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Who is the Voice?
(Keep checking back as we fill in the many people who keep our Voice humming.)
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Editors
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Eric Bond is the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Takoma Voice and the Silver Spring Voice. He is also the webmaster of this site.
Eric keeps an online journal of his experiences and issues as a hometown editor (editor's blog). He also writes the Eclectic Ear column—as well as a handful of articles in each issue of the Voice.
To contact Eric Bond, call 301-891-6744
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Voice Photo Editor / Assistant Editor Julie Wiatt has been working on the Voice since about 1997.
She moved to Takoma Park with husband “Coach G” Weinstein and son Zak during cicada season May 1987. They (Julie, G and Zak, not the cicadas) were part of a migratory pattern from an Adams Morgan group house. Before coming to this area she was a wanderer, taking photos in St Croix, working on a community newspaper in East Boston, tracking bats in Panama, studying biology and art in New York City. Julie loves the Voice, considering it a wonderful way to know and celebrate Takoma Park and Silver Spring.
Julie asks the Question of the Month. |
Columnists/contributors
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Takoma Park expatriate Abby Bardi explores the wickedness of modern life in her Voice column, Sin of the Month.
Born and raised in Chicago, Abby has worked as a singing waitress in Washington, D.C., an English teacher in Japan and England, a performer on England's country and western circuit, and, most recently, as a professor at Prince George's Community College.
Author of the Book of Fred, (Washington Square Press: Simon & Schuster 2001), she is married with two children and lives in Ellicott City, Maryland. |
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Elizabeth Brinkama writes Biz Buzz, the local-business column, for the Voice.
Elizabeth was born and raised in Claremont, California. She survived four years all girls Catholic high school relatively unscathed.... except for continued disdain of navy blue polyester and secret desire to be Stella Stevens' character Sister George in Where Angels Go Trouble Follows.
Since she was neither a Valley Girl nor a beach babe, Elizabeth was asked to leave the state. She moved to Colorado and earned a degree in English at The Colorado College.
Having achieved the ability to read a book and write a paper in one day, Elizabeth moved to DC with classmate only to discover the day before their journey that she didn't know how to drive—whereupon she mastered, without artificial stimulants, the ability to drive an 18' U-Haul with a car attached over 2,000 miles.
Not surprisingly, she decided to stay in the DC area indefinitely. |
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William Brown is the creator of Citizen Bill. He is a illustrator, cartoonist, and Morris dancer living in Takoma Park, Maryland. His work appears in such publications as The New York Times, Slate, the Washington Post, the Progressive, Newsday, and the Washington Times.
Citizen Bill appears in each issue of the Takoma Voice. A unique form of editorial cartoon, it depicts an archetypical Takoma Parkian and his family to comment on the issues and pressures of living in a proudly diverse, progressive, inner suburban, small city.
Click here to visit Bill Brown's website. |
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Gilbert is the pseudonym of a hard-bitten, hard-drinking, long-time Takoma Park resident who maintains the Granola Park blog.
Gilbert and William L. Brown—Granola Park's mild-mannered chief of staff, researcher, and drink pourer—have never been seen in the same place at the same time. |
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Pat Howell, aka Easy Gardener, is a Takoma Park gardener and landscape designer/contractor. |
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Sue Katz Miller has been both a Newsweek reporter and a PTA President. She found that being a PTA President was harder. She writes about issues impacting our local schools in her School Scene column. |
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