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Name: Danyel Smith
Age: 42 Neighborhood: Work: Murray Hill; home: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Occupation: Editor-in-chief, Vibe magazine; vice-president/editorial director, Vibe Media Group; author of the novels More Like Wrestling (Crown, 2003), and Bliss (Crown, 2005).

Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
Fancy? Babbo. Almost always? Salmon cakes and grits at the Usual on Vanderbilt, in Brooklyn.

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21 Questions

4/22/08

11:05 AM

Bill Hemmer Drinks Stella Artois, on Tap

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Name: Bill Hemmer
Job: Co-host, Fox News' American Newsroom. Also co-host (with Megyn Kelly) of America's Election HQ. He and his pretty face will be toiling many hours on camera covering the Pennsylvania primary today.
Age: 43.
Neighborhood: Greenwich Village

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Tie: Theodore Roosevelt, Superman.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Name one? That’s not fair. Or balanced.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I learn thismuch about everything.

More: bill hemmer, fox news, media, megyn kelly, politcs, stella artois

21 Questions

4/ 8/08

1:15 PM

Simon Doonan Is a Delicate Flower

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Name: Simon Doonan
Age: 55
Neighborhood: Lower Fifth Avenue/University Place
Occupation: Barneys creative director, Observer columnist, and author of Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You.

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Diana Vreeland. She was bonkers in a totally life-enhancing way.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
I'm depressingly health foodie: I love the "wee dragon bowl" at Angelica Kitchen.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I have many jobs. I'm a Jackie of all trades.

More: jonathan adler, liberace, simon doonan

21 Questions

3/25/08

2:00 PM

Playwright Itamar Moses May Have the World's Largest Private Collection of Dinosaur Art

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Name: Itamar Moses
Age: 30
Neighborhood: Park Slope
Occupation: Playwright, The Four of Us, about two writers, one of whom becomes wildly successful and is totally Jonathan Safran Foer and one of whom may be Itamar. It's opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

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21 Questions

3/14/08

2:15 PM

Former Hillary Clinton Intern Keli Goff Thinks Chris Rock Should Be President

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Name: Keli Goff
Age: 28
Job: Political pundit, author of Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence, out this week from Basic Books.
Neighborhood: Lower East Side

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jackie O. The First Lady, not the rapper.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
French fries at Bette, followed by cheesecake at Veniero's.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I write and talk about politics.

More: 21 questions, chris rock, hillary clinton, kelly goff, politics, publishing

21 Questions

3/10/08

9:03 AM

Chip Kidd Walks Fast and Likes a Stiff Drink

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Name: Chip Kidd
Age: 43
Occupation: Associate art director at Knopf, singer and percussionist in the band artbreak, and the author of two novels, The Cheese Monkeys and the recently published The Learners. Neighborhood: Upper East Side, "on the same street that Lucy and Ricky used to live on."

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
I guess Truman Capote — he falls into all four of those categories.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Not a fair question at all. Recently, it's a tie between Una Pizza Napoletana and the new Blue Ribbon Sushi.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I mainly surf eBay, porn, MySpace, the Drudge Report, and Ain't It Cool News, all punctuated by fits of designing book covers.

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21 Questions

3/ 7/08

2:30 PM

Bethenny Frankel Tortures Ikea Employees Until They Give Her What She Wants

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Name: Bethenny Frankel
Age: 37
Neighborhood: Upper East Side
Occupation: Health-conscious celebrity chef, star of The Real Housewives of New York City, Health-magazine columnist, Pepperidge Farm Baked Naturals spokeswoman.

More: bethenny frankel, bravo, food, pepperidge farms, real housewives of new york city

21 Questions

3/ 4/08

5:05 PM

Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy Like Chewable Vitamins

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Names: Juliet Huddy and Mike Jerrick.

Jobs: Co-hosts of Fox's lively news-and-entertainment program The Morning Show With Mike & Juliet.

Ages: Huddy is 38, and Jerrick is 57.

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Juliet: My mom is my favorite living New Yorker. She grew up in Closter, New Jersey, but moved to New York City immediately after graduation to study acting. She moved to Miami after meeting my dad in the late sixties. Things came full circle, and now she’s back in the area. She always had such cool stories of her city days, acting at Neighborhood Playhouse and American Academy of Dramatic Arts and singing at places like the Living Room. I always thought New York had a magical appeal to it, and it’s totally because of her.
Mike: Jimmy Breslin.

More: donald trump, fox, hoboken, juliet huddy, margaritas, mike jerrick

21 Questions

2/26/08

2:15 PM

Lorraine Bracco Also Likes Marilyn Monroe Photos

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Name: Lorraine Bracco
Age: 53
Job: Actress. Bracco has followed up her iconic role in The Sopranos with a stint on Lipstick Jungle as a whip-cracking publisher. Last night, Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment celebrated her Bracco Wines.
Neighborhood: Chelsea

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Fanny Brice.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Empire Diner's roasted-chicken plate.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Think and/or worry.

More: chickens, lorraine bracco, sopranos, wine

21 Questions

2/22/08

1:30 PM

Steve Aoki Is Much Happier Now That He Quit World of Warcraft

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Name: Steve Aoki.
Job: D.J., designer, Benihana heir, and celebrity friend. Aoki will be spinning this Saturday night at Room Service.
Age: 29.

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Malcolm X.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Cabana.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Run a record label, clothing line, and studio time when I'm in L.A.

More: barack obama, brooklyn, djs, donald trump, steve aoki, times square