(Editors Note: Mary Kay Culpepper left Cooking Light in 2009) Like most Americans, I don’t have the best eating habits. I generally try to follow the 80/20 rule. I make an effort to eat smart and well about 80 percent of the time and give in to my inner teenager the other 20 percent,... Continue Reading →
34 Remember the Blender mag CD-ROM and editor Dale Hrabi? INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Dale Hrabi, editor, Blender Original Publication Date: January 27, 1997 How many times have you read a celebrity profile in some magazine and thought, "I wish I could actually hear So-and-So" actually say that." Or maybe you just wish magazines came with their own soundtracks, the way TV shows and movies do. Well,... Continue Reading →
30 Inside Radio with magazine editor Tom Taylor! INTERVIEW
Originally published January 20, 1997 While most of the big talk in media these days centers around the World Wide Web, real money is quietly being made in radio. "Suddenly," says Tom Taylor, 47, editor of the daily fax tipsheet, Inside Radio, "radio is starting to look like other businesses." What he means is that... Continue Reading →
28 Behind the skin with Playboy mag editor Chris Napolitano! PODCAST INTERVIEW
When I was a student at the University of Florida, studying film during the day and writing freelance stories at night, I landed two choice assignments. Choice, that is, for a horny, unrequited, socially awkward twenty-year-old. First, I got to spend an afternoon hanging out with Russ Myers, a notorious film director and king... Continue Reading →
23 Ray Conniff’s kid, sure, but she’s Billboard editor to you! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Do you remember the first music you ever bought? Whether it was a digital download, a compact disc, cassette, eight track, or a 33-1/3, 45, or even a 78 RPM wax record, I’ll bet you know that first song or album by heart. Mine was way back in 1967, The Monkees’ Headquarters album. My... Continue Reading →
21 Movie scoop? We’ve got THR’s Tatiana Siegel’s expertise! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Tatiana Siegel, reporter, The Hollywood Reporter How do you measure the summer? Baseball games, picnics, trips to the beach? Around my house, it’s the Monday box office scores – rounded to the nearest million dollars, of course. The first three big movies of Summer 2007 – Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean... Continue Reading →
20 Longtime Smithsonian magazine editor Carey Winfrey’s history! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Carey Winfrey, editor, Smithsonian Blender. Newsweek. TV Guide. Forbes. Playboy. Mac World. Entertainment Weekly. Wizard. Business 2.0. Esquire. These are the magazines I read as soon as they arrive in the mail each week or each month. They are frothy, entertaining reads, and I look forward to each new issue. And then... Continue Reading →
17 Mediaweek editor Lisa Granatstein on, well, media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lisa Granatstein, editor, Mediaweek (Adweek) I love to read. They don’t start calling you Mr. Media because you’re illiterate, of course, and magazines have always fascinated me. When I pass a newsstand, I absolutely must stop and see what’s new and different. Drives my wife crazy. My garage is littered with the... Continue Reading →
15 Houdini biographer Ratso Sloman on writing with Howard Stern! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Larry Ratso Sloman, author or co-author of celebrity memoirs from Howard Stern, Abbie Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Phil Esposito, Mike Tyson, and a biography of Harry Houdini Writing the biography of a well-known person in pop culture is an assignment fraught with trap doors, two-way mirrors, and shackles. Some writers even disdain... Continue Reading →