- Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a journalist, blogger and writer. New York Times Magazine christened Marshall "a star" of the blogosphere as the "author of one of the most popular and most respected [blogging] sites." He is also a columnist for "The Hill", a Capitol Hill newspaper. Marshall's work has been the subject of stories by the LA Times, NPR, New York Times Magazine, and Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. - Alex Kozinski
Judge Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) is a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a popular essayist. - Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, … - Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley (born September 19 1968) is a conservative radio and television political commentator based in New York City. Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science from Colgate University and a doctorate in international relations from Columbia University. In 1990, she became Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon, a post she held from 1990 until his death in 1994. She was an editorial adviser and consultant on his last two books, … - Gary Webb
Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative report series, written for the "San Jose Mercury News". In the three-part series (later published as a book), Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. - Jon Soltz
Jon Soltz was a Captain in the Iraq War and is now the head of VoteVets.org. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Soltz served his country with distinction in the Kosovo Campaign as a Tank Platoon Leader between June and December 2000. From May to September 2003, Soltz served as a Captain during Operation Iraqi Freedom, deploying logistics convoys with the 1st Armored Division. In 2005 Captain Soltz was mobilized to train soldiers for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a Dutch-born historian and journalist. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. - Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy is a film and music critic who is based in Los Angeles. His criticism has appeared in the "LA Weekly", the "LA Times", "Vibe", the "New York Times", "Rolling Stone", the "Source", "Millennium Film" "Journal", "Flaunt", "Request", "Minneapolis City Pages", … - Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds (born December 13, 1951) is an American comedian and monologist, best known for his critically acclaimed one-man shows "Only the Truth Is Funny" and "All Grown Up...and No Place to Go." Reynolds grew up in Wood Village, Oregon (near Portland), where, by his own account, his upbringing was "tragic." His father, Jack, died when Reynolds was an infant, leaving his mother to raise three children by herself. - R. U. Sirius
R. U. Sirius (born Ken Goffman) is an American writer, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of "Mondo 2000". Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party. The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism, environmentalism and social liberalism. At one time, he was a regular columnist for "Wired News", "21C", … - Amir Muhammad
Amir Muhammad (born Henry Billups) is an individual who former LAPD Detective Russell Poole alleged is linked to the murder of Christopher Wallace, who was better known as The Notorious B.I.G. Rolling Stone magazine writer Randall Sullivan later recounted the evidentiary links of Muhammad to the murder. An eyewitness to the murder identified a photograph of Muhammad as the shooter, and several witnesses placed him at the scene. - Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander is a musical recording and performing artist from and based in New York City. A virtuosic veteran of NYC's downtown scene, Friedlander has backed John Zorn, Laurie Anderson and Courtney Love. Friedlander is a unique cellist whose work blurs genre borders. He is a composer and an improviser, a classical musician and a jazzbo. - Mark Gearan
Mark Gearan is a politician, lawyer and communications expert. He is the current President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. During the Clinton Administration he served several roles. Gearan was director of the Peace Corps from 1995 to 1999. Prior to his Peace Corps directorship, he was assistant to the President and White House Director of Communications, a position with the title of White House Deputy Chief of Staff. - Massad Ayoob
Massad F. Ayoob (born July 20, 1948) is an internationally-known firearms and self-defense instructor. He is the Director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord, New Hampshire, has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense in numerous venues since 1974, and has appeared as an expert witness in several trials. He has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and currently holds the rank of Captain in the Grantham, … - Anthony Curtis
Anthony Curtis (born Kurt Flowers in 1958) is a well-known blackjack player, gambling expert, and author. He is also the publisher of the "Las Vegas Advisor", a popular newsletter first published in 1983, about getting good deals in Las Vegas. Curtis became interested in gambling at the age of 16 when he received a book about blackjack as a gift. He made his first trip to Vegas shortly after turning 21 in 1979. - William M. Gray
William M. "Bill" Gray, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes. Nicholas Riccardi wrote in the "LA Times" (May 30, 2006): :William M. Gray pioneered the concept of "seasonal" hurricane forecasting — predicting months in advance the severity of the coming hurricane season. Gray's prognostications, issued since 1983, are used by insurance companies to calculate premiums. - Alexis Rivera
Alexis Rivera is a music figure in Los Angeles, California who owns the management and promotion company Echo Park Records. He currently serves as the manager for Los Super Elegantes and Mickey Champion, and previously worked with The Blood Arm. Rivera also owned Little Pedro's, allegedly the oldest bar in Los Angeles. He has been profiled in publications including LA Weekly, LA Times, Flaunt Magazine, The Fader, Cover Magazine, Angeleno Magazine, and LA.com. - Jennifer Shahade
Jennifer Shahade (born December 31 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American chess player and writer. She is a two-time American women's chess champion, and the author of "Chess Bitch". She is the daughter of FM Mike Shahade and the sister of IM Greg Shahade. In 1998, she became the first (and so far only) female to win the U.S. Junior Open. In 2002, she won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in Seattle, Washington. - Lori Haigh
Lori Haigh (born August 25 1964 in Los Angeles, California) was born to a Navy physician and an elementary school teacher, Lori lived all over the world as many children of the military do. She spent her younger years in Gaeta, Italy, where a NATO base is located. Her father was the personal physician to the admiral of the Sixth Fleet. the USS Little Rock was the first US Navy ship stationed in Gaeta. The town is host to the families of the crews who work on the ship. - Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is an associate editor at The American Prospect . His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, The Columbia Journalism Review, and other outlets. He's been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. He cooks a mean kung pao, and likes to talk about health care policy. - Sanjiv Bhattacharya
Sanjiv Bhattacharya is a British journalist and TV presenter. He has made a series of documentaries for Channel 4, including The Man with 80 Wives, a documentary about Warren Jeffs, the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Sanjiv is a contributing editor for GQ (Britain), and also writes for The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, Details, Maxim, New York Magazine, LA Times, Marie Claire, and several other publications. - Mel Mermelstein
Mel Mermelstein is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp who defeated the Institute for Historical Review in an American court and had the occurrence of gassings in Auschwitz during the Holocaust declared a legally incontestable fact. Before World War II broke out, Mermelstein lived in Munkacs, in Ukraine. On May 19, 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz along with the rest of the Jewish community. - Jack MacPherson
Jack Macpherson (October 20 1937 - November 16 2006) was a former mailman and bartender in La Jolla, California. According to his "Los Angeles Times" obituary, he was a local legend who acquired "a permanent niche in the history of Southern California beach culture". John Duncan Macpherson III was born in La Jolla, one of two children of an orthopedic surgeon who was also serving in the United States Navy; the family moved to Hawaii, where Dr. - Troy Kotsur
Troy Kotsur (born c.1969) is a deaf American actor. - Leo Jansen
Leo Jansen (1930- 1980) was a Dutch artist known for his portraits. Born in Holland, moved to Indonesia when he was ten. There in the tropics, he began his craft by sketching bronze-skinned Indonesian girls for leisure. He returned to the Netherlands to study at the Academy of Art, to refine his growing mastery of the female figures. Like most continental artists, he gravitated first to Paris and quickly established himself as a portraitist of considerable talent. - Ainjel Emme
Ainjel Emme (born September 28, 1978) is a singer/songwriter from Austin, Texas. She has established herself as an accomplished vocalist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboardist. She produces and releases her own recordings on her Sparrowheart Music record label. - Jennifer Kellogg
Jennifer Kellogg is a jewelry designer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Sex in the City as well as trade publications such as "InStyle", "Lucky", "Entertainment Weekly", "National Jeweler", "Maxim", "NYLON", "Accessories" and The "LA Times". She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. - Chef David Harbour
Chef David Harbour (born 1962) is the owner of New York Pastry and Dessert Company (NYPDc) (since 1985) and Corporate Sweets (since 1988), one of the country's first internet based Corporate Recognition Programs featuring Desserts as Gifts. Specialty is restaurant quality desserts in attractive boxes shipped overnight. Harbour was trained by Nichalaus Shumacher and has also worked for/consulted with: Marmalade Cafe, LA; Gotham Hall, LA; The Madison, … - James Barrier
James "Buffalo Jim" Barrier is an American professional wrestler from the Las Vegas-area who, while struggling with Las Vegas city officials to force him from his auto repair shop, became the subject of a media campaign which included the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the LA Times and Dateline NBC during the early 2000s. He owns a wrestling school and has a local wrestling cable show "Jim Wars" every Friday night as well as a weekly on auto repair. - Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. - Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn is a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. Dunn was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1945. She went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland. Following her time at Reed, Ms. Dunn spent several years in Europe traveling. While in Ireland, she had a child, and five years later she returned with her son to the United States. - James Welch
James Welch (1940-August 4 2003), born in Browning, Montana, was an award-winning U.S. author and poet. His father was a member of the Blackfeet tribe and his mother a member of the Gros Ventre tribe. Welch was given the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and full knighthood, by France in recognition of his contributions to French culture. - Elise Blackwell
Elise Blackwell (b. July 18, 1964) is an American novelist, born in Austin, Texas. The daughter of botanists, Blackwell was educated at Louisiana State University before entering the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine, where she studied with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Chabon. Blackwell's first novel, "Hunger", was published in 2003 by Little Brown, a division of Time Warner. - Hossein Behroozinia
Hossein Behroozinia (b. 1962 in Tehran) is a renowned Iranian Oud player and arguably the greatest Oud player of all times. He studied Oud playing under the supervision of maestro Mansour Nariman. Behrooznia also learnt the Radif under the supervision of the legendary Mohammad Reza Lotfi. He was a student at the "Conservatory of Persian music", … - William Price Fox
William Price Fox is an American novelist, who wrote Southern Fried and Wild Blue Yonder. Fox has contributed to publications like Sports Illustrated, L.A. Times, USA Today, Atlantic Monthly, and many others. William Price Fox was born in Waukegan, Illinois, and has lived in South Carolina most of his life. He graduated from the University of South Carolina, and studied writing under Caroline Gordon. - John Lott/sandbox
John R. Lott Jr. (born May 8 1958) is currently a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His research interests include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, microeconomics, and environmental regulation. - Mayar Zokaei
Mayar Zokaei is an American journalist currently serving as a media beat and sports writer. Zokaei periodically contributes to the "Los Angeles Times", "NYLA Magazine", and the "Los Angeles Daily News". Zokaei is the son of publishing magnate and American journalist Mehdi Zokaei, publisher and editor in chief of "JAVANAN Magazine", the largest bilingual Persian magazine in the world. - Jake T. Forbes
Jake T. Forbes has edited and adapted over 50 Japanese and Korean manga series for Tokyopop, VIZ Media and Go! Comi, including such titles as Fullmetal Alchemist and Fruits Basket. He also co-edited a best-selling Warcraft adaptation, written by Richard A. Knaak. As a columnist and journalist, Jake T. Forbes covered anime, manga and pop culture for the L.A. Times, The Pulse (comics news), and Animefringe. His debut fiction work is Return to Labyrinth, … - Eddie "piolín" Sotelo
Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo is a Mexican-American radio personality, born in Ocotlán, Jalisco in 1972. His show, "Piolín por la Mañana," runs weekday mornings on KSCA in Southern California. His nickname means "Tweety Bird" in Spanish, a nickname he acquired as a child. The "LA Times" ranks Sotelo amongst the 100 most powerful people in Southern California. His show is the most popular show on Los Angeles radio, with an astronomical 6.8 rating. - Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto published her first book, Whispers of the Desert, a collection of poetry, when she was 15. She is a graduate of Columbia and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Her articles appear in the LA Times, CounterPunch and other newspapers and journals. Her latest book about the devastating earthquake that hit Pakistan is "8.50 A.M. 8 October 2005."
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