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 completing a miniature tour around the country. Born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, she attended college in Portland, Oregon, worked in Austin, Texas, for a few years, and is now in Boston testing the waters of the Atlantic. She misses Texas sunshine, queso, barbecue, and Mexican martinis, but appreciates public transportation, sushi, old buildings, biking around town (when it's over 50 degrees...), and calling a river a river. When not studying for her Emerson graduate courses, Kerry likes to read books, bake cookies, play cards, write words that don't have to be published, listen to sounds that don't have to be understood, and ponder the universe.

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 ususally 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.

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."

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.

Lisa Scanlon was born in an unairconditioned hospital in Boston during a heat wave and has been hearing about it on her birthday every year since. When she's not writing about food for Bostonist, she writes about science, technology, and higher education.

In 2005, Vicki needed a change in her New York lifestyle, and wanted to start over in a city where she could find that niche she had been seeking. With the final choice between Los Angeles and Boston, a few beers and conversation with an old friend lead her to the right decision. You'll often find her dancing at the Middlesex or Enormous Room, or walking her beagle around Back Bay or Mission Hill. She's still looking for her favorite Thai/Indian/Sushi spots, and is always checking out new things around the city using Yelp and ye olde fashioned "word of mouth." By day, she's an indie music publicist, but she also runs a few blogs and is a freelance journalist and promoter for local DJs and electronic acts. Her favorite drink is a dirty vodka martini, so feel free to buy her one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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