Exciting news: “Sex in Iran”, an article by Pari Esfandiari and Richard Buskin that I edited for the May 2007 issue of Playboy, has won the first Sexie Award for sex positive journalism. This award is given by the the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and the Center for Sex & Culture, and “Sex in …
Anyone who cares about magazines should drop by Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, as my friend Ken Smith and I (above) did yesterday, where there is an exhibit devoted to George Lois, who was the art director for Esquire between 1962 and 1972. The word iconic gets thrown around a lot these days, but during …
I had a pleasant time yesterday talking with Marc Weisblott of Toronto’s eyeweekly.com about Playboy and where it stands amid modern media. Check it out here.
The fabulous ASME Awards took place last night. Saw a lot of old friends, many of whom hauled away hardware. Congratulations to Jim Meigs, Susan Morrison, Michael Hainey and Graydon Carter, and consolations to Kurt Andersen, Rick Stengel and Walter Kirn. Playboy editors Amy Grace Loyd and AJ Baime keep a small carbon footprint as …
Playboy Senior Editor Scott Alexander and Mediabistro CEO Laurel Touby. Scott seems intrigued with Laurel’s boa work. Scott seems ready for Laurel to show others her boa. Playboys after dark: Chris Napolitano, Tim Mohr, Scott Alexander, Josh Robertson and Rocky Rakovic. I spent an interesting and enjoyable Tuesday evening at the restaurant Twenty Four Fifth, …
I posted this on The Huffington Post earlier today: Tonight the American Society of Magazine Editors will present its annual awards that recognize excellence in the various talents and skills that go into making magazines. Those who have been nominated, and those who will win — many among them my friends and former colleagues — …
Many of us at the company were proud to join Playboy CEO Christie Hefner at the UJA-Federation of New York’s celebration in honor of Bob Meyers, Playboy’s most amiable honor of President of Media, at a dinner on Tuesday night at the Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. Bob began volunteering for the UJA as a teenager, …
I had a great time at a party that Playboy co-hosted last week in honor of my friend and former colleague at Spy, Daniel Radosh. Daniel has just published an amusing and insightful new book called Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, several chapters of which first saw light of …
Nominations for the 2008 National Magazine Awards were announced yesterday, and I’m happy to say that a number of my friends and former colleagues are among the nominees. Popular Mechanics, which is edited by Jim Meigs, my former boss at Us, was nominated for Best Magazine with a circulation between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000, and also …
Listen to Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham rail against John McCain. Listen, and enjoy. It is the sound of the conservative crack-up. The great, long ,pro-market, anti-government, pro-military conservative run begun by Ronald Reagan has been bankrupted by George W. Bush, and these commentators are slowly realizing that they’ll very soon be part …