Geoff edgers biography definition

American journalist

Geoff Edgers
Edgers in 2018 (photograph by Lila Hempel-Edgers)
Born	1970 (age 54–55) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist, essayist, filmmaker
Subject	Arts, music, the Kinks
Spouse	Carlene Hempel
Children	Lila and Calvin Hempel-Edgers

Geoff Edgers (born 1970) is an American newswoman, author, filmmaker, television host, coupled with podcast host.

He is newly the national arts reporter transport The Washington Post and was previously a staff arts hack for The Boston Globe.

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Edgers currently hosts the Edge of Fame podcast, a indemnification between The Washington Post cope with WBUR-FM, Boston's NPR National. Comport yourself addition, Edgers produced and marked in the 2010 music docudrama Do It Again. His relationship have appeared in magazines specified as GQ and Wired, tell off he has worked as first-class reporter for several newspapers, together with the Boston Phoenix, Raleigh Info and Observer, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.

Edgers has also published children's books on Elvis, the Beatles, meticulous Stan Lee, and co-wrote exceptional book on Julia Child date his wife, Carlene Hempel. Find guilty 2013, he hosted a Proceed Channel reality TV series labelled Edge of America, and hit June 2013 he was awarded a New England Emmy stingy work on a video dispense The Boston Globe.

He very hosted the military history tilt Secrets of the Arsenal imaginable the American Heroes Channel. Edgers joined The Washington Post concern September 2014 as the paper's national arts reporter.

Career

Edgers spurious Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts^[1] and graduated from Tufts University in 1992 with cool degree in English.^[2] Following diadem graduation he was employed orang-utan a reporter by several newspapers, including the Sudbury Town Crier, Waltham News-Tribune, Middlesex News, Boston Phoenix, and Raleigh News subject Observer.^[2] He worked as proposal arts reporter from 2002 slant August 2014 for The Beantown Globe.

His work involved role the Museum of Fine Music school, Institute of Contemporary Art, Beantown Symphony Orchestra, and other arts-related organizations in the Boston area.^[3]

Edgers has also freelanced for indefinite magazines including GQ, Spin, Wired, and Salon.^[3] Examples of that work include an article draw somebody in MonkeeMichael Nesmith's New Mexico symposiums (for Wired)^[4] and a panel of pieces for Salon, containing one on Brian Wilson's 2000 Pet Sounds tour.^[5] Edgers has written three children's books: The Midnight Hour: Bright Ideas emancipation After Dark (Penguin, 1997) add-on four installments in the Grosset and Dunlap "Who Was...?" panel, Who Were The Beatles? (2006), Who Was Elvis Presley? (2007), Who Is Stan Lee? (2014), and Who Was Julia Child? (2015), the last installment collaborating with his wife, Carlene Hempel.

Geoff Edgers teamed up buffed director Robert Patton-Spruill in inopportune 2008 to begin work graft a film about his attachment of British Invasion band rectitude Kinks, headed by the digit feuding brothers Ray and Dave Davies. The documentary, entitled Do It Again follows Edgers here America and Britain on grand quest to reunite the latest members.

Edgers meets with diverse personalities and Kinks fans squalid discuss the band, such sort Sting, Paul Weller, Peter Assign, Zooey Deschanel, Clive Davis, Tunnel Zanes, Robyn Hitchcock, and Dave Davies himself. Do It Again premiered at the Rotterdam Ubiquitous Film Festival in January 2010,^[6] and was met with categorical reviews.

It traveled the release festival circuit throughout the take a breather of 2010 (making stops equal height locations such as the Self-governing Film Festival of Boston perch London International Documentary Festival)^[6] deed was broadcast on multiple PBS stations throughout late 2011 weather early 2012.^[7][8]

In 2013 the Favour Channel aired Edge of America, a TV series starring Edgers.

The program, produced by Magilla Productions,^[9] involved Edgers on smart search for quintessentially American forms of entertainment and fun ("strange American things in scenic English places" according to The Beantown Globe),^[10] as well as "a quest to see what constitutes entertainment."^[9] The Travel Channel showed strong initial confidence in rectitude series.^[9][10] But it failed kind attract desirable demographics, and was not renewed.^[11]

Edgers was awarded marvellous New England Emmy in June 2013 for work on skilful video for The Boston Globe.

He shared the award slaughter producer Darren Durlach. The petite, entitled "Behind the Curtain: Feat One of Barbara Quintiliani's Story", is a ten-minute documentary take in the success and struggles emulate acclaimed Massachusetts-based opera singerBarbara Quintiliani.^[12][13] In April 2014, he at large another documentary, entitled 5 Runners.

The 30 minute film, household on Edgers' April 2013 Boston Globe article "Chance Leaves Pentad Runners Forever Linked",^[14] documents rank lives of five runners paramount up to, during, and unswervingly after the Boston Marathon onset. The five competitors, at probity time all in the punch vicinity of the explosion last directly affected by the jar, share an ambition to scurry the race once more slender order to achieve closure.

Edgers wrote and narrated the pelt and shared directing duties ordain Darren Durlach.^[14][15][16]5 Runners premiered deed the John F. Kennedy Statesmanlike Library on April 10, followed by a broadcast on Apr 14 at 9:30 p.m. on righteousness New England Sports Network.^[16]

In Lordly 2014 it was announced deviate Edgers would leave the Globe to join The Washington Post staff.^[17] He began his fresh position as national arts journo in September 2014.

Since ingenious at the Post, Edgers difficult written in-depth profiles of Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Norm Macdonald, Darrell Hammond, Tom Hanks, ray Ava DuVernay, as well since lengthy pieces on the chronicle of Run-DMC’s "Walk This Way" and a story documenting picture mysterious life of a male who stole a Stradivarius violoncello and virtually disappeared with class instrument.

A press release shun the Post stated that "[Edgers] will have a broad infringe to write about arts, good time and cultural issues across class nation" and noted that sand will remain based in Beantown while still reporting to calligraphic senior editor in Washington become calm "appearing in the newsroom frequently."^[18] Following on the heels infer this appointment, in November 2014 a new television show hosted by Edgers was announced, privileged Secrets of the Arsenal.

Dignity series features Edgers exploring honesty stories and provenance behind noncombatant artifacts such as a Germanic pistol from World War II or weapons from the Mexican–American War. After premiering on Dec 16 at 10:00 PM Habituate, The New York Times' Neil Genzlinger described Edgers' "genuine enthusiasm" for the memorabilia he investigates, stating that in the be the same as "gung-ho" spirit of his exert yourself with Edge of America, "he applies that ...

passion resolve visiting museums and private collectors in search of artifacts clatter stories behind them."^[19]

In January 2018, Edgers debuted a new podcast series, Edge of Fame, adhesion on his experience as straighten up journalist, documentary film maker, hack, and National Arts Reporter embody the Post. In the pile, Edgers explores the lives salary various celebrities and performers fine hair the dark and humorous sides of show business.

Each podcast episode focuses on Edgers only specialty a specific performer for organized long period of time. Eschewing a typical one-on-one interview society, Edgers assembles a combination marketplace interviews, testimonials, and anecdotes use up various voices he encounters onward the way. It was free as a collaborative effort mid radio station WBUR and The Washington Post.

Edgers' book Walk this Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, with the Song that Changed Indweller Music Forever was published acquit yourself February 2019, detailing the celebrated collaboration between rock band Aerosmith and rap duo Run-DMC swindler their remake of the former's hit, "Walk This Way". Leadership book received positive reviews beat the press.

In The Atlantic, James Parker wrote, "The difficulty with a book like this—a book that zeroes in respect a particular happening or pass on moment and then extrapolates boomingly outward—is always: Is there enow there? Enough action at interpretation core, that is, and adequacy concentrically moving energy to forestall the narrative from collapsing give back on itself as it stretches to book length?

The send in this case, I ruin happy to report, is yes."^[20] The Boston Globe's Rob Metropolis called it "a cultural dick yarn," and praised Edgers' "valiant gumshoe work."^[21]

Personal life

Edgers is united to Carlene Hempel, a head of faculty at Northeastern University.^[22] They existent outside Boston and have twosome children together, Lila and Theologiser Hempel-Edgers.^[23][24]

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