Paige grew up in Austin, left, and returned in 2004. In 2005, she began contributing to Austinist thanks to a chance encounter with Allen Chen. She edited the music section for a few years. By trade she's a project manager and content strategist. She lives in East Austin and has big shoes to fill. Stalk at twitter.com/fluxistrad.

Born and raised in San Antonio, schooled in Denton and Austin, arts writer and editor.

Elizabeth S. comes from a long line of native Texans and has lived in Austin most of her life. She spent a year of the early aughts in the Twin Cities area (Americorps FTW!), but during that short time she said "y'all" as often as she could. A few of her favorite things: Twitter (@elizs), classic film, Horizontes on KUT, and the Austin Public Library. She still refers to the Mueller redevelopment as "the old airport," and perhaps always will.

By day, Tom helps the residents of Central, East, and South Austin find homes and condos to call their own. He moonlights as a music, food and wine writer for Austinist. In his leisure time, Tom loves the Spurs, craft brews, new world wine, Chelsea, Britpop, nachos, SXSW, Scrabble, Caffe Medici, Perla's, Jackalope burgers, and (especially) time with his wife and two daughters. Tom has been to 28 countries, but sure loves living in Southwest Austin. If he had a theme song, it would be by Hot Chip or Cut Copy.

Shawn is an urban acolyte in the tradition of Jane Jacobs. He was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas and educated in New York City. Shawn likes cool breezes, integration, longs walks in the city, street front retail, shotguns, trees, right angles, choice architecture, bikes, black and white. Shawn doesn't like hot air, isolation, direct light, highways through cities, parking, suburbia, hippies, boomers, colors or cancer.

Caitlin was born in a state known for its gently swaying fields of wheat and excellent basketball (Rock Chalk Jayhawk) but Austin's robust events calendar and beautiful people persuaded her to leave it all behind. These days she spends her free time writing, going to movies and shows, living a healthy yet beer-enhanced life, and hanging out with her dog, Raef.

Sean is a practicing artist, writer, arts administrator, and musician (don't read an ascending or descending order into this list). He loves non-fiction writing that's heavy on technicality, but can only take a sentence or two in a given sitting. Central Texan since birth... will he ever leave? This faux third person bio can be used for your own online dating service bio for a small fee.

Georgia Young hails from the Boston area, but is addicted to Austin's near-perpetual summer. She likes really loud music, cinema, and writing about the Austin theatre scene for Austinist.

Before arriving in Austin, self-taught photographer Chad Wadsworth's visual history of jobs worked and cities resided in could best be described as a spirograph. There was that stint in a cake factory and maybe something related to a bingo parlor, but he is here now, snapping bands doing their thing since way back in 2005. We hear he has flirted with nationals like Spin and Blender (RIP) but he finally got smart and decided to go all the way with the Austinst. old timey website here...

Adi grew up in New Delhi (south side represent), India. His family moved to Tejas in the 90s and he ended up in Austin at the University of Texas. Adi loves music, sports, kitties, and much much more, not necessarily in that order. He enjoys attending concerts and shows, sports events, and general fun occasions. He likes to play fútbol, tennis, ping pong, basketball, cricket, etc. In 2007, Adi fulfilled a life-long dream by sitting at the KOP end at Anfield. He watched the match too.

Nick Courtright writes poems and publishes them in literary journals <1 billion read. Also, he teaches at St. Edward’s University and listens to really dense audiobooks for fun. He lives on the east side with his wife Michelle, son William, 1 dog, 1 cat, 2 birds, 5 fish, and some trees.

Truecraig writes amongst the ranks of the 78704, practices regular bearding, drinks in a sporting sort of way (like a two-day game of cricket), and believes that the production of sincere panda pornography might be the key to the survival of that particularly lazy bear species. Truecraig thinks that everyone takes themselves far too serious. Even you. But Truecraig likes you anyway, and wishes you would call him more often to talk about cuddly puppies, open sewage, and where all that killer-bad graffiti be at.

Jason has lived in Austin since 1999. After ten years at UT, where he earned a PhD in mathematics, started a record label, toured with friends' bands, and booked/promoted shows, he is now a professor at St. Edward's. A longtime friend of the Austinist, he's thrilled to officially be part of the family.

Currently residing on the East Side, A.J. covers news, politics, and events around town. A scenester acolyte of former Austinist editor Allen Y Chen, you've probably seen, and maybe even brushed by him. Please continue. His likes include tie clips, dance parties, pastel polos, and sweet potato fries. Dislikes include muffin top button down shirts, scoffed dress shoes and too much of good thing. A product of Austin's LBJ Math and Science Academy, he attended Wake Forest University receiving a B.A. in Political Science and J.D. from Washburn Law in Topeka, KS (yes, Topeka).

Shiv moved to Austin from Cincinnati when WOXY.com relocated here in the fall of 2009. While he still catches plenty of live music, more often than not you can find him at an Alamo Drafthouse watching a movie or at home breezing through his Netflix queue. He saw 210 films in 2010. This seems excessive to his mother, but makes him feel like a casual filmgoer in this town of extreme movie nerdom.

In 1492 Jessica Skinner sailed the ocean blue - wait, no, that was Columbus. Well, Jessica may not have “discovered” The Americas, but when she relocated from New York to Austin in 2007, she did discover her appetite for the wonderful buffet of music the town serves up nightly.

Nick returned to Austin after strutting around Boston University, New York, and Los Angeles. Writing for Austinist before and after a few of those sojourns, Nick has enjoyed covering everything from the zentai suit rock show that christened the United States Art Authority, to sex shop carnivals, film festival interviews (Paul Feig/Sam Weir fanboy love!), gay zombies, and all of the other spectacular local events that come our way every single day. Beyond Austinist, Nick does web stuffs for the Paramount/State Theatres and asks butterflies if he's really the Last Unicorn.

Carly Kocurek researches, writes, and edits in Austin, where she's lived since 2004. She likes barrettes, cultural theory, rhinestones, and elaborately decorated desserts. She dislikes cold weather, microfilm, and the sound Velcro makes. blog

I have been a student of music since my early college days and have written about it since 2002. In addition to The Austinist, my writing can be found in Signal To Noise, Paris Transatlantic, Bagatellen, All About Jazz, and One Final Note. I have also penned liner notes for releases on ESP-Disk', Clean Feed Records, 612 Sides (trumpeter Kelly Rossum) and Speetones (saxophonist/flutist James Spaulding). In addition to writing about music, I am an archivist. Ni Kantu

Matthew has been known to speak out of turn more than once and has been warned about it repeatedly so let us know if he does it again. He loves Austin as it's one of the few places he can walk five dogs and not get (too many) funny looks. Hiking and biking are things he likes to do though he doesn\'t do then as much as you‘d think, if he likes them so much. He always wanted to start a band but doesn\'t play anything and only sings well when alone in the shower...alone.

Travis Sandoval fled the Mexikennedy Estate in South Texas in 2003 to pursue his love of film at the University of Texas. Somehow he got sidetracked into a graphic/web design career along the way. He also loves a good drink special and talking lesbians out of flannel. website

Steve came to Austin for UT and never left, thinking the best part of hometown Houston was seeing it in his rear-view mirror. Steve spends his nights leaping tall buildings in single bounds and photographing Austin's world-class musicians performing in poorly lighted bars. Steve believes that photographs really can capture souls and that no other photographer will be as great as Henri Cartier-Bresson, but that doesn't stop him from taking his best shot. homepage

Pooneh is a student and freelance photographer currently living in Austin. She enjoys spending what money's she's got on polaroids, new camera gear, impulsively traveling around the world to go to shows, and endless Mountain Dew to keep her up at night so she can edit photos (chronic insomnia at it's finest). website

A West Texan who moved to Austin in early 2007, Tyler loves good BBQ, tacos, and pizza. He has two dogs and enjoys spending lazy days on the sofa watching tv with them. Tyler is a photographer, a Mac geek, prefers 2 wheels over 4, and lives in South Austin with his lady friend. website