Born and raised in a light and breezy, mildly-conservative beach town equidistant from Los Angeles and San Diego, Brock Keeling has been living in San Francisco for over a decade where he has lived in seven different neighborhoods. Before that, he spent a blurry period of his life in Santa Cruz, CA as a member of the University of California cult. He enjoys spending hours and hours at dive bars the bar of Spruce with Beth Spotswood.

Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor originally from the East Coast, transplanted to the Left Coast about a decade ago. He hopes someday to sell his novel, and also hopes to find the perfect pair of gym shoes that double as day shoes.

Leanne Maxwell whole-heartedly believes that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. She enjoys collecting stories about the random people, places and ideas she encounters and showcasing them to the world (wide web). She has many interests and skills but lacks the patience to master any of them. Leanne spearheads SFist's "Found" feature, so send your finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com! She also appreciates any leads on good happy hours with good food specials (that come at all close to beating Fly Bar's).

Born in Seattle, schooled in New York and, for one glorious year, England, Moses Namkung now writes about the Bay Area music scene. His iTunes stretches from A-Ha to the Zombies with gigabytes of stuff he's yet to listen to in between. Yes, he supposes his toeses are roses. No, he can't part the Red Sea..

If you've ever had a sneaking suspicion that someone is just using you to discover awesome things about San Francisco, you've probably encountered SFist Interviewer Emily. Emily can usually tear herself away from reruns of "Dog, Bounty Hunter" and making stuff long enough to pepper locals and visitors alike with probing questions about the Bay Area. She has little use for burrito haters, but is kind enough not to say so to their face.

After many years wandering around the country, Ted got lost on his way to Seattle several decades ago and has been an ardent San Franciscan ever since. He makes his living as a literary agent but gets away from words as often as he can to take photographs.

Dan Johnson was born in the Bay Area and now is a Lower Haighter. In between all of that he lived in a few other places, and in the process realized that there was no point in living in cities with crappy burritos. So he moved back to San Francisco. In his spare time he runs, hikes, camps, eats, writes for burritophile.com, runs his own little copywriting/marketing business, goes to grad school at SF State, watches baseball, and a few other things. He really likes it when random people buy him beer, so look him up at the Toronado.

In the movie of his life, Jonathan is like Indiana Jones meets Ottavio Bottecchia meets Walter Mitty. Like George Thorogood, he hails from Delaware, the First State, Small Wonder, Home of Tax-Free Shopping (in most other respects, he is not like George Thorogood). Jonathan is an avid rider of Caltrain and an aficionado of semicolons; along with Theodor Adorno, he cries out that “when syntax and punctuation relinquish the right to articulate and shape the facts, to critique them, language is getting ready to capitulate to what merely exists, even before thought has time to perform this capitulation eagerly on its own for the second time.

Deborah left her hometown of New York City in 2002 to see what it was like to live in another city. Although she planned on staying for only two years, she eventually became enslaved to San Francisco via love, a mortgage, and proximity to Anderson Valley Pinot producers. Deborah is an expert at backgammon and Sex and the City trivia and often can be found at the Chanel makeup counter at Bloomingdale's (coveting Prada bags out of the corner of her abricot-shadowed eye).

The best question ever asked of Richard was "are you ever going to run out of stories?" Almost two decades of submersion in the magnificent river that comprises San Francisco history has led him to a simple answer: "not a chance." Richard was born in a small northern California Gold Rush town, and a family legend claiming kinship with Samuel Clemens helped instill a passion for history and storytelling. When the medium of podcasting suddenly appeared, he didn't really notice -- until a German friend challenged him to give it a try. "But what will I talk about?", he asked. "Oh, right." Thus the Sparkletack project was born, launching a public metamorphoses of graphic designer into amateur historian.

Cedric's Gastronomique column is a French man's perspective on eating in San Francisco. Doesn't get more legit than that. As SFist's resident "Philistine," he also covers opera, symphony, and other performing arts. Plus Cedric is a member of the Caltrain Bike Car Crew, which as everyone knows, is the coolest public transit posse around.

If you don't own a TV set, Rain might not have much to say to you, but to those who do, she will gladly debate the varied qualities of the latest "America's Next Top Model" contestants or argue over just what the monster is lurking in the bushes on "Lost" into the wee hours of the morning. Basically, if it flickers and tells some kind of story, Rain will watch it. At least once. And then she might even write about it. Make sure to check out Rain's weekly TV picks on SFist.

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