David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Alix Lambert's life: Imitating (and surpassing) art
Performance artist/“John from Cincinnati” staff writer Alix Lambert, one of the more interesting people you’d want to interview, also has two books coming out in the next year:
* “Crime,” a fairly fascinating-sounding rumination on crime and its depiction in the arts, exploring how much the real thing inspires the artist – and vice versa.
* “The Silencing,” in which Lambert may have risked her life to tell the stories of five of the many Russian journalists who have “mysteriously” died after crossing the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
“I got chased out of Russia; it was quite a dramatic couple of days,” Lambert says, typically droll and deadpan.
When she went to photograph the apartment where journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had written extensively and critically of the war in Chechnya, had been gunned down, even her local fixer was spooked, and being spooked is not part of the fixer’s job description.
“There are surveillance cameras everywhere, and the guy who was driving me around wouldn’t go in,” she remembers. “When you’re taking pictures of where she was killed, they’re taking picture of you.”
And yet, curiously, Lambert says she’s not responsible for “John from Cincinnati’s” upcoming Polonium-210 subplot.