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Adario Strange is a New York–based writer, film director, and artist. He is best known for his documentary film The NYU Suicides detailing a year of strange deaths at the famed university. In recent years he was Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper New York Press , and a technology writer for Wired, the SyFy channel, and PC Magazine.
New York Press was a free alternative weekly in New York City, which was published from 1988 to 2011.
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since March/April 1993. Several spin-offs have been launched, including Wired UK, Wired Italia, Wired Japan, and Wired Germany. Condé Nast's parent company Advance publications is also the major shareholder of Reddit, an internet information conglomeration website.
PC Magazine is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009. Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and continues to this day.
Contents
- Filmography
- Discography
- Digital Underground
- Tupac Shakur
- The Original Heads
- See also
- References
- External links
Strange was born and raised in the East Village in New York City, NY, United States. Many in the entertainment industry also know him for his work as one of the original writers and second Editor-in-Chief of The Source hip hop magazine. He also became a well-known New York radio personality at New York's Hot 97 WQHT FM, WBAU FM, and WLIB AM, as well as a record producer for Tupac Shakur.
The East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly defined as the neighborhood east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south.
New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.54 million residents in 2018, it is the fourth most populous state. To distinguish the state from the city in the state with the same name, it is sometimes called New York State.
WQHT – also known as "Hot 97" – is an American radio station licensed to New York City under the corporate ownership of Emmis Communications. WQHT primarily plays hip hop-leaning urban contemporary hits and occasionally a pop-leaning rhythmic title. WQHT's studios are located in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, and its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. The station broadcasts in the HD format.
Strange also worked behind-the-scenes with Public Enemy's Bomb Squad production team with Hank Shocklee and Bill Stephney's Sound of Urban Listeners music label (aka S.O.U.L. Records) through MCA Records. In 1995, Strange published two issues of The Nü School, [1] a Fort Greene, Brooklyn based magazine dedicated to poetry and jazz music. In 2001, Strange appeared in The New York Times as a leader of the digital music MP3 movement heading up FreeListen.com. Later in 2001, Strange released the book The Art of Secrets: Pirates, Robots, & Beats, a compilation of his early The Source technology columns.
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, Sammy Sam, and the S1W group. Formed in Long Island, New York, in 1986, they are known for their politically charged music and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community.
MCA Records was an American major record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group, which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003. The label's country division MCA Nashville is a still active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville.
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with an estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects Staten Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County.
Strange has appeared as a guest discussing youth culture and technology on ABC's World News Tonight , CBS News, and PBS, and in the pages of The New York Times , The New York Daily News , Crain's New York Business and Billboard Magazine .
A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that ascribed by social institutions such as family, work, home and school. Youth subcultures that show a systematic hostility to the dominant culture are sometimes described as countercultures.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building.
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS. The president of CBS News is David Rhodes. On January 6, 2019, Susan Zirinsky was named President of CBS News, replacing David Rhodes. Rhodes will be leaving on March 1, 2019, and "will step down as president of CBS News amid falling ratings and the fallout from revelations from an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against CBS News figures, Rhodes and the CBS network said." Zirinsky will become the first female President of CBS News.
