Josh Bernstein
After interning for Marvel Comics at age 16, Josh Bernstein published zines and founded the #Number Foundation, a New York-based artist’s collective, while still in college. Bernstein and the Foundation selfpublish Royal Flush Magazine, an exquisite,
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Nikki Finke
Voted the #44 most influential person in Time Magazine’s reader poll of the 100 most influential people of the year (beating out John McCain and the cast of High School Musical), Nikki Finke is a Tinseltown force to be reckoned with. This award-winning
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Mr. Fubz
If there’s one thing Mr. Fubz learned growing up in New York, it’s how to get the word out. His latest message: Wear something that means something. As publisher of Beautiful/Decay, Fubz turned a DIY-zine in Fairfax, Virginia into an international arts
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Mara Gerstein
Mara Gerstein likes to add audio to the visual world. With a background in communications and marketing, and a stint with the San Fransisco-based sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster, this New York native returned home to work in museum media. Having just won
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Taylor Krauss
If David Blaine had looked across the street from his tank while he was holding his breath underwater to break a world record two years ago, he would have seen Taylor Krauss submerged in his own tank, trying to call attention to the crisis in the Sudan. Though
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Aaron Rosenblum
While working as a clerk in the advising office at the University of Louisville in 2005, Aaron Rosenblum distracted himself from any suicidal tendencies by writing features for the southern hipster mag Bejeezus. That was back when it was just a saddle-stitched
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John Safran
You don’t want to piss off Australian writer John Safran. As part of his TV show, John Safran vs. God, he convinced the senior judge of the U.K. Sharia Court to issue a fatwa on an Australian talk show host who bumped Safran from his show. On another
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Doree Shafrir
Doree Shafrir may have left her snarky post at Gawker for a senior editor position at the New York Observer, but it’s her newly launched website that her mom is likely most proud of. PostcardsFromYoMomma.com features reader-submitted electronic missives from
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Todd Weinberger
After years of selling his soul to an ad firm (including forcing an underpaid photographer to strap himself to an ass-hauling NASCAR stock car to shoot a cigarette spot), Todd Weinberger redeemed himself last fall when he left the world of marketing and signed
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Sasha Wizansky
A hardcore vegetarian as a teen, Sasha Wizansky’s life changed at age 20 when she took her first bite of Thai chicken himmaparn served in a half-pineapple with cashews. The San Franciscan has been an omnivore since and, last year, her love for meat made it
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