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Gabe Meline is KQED Arts' Senior Editor. He entered journalism at age 15 making photocopied zines, and has since earned awards from the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the Society for Professional Journalists, the Online Journalism Awards, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and...
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Denise Sullivan is an author, journalist, cultural worker, literary organizer, and longtime guest curator for Litquake. A former member of the Modern Times Bookstore Collective, and co-founder of the United Booksellers, she is the SF Lives columnist at the San Francisco Examiner and...
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Dawn Riding is a folk group based in Oakland, CA. Their debut album “Last Spring” is full of tough folk songs for relentless romantics. With Sarah Rose Janko (vocals, acoustic guitar), Hall McCann (vocals, electric guitar), Jasmyn Wong (drums).
Rachel Frankel is an author, illustrator, and designer who also sings and plays guitar in the band Phosphene. She lives in Portland, OR.
Joel Selvin has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since shortly after the Civil War. His writing has appeared in magazines and other publications around the world you would have thought knew better. People have actually read some of his books.
Emma Silvers is a Bay Area journalist who covers music, pop culture, and assorted local oddities. She currently profiles artists for Pitchfork and reviews drinking establishments for the San Francisco Chronicle. She was previously the music editor at KQED, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco...
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Sam Barry is the author of How to Play the Harmonica and Other Life Lessons and co-authored Write That Book Already! The Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now with his late wife, Kathi Kamen Goldmark. He is editor of and a contributor to Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever...
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