Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Steven Leon has only been with Citi Habitats for six years, but real estate has been in his blood forever. The rare Soho native, Leon got into the business while selling some of his family property and realized he had a Read More
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Beth Benalloul is a senior vice president and associate broker with Corcoran, where she specializes on selling apartments in her own backyard of the Upper East Side–for the sake of expertise and convenience. When not selling, selling, selling, she spends time Read More
Julian Assange, speaking with the BBC, says that the accusations of sexual misconduct made against him in Sweden are a smear campaign, that it’s working to tarnish his image, but that in the end the attention only makes Wikileaks stronger.
“Two days ago I did a search on Google for my name, some 40 Read More
Carrie Fisher’s touring show Wishful Drinking was recently filmed for an HBO special that debuts December 12. The show, which began on Broadway, is taken from her book of the same title and provides a broad overview of her many tabloid scandals — though Ms. Fisher says she’s actually not that much of a drinker. Read More
Welcome to a new regular feature from The Observer Real Estate Desk. In this inaugural edition, we ask Elayne Roskin, a senior vice president and managing director at Brown Harris Stevens, 11 questions about the city and herself. Ms. Roskin grew up in New York with real estate in her blood. (Don’t we all?) The Read More
Interview just turned 40, and is taking the opportunity to trot out a digital magazine. The 40th anniversary issue will be available on the iPad, and HuffPo has a video of the Interview-for-iPad demonstration.
The magazine said in its announcement:
It’s entirely fitting that Interview is once again at the forefront Read More
How much worse can things get for journalists?
Newspapers and magazines are closing; the ones that remain grow thinner by the week as if somehow cursed; freelance budgets are being slashed and staffers accustomed to taking it easy are being forced to write like their livelihoods depend on it. (Hint: They do.) The only Read More
Just by the trailer alone, we’re already big fans of Gus Van Sant’s upcoming film Milk, starring Sean Penn and a host of other male actors in the 18-34 demographic (James Franco, Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch) and the thing hasn’t even come out yet! Stoking our fire even more, this month’s Interview has a Read More
As far as Fashion Week parties go, Thursday night’s Interview magazine relaunch party at the yet-to-be finished Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district will be hard to top. The Standard is still a construction zone—exposed wire, plywood laid down for walkways, DJs in hard hats—and the effect was very much early ’90s East Berlin, except Read More
On the evening of March 10, Christopher Bollen, the new editor in chief of Interview magazine, met with Off the Record over a cup of Earl Grey at Grounded, a coffee shop on Jane Street. Mr. Bollen, 32, was speaking about a long-lost era when some magazines were so good that it absolutely terrified you Read More
