Talent
Janelle
Janelle Boatright, M.A. is a practicing healing arts counselor, artist and hypnotherapist in San Francisco and Oakland. Her current doctoral research and counseling practice focuses on the intersection of sexuality and spirituality, eco-psychology, and the neuro-chemistry of love and attraction exploring the evolution of conscious relationships in contemporary culture. Being raised in the Bible belt of the Deep South before relocating to the Bay area, her writing represents her own journey through human contradictions while exploring all things hidden and forbidden.
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Alex
American journalist Alex Crevar is based in Europe. He has written about travel, among other subjects, for several publications including The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, The Washington Post, Time Out, Men’s Journal, Outside, SKI and Coastal Living.
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Ike
Ike Edeani is a designer based in San Francisco. He established TASK in 2008, an interdisciplinary design studio dedicated to architecture, graphic design and fabrication. He has worked on a number of unique projects, including the design-driven short film Mixed Message, selected and screened at the 2009 San Diego Film Festival. He writes for, well, his blog. He also loves to take photos, of faces mostly.
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Erin
Erin Feher is an editor, writer, blogger and, thanks to the ever-morphing definition of journalism, yet another person receiving a salary and sick time to play on Facebook and Twitter for too may hours of her day. She writes about design, art, architecture and interior design (sneaking in stories on her other passions: bikes, travel, real estate and anything involving breakfast, lunch or dinner) for California Home + Design and 7×7. To keep things old school she is currently working on a humongous book with a fast-approaching deadline.
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Xifer
Xifer Fortier is old enough to know some things about how music is, was, might and might oughta be. He is also young enough to get in your pants (age of consent permitting). He works in (asymmetrical jazz hands) SHOWBIZ! and lives in San Francisco. He is a performing and recording artist, producer, and audio engineer; also (occasional) promotions director, peer editor, travel partner and heavy blanket. He enjoys cooking, whiskey, sudoku, and writing stuff. He is a damn strong swimmer for a guy with his lifestyle.
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Faggus
Who is Faggus Howard? Who indeed. What makes a man anyway? Is it chest hair? Is it his proclivities? If it is proclivities, then let me say now, for the record, that i love docking (please be uncut), barbra, and everything fashion. Fashion is ugly, fashion is a liar, fashion is rough, fashion is delicate, fashion is stupid, fashion is dangerous, fashion is open, fashion is beautiful, fashion is art and I am fashion. I mow down trends and look forward to each new date. By date I mean stranger sex. Bonus points if you have dark skin and we don’t talk at all. I believe you should express yourself, just not necessarily to me or out loud, unless it is with your fashion. I’m all hot clothing, gaudy jewelry, cold hammy shoes, sunshine, and spilled juices. My best friend will ask you how much for a pitcher, then order a pitcher of gin. I love cock.
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Holden
Holden Starstruck, born on the auspicious date of July 14, is originally from the small Californian suburb of San Jose that is Morgan Hill. The only notable fact about Morgan Hill is that it is the Mushroom Capitol of the World (and not the psychedelic ones). Additionally, Morgan Hill is the conservative, reserved, Southern Californian version of Santa Cruz, CA – but without a beach. Growing up in this environment was no small task for Holden. Knowing that he was gay from a young age, he had an issue from what he saw as withheld homoeroticism (or, in fact, homosexuality) that is inherit in both masculine adolescence and Californian virtues. This conflict led him to more alternative lifestyle choices, including, but not limited to: soy milk, extensive drug use, repetitive readings of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, French symbolist poetry, obsessive listening to David Bowie and various punk rock bands, etc. As with everything, time and pressure got to the young Mister Starstruck and he started writing poetry independently and writing absurdist editorials for his school newspaper, whose production halted after he and the team that was involved in graduated. Now living the life of the young, drunk, and elegant life of a writer in San Francisco, Holden is attending San Francisco State University for Anthropology (and somehow passing the majority of his classes). You can find him frequenting nearly any club or rave, but for the most part he sticks to anything involving punk rock, dive bars, 24-hour diners, (possibly thrifted) designer clothes, and drag queens.
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