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STAFF
Mitzi Gordon
Editor

Shyness battling sociability. Ten years in the biz. High on life. And occasionally, rum. Mitzi took the long road to her dream job, working as a night dishwasher after graduating from NYU in '97. She insisted on traveling the states before settling into a reporter gig, and now gets to write about art, fashion and karaoke whenever she wants. Awesome.
Kristen N. Brown
Art Director

In a list of things to do before she dies, Kristen ranks "Beat Tetris" and "Retire on Farm" near the top. A self-taught graphic designer for the past five years and printmaker for the past two, she has exhibited art in Tampa, Detroit, Los Angeles and Montreal. Reared near Detroit, she recently put down roots as an urban pioneer in Ybor, and tries to rope friends into her neighborhood based on its high radness factor.
Ebony Bosch
Advertising Account Executive
This is Ebony. With a degree in Journalism from UF, Ebony has joined the ranks at Orange hoping to spread the Good Word about the magazine and the benefits of daily doses of citrus to avoid social pariah-ism and the scurvy. If you know her, that’s all we need to say … because like Cher, Madonna and that dastardly cheese, she (and her name) stand alone. Ask, and she’ll expound ad nauseam about how she hates magic and stuffing. But we wouldn’t suggest it.
CONTRIBUTORS
Shanna Gillette
Photographer and existentialist weirdo Shanna Gillette is a singer, ex-model, philosopher of sorts, and recent transplant from Arizona. She has been there and done that, and probably has a picture of it somewhere. After leaving Arizona State University, she spent four years on the road as a promotional tour manager and event photographer. If you catch her out, you’ll recognize her by her camera, ever-changing hair color and penchant for toilet humor.
Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy is a longtime Tampa resident who works as a computer guru and freelancer for various projects. During his years in Tampa he has run a theatre troupe, coffee house, promotions company, magazine, and now co-owns Daddy Zero in Seminole Heights. He enjoys horror, running, the outdoors and subversive material.
Lori Ballard
Photographer Lori Ballard has flown with hurricane hunters and traveled cross-country with an elephant in her quest to tell people's stories. The official photographer of the Florida State Fair, Lori is now bringing her love of photojournalism, travel and adventure to the pages of Orange. Trained in fine art photography, the Tampa native has been taking photos for more than a decade.
Mike Gordon
Obsessed with music since the early '70s, Mike will never forget when CDs first came out. He immediately went to a female friend's house to compare sound quality against cassettes. Twelve years later, they married to the tune of "Crush" by the Smashing Pumpkins. A DJ for five years in college, he went digital in 2004, and is still looking for an MP3 player large enough to hold his collection. He thinks 200GB would just make it.
Heather Martello
Photographer Heather Martello recently moved to Ybor and is enjoying every second of it with her dog, three cats and new friends. However, she does not want a palm-frond flower and does not want to be a Scientologist. She hits Green Iguana on Wednesday nights and likes taking Sampson to the local dog park.
Ryan Prado
Born and raised in Tampa, Ryan Prado graduated from the University of South Florida in 2005 with a BFA in Photography. He describes his work as "a series of self-portraits" exposing his fantasies, experiences, fears and innermost thoughts (though his face does not appear in many of the images).His influences include pop culture, fashion, and the works of Guy Bourdin and David LaChapelle.
Valerie Troyano
Put a camera in her hand and she's a happy woman. Valerie Troyano has been shooting non-stop since getting her first taste of the biz with TooSquare Magazine five years ago. Her work has appeared in local art shows and publications such as Tampa Bay Industry magazine and Weekly Planet. Industrial images and erotic photography are some of Val's favorite themes. If you're hanging at a local club or art event, be sure to look your coolest - she'll be there snapping photos.
Bradley Paul Valentine
Contributing writer and photographer Bradley Paul Valentine likes to explore the unusual stories people tell about themselves everyday. He's a filmmaker at heart, and it shows in his work, which often experiments with narrative techniques. Some of his photographs were recently displayed at The Tampa Museum of Art, Bombshell Gallery and the St. Petersburg Arts Center.
Harold Valentine
Just before his 19th year on this planet, Harold Valentine realized he was wasting his time. The logic of his then-considered virtue - including a hermetic lifestyle - caught up with him. The proverbial "Why?" in life turned into "Why not?" Since then he's been dancing like Napoleon Dynamite on crack. Too lazy to learn an instrument, he decided to try and write like a rock star, kinda like Lester Bangs only muskier. Watermelon's great.
Gina Vivinetto
Gina Vivinetto won the inaugural Boulevard national Emerging Writer Contest in 1997, and her fiction has appeared in the New Orleans Review and Weekly Planet. Gina is also well-known for getting fired from the St. Pete Times. (Technically, she resigned.) She was the pop music critic there for nearly six years, and wrote funny columns for tbt*. Now she owns Bombshell Gallery, plays bass in the Teacups, sings for the Peabodies and enjoys her Myspace celebrity.
Kelly Benjamin
Born and raised in Tampa, Kelly Benjamin has also lived in Croatia, Argentina and Martinique. For the most part he eats well and exercises daily. His vices include Guinness, conspiracy theories and the occasional fine Cuban cigar. A former politician, Kelly has been arrested more than a dozen times in four states, and his house was once raided by a Federal Swat team. He is an exceptional chess player.
Greg Caracci
Greg Caracci is a USF graduate with a penchant for creative writing, arts, debauchery and philosophy. He has been criticized for inappropriate combinations of the four. Greg hopes to gorge on the cultural and social buffet without getting nauseous. He's a little hard to pin down, that one.
Rachel Moran
Rachel Moran graduated from the University of Tampa's writing program. Her fiction has appeared in Tampa Review, Florida Review, Pindeldyboz and BLOW. She won the Weekly Planet's first Best of the Bay "Best Local Blog" award for "Midnight Culmination," an intimate account of her nightlife adventures in Tampa and the 'Burg. Her turn-ons are fast cars, diamond-cut abs, searing ambition and mirrors. She wants you to look as good as she does.
Susie Ulrey
Susie Ulrey is a local musician and fledgling writer. She sneezes a lot and hopes for it to end someday. Among her two cats, Margot is the obvious favorite. As a result of working from home she has diminished social skills and tends to talk over everyone else when in a public setting.
Aaron Edwards
A painter turned photographer/digital artist, Aaron Edwards is a New Yorker at heart and recent resident of the Tampa Bay area. “The foundation of my work is a desire to tell a story well,” he told Orange. “It is in my nature, rather than an acquired skill to discover a moment – the one with the essence of many held within a single frame.”
Sarah Rothwell
A community news reporter by day. An entertainment journalist by night. As an Orange contributor, Sarah is eager to report on music and film in the Tampa Bay area.
Camille Scringer
Camille Scringer is a USF journalism graduate. Since childhood she’s had the remarkable gift of saying what most people think but are too polite to say. Her writing has appeared in The Tampa Tribune and Ice Cream magazine. She’s a fiery Cuban-Jamaican and is sometimes known to speak Spanish, Patois and English all at once.
Fred Aceves
Born in New York and raised in various cities, Fred Aceves spent seven years traveling the world before coming back to Tampa. The itch to keep moving may return, but until then he’ll be writing about the ever-changing Bay area. A budding novelist with one book in the works, he understands how prose can improve through time. Also a ball player, he stubbornly believes he can play as well as he used to.
Matthew Pleasant
Matthew Pleasant wrote obituaries for several years before he began working as a freelance journalist. He has written for The South Tampa News and Creative Loafing. He is also an editor of Thread, a USF literary journal. With the money he makes from this week’s issue, he plans to buy a new pair of shoes.