Maer Roshan

Late this afternoon, Radar editor Maer Roshan announced that the magazine's deputy editor Chris Tennant is out. He'll stay "onboard" as a contributing editor. Here's the memo:  read more »

Around 9pm at the New Museum on Bowery, Radar editor Maer Roshan, dressed in an extremely well-fitting John Varvatos suit, was standing next to the bar. The suit was dark, but it wasn't entirely clear what color it was in a dimly lit room on the ground floor.

Mr. Roshan's magazine was throwing a party intended to honor "the most exciting rogues, renegades, and rule-breakers of the year." Film-maker Craig Brewer, writer Shalom Auslander, and Squid and the Whale star Jesse Eisenberg, among other rogues, renegades, and rule-breakers, were in attendance.

As Mr. Roshan surveyed the room, he considered the best time of year to host a party. "Summer, I think."  read more »

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Radar editor Maer Roshan said that he is standing by his magazine's story that former CBS producer Mary Mapes is going to work with Dan Rather at HDNet.

Both Ms. Mapes and HDNet's owner, Mark Cuban, denied the arrangement today "The reporter, who's a trusted one here, did speak to her," Mr. Roshan said this afternoon. "We first got that information about a month ago. It could conceivably be that [Ms. Mapes] doesn't remember. It could also be that maybe that this was going to be official and.... You know? Things happen in a month. I know that this information when we got it was true. It was confirmed by Ms. Mapes." Mr. Roshan further claimed that his reporter—identified only as "FI Staff"—had exchanged e-mails with Ms. Mapes. In them, he said, she suggested people that Radar might hire.

"The idea of making up out of whole cloth a story like that," he said. "Of all the stories to make up that doesn't seem like one that naturally leaps to mind." Reached again at her Dallas home, Ms. Mapes again denied ever having had plans to work for HDNet. "I'm not sure what he's talking about," she said.

She also reiterated that she had never spoken to a Radar reporter. "I've not talked to anyone who called as a reporter from Radar to discuss anything like that."

Ms. Mapes did, however, clarify her position on her familiarity with Radar, the magazine. She knew of its existence. She just had trouble finding the Web site, she said. —Rebecca Dana

Radar's back, baby. And it's bountiful, with a crew of pasty young men laboring night and day. Local well-known job-jumping ne'er-do-wells Jeff Bercovici and Matt Haber and Marcus Baram are all stuffed belowdecks on the Viking slave galleon that is the good ship Maer Roshan. Homeless no more!

In fact, that galley is packed; the two main blogs alone list eleven staffers, giving it, no doubt, the highest staff costs of any weblog site in existence. (It could have been more expensive! Apparently former Radar employee Remy Stern didn't make it to sea, having been chucked overboard at some point pre-launch. (Or perhaps he threw himself over?)) And the "Reviews" section lists a staff of eight.

So clearly she's a seaworthy vessel, yah—if a bit battered about the poop deck.

Reportedly, these new-fangled things called "RSS feeds" will be available later today.

On the afternoon of Dec.  read more »

Thanks to a world-class team of talent, in just a few short months, Radar Magazine and Radar Online made a significant impact on the cultural landscape, breaking news and publishing groundbreaking stories that struck a chord with our unique, much-coveted audience. The magazine built up brand recognition and credibility that many magazines spend years and millions of dollars trying to attain. I sincerely thank Mort Zuckerman and Jeffrey Epstein for their support thus far. And I would like to extend my deepest thanks to my staff for their hard work and extraordinary dedication over the past fourteen months. We are currently engaged in productive discussions with a number of new investors and I look forward to continuing operations in the near future. Maer Roshan Editor In Chief, Radar Magazine  read more »

From Boldface Names, The New York Times, March 28, 2003:

How Do I Get a Cute Actress To Add Sizzle to My Steak?

Next to MAER ROSHAN, who has gotten endless attention for a magazine he has not published (Radar), we are shocked and awed by the Men's Health editor, DAVID ZINCZENKO, who had gotten endless attention for a job he said he would not take (editor of GQ).

Mr. Zinczenko, for the last six months, has been dating the red-headed actress ROSE McGOWAN. When we saw them at the Oscar party at Elaine's, she seemed a little annoyed when we had to ask her to familiarize us with her work. (Replaced SHANNEN DOHERTY on the TV show "Charmed"; appeared in "Monkeybone" and "Scream"; believe us, we are sick that we did not know.) Mr. Zinczenko, however, was as giddy as a debutante.

How did they meet?

"At a BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN concert in Las Vegas," Mr. Zinczenko said. "There was a line at the concession stand and she turned around and said, 'Oh, my God, I don't have any money.' I said, 'O.K., get whatever you want.' She got water and peanuts."

Mr. Zinczenko is but a lad of 33. He had been courted by a rich magazine and he's dating an actress, whom everybody knows but us.

What could be missing?

"I want to beat LANCE BASS to space," Mr. Zinczenko said. "Come on, that's funny. Write it down."  read more »

How Do I Get My New Magazine, Radar, Published? Oops, sorry. We're out of space.

Left, RADAR (via Gawker); Right, Esquire, April 1968. Update: It turns out that the art director with the balls to rip off George Lois' legendary Esquire cover was none other than... George Lois. (Very sneaky, RADAR!) From a press release just received at Mob HQ:

Radar magazine's Maer Roshan has brought legendary adman and cover designer genius George Lois out of retirement to design the issue's September/October issue, on sale August 16th. [...] "Magazines don't even try to do covers with actual ideas any more," Lois says in the forthcoming issue of Radar. "I get calls from these big magazine conferences -- always some big goddamn deal -- and they're always the same thing: 'Could you come down, George, and make a speech about why all magazine covers suck?' Screw that! Everybody knows that already! You can't just slap a picture of Nicole Kidman on your cover and expect people to say, 'Wow! What a cover!' It's just another picture of Nicole. Who gives a shit?"

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--Matt Haber

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