Peter Anastas is the editor of Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1962-1969, and the author of At the Cut, a memoir, and the novels, Broken Trip and No Fortunes. Visit his blog at http://www.peteranastas.blogspot.com.
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Mik Augustin is a local artist who spends too much time in the kitchen and too little time performing poetry on stage. with thousands of hours of experience cooking at home, his love for edible things is evident in journal entries and a gradually growing gut. he rides a mountain bike daily to his teaching gig in salem and is shy about such conventions as cars, computers and capital letters. Mik also enjoys terry pratchet novels, the sun, and garments featuring velcro pockets.
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR: Suzanne Barnes began drawing pictures of trees, birds, animals, and rocks in earnest around 1959. She still does that today. She also teaches other people to draw at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she is a Professor of Illustration. When she’s not working in her studio or making a student sharpen their pencil, she drinks too much coffee and hangs out at Artists Row.
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Past Intern: Kayla Bishop is a sophomore Math major with a slightly unhealthy passion for learning. She juggles many responsibilities such as being the Managing Editor of Salem State’s ezine, Red Skies, interning for Art Throb, tutoring four days a week, and handling an intense class schedule. She loves to laugh, and in the free time she thinks she has, she enjoys watching the Boston Bruins and making silly videos with her friends, which can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/truehullabaloo.
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Rochelle Bourgault is a writer and editor who practices a lot of yoga and wears a lot of vintage dresses in Salem. She adores handmade things, well-chosen words, Victorian curiosities, and great stories. In spite of being an accomplished jill-of-all-trades, she only recently mastered the art of brewing her own coffee.
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Dinah Cardin spent her childhood pounding away at her typewriter in the Ozarks and yelling at her parents when they interrupted. This, combined with years of trying to please East Coast editors, has built character, readying her to launch her own publication. Dinah was the arts writer for the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror and North Shore Sunday and staff writer for the Merrimack River Current. In 2005, she helped launch the Salem Gazette, acting as its first staff writer. Her writing has also appeared in Nantucket Magazine, North Shore Magazine, Yoga Journal, the New Orleans Weekly Gambit and the Salem News. She has taught news writing and media courses at Salem State College. Following six months of travel and working on a book to reconcile with the Bible Belt of her upbringing, in 2007, she launched Fireheart Communications, LLC and worked with clients as diverse as artists, musicians, politicians, downtown Salem businesses, environmental groups and North Shore and national non profits. She is happy to be on this journey to launch Art Throb and to write about art in every day life.
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Matt Cardin is the author of DARK AWAKENINGS (2009) and DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP (2002). He is also the brother of Art Throb founder Dinah Cardin, which may account for his writing for such a North Shore-centric site even though he's a native Missourian now living in Texas. A frequent writer about horror, religion, and cultural apocalypse, he can be found on the Web at www.mattcardin.com and his well-established blog, The Teeming Brain.
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Charlotte Cheshire is a 17 year old with a passion for media arts. A recent graduate of Manchester Essex High School, she will be attending her dream school, Emerson College, this fall, to major in cinematography. Charlotte enjoys getting daring haircuts, thrift shopping, photography, and listening to Voxtrot and Fleet Foxes. She feels very fortunate to be part of the Art Throb team.
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As a recent college graduate, Bree Clarke is ecstatic to finally be able to write about topics of her choice. An avid lover of consignment shops, Robert Rauschenberg, Woody Allen and red wine, Bree lives a peaceful life in Marblehead, Massachusetts, yet dreams of city life. With her Publics Relations major and Political Science minor, Bree hopes to use her writing to educate others and save the world. Bree is interning this summer in the marketing and promotions department at WGBH on the NOVA series and hopes it will one day turn into a lovely job.
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Past Intern: Tyler Colby is a public relations student at Salem State College. After years of struggling to find something for which he truly has a passion (other than sports), he discovered writing -- writing that has impact. Tyler is a die-hard Bruins fan and never misses a game. He has a blog (who doesn't these days), where he writes about the B's and the NHL in general. Check it out! http://www.bleedblackgold.wordpress.com
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Kereth Cowe-Spigai is the Manager and Programming Director at CinemaSalem. She is on the selection committee for the Salem Film Fest, and in ‘09 served as one of the jury members. She’s been known to write, publish, and edit comic books; sing out of tune; become obsessed with video games; teach a class or two at Salem State; and talk endlessly about film.
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Derby is a year-and-a-half old cockapoo who enjoys running along the wharf, napping in front of the fan and being the center of attention. Derby is in charge of reading and responding to the letters that find their way to her mailbag when she isn't causing mischief on the street she was named after.
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Kristin D’Agostino enjoys eavesdropping in cafes and asking strangers too many questions, both of which come in handy as a writer. Some of her favorite North Shore places are Café Siclia in Gloucester, where she can get in touch with her Italian roots by eating cannoli and flirting with Sicilian fishermen; the Salem Woods where she enjoys bird watching and tree hugging, and Plum Island as explored by bicycle on a late September afternoon. She has held many jobs including teacher, waitress and overseas nanny, but she considers herself first and foremost a scribe. Her stories can be found in the Salem Gazette, Goodlife magazine and scribbled across the pages of assorted notebooks that date back to the fourth grade.
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Fashion Editor: Laura Febonio is a North Shore native and Salem resident. Her fashion enthusiasm began as a girl, combining hand-me-down party dresses with tube socks and patent leather mary janes, and from rumaging around in her grandmother’s sewing room. Her fashion inspirations come from a blend of vintage style icons, modern design, and self-intuition. Her career began as a window designer at a natural fiber clothing store while attending art school. From there, she moved on to management of various women’s clothing stores over the years, until landing fatefully at Modern Millie in downtown Salem. During in her time managing Millie’s, she has assisted in the creative direction of four fashion shows, while dabbling in a little modeling herself. Laura is also a personal stylist and wardrobe consultant who fuses an appreciation for classic style with a defiance of mainstream fashion.
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John Fogle is Artistic Director of the Salem Theatre Company. Since 1977, he has been directing shows at a variety of venues in the greater Boston area - including the Gloucester Stage Company, the Charles Playhouse, the Lyric Stage, Quannapowitt Players, Wharf Rat and the Mugford Street Players, where he serves as Artistic Director. He is past President of the Salem Theatre Company, where he has staged The Complete History of America (abridged), The Crucible (twice), Molly Sweeney, and, most recently, The Memory of Water. He just tackled his first musical, Blood Brothers, for Marblehead Little Theatre. Recently retired, John divides his time between teaching, commercial work and hanging with his astonishing granddaughter, Pippa. For more, visit www.johnfogle.com.
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Laurette Folk is a freelance writer from Beverly, Massachusetts. Her articles have been published by the Museum of Science, Delta Education, the Swampscott Reporter, the Nashua Telegraph and the Concord Monitor. She has published chapters from her novel-in-progress, "Oscillations and Rivers," in the literary magazines Upstreet and City Lines and was awarded a semifinalist nomination from the Boston Fiction Festival in 2006. Folk's work has also been broadcast on Freedom Radio in San Francisco and Story Time Radio WBCR-LP FM in the Berkshires. Her novel, "The Jewel of the Lotus Flower," was published with the Writer's Club Press, has an MFA from Vermont College and currently co-hosts Thursday Theatre of Words and Music at Cornerstone Books in Salem, MA.
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Though his roots are in Texas, Andy Goldman has been a resident of Salem (and sometimes Marblehead) for the past 23 years. He is a passionate music lover and supporter of the local scene, wishing he could actually play or sing, but perfectly fine with enjoying all those who can. He is a graphic artist by trade, an occasional multi-media artist for pleasure, and he loves to travel the world exploring, meeting people and listening to music. On most any night, you will find Andy in some music club on the North Shore or in Boston/Cambridge socializing with friends and listening to the great performers our city has to offer. His tastes run the gamut, with opera and monastic chanting maybe being the only genres he can’t take for too long. Andy likes to randomly write about what’s going on around the North Shore and Boston when it catches his fancy. It isn’t a comprehensive listing of the options available, just highlights of cool performers and places where he might wind up himself…and, hopefully, his friends and readers will as well.
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Elizabeth Hickey was born and raised on the North Shore, where she calls Salem a city of "local town amazings"... She works in Social Services and in a therapeutic drama program for children with Autism. She holds a BS in Sociology, Minor in Theater and is currently working towards her Masters in Education, Arts and Learning. Liz has been trained in Somatic Movement Therapy at the Leven Institute and has enjoyed dancing most of her life (Modern, African, Contact Improv, etc). Liz has interned for WGBH/PBS and Frontline on their documentary films "Country Boys" and "Give Us Your Poor". An ever curious person, Liz has taken a life long interest in Theology and all the "ologies"- but has yet to come to any conclusions about much of anything at all. She enjoys painting, art history, yoga, cooking, traveling, sunshine, the sound of the slide guitar sliding, researching the linguistic history of the word etcetera, etc., etc., etc.
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Kerry Hook of Kiki Larouge Photography has been behind the lens of a Canon documenting the world from Iceland to India since her days in the darkroom as a teenager. She has had numerous exhibits in Boston and the New England area over the past decade and began a freelance career in 2007.
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR: Jennifer Jean’s poems have been published in numerous journals including: North Dakota Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Santa Clara Review, Southern California Review, Caketrain, Awakenings, Megaera, City Lines Magazine, Endicott Review, and Relief Quarterly; she co-directs Thursday’s Theatre of Words & Music writer’s reading series at Cornerstone Books in Salem; and, is a contributing poetry editor for Soundings East literary journal. As well, she has taught poetry at The Parlor (a non-profit creative writing center in Salem), at the Peabody Institute Library, and in the English Department at Salem State College. Jennifer resides in Peabody with her husband and children. Check out her site at www.fishwifetales.com.
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Francie King is a communications consultant and principal of King & Company Communications in Marblehead. She advises clients on strategic communications planning and management, writes a range of marketing pieces, and provides developmental and copy editing services. She has worked as a publications/communications director and Web content developer in several industries, including the fine arts, business, higher education, and environmental affairs, and is the author/editor of three books and of many magazine, journal, and newspaper articles.
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Samantha Lewis is a graduate of Salem State College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a useless minor in French. As a child she enjoyed standing on the sidewalk and using her jump rope as a microphone to interview passers by. Fortunately, since she was not abducted, she grew up and continues asking strangers questions. Sans the jump rope, Samantha has been published in Red Skies, Salem State's online magazine and the Salem Statement. She has also been contracted by local businesses to help write and design newsletters, brochures, and to help create personal memoirs. At the end of 2008, she started her own freelancing business, North Shore Editorial, which assists local businesses with their editorial, creative, and design needs.
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Photo Editor: Thary Lim is currently studying Photography at Salem State College. She is inspired by the littler things in life, like the smell and feel of the air after it rains. Often times, you'll find her walking around with her camera, ready to take a photo of YOU! Alongside her internship with Art Throb, Thary has created a blog to track her photo shoots for The Point documentary. Check it out! www.TharyLim.blogspot.com
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Deborah Linehan has had a career as an artist since her youth. Not withstanding that, she has had to do many other things in life to pay the bills. She has sold fine pens, art supplies, fine papers and customized stationery, cheap clothing, her own line of soaps and lotions and her Soul from time to time. In the restaurant business she has been a hostess, waitress, bartender and manager. She has had her own businesses and has enthusiastically supported those with similar vision in the software, marketing and entertainment industries. She was for some years a bee keeper and the most important lesson learned from that experience was to replace fear with calm. She was never stung. She lives in New York now and is calmly attempting to avoid being stung and continue her career as an artist in acting, writing, directing and voiceover.
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J. C. Lockwoodhas been scribbling about the arts on the North Shore since the old days, back when newspapers mattered and print journalism could be considered a stable career path and, at least in theory, bring in enough money to pay the mortgage. Now, two decades into his career — okay, 25 years — when newspapers are on the brink of extinction and have all but abandoned arts coverage, he's still doing it ... as a freelancer, as a blogger. Apparently it will take a lot more than bankruptcy to pry that stupid reporter's notebook out of his hand or shut him up.
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Jonathan Lunde is a writer and journalist at heart. While he's always been able to place his thoughts on paper, he didn't realize the true love he had for writing until attending Salem State College. During his first course in journalism, his skill and pure desire he has to write flourished. In a matter of months, he went from someone who could write decently to someone who wanted nothing more than to spend the rest of his life writing. His first experience writing outside of the classroom was for the Salem State Log, the college's newspaper. The faculty advisor to The Log at the time was also Jonathan's news writing instructor and recruited Jonathan to write for the newspaper. After his first semester writing for The Log, he was promoted to Assistant News Editor, and was promoted to News Editor for the remainder of his time with the newspaper. Jonathan is currently working on his Bachelor of Science and plans to graduate in the fall of 2009 and hopes to pursue a career in political and hard news writing.
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR: Sean McCrea is a philosopher who has not yet learned how to think. Vaingloriously, he has been working on a succession of failed immortality projects. Sean lives in a house on a street in Salem, where he continues to make broad generalizations.
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Past Intern: Ryan Moloney, Art Throb's dedicated marketing and events intern, will be entering his final semester at Salem State College this fall with a focus in Advertising and a minor in English. Between compiling event listings, updating the website's calendar and offering input on the site's marketing, he will contribute feature stories and help advertise the magazine. As an enthusiast of underground hip-hop music, Ryan is excited to be working for Art Throb and the chance to bring exposure to local artists. Recommended by the chair of the department, Ryan began working with the magazine shortly after its launch in May 2009.
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Eric Olson has enjoyed 35 years in the wine trade. As proprietor of Salem Wine Imports, his philosophy is that wine is a common treasure available to all and the discovery and enjoyment of wine of it is an unrivaled pleasure. He believes that small, artisan wines sometimes have “faults” (as in deviating from the norm) that actually make the wine unique and more enjoyable. He agrees with Plato: “Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by the Gods to man.”
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Freelance writer and world traveller Charlene Peters specializes in food, wine and spas. She lives in Marblehead.
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Matt Phillion is a professional writer/editor, a part-time actor, and a full-time bachelor. He lives in a studio apartment in Salem with two cats, which he frequently finds the need to explain or apologize for. He has been a pizza maker, an Omni Theater attendant, a newspaper reporter and editor, a comic book reviewer, a waiter, a singer and a screenwriter.
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Adam Pieroni designed this. He is the publisher of Quick Fiction, a graphic designer, and web programmer. He has a keen tooth for the finer things in life. His latest obsession is peppadews.
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Jesse Pruneda is a lost soul with a mailing address in London, a past life in Kansas City, and a soft spot for Brooklyn. Having spent the past quarter-century indulging wanderlust and creating various things, he can most often be found gazing ruminatively upon life in various dramatic poses. Post-gaze, he writes, he draws, he builds, he laughs, he cries, and he loves. It's quite the spectacle. Always the Liberal Artist, he is currently studying sustainable agriculture and apprenticing on a small organic farm in Connecticut. He, his lovely wife, and some cohorts are presently hatching a plan to self-sustain and be generally great.
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Hugh Pyle tries to make the very best location recordings possible (http://halfbricking.com) using an obscure Ambisonic microphone and handcrafted signal processing algorithms. Which is a great excuse to hang out listening to incredible music around the North Shore.
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David Rich co-edits the literary journal Process. His writing has appeared in Wick and Polis.
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR: Lilly Roberts is a local poet and photographer. She currently teaches English and Creative Writing at the Cambridge School of Weston, where she serves as the faculty sponsor of Vault, CSW's literary magazine. She has received her MFA from The University of Iowa. In addition to receiving the Lynda Hull Poetry Prize from Crazy Horse Magazine, she has been published in several literary magazines. Photography has always been a passion, which she continues to develop.
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Pamela Schmidt is an artist and a therapist, specializing in research concerning the psychology of creativity. She is currently a professor of psychology and human services at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and is a visiting professor at the School of Graduate Studies at Salem State College. She was the developer of the first corporate sponsored intergenerational arts center in the U.S for the Stride Rite Corporation in Cambridge , MA. The artwork produced was curated into exhibits shown nationally and was featured in the New York Times, Newsweek and Boston Magazine. Last summer, she presented a seminar about creativity and resilience at the 4th International Conference on Arts in Society in Venice, Italy.
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Sarah Seminski a part of the North Shore arts scene since 2005 and worked with notable musicians around the area in bands like The Speakeasys (www.thespeakeasys.com), The Search Party (www.searchpartymusic.com) and The Modern Kitchen (http://www.myspace.com/themodernkitchen) . A Boston University graduate in Theatre, she has written the one woman show "Mother's Mary" to some acclaim, and was a nominee for the Michael Kannin playwriting award. In her spare time she likes to write short stories, poems, songs, essays, plays and screenplays. If you'd like to know where Sarah's performing near you, email sarahseminski@gmail.com to join her mailing list (as her website is forthcoming).
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Carolyn Shasha is a double art and physics major entering her sophomore year at Brown University. She grew up in Swampscott and loves all things art related. She is thrilled to be a summer intern at ArtThrob!
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Jonathan Simcosky, Art Throb's managing editor, is a native of Kansas City, MO, who came to Salem via Brooklyn. When he's not gallivanting about the globe, he's keeping Cornerstone Books' shelves well stocked while plotting his next adventure.
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Elise Towle Snow is a graduate of Montserrat College of Art and currently lives in Salem, MA with her husband and two opinionated rabbits. Her favorite things are peculiar animals, delicate pastries, gaudy jewels and dramatic weather.
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Amanda Waddell is a writer and book editor with a passion for all things food and travel related. Her particular penchants include freshly baked scones, Indian food, and homemade ice cream. While she has big dreams of one day opening a bakery of her own (preferably in India… just don’t tell her mother that part), she currently enjoys spending her free time cooking and baking away in her sunny Swampscott kitchen.
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Sarah Wolfe is an editor and writer whose work has been published in the Derry News, the North Andover Citizen and Exec Digital Magazine. A self-confessed linguiphile, she began creating stories at a young age, inventing an imaginary world with unusual residents like The Gunkulator, a barrel-shaped creature with a vacuum cleaner trunk. She still visits these old friends from time to time. Also a part-time actor, musician and composer, Sarah enjoys singing old jazz songs, especially those covered by Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. To stay centered amidst life’s creative hubbub she finds solace doing mountain poses on yoga mats across the North Shore.
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Marc Wortman is a graduate of Northwestern University Film School in Chicago. Marc lives locally and is an award winning documentary filmmaker, and is also the director of JLM Films, mentoring his two young sons. After college, Marc started his own video production company and helped start the cable television advertising division of Time Warner Cable in the Boston area. Marc became the Movie Review Critic for the Marblehead/Swampscott Community Newspaper Company newspaper back in 2007, and is looking forward to contributing to Art Throb.
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Julie Dougherty has been singing since the mid-sixties, performing folk music at coffeehouses in the Boston area, such as the Unicorn Coffeehouse and the King’s Rook. She has traveled much of the country singing Irish music, original folk-rock music, country-rock music in the 80’s, and has made several trips to Nashville, where she placed two original songs with two major publishing firms. She has also hosted a songwriting cable TV show called Songwriters In The Round.
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Dann Anthony Maurno is a lifelong writer whose work has taken him to such great cities as Milan, London, Nairobi and most recently, Salem, Mass.,where he lives with his charismatic wife Sara. While he is chiefly a business journalist—his book Thin Air is due for publication in December—he prefers to read good fiction.
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David Lawrence is a native of Massachusetts, living in Salem. He has been around for 30-odd years and considers himself a writer, musician, actor, and artist, though not always in that order. He is a graduate student in English and lives with his tortoise-shell cat. He is a mostly upbeat individual and tries to remain so.
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Caroline Forrester has spent the past 22 years working every form of publishing there is- from books to magazines to web. As editor to North Shore Life and Northwest Life she is able to push her passion to promote the arts to the fullest. On the side, she enjoys promoting musicians, environmental causes and rescuing animals. She is head-strong on keeping the arts alive and enjoys bringing people together for creative collaborations. You can often see her walking around Ipswich with her dog Lucy and her two boys.
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Darrell Bibby is a Salem resident, Gulu-Gulu regular and software engineer who is an avid traveler, couchsurfer and outdoor enthusiast. He has cycled across the United States; hang glided over the mountains of Santa Barbara and hiked the Long Trail of Vermont. Originally from Connecticut, Darrell has lived in Salem for three years enjoying Halloween festivities and the like. His passion for travel has sparked an interest in travel writing.
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Ashley E. Meyer is in her senior year at Salem State College, majoring in Communications with a minor in Graphic Design. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, she loves drinking pop, cheering on the Wolverines, and pronouncing her r’s. She likes doing pretty much everything, which has lead her to be involved in four campus clubs, three internships, and a part-time job (sometimes she sleeps, too!). Her claim to fame is that she was once a competitive figure skater on Team USA, the Haydenettes, which brought her to Massachusetts in 2007. She has always been a writer, and is very excited to be joining Art Throb.
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR: Amy Tetreault is a twentysomething marketing manager at Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau and Salem's own Crunchy Granola Baby. With a bachelors in communications and a masters in journalism, she also works as a social media consultant and freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The Salem News,The Phoenix, and assorted online magazines. When she's not staring intensely at her iBook screen, Amy is reading, listening to NPR, enhancing her concert resume, and plotting her next travel adventure. Learn more about Amy (and her daily mishaps) at http://amytetreault.weebly.com/.
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Brittany Bowen is currently in her junior year at Salem State College as an Art History major, psych and history minor. While taking too many classes that her sanity can handle, she also works on campus and at a coffee shop in downtown Salem. She enjoys looking at art, learning about it's history, and making art, along with collecting vintage clothes, used books, and listening to the likes of Jenny Lewis and Emily Haines. Her heart is in New York, and is hoping that in two years the rest of her will catch up with it.
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REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR: Katie Hutchison is a residential architect, design writer, and fine art photographer in Salem, Mass. She owns Katie Hutchison Studio http://www.katiehutchison.com/, and when she isn’t poking around New England homes or their surrounds, she produces the online magazine House Enthusiast http://www.katiehutchison.com/house-enthusiast/."
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Ellen Hardy is an artist, photographer, graphic designer and owner of Hardy House (hardyhouse.org), a publishing firm which is able to create museum quality publications for the individual, artists groups, and non-profits. Prior to running her own business she worked as the chief creative director at Phillips Academy in Andover where she designed everything from custom scarves, to art books and their admission catalogs to photographic mural installations. She now happily lives and works in Salem.
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Georgette Beck is an actor, short-story author and poet, as well as a novelist and playwright. She has received past commissions from The Peabody Essex Museum and The House of The Seven Gables to author and perform one-woman shows based upon women in history. In February she’ll reprise her award winning performance in Thirteen Things About Ed Carpalotti in The Salem Theatre Company’s new home on Lafayette Street, as well as debut her own work, I Never Really Did, on Sunday Nights this coming April at In a Pig’s Eye.
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Past Intern: Michael Pelosi is a Communications major at Salem State with a minor in Film. Along with editing and networking, Mike plans on writing features and covering events. It was the “cracks in the sidewalk” approach to Art Throb that drew his attention to the ezine originally. While film is essentially his passion, Mike has always been a writer and an enthusiast for visual mediums. Besides Art Throb, Mike writes features for the school paper, is a member of the American Advertising Federation, and is busy juggling all this with a job and other classes. Mike enjoys music (can't live without it), baseball, traveling to Europe, skydiving, surfing and any extreme activity where he can defy the odds. He plans on taking up Brazilian jiu-jitsu as his next challenge.
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Benjamin ‘Jude’ Charbonneau is an undergrad at the bustling school of Salem State College. Originally from the metropolis of North Adams, he’s now studying photography and graphic design. In his spare time he’s obsessing over old ties, drinking Dr. Pepper, fighting for all sorts of causes, and not getting offended when people use the wrong gender pronouns. New to Art Throb, he hopes to meet awesome people and bring back the word disco (a synonym for cool).
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Michael=mc^2=Beatles fanaticism that makes the Taliban look like literature enthusiasts=five-time champion freestyle sleeper=the pop of a needle on an original pressing of Sgt. Pepper=solipsistic socialism=the first five minutes of a hot shower before school in February=pathological reader=the way someone you can see falling in love with smells on the first date=misanthropic humanist=pretentious, smug, masturbatory references and wordplay mimickable by a monkey and profound only to the phoniest of the phony. [John can't imagine the sheer terror a mother feels when she loses her child in a crowded area, but he gets the impression it's pretty similar to the feeling he gets when he misplaces his iPod. He claims to enjoy the company of others, but he insists on talking about things like quantum probability and the legitimacy of the Categorical Imperative. Preferring the sardonic to the sarcastic, his sense of humour is dark and cynical, and his approach to interpersonal communication is to be brazenly honest and virulently caustic. He likes you though. Honest.
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Born and raised on the North Shore, Kendra Garvin is a twenty-something who greets life with a smile on her face and is a firm believer that the glass is indeed half-full! After doing her first bout of soul-searching (she expects that as a twenty-something there will certainly be more to come…), Kendra landed at Salem State as a Communications Major and has found her niche in the frenzied world of Public Relations. Along with her oh-so-busy academic schedule, she is interning at the Peabody Essex Museum and is thrilled to be a part of North Shore Art*Throb!
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Brandon Wieber enjoys walking, reading and doing both simultaneously. He hasn't yet discovered how to write and walk at the same time, but he is working on it!
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J.R. Gallagher: 'Bedroom Poet'. 'Lord of the Thighs'. 'A Cross Between Gene Wilder and James Dean'.
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