Andy Rogers

Andy Rogers joined the Seattle P-I in 2004 as assistant photo editor after spending the previous 8 years as a photographer for various newspapers. His stops have included The (Roseburg, Ore.) News-Review, The (Everett) Herald, and most recently, ) The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, with which he spent 2 months in Iraq, embedded with Fort Carson's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He made the switch back to shooting in 2006.

Andy was born in Virginia and grew up mostly in Maryland. He earned Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin after transferring from the University of Maryland, where he studied advertising design. His photography and editing have been recognized by the National Press Photographers' Association, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, POYi, Editor & Publisher, the Associated Press and others.

Andy's current preoccupations are playing with Benjamin, his one-year-old son, and playing club-level lacrosse whenever his oft-injured body permits it.

Angelo Bruscas

Angelo Bruscas was born in Carmel, Calif., and grew up in the Monterey area and in Tacoma; he graduated from Lakes High School, then attended Washington State University and Western Washington University, majoring in journalism and broadcasting and causing trouble.

Angelo began his dubious newspaper career at Western as editor of the Western Front, then worked at the Ferndale Record-Journal, the Skagit Valley Herald, the Yakima Herald-Republic, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and finally the P-I. He's been here the past 23 years as a night assistant city editor, nuclear energy reporter, city hall reporter, general assignment/regional reporter, sports reporter and copy editor, and now back to news.

In his other life, Angelo plays guitar, writes songs and performs with AMBII and the Real News Network rock band. He has two children, Michael and Rebecca; one great dog, Layla, 16; and one huge family with ties in the Northwest from Salem to Stanwood.

He's lived in Seattle, North Seattle, Edmonds, Lakewood, LaConner, Mount Vernon, Bellingham, Pullman, Yakima and Mountlake Terrace. He also started blogging two years ago on his own Web site, www.realnewsnet.net.

Athima Chansanchai

I am a full-time reporter on the P-I's consumer team, focusing on pop/sub-culture.

I began my journalism career more than a decade ago at the Village Voice in New York, right after going to grad school in journalism at Stanford. I moved to the mainstream newspaper world by joining The Baltimore Sun in 2000. (That's right, I have "Wire" cred.) There, I covered children's literature and general assignment features before plunging into the metro side of the newsroom. I covered police, courts and municipal government. Sensational murder trials, weather stories and animals on the loose in sub-rural Maryland became part of a daily routine that never lacked for excitement. Tropical Storm Isabel didn't even stop me, although it tried: I ran into a tree on the way to an assignment that impaled my windshield with a branch.

Moving to Seattle in 2005 exposed me to the sub-cultures of the Pacific Northwest, where my city-driven news features have covered the return of the Roller Girls, parkour, local hip hop, a non-profit that takes the homeless off the street and into the kitchen and the Tacoma mall shooting. Now on the Consumer/Life & Arts team, I regularly delve into the celebrity world through the daily "People in the News" section. I also cover local urban trends, people and events.

I am also on the National Advisory Board of the Asian American Journalists Association and the recording secretary for the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild.

Candace Heckman

Candace Heckman is the Breaking News editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattlepi.com. Candace was the P-I's consumer reporter, columnist and blogger in a previous life.

Candace came to the P-I in April 2000 by way of Philadelphia and Arkansas. She was born and raised on O'ahu, Hawaii, but left her own little rock for the Great Big World after high school.

So, how did a part-Native Hawaiian surfer girl end up land-locked as a University of Arkansas Razorback?

"We Hawaiians really love our roasted pork," she says. "Arkansas has got to be the only place where they roast their own mascot over a spit on the frat house lawn for Homecoming. You gotta love that."

Curt Milton
Curt Milton got into the newspaper business in his hometown of Prosser in the pre-historic era (no computers, type stuck on big sheets of paper with gobs of wax, Gutenberg operating the presses). His first chore at the Prosser Record-Bulletin was learning to typeset grocery ads and emptying the wastebaskets. He had no where to go but up.

Curt graduated from The Evergreen State College where he studied photography, Russian/Soviet history and political economics and interned at the Washington State Legislature. After graduation he went to work for publications both big (The P-I, the Contra Costa Times) and small (the Capitol Hill Times, the Roseburg News-Review) with brief stops in TV news and typography. He has worked at the P-I since 1995 as a copy editor, page designer and artist. He's now learning how to be a web producer and spends more time online than it is safe to admit.

D Parvaz

D. Parvaz writes about pop culture, international relations and local politics ... no topic is off the table. Her column runs on Saturdays.

Before moving to the Opinions section, D. Parvaz used to be the Pop Culture and Style reporter at the P-I. She took great pleasure in writing the weekly Popping Off column, dealing with subjects such as the MTV Video Awards, Seattle's Street of Dreams and the follies of the Bush Administration.

David McCumber

David McCumber, 55, is managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has been at the P-I eight years, the past seven as managing editor. He has been a newspaper journalist for 35 years. McCumber was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in special local reporting in1984.

He is the author of four books of nonfiction, most recently An Air That Kills (Putnam 2004), co-authored with Andrew Schneider, based on a P-I series that revealed the asbestos poisoning of Libby, Montana.

He lives in Seattle with his wife, Sarah, and their children, Dylan and Katy.

Don Smith

Don Smith is interactivity editor for seattlepi.com with responsibility for much of the reader content of the website. He's also the main editor for The Big Blog.

A native of Washington state, he has worked in newspapers in Washington, Texas and Idaho for more than three decades. He came to the P-I in 1989 as political editor. Since then, he served as city editor, business editor and projects editor before moving over to the digital side of the news operation.

Want to blog for seattlepi.com? Have a complaint about this blog or about posts on the site's Forums or Soundoffs? He's the guy.

Gene Stout

I started this journey when Little Richard knocked me out of the cradle, and I continue to be a sucker for a great musical hook. I've been Pop Music Critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for more than two decades. I'm a Seattle native who grew up listening to Pat O'Day on KJR.

Over the years, I have interviewed hundreds of musicians and celebrities, from Jamie Cullum to Eddie Vedder to Bob Hope. The week of Kurt Cobain’s death in April 1994 was one of the most intense weeks of my career, with many hours spent interviewing his widow, Courtney Love.

My CD collection is large enough to bury me in an earthquake. My book collection could fill the shelves of a small-town library. The late Frank Zappa once said, "Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can't read." But criticism of music -- whether it's pop, rock, country, blues, R&B, jazz, hip-hop or any other style -- attracts many creative minds, dedicated fans and colorful characters.

Dick Clark, who has followed popular music a lot longer than I, said: "If you’re lucky enough to find a line of work that you like, and you don't watch the clock while you're doing it, then you don't mind when Monday rolls around and you’ve got to go back and do it again." Amen.

Joshua Trujillo

Light, moment, expression, composition, irony and truth are what photojournalist Joshua Trujillo looks for through the viewfinder of his camera. Trujillo has been a photojournalist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 2003. He came to Seattle by way of the Hearst Fellowship, a program in which journalists rotate to Hearst-owned newspapers around the country; Josh worked at the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News and the Seattle P-I. He also worked at the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star during his college years in Tucson, Ariz. While in the fellowship program, the P-I sent him to Afghanistan in September 2001 to cover the United States' reaction to the attacks of September 11. He was one of the first newspaper photographers in the ravaged country and his photos were published around the world and in many U.S. newspapers. Prior to his life as a photojournalist he was in the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a meteorologist with the Army and Air Force during the Kosovo conflict. He spends his free time in Seattle aboard his sailboat with his young daughter and his wife, Lina.

Karen Ducey

Karen Ducey became a staff photographer at the P-I in 2003. Previously, she'd worked since 1999 at the Indianapolis Star. Before that, she spent 12 years in Washington and Alaska working as a commercial fisherman an freelance photographer.

Karen is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and also studied two years in the photography program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

In 2005, she traveled to New Orleans for a week with the Sultan, Wash.-based organization Pasado's Safe Haven to rescue animals abandoned after Hurricane Katrina and produced her own weekly photo column, "Seattle Perspectives," juxtaposing historical facts with current opinions and pictures.

Kery Murakami

Kery Murakami was born in Japan but moved to the United States when he was 4, which explains why he speaks Japanese like a 4 year old. After growing up in the mean streets of midtown Manhattan, he attended the University of Michigan, where he's been a senior since 1988.

He covered the crack epidemic in Jersey City, N.J,. then gang warfare in Tacoma before spending the next 11 years with an even scarier assignment. He covered state government for three years, King County government, Seattle City Hall, and the monorail debate. For the last three years, he has been writing about life in Seattle, chronicling the death of the city's beloved dive bars like the Jade Pagoda, Sorry Charlie's, and Cha Cha.

When he's not sitting on a bar stool for work, he can usually be found at the Deluxe Bar & Grill on Broadway.

Some people think he has a peculiar view of the world, probably because he spent the first 30 years of his life thinking the phrase is "doggy dog world." But in what kind of world would you rather live? A dog-eat-dog world or a doggy-dog one?

Lennyboy (Lenny Fernandez)

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Lino Fernandez

I'm a column assistant in the Life & Arts department at the Seattle P-I, i.e. I dish out calendar listings and such for the paper. I'm also in a couple bands (Bandolier and Sons of Ivan), go to shows, and ride my Bajaj Chetak scooter every chance I get.w

Music is my life. The spark that started the fire was when my cousins taught me how to play "Heart and Soul" on my Grandma's piano. I bought my first record, Men Without Hats' Pop Goes the World, when I was 10. My first band formed in an attempt to win the school talent show. We learned a lot of songs by the Cure, called ourselves the Medicine Men, and lost. Our dreams of becoming as big as Saved by the Bell's Zack Attack never materialized.

I have my brother to thank for taking me to my first all-ages show. It was at the Paramount Theatre with Alice in Chains, the Posies, Beat Happening and the Walkabouts. I saw Bright Eyes at the Paradox when it used to be on University Way and Modest Mouse at the Breakroom before it became Chop Suey.

I prefer clubs and small theaters to arenas and outdoor shows. Intimacy and sound quality have a lot to do with it, not to mention that I like to actually see what's going on onstage. So get out there, Seattle! With all the great bands living here or passing through town, there are too many shows happening to stay home.

Mai Ling Slaughter

I may only be from the F.W. (that’s Federal Way to those of you who don’t see its resemblance to Newport Beach, Calif.), but I do still consider myself a Seattle girl -- who just happens to have a more extensive knowledge of the south end of King County than most.

But even for a hometown girl, I'm still learning, and readjusting to, the music and the people in this ever-changing city. I’m always looking for new bands, local and otherwise, and cool places in the city to hear music or just to hang out. And I bet you are, too. So join me as I search for the next big thing, and be feel free to shout out a few of your own suggestions, too.

Meryl Schenker

Meryl Schenker has been a staff photographer at the P-I for a decade. She took her first photography class in 1987 in San Francisco. Her photographic work concentrates on people in their communities.

She holds a master's degree in telecommunications with an emphasis in visual communication from Ohio University. And she has a bachelor's degree in biology from State University of New York at Binghamton. Her masters thesis is an extensive look at the Love Israel family.

Meryl's 2005 portfolio included an examination of Gov. Christine Gregoire's first 100 days in office, an inside look at the University of Washington's volleyball team and the project "Public Protection, Private Abuse," on community protection.

Her hobbies include fly fishing, skiing, reading and gardening.

Mike Kane
Mike Kane is staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and former participant in the Hearst Fellowship not only at the P-I but also at the San Francisco Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News and has covered a wide array of assignments including hurricanes, drug carte violence and mine disasters.

Mike studied at the University of Texas in Austin and completed a masters photo project on armed civilian border militias operating on the Arizona/Mexico border.

Moises Mendoza

Moises Mendoza joined the P-I in May as a Hearst Newspaper Fellow. He graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2007.

In college, he was the editor of Georgetown’s student newspaper The Hoya.

Moises has reported for The Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News, St. Petersburg Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.

He recently became a certified emergency medical technician and is hoping to get his skydiving license soon.

Monica Guzman

Mónica Guzmán is the P-I's first online reporter and the main contributor to its new online project, the Big Blog.

She joined the P-I in January 2007 as a Hearst Newspapers Fellow, covering the culture of technology in a weekly column and a blog, Net Native. She took on the P-I's Big Blog last July.

A product of her wired generation, Mónica obsesses over her Facebook profile and can’t remember what life was like before e-mail. She plays on the P-I's flag football team and calls it a good afternoon when she can tinker with her piano and her Ibanez guitar -- and a good evening when she can get out and enjoy the nightlife. A huge film fan, Mónica will often cry at movies people have no business crying in. She can't cook, but she's trying.

Mónica gives a weekly radio round-up of the week's most talked about stories Wednesday afternoons on KOMO 1000 and serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington Information School's Masters of Science and Information Management Program. She's also what you might call an online news evangelist -- giving talks about the future of journalism like this speedy guide she gave at Ignite Seattle on how to be an awesome news story commenter.

Mónica has worked previously at the Houston Chronicle, the Midland Daily News in Michigan and Foster’s Daily Democrat in New Hampshire, covering police and breaking news, higher education and arts and entertainment. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Mónica 's always looking for post ideas and can be reached by e-mail or phone at (206) 448-8381. You can also friend her on Facebook (just explain who you are) and follow her on Twitter (@moniguzman for the person, @bigblog for the headlines).

Regina Hackett

Regina Hackett is the art critic for the Seattle P-I. She has a bachelor of arts degree in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and a masters of arts degree in journalism with an emphasis on arts criticism from the University of Oregon in Eugene. In 1993, she won the Chemical Bank Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, first place in the contemporary art category. In 1996 and 2005, she won first place for criticism from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.

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