By Daniel Edward Rosen 10/18/11 10:15am

The Power Broker

Lisa Kiell has inked deals for Cisco Systems, Microsoft and BBC

The Number Cruncher: The JLL Powerhouse on Her BBC Deal

When the British Broadcasting Corporation began its search for new office space for the executive and sales staff in Manhattan last year, its focus was on finding space that had a newsroom feel, free of the labyrinthine private offices and barriers so common among law firms, doctors’ offices and corporate accounting firms.

Like the bullpen made famous by Mayor Bloomberg, the company envisioned a Manhattan office with open space that would inspire transparency and collaboration while eschewing privacy. Read More

By Michael M. Thomas 2/26/07 12:00am

Resurrected by the Wrath of Liz Smith

In New York, the way we live now, to relinquish or be denied one’s boldface identity, whether in the form of a column mention or a byline, is to incur invisibility or social death (which amount to the same thing). I discovered this when I gave up writing in this space regularly.

On the other Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 1/22/07 12:00am

In New ‘Quality TV,’ Dark Is New Light: CSI-ing of America

Did you realize that, according to the BBC, CSI: Miami—the one starring David Caruso—is the world’s most popular TV series? It features on more Top 10 ratings lists in more countries than any other show. This seems to me a phenomenon worth investigating. Especially since I’ve recently fallen under the spell of the show through Read More

By Rebecca Dana 1/08/07 12:00am

The Great Gervais

At 3 p.m. on Dec. 15, Ricky Gervais stood opposite a picture of his own round face, blown up to three times its size and resting on an easel in the lobby of the HBO building in midtown.

“Look what they’ve done to my teeth,” he said, jabbing a finger at his jaw, his voice Read More

By Joe Hagan 1/08/07 12:00am

Is NBC's The Office Too Prickly for Primetime?

“I’m breaking down in all kinds of stress-related illnesses,” confessed Greg Daniels, the 41-year-old executive producer behind NBC’s The Office: An American Workplace, the forthcoming remanufactured British comedy starring former Daily Show correspondent Steve Carell. “Just because it’s something I want so badly to work, because it’s something that I would want to watch.”

Though Read More

By Staff, Staff, Staff, Staff 10/23/06 12:00am

Editorials

Bloomberg and Klein Keep Pushing Ahead

For as long as just about anybody can remember, New Yorkers who care about public education—that should be all of us—have complained about how our schools are being managed. Bloated bureaucracies and inflexible work rules came to be seen as enemies of learning and achievement.

That’s beginning to change. Read More

By Mac Randall 7/17/06 12:00am

Radiohead Unplugged (From the Music Industry)

Fifteen years and six studio albums into their professional career, the five members of Radiohead find themselves in an unprecedented position. Their longstanding contract with the multinational recording conglomerate EMI—under the terms of which they created, among other things, two critically lauded artifacts of late-20th-century anxiety, OK Computer (1997) and Kid A (2000)—has now expired, Read More

By Charles Michener 7/17/06 12:00am

An Inner Light Extinguished: Farewell to a Great Singer

I once asked the late, esteemed voice teacher Beverley Johnson what distinguished a truly great singer. “An inner light,” she said. “Whether you’re talking about Piaf or Pavarotti, the great voices have a way of illuminating their soul.” On Monday, July 3, the most luminous voice I’ve ever heard was extinguished when the American mezzo Read More