Rick Sawyer is a recent transplant to Boston and has yet to be rejected by the city's immune system. He writes about crime, movies, and cultural events from his home in Jamaica Plain.

Kerry Skemp is a work in progress. Born in Wisconsin, she went to school in Oregon and lived in Texas before braving the East Coast. She misses Wisconsin cheese, Portland microbrews, and Texas sunshine, but likes walking and biking around this fine city. When not writing for Bostonist, she's working on a master's degree at Emerson College.

Jon was born and raised in Massachusetts, spent some time in Iowa and now resides in Boston, his true home. He prides himself on the fact that he's yet to live in a state with a death penalty on the books, nor a state that does not have bottle/can deposit. Jon is in love with radio, especially of the National Public variety. Talk to him all you want about podcasts and he'll start talking nostalgically for commuting with Morning Edition and All Things Considered. You'll often find him on his bike around the city and never with an iPod - those things may look cool but they don't have FM.

Victoria Welch started out in Massachusetts and spent some time in Vermont before returning to her Bay State roots. When not watching the Red Sox and arguing with WEEI callers from the safety of her car (she has yet to call, but it's inevitable), Victoria spends her time taking in live performances, supplementing her love of photography and searching for Greater Boston's perfect latte.

Michael was born into a family of Boston sports fans and is unlikely to break the family tradition. He's been known to plan vacations and road trips around Red Sox games (hey, it's not like you can get tickets here), and once tried to anchor a trip to a Go-Kart track in Florida, just because it's owned by Mike Greenwell (The Gator usually isn't around, though). He's also a regular at Celtics games (keep going upstairs; you'll find him near the top) and pops in on the Pats and Bruins when he can. His website, BunkoSquad.com, has been churning out opinions on sports, politics, life, reality TV and movies since 1998, which is like A.D.1215 in Web Years.

Although born in the Teton Mountains of Idaho, Korri Leigh hopped on a plane for Massachusetts at 3 months old and never looked back. There is a good chance you’ll find her engaged in passionate political debate: either under the Golden Dome of the State House by day or with her cigar bar patrons at night. When not otherwise occupied she can be found taking pictures with one of her 9 cameras, dancing like a fool at a live show, giving tours at the JFK library, voraciously reading, or cooking up tasty vegan cuisine that would fool even the most prudent carnivore. Korri Leigh counts the Patriots, Ted Kennedy, Stevie Wonder, and Oscar Wilde to be among her greatest loves, for now.

Jocelyn Celeste was raised on the mean streets of the Harold Parker State Forest. She fell in love with fashion after her first viewing of House of Style and it's probably the longest relationship she's ever been in – second only to her love of the Red Sox. When not writing for Bostonist, she can be found shopping at Marc Jacobs, drinking in North Andover next a former brothel or listening to cheesy British pop groups like Girls Aloud while lying and telling everyone it's Pixies to keep her street cred.

Fangela Fangula is J. Kathryn Bryan, but she prefers to take advantage of the mystique afforded by a nom de crayon. Fangela enjoys listening to NPR and nerdy podcasts about cultural studies and biological sciences while drawing. When not illustrating badly, Fangela likes to garden, cook, and spend time with her friends. Fangela's partner in crime is one Thistle B. Bunnicula, a house rabbit with large fangs and an even larger attitude. Basil and Greta the Wundercats provide much-needed research support to ensure representational accuracy. Together, they make fangfriends.com.

C. Fernsebner's parents met while living in Boston but promptly moved to Connecticut's "quiet corner," and she's still recovering from years of suburban ennui. Cantabrigian by day and Somervillian by night, Ms. Fernsebner loves all the things that librarians love: kittens, beer, and semicolons. She maintains Sushiesque.com and Adorablog.org, "because some parts of the internet should be nice, for the nice people."

Llalan (pronounced: LAY-lin) has lived in Boston long enough now to call it "home" without worrying about upsetting The Parents back in Ohio. A beer fanatic before she legally had right to be so, Llalan intends to stay in this wonderfully hoppy city long enough to try everything New England has to offer. With luck she will have completed her Master's degree at Emerson by then. Contrary to popular opinion, she does not subsist solely on beer, but rather consumes egregious amounts of coffee each day as well, and has even been known to sip the occasional gin and tonic. When not drinking, Llalan writes for The Weekly Dig, The Globe Corner Bookstore Blog, and Vernacular, a blog for and by Emerson College Writing, Literature and Publishing graduate students.

Lyette Mercier grew up on a small island, escaped to the city as soon as humanly possible, and hasn't looked back since. She has lived in Cambridge, Somerville, Brighton, and Brookline, and currently resides in South Boston. She enjoys crappy sci fi shows, barbecue, Neko Case, and the Anthropologie sale rack. Her favorite pastimes include watching baseball, bargain hunting, and eating ethnic food from countries she can't find on a map.

Caroline Roberts has lived in many different places, most recently San Francisco, but she now finds herself loving life in Cambridge. She is a politics, entertainment, and media buff, and she obsesses about reality television in her spare time and at The Trades and The Peppery Pen.

Proudly hails from this, the awesomest of cities. VJ has taken the T to some glamorous job or another every day since 1983. Past gigs include packing kosher meats in Malden, killing lobsters at Faneuil Hall, and gluing rubber to wood in Southie. Lately she takes a commuter ferry to work, where she sits at a desk.

Gerard Sloan watches the Detroit teams (though the Lions make it difficult) and frequents libraries (though the fines are annoying). His friends call him Jerry, and they know to spell it with a J. Support his fledgling record label at HMRstore.com.

Bailey Triggs is a Floridian by birth--a fact that she often uses to explain all sorts of unusual behaviors and predilections--but a Bostonian by habit. A three-year Brighton resident, she has been sufficiently indoctrinated into Red Sox Nation, has an obsession with Dunkin Donuts iced coffee, and a habit of sneaked "wicked" into sentences that never had it before. A member of Boston's urban playground group Banditos Misteriosos, Bailey is co-responsible for the silent dance parties and flash mob pillow fights that make this city a quirkier place to live. In her spare time, she writes Diverted Motion a blog covering all of her favorite obsessions: emo kids, toe-nail curling fanfic, My Little Ponies, and the wonders of YouTube.

Rob spent much of his life in L.A., yet strangely rooted for Bird-era Celtics as a child. He spends most of his time smelling the flowers, seizing the day, dancing to a different drummer, and riding the T. Rob was ranked among the top 100,000 living guitarists at one time (self-ranked), but he still hacks away at the six-string as much as possible. When he's not slacking off as the most adorably lousy contributor to Bostonist, he looks for cheap fun around town and shares it at Cheap Thrills - Boston.

Ryan Rose Weaver grew up outside scenic Salt Lake City, then escaped to Buffalo, New York, where she discovered the wonders of real Italian cooking and crisp, cheap Canadian beer. Nowadays, after attending school in Boston, devouring every kind of weird cuisine she can get her hands on, and giving up most meats (sorry, escargot, you're still fair game), she's more likely to be chowing down on fried tofu at Rod Dee or making a meal of cocktails and profiteroles at Eastern Standard. But her heart still belongs to Utah's redrock country, where a cold beer and a bagel pre-hike remains the breakfast of champions. You can peruse her food finds at ryanrose.blogspot.com.

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