Thomas Farley
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Thomas P. Farley is a manners expert and radio and television personality and journalist.
Farley is the editor of the anthology Modern Manners: The Thinking Person's Guide to Social Graces http://www.ibookdb.net/book/97332, a guide to mannerly living that includes essays by Peggy Noonan
, Frank McCourt
and Jamie Lee Curtis
. During his time as an editor in the features department of Town & Country
(2000-2008), he was the editor of T&Cs "On the Town" and "Social Graces" columns. It was during this time that he first became known to national and New York television audiences as an expert on issues of contemporary etiquette, appearing on CNN
, ABC
, NBC
, CBS
and in periodicals such as The New York Times
and New York
magazine. He left Town & Country
in November 2008 and has since founded the video lifestyle site New York Insider TV. He is also the creator of a site devoted to matters of contemporary etiquette, What Manners Most.
School of Continuing Education and also does seminars for schoolchildren. He also publishes a list of the year's worst-behaved individuals: a roster that he says is "not intended to embarrass, but to inform." He continues to be an in-demand media guest and is presently working on a new book, devoted to tech etiquette. In 2011, Farley became a regular guest host for "Living Today," a three-hour program that airs live daily on the Martha Stewart Living Radio
network on Sirius XM 110, satellite radio.
, Snoop Dogg
, Ivanka Trump
, Andie Macdowell
, Sean Connery
, Jessica Biel
, Joan Rivers
, Mike Bloomberg, Jimmy Fallon
and Jon Bon Jovi
. He is also a regular fixture on the foodie circuit, where he has interviewed everyone from Guy Fieri
to Rocco DiSpirito
and from Rachael Ray
to Emeril Lagasse
.
in-flight, in hotel rooms throughout Manhattan and on nyctv
, the fifth largest local television station in the United States.
and, in the fall of 1997, reportage from volcano-ravaged Montserrat
, in the West Indies. (Shortly after he and his photographer left, the island's airport was permanently closed, due to a pyroclastic flow that destroyed the runway.)
"The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster: 100 Ways to Make Life More Efficient" (2008). Featured contributor: "Minding Your Manners in a Fast-Paced World."
Farley is the editor of the anthology Modern Manners: The Thinking Person's Guide to Social Graces http://www.ibookdb.net/book/97332, a guide to mannerly living that includes essays by Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan is an American author of seven books on politics, religion, and culture and a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal...
, Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood....
and Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many...
. During his time as an editor in the features department of Town & Country
Town & Country (magazine)
Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...
(2000-2008), he was the editor of T&Cs "On the Town" and "Social Graces" columns. It was during this time that he first became known to national and New York television audiences as an expert on issues of contemporary etiquette, appearing on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
and in periodicals such as The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
magazine. He left Town & Country
Town & Country (magazine)
Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...
in November 2008 and has since founded the video lifestyle site New York Insider TV. He is also the creator of a site devoted to matters of contemporary etiquette, What Manners Most.
Career
With Irish publisher Kevin Kelly, Farley was the founding editor of The World of Hibernia magazine, a luxury publication launched for readers of Irish ancestry and which covered everything from travel to fashion. He joined Town & Country in 2000 and after leaving the magazine, in 2008, unveiled New York Insider TV in 2009.Mister Manners
During his time at Town & Country, Farley became regarded for his expertise on manners and etiquette and was regularly called upon as a guest on morning shows to discuss do's and don'ts of good behavior. He's been a featured lecturer at the New York UniversityNew York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
School of Continuing Education and also does seminars for schoolchildren. He also publishes a list of the year's worst-behaved individuals: a roster that he says is "not intended to embarrass, but to inform." He continues to be an in-demand media guest and is presently working on a new book, devoted to tech etiquette. In 2011, Farley became a regular guest host for "Living Today," a three-hour program that airs live daily on the Martha Stewart Living Radio
Martha Stewart Living Radio
Martha Stewart Living Radio is a 24 hour satellite radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 110 produced by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The station airs a variety of programming hosted by the company's team of experts, covering topics related to the domestic arts, including day and date...
network on Sirius XM 110, satellite radio.
New York Insider
As host and producer of New York Insider TV, Farley is a frequent and popular personality on the New York social scene and has interviewed more than 100 celebrities for the show, including Mike Myers, Sarah Jessica ParkerSarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
, Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
, Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
, Andie Macdowell
Andie MacDowell
Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She has received the Golden Camera and an Honorary César.-Early life:...
, Sean Connery
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...
, Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel
Jessica Claire Biel is an American actress, model, and occasional singer. Biel is known for her television role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven...
, Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries...
, Mike Bloomberg, Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon
James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr. is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC...
and Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder, occasional rhythm guitarist, and lead singer of rock band Bon Jovi, which was named after him...
. He is also a regular fixture on the foodie circuit, where he has interviewed everyone from Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri
Guy Fieri is an American restaurateur, author, television personality, and game show host. He co-owns five restaurants in California and is widely known for his television series on the Food Network....
to Rocco DiSpirito
Rocco DiSpirito
Rocco DiSpirito is an Italian American chef based in New York City.-Life and career:DiSpirito was born in Queens, New York City, New York. He graduated in 1986 from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and in 1990 from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in business...
and from Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray
Rachael Domenica Ray is an American television personality, businesswoman, celebrity chef and author. She hosts the syndicated talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray and three Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels and $40 a Day...
to Emeril Lagasse
Emeril Lagasse
'Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as “Kick it up a notch!” and...
.
Citybuzz
As the nightlife correspondent for Citybuzz, a New York-based destination show featuring the best of the Big Apple, Farley takes viewers to places that are just insider-y enough that when they visit themselves, they'll feel like in-the-know locals. Citybuzz can be seen on JetBlue AirwaysJetBlue Airways
JetBlue Airways Corporation is an American low-cost airline. The company is headquartered in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. Its main base is John F. Kennedy International Airport, also in Queens....
in-flight, in hotel rooms throughout Manhattan and on nyctv
NYCTV
NYC TV is a group of Government-access television broadcast and cable TV channels operated by NYC Media Group, a division of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications...
, the fifth largest local television station in the United States.
Adventures
Among the major feature stories Farley has written during his career include the tale of a cruise to Antarctica, a first-person account of flying with the Blue AngelsBlue Angels
The United States Navy's Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Blue Angels, was formed in 1946 and is currently the oldest formal flying aerobatic team...
and, in the fall of 1997, reportage from volcano-ravaged Montserrat
Montserrat
Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...
, in the West Indies. (Shortly after he and his photographer left, the island's airport was permanently closed, due to a pyroclastic flow that destroyed the runway.)
Books
Modern Manners: The Thinking Person's Guide to Social Graces (2005)."The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster: 100 Ways to Make Life More Efficient" (2008). Featured contributor: "Minding Your Manners in a Fast-Paced World."
Affiliations
Farley is on the Board of Governors for the New York Press Club and is an ardent proponent of volunteer vacations, having both organized and written about them.External links
- When Volunteering Abroad, Do as the Locals Do Town & Country magazine; June 2008.
- Green Travel Town & Country magazine; March 2009.
- What Manners Most
- New York Insider TV
- What Manners Most: Your Guide to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Contemporary Behavior