The Year in Interviews

This year we interviewed just under 300 people. From die hard New Yorkers to those just passing through our fair city, here are some our faves. And if you really wanna get reflective, here's our best of interview post from 2007.

Stephen Malkmus, formerly of Pavement, currently of The Jicks, told us about getting arrested in New York.

Can you share a story about life in New York back when you lived here? I don’t know. There’s so much in the early ‘90s I could talk about. One time I got caught evading a fare on the subway in 1991 because they had these really old turnstiles and I just slid through one of them and there was a sting. I got caught and had to spend four hours in the underground Union Square precinct with a bunch of other homeless derelicts. That came and went and I had a court date and my friend David Berman got caught and he had this idea to say that we were signing up to go fight in Iraq. And we had out-of-state licenses so we just said we were tourists from out of town and had come to New York to enlist to go to Kuwait. And the judge just told us to get out of there. So it’s nice to know the judges of New York care about our boys over there. (David Torch)

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