'"In San Francisco’s little Italy there is an old café full of all the characters left in the city. Francis Ford Coppola sat in that café and wrote The Godfather. Upstairs is a hotel full of little rooms where all kinds of interesting lives are unfolding, including Jack and Aggie’s."

EXCERPT FROM ISSUE ON JACK HIRSCHMAN

Each Goodie has one single subject, usually a person, but not always. We value authenticity, which is being rapidly diluted into the mundane. Even in New York City sameness and blandness have largely replaced the Real McCoy. Goodie celebrates people who still have their individuality intact, places that aren't repeated over and over in exactitude, things which delight.

From a Times Square building in late 1999, Foxy Kidd and Romy Ashby started making Goodie Magazine to celebrate authenticity and originality in whatever manifestation those qualities appear. It remains a small, handmade publication dedicated to preserving an endangered history through the stories of its subjects, and it is produced entirely on money it earns for itself. With the help of generous donations from readers, Panther Books began in 2001. A natural accompaniment to the magazine, Panther was initially created to publish works by Goodie Magazine subjects