Ainsley Bartholomew
Dance, Travel and Visual Arts

Ainsley interned at Dance Magazine in NYC this past fall, where she was excited to write short blurbs for the magazines �Vital Signs and �Across the Floor departments. Ainsley also co-write a feature article in the January, 2008 issue about the healing power of proper nutrition for injured dancers. Ainsley graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University in May 2007 with her B.A. in Fine Arts (College of Arts and Sciences) and Television, Radio, and Film (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications). She attributes her desire to earn her Master's degree in Arts Journalism to her life-long study of dance, her study abroad experience in London, Eng. her senior year, and her college internships at: WMHT-TV and WMHT-FM in Troy, NY; the international Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass.; and MTV2 in New York City. She is focused on Dance (a concentration she has forged with Johanna Keller�s help) although she is very interested in all of the arts.

Rebecca Bell
Interior Design and Fashion

Rebecca Bell, longtime lover of all things creative, is currently placating her passion for interior design at an internship with Boston-based Design New England magazine. Previously, she served as Arts and Entertainment intern at Metro, a free daily paper in Boston. With a background in advertising and public relations and a B.A. in Communication from Purdue University, Becca hopes that her internships and the Goldring program will be excellent stepping stones in her path to a creative career. Before enrolling at Syracuse University, she wore many occupational hats, as an advertising Account Coordinator representing Subway restaurants, and as an espresso-slinging barista representing caffienated beverages.

Download Judy Wicks/Alice Waters and Nationbeat podcast (MP3, 6068K)

Tiffany Bentley
Music

Tiffany is an editorial intern for Interview Magazine. She served as Editorial Coordinator for the Stone Canoe, a premier Upstate New York arts journal. She writes a monthly column for Table Hopping newspaper entitled "Sounds of Syracuse." She also freelances for the Post Standard newspaper as a concert reviewer. She has interviewed and reviewed such bands as Linkin Park, ZZ Top, The Tragically Hip, Placebo, and My Chemical Romance. As a side job, she assists with music programming and research for K-rock radio in Syracuse. Tiffany graduated from SUNY Albany with a Bachelor's degree in Communication and English.

S. Holland Bivins
Theater and Pop Culture

Holland is an editorial intern at American Theatre magazine. Last fall she worked as the literary management intern at Syracuse Stage, reading and assessing more than 40 new play submissions. She also contributed stories on production design and on playwright Martin McDonough for the theater's publications. Before joining the Goldring cohort, Holland managed the Four Day Weekend Theater in Fort Worth, T.X., where she wrote for the satirical online newspaper The Weekend Report. Selected for an internship with Texas Nonprofit Theatres, she served residencies at the Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth and the Alley Theatre in Houston. Holland graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio with majors in drama and business administration. When she isn't researching the plays of Strindberg or editing sidebars, Holland enjoys watching Gossip Girl, reading New York magazine, and planning her next trip to the Austin City Limits Festival.

Ely Delman
Popular Music

Ely is currently interning at the Arts Desk at the Syracuse Post-Standard. He has published articles on music, theater, dance, and other areas. Last fall, Ely interned at Spin Magazine, publishing an album review on Meshell Ndegeocello and various video reviews on artists such as Babyshambles and Regina Spektor, transcribed numerous interviews, and contributed story ideas. Ely was born in Caracas, Venezuela and lived in South and Central America and the Caribbean before pursuing undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. There he majored in Government with a concentration in Political Theory, but spent the majority of his time writing about popular music for campus newspapers and magazines and DJing at the campus radio station WBOR. In the summer of 2003 he worked as a producer's assistant for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at the Pan-American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where his family still resides. Two summers later, he interned at Portland Magazine in Portland, Maine, where he wrote, edited, researched, and photographed articles. At Bowdoin, Ely completed two independent studies in jazz that resulted in a paper titled "Walt Whitman and John Coltrane: the Finding of the Self" and a multimedia presentation on Miles Davis' live and electric recordings of the 1970s, respectively. Blog address: http://whatisgroove.blogspot.com

Nina Fedrizzi
Food & Wine, Travel

Nina Fedrizzi is interning at The Good Life Central New York Magazine this spring. She continues to write monthly columns and reviews on local restaurants, food and wine for Table Hopping Newspaper in Syracuse, where she interned this fall. Last year, Nina interned at the Syracuse New Times, where she wrote several features, previews, and how-to articles on the arts, home & garden, and entertainment. A Syracuse native, Nina graduated cum laude from LeMoyne College in Syracuse with a major in History and minors in French and Creative Writing. While at LeMoyne, she was published in and served as editor of "The Salamander" literary magazine. She cultivated and expanded her life-long interest in food, wine, and culture during a junior semester abroad at the historic St. Andrews University in Scotland and through travel opportunities to France, Italy, Ireland, and Costa Rica. A life-long, competitive equestrian, Nina doesn't mind getting her hands dirty, and makes a mean, homegrown basil pesto from scratch.

Robert Ferguson
Film and Visual Arts

Robert Ferguson has heard that attractive people are more likely to get jobs, which is why he's a little worried about his profile picture. Most people say he's better looking in real life, but you'll just have to meet him to make that decision yourself. Ferguson is currently interning at the Syracuse International Film Festival, and wonders why more people aren't crazy excited about something like this in Syracuse. Perhaps the shell shock of winter finally being over, and 70 degree days. Before he was a part of the Goldring Arts Journalism program, Rob went to Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, where he studied film and watched too many David Lynch movies. Today, he's more a Fassbinder kind-of-guy. When he's not watching bleak cinema, Ferguson writes monthly for Table Hopping, a local free alternative, and has also been published in the City Eagle newspaper. He plans to intern at the Post Standard over the summer.

Blog: http://dancewithyourlegs.blogspot.com/

Alana Harper
Music

Alana is currently interning at New York public radio station WNYC in the newsroom and for the music talk show Soundcheck. She has been published in the New Zealand magazine Pavement, on the music website Okayplayer.com, and in the Syracuse Post-Standard, where she previously worked as an intern. She has also interned at Joe's Pub, Astralwerks Records and ISSUE magazine, where she contributed stories on film and music as well. Prior to moving to Syracuse, she served as a record label assistant at Now Forward Music, Inc. in New York, working with a small team to release albums by Roy Haynes, Jack DeJohnette and Ravi Coltrane. Alana earned a B.A. in criticism and creation of the performing arts from the Gallatin School at NYU. She is a native of Dallas.
Paul Farmer Podcast (MP3, 2945K)

Amy Jacques
Art, Music, Culture & Travel

Amy is currently an editorial intern at Relix magazine in New York City. She also writes a monthly column, �Club Scene,� for Table Hopping newspaper in Syracuse and is a contributing writer for 20 Watts, a popular music publication at Syracuse University. This fall, she served as an editorial intern for Conde Nast Traveler magazine in New York City, researching, reporting, and writing short articles on the top hotels of the world for the annual Gold List issue. Amy is a Greenville, SC native who graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia's Honors Program in May 2006. She majored in advertising and completed a minor in art history. While attending UGA, Amy worked for the president of the university at the Office of Special Events, was an active leader in her sorority, and was an officer in the Public Relations Student Society of America. In the summer of 2005, Amy spent time studying Renaissance art history in Florence, Italy and traveling in Europe. After graduation, she traveled throughout the western U.S. for several months before moving to Charleston, SC to work in the marketing department of a real estate company. Amy enjoys concerts & music festivals, art, other cultures & languages, travel, and food & wine.
http://aculturalkaleidoscope.blogspot.com

Melissa Kimbler
Film

Melissa is an editorial intern at MovieMaker Magazine and also interned for the Syracuse Film Festival. In 2007, Melissa Kimbler graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University with a degree in English and Spanish and a minor in film studies. From what she remembers about college in New Orleans, she interned with a film production company, assisting specifically with the screenplay. During her junior year, she studied abroad in Spain and tried very hard not to acquire a lisp so as to avoid the awkward explanations upon her return to the US. The very painful following year found Melissa writing her honors thesis about postmodern film adaptations. So it goes.

Harper Lee
Theater

Last semester, Harper completed an internship in media relations at Syracuse Stage. As an intern, Harper wrote press releases for all upcoming productions and contributed to the Stage newsletter. Now enrolled in web design and multimedia courses, Harper is creating a logo system and website for Project Badili, a club for young writers in St. Louis. Harper is also designing a supplement for the Syracuse Post-Standard and producing two multimedia pieces on the Syracuse University fashion show in late April. As part of her graduate assistantship with the Newhouse Development office, Harper is assisting with planning and coordinating the Newhouse Mirror Awards taking place this summer.

As an undergraduate, Harper studied theater and journalism, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and with special honors in fine arts from Miami University in Oxford, OH. Harper was fre-quently seen on the mainstage at Miami and was nominated for an Irene Ryan award for excel-lence in college acting as a junior. She is most proud of her work as Gabriella in David Edgar's Pentecost. Harper spent one year working with a university children's theatre group that toured the midwest, Taiwan and Russia. She also wrote for Miami's paper, the Miami Student, and spent a summer abroad teaching English in the Czech Republic.

After college, Harper worked for The Center for Gifted Studies, an education advocate at Western Kentucky University, as a program coordinator, grant writer and drama and writing in-structor. Interested both in education and travel, Harper then moved to the countryside in north-ern Japan to work fulltime as an English teacher with the Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET). While abroad, Harper visited Malaysia and Singapore, organized a day camp for area high schoolers, and lectured on creativity in the Japanese classroom.

Since becoming a part of the Goldring program Harper has cultivated interests in design, film and clothing. She will be blogging about fashion at http://cuseclothesline.blogspot.com.

Emillia Mozdzen
Visual Arts

This spring, Emmy is writing for the Utica Observer-Dispatch covering the arts in the community. Her first article featured the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute's continuation of the Root Exhibition (Root donated 227 pieces of art by Jackson Pollack, Hopper, Burchfield and many other modern artists to MWP in 1957). Emmy is also interning in the External Affairs/Communications Department at The New Museum in New York City. She is from Muskegon, Michigan and graduated from Albion College in 2006 where she received her Bachelor's degree in English, with a minor in history. During the summer of 2005, Emmy was an intern at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England in the Furniture, Textiles, and Fashion department. While there, she helped develop the department library and was lucky enough to usher a fashion show held in the museum. From May of 2006 through May of 2007 Emmy worked at two small museums in West Michigan: the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan and the Tri-Cities Historical Museum in Grand Haven, Michigan.

Stephen Planas
Music

Stephen is an editorial intern at Symphony Magazine in New York City. He wrote an article on seventeen American composers as well as a short book review for the magazine’s July/August issue; he also edits "From the Field," a weekly email newsletter sent to orchestras across the country. This fall, he served as a marketing intern for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, writing a wide variety of feature articles for their monthly program books. Stories have included profiles of local artist Hall Groat, Syracuse University professor and composer Andrew Waggoner, rising violinist Tai Murray, and a Q&A with renowned children's author Bruce Coville. He has also written about Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite and big band music. Along with the director of marketing and Daniel Hege, the orchestra's music director, Stephen helped produce The Hege Perspective, a series of streaming videos available on the orchestra's Web site. In addition, he served as Hege's ghostwriter for concert preview columns that appear in The Syracuse Post-Standard. Stephen was associate editor of The Mix, a special arts supplement for which he wrote "Bach to School," an article spotlighting the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra's educational outreach programs. For Syracuse Pulse, Stephen recorded and edited a podcast previewing a free Syracuse Symphony concert on the SU campus. Stephen graduated from Colby College in 2006 with Honors in Music, studying trumpet, piano, and orchestral conducting. He also studied conducting at the Bard Conductors Institute with Harold Farberman.

Blog Address: http://thetonepoems.blogspot.com
SSO Podcast (MP3, 6174K)

Samantha Ragland
Popular Culture

Samantha is still a Kentuckian at heart, a Southern lovin' girl using the Goldring Arts Journalism program to propel her into the ever-inspiring, quickly-changing world of arts criticism, where she her pen has touched in the fields of literature, music, film, visual art, and even culture. - With the completion of a successful internship at the Syracuse Post-Standard, where she was a contributing writer to the weekly arts beat, Samantha previewed plays, art opens, classical and jazz concerts and fashion as well as holiday events like being a reader for the Mr. Bones scary story contest. Of the 15 plus stories she wrote the paper, she is especially proud of the full-page spread about jazzman Paquito D'Rivera, "A Special Musical Treat," where she worked with four sources to tell the story; the glitz-driven voice in the preview of a fashion show, "Ebony Fashion Fair celebrating 50th year;" the front-page coverage of a Negro spirituals concert, "Negro Spirituals to be celebrated Saturday in Syracuse," complete with a researched history of the songs; and the art exhibition story that she turned around on deadline, "Art exhibit puts focus on Gullah culture." - Samantha has also written and recorded podcasts, one previewing a jazz concert featuring violinist Billy Bang and the other reviewing a spoken word CD by poet Sonia Sanchez. - In an effort to maintain her ties with creative writing, Samantha started an arts criticism blog. Here she allows, and even encourages, her inner poet and memoirist to surface whenever they want. And from here, the wind is her guide; she will go wherever it blows her, so long as pen and pad are in hand.
Blog: http://soul-of-sam.blogspot.com/
Billy Bang/Untempered podcast (MP3, 1199K)

Laura Silvius
Film and Travel

Laura Silvius specializes in film and travel, but she is gaining pop culture experience at her spring internship with Quizfest magazine. In the fall of 2007 she interned at The Syracuse New Times where she published nearly a dozen stories, mostly covering arts and culture in the Syracuse area, and over the summer she freelanced for the Post-Standard. Laura has been publishing newspaper stories since she was 16, beginning with a series of travel columns from northern France. At Bryn Mawr College she published film reviews in The Bi-College News and was granted a coveted internship slot at the Cannes Film Festival. Her work can be found in the New Times archives, at the Post-Standard online, and at her blog site, http://panopticview.blogspot.com.

Brendan Twist
Film, Popular Music and Popular Culture

Brendan is an intern and freelance writer for Metal Edge magazine, where he contributes concert and album reviews and feature stories. He also writes a monthly video game column, titled �Game Boy,� for the Syracuse newspaper Table Hopping. Last summer he was a contributing writer for The Mix, an annual arts supplement to the Syracuse Post-Standard. Brendan graduated from Georgetown University in May with a degree in English. There he co-hosted the radio show The Unholy Trinity for four years. During his junior year he studied in Galway, Ireland and learned the beauty of a fry-up. Brendan has long enjoyed summers at the Chautauqua Institution, a center for the arts and education in Western New York. He loves movies, music, video games and the Buffalo Bills. He was born and raised on Long Island. You can read his work at www.youreinaccurate.blogspot.com and www.crucialmosh.blogspot.com

Lindsey Wilson
Theatre

Lindsey is interning at Playbill magazine this spring. Last fall, she interned in the CNY section of The Syracuse Post-Standard, where she wrote more than 15 previews, features, and profiles (many of them front-page) about the Syracuse arts scene. Over the summer she was the style editor and a contributing writer for The Mix, and from 2003 to 2007 she reviewed Off-Broadway productions for www.TalkinBroadway.com in New York City. Lindsey is a Colorado native, where she earned her theater degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and studied drama abroad at Royal Holloway College in Surrey, England. She has never aspired to be an actor, treasures the memory of once shaking Frank Rich's hand, and will even admit to having a soft spot for Cats. Her blog is: http://velvetseatsafari.blogspot.com/
Fiddler on the Roof podcast (MP3, 7099K)

Trey Wydysh
Music and Popular Culture

Trey is interning at the Rochester insider this spring, where he contributes various profiles and short feature stories. During his undergraduate studies at the University of Richmond, he served as features editor for The Collegian, the student newspaper, contributing a weekly column on popular music and popular culture. Trey also held internships at Legal Times in Washington, D.C. and The Buffalo News, and is currently a stringer for the SigEp Journal, the national magazine of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Outside of the journalism world, Trey serves as his friends' encyclopedia on rock music of the 1960s, 70s and sometimes 80s, and spends most of his free time listening to music and compiling a never-ending wish list of albums.

Check out his blog at: http://pianolungs.wordpress.com