable Type, and was recently appointed Director of Expert Labs,
Digital media artist and musician Cory Arcangel recently presented Depreciated, his first career retrospective, at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (aka Montevideo). One new piece featured clips of cats walking on piano keys assembled into Schoenberg’s “Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11.” Arcangel also co-founded programming ensemble BEIGE while at
Graham Linehan co-created “Father Ted” and has written for several other comedy series, including “Brass Eye,” “Jam,” and “Black Books.” Linehan is currently writing the fourth season of “The IT Crowd,” his sitcom about three awkward computer technicians.
RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts organization that hosts a biennial series of performance art pieces in New York City. PERFORMA 09 (running through Nov. 22) marks the 100th anniversary
Kevin Moffett is the author of the short-story collection Permanent Visitors, and his stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, and twice in The Best American Short Stories. Until recently, he edited and wrote for Funworld, the official magazine of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions
Abhay Khosla is a regular contributor to The Savage Critics, a review of comic books. He’s made a foray into writing comics, and his absurdist, scatalogical adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula has garnered internet notoriety. Khosla also self-publishes Twist Street, an anthology of comics and other writing.
Brooklyn resident Emily Bobrow is editor of More Intelligent Life, the online version of The Economist’s quarterly culture and style magazine. She is also a contributor to The Economist's books and arts section and has written for The Believer, the New York Observer, and TimeOut New York.
Freelance Whales cut their teeth playing jaunty pop music on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Recently, the Metropolitan Transit Authority granted the band a license to play in subway stations as an official member of Music Under New York, complete with banner. We spoke to one of the band’s
Jonathan Ames is a Brooklyn-based writer, an occasional boxer, and the creator of the new HBO series Bored to Death about a Brooklyn-based writer named Jonathan Ames, played by Jason Schwartzman, who becomes a private detective. TMN: Why set the show so distinctively in Carroll Gardens and other
Sacha Gervasi is a British director, screenwriter, and journalist. His screenwriting credits include The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. Gervasi’s directorial debut, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, a documentary about an aging Canadian metal band for whom he was a roadie in the early 1980s,
