Shawna Adams
Staff Writer, Photographer

Shawna Adams is a music lover attending New York University’s Stern School of Business as a junior studying Marketing and Finance, with a concentration in media and entertainment. She undoubtedly spends more time attending shows than she does attending classes, and is currently working three different jobs. Between an internship at Heavy Inc. in music marketing and another at Atlantic Records in radio, on top of weekends working at the local mall as a Banana Republic retail whore, one can easily classify Shawna as a workaholic. She is interested in artist publicity and music marketing and takes every opportunity to expand her knowledge of the snazzy music industry that comes her way. In her spare time, she takes photographs of bands and collects sunglasses. Shawna is very excited and thankful to be a part of the superb Cityzen team!

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Craig is the founder and CEO of Cityzen Entertainment Inc, a Manhattan based company dedicated to the marketing, promotion and publicity of independent and mainstream entertainment to a world-wide audience. He publishes CityZen.tv which focuses on the interaction between culture and industry. With over ten years of industry experience, Mr. Cook has racked up an impressive resume, serving the music and film communities in many capacities.

He began his career at the age of thirteen as an instrument repair technician; after which Mr. Cook went on to gain experience in all aspects of music production. Work in lighting and production for venues like The Downtown, Mercury Lounge, Van Nostrand Theater, Inter Media Arts Center of Huntington (IMAC) and The Vanderbilt, gave Craig the opportunity to work closely with national acts such as Jefferson Starship, Antigone Rising, Richie Havens, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hot Tuna, Jim Breuer, Marley’s Wailers, Derek Trucks, and Jen Durkin’s Bomb Squad.

Shani Frymer
Staff Writer

Born and raised in our fair city of New York, Shani Frymer is a writer and photographer extraordinaire by day, superhero by night. A recent graduate of Bennington College, she is accustomed to having dress up day every day. She shoots enormous color abstracts that are almost comperable to her beauty, and peruses the art scene like a true patron, regardless of her (fashionable) but starving artist status.

Erica Futterman
Staff Writer

Erica Futterman is senior in Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, double majoring in magazine journalism and gender studies. She'd like nothing more than a career revolving around going to shows and writing about them, and is doing everything in her power to make that a reality. Often mistaken for much younger due to her pixie bangs, Erica is still only twenty years old.

Joshua Patterson
Illustrator

Joshua Patterson is a multi-talented, multi-media wizard who excells in everthing from painting and sclupture to code engineering and webdesign. After graduating from the Pratt Institute with a degree in Industrial Design, Josh went on to work for a who's who of industrial and entertainment media clientelle utilizing his advanced programing skills to design with systems like Unigraphics, PTC Pro, Bryce, Maya and Vellum. An extremely prolific artist, Joshua has a collection of hundreds of works ranging from line drawings to large canvas paintings.

Dave Puretz
Staff Writer

Davey P is his name and he spent adolescence riding in the backseat of an old Volkswagen with brother and sister making trips back and forth from Baltimore to Boston to Baltimore and back again. Now the MTA of NYC is his Volkswagen. He has traveled to other lands extraordinary in nature and aesthetic but his journeys in the backseat of the Volkswagen are the reason for why things have ended up being the way things ended up being in the end for Davey P. But fuck it; you really want to know this man? Read his stories.

An accomplished turntablist, Will teaches at the Scratch DJ Academy, founded by the late Jam Master Jay. In 2005, Will played a central character in The Art Of The Heist, an Audi USA sponsored ARG (Alternate Reality Game), part of the multimillion dollar Audi A3 Viral Marketing Campaign.

Paul Wenzel
Associate Editor

THE PAUL WENZEL STORY AS TOLD
TO A TYPING ORANGUTANG:

Paul Wenzel is many things to many people. Mainly, he is a dude who, much like other dudes, has jiggly naughty bits. He is currently a college dropout with something to prove. He is a teddy bear, replete with warm and fuzzy hugs. He is a sesquipedalian and verbose dude, and, most of the time, he often comes to his conclusions in a, how we say, roundabout matter. As happy as this makes him, Paul just wants to be remembered as a raconteur and sassy man-about-town. When he dies, he wants his body thrown out of a plane into a vast desert. Or dessert. Whatever he can afford at the time.

Paul is remembered as the inventor of the telethon, a tool that has helped raise a countless amount of money for disease research and public television programming. He became the youngest astronaut when, at the age of 4, he piloted a self-made rocket into Earth’s atmosphere. He is a qualified meteorologist, astrophysicist, and nuclear technician. Paul also became the first man to successfully clone a chia pet. Although he swears on his veracity, some have called Paul a compulsive liar.

When he’s not working his day job, Paul is an independent musician (wenzelmusic.com), a writer (here, duh), and a fly-by-night courier service. If you need to reach him in an emergency, just think his name real loud and he’ll be there ASAP.