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I write boring things for big companies that don't use my name. I write other things here and use my first name. I have two sweet dogs that wish the UPS man wouldn't ring the doorbell.
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TV Critic @ The New Republic //
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Author of Body Count (33⅓) and Metallica: The $24.95 Book. Working on a biography of Local H for J-Card Press, scheduled for 2027.
NYC-based musik maker with his Stringed Serpents. Proud member of the Zolephants, Vague Plot, and ALÂN. / www.babycopperhead.org
NYC journalist and other words; co-owner of The New York Groove. (Subscribe today! https://nygroove.nyc).
Co-founder of Vocabaret.
Formerly NY Post, Lifehacker, Brokelyn and so forth.
Film director: Big Gold Dream, Teenage Superstars, Far From the Apple Tree.
Book Writer - Postcards From Scotland and co-writer Hungry Beat
Out Now ! Toshi Tsuchitori - Ryuichi Sakamoto "Disppointment-Hateruma"
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Safe street designs, infrastructure, buses & bikes — Press Secretary at NYC DOT. Staten Island, born and raised. Nella strada.
Was WaPo's arts + entertainment editor and Slate's biz + tech editor. Still the proprietor of hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
Music writer, saxophonist, steel guitarist, PhD in American Studies, bylines in Downbeat, Point of Departure, Passion of the Weiss, elsewhere. Day gig: Duke University Press.
Independent journalism with a BITE.
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Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
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Truth to power, always. Obsessed with systems. DM tips. Editor, Co-founder, CEO, Innovator: Mississippi Free Press, JXN Free Press, Youth Media Project, Solutions Circles • she/her • MY views here • mississippifreepress.org • “Do the right thing and wait”
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Writing about financial markets for @risk.net, and occasionally other things. recovering real estate and architecture reporter. bike girl about town
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Historian at Fitchburg State. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC Press). Annoyingly obsessed with radio.
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Contributing writer at The New Yorker. Formerly ran newsletters at CJR. Author: What is Journalism For? Other words in the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
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oh, ya know // co-everything, hearing things
Posting links to music documentaries online whenever the hell I feel like it.
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Executive Editor at Morning Brew
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FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
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Erstwhile arts / culture / music editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
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Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Postwar Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in NYC. Owned by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell
Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl.
