By Foster Kamer 1/11 1:04pm

Launches

Awl Music logothing

Awl City: The Awl Launches Awl Music, Tumblr-Powered Video-Radio Station for Awl Their Friends

Longreads-approved website The Awl—run by Radar, Observer, and Gawker expats Alex Balk and Choire Sicha—is coming up on its third anniversary! Since they’ve launched, they’ve spun off three blogs from the mothership, general ladies’-interest site The Hairpin, comedy blog Splitsider, and most recently, gadget blog The Wirecutter.

And as of today, they’ve now launched a…Tumblr…radio station…of music videos, AwlMusic.TV.  DJ’d by them, and run by Eric Spiegelman, he of Old Jews Telling Jokes.

Maybe it’s just best to let them explain. Read More

10/06/10 2:09am

The Book Industry’s New Danger Brigade

“I thought this was supposed to be a book party,” The Observer overheard a guest say at last week’s launch for Mischief & Mayhem, a publishing imprint founded by Lisa Dierbeck, Joshua Furst, D. W. Gibson, Dale Peck and Choire Sicha in collaboration with OR Books. The guest was staring, mouth agape, at two burlesque Read More

By Zeke Turner 6/14/10 4:25pm

The Awl Is Tripling in Size

The Awl is planning to grow into a family of three websites, David Cho, the blog’s publisher, said in an interview with Nieman Journalism Lab.

“That was always what the site was going to be,” Mr. Cho said.

The flagship site, started by Choire Sicha, Alex Balk and Mr. Cho in April of Read More