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-Mission
Statement
Flipped
Online is a news and comment resource for the educated and enlightened.
However, as the name implies, the news and commentary delivered
are slightly different. Think Flip as in to turn upside down.
Think Flip as in to treat with casual disrespect. Think Flip
as in to go friggin' nuts. That's what Flipped Online is.
Flipped Off is our columnists playground. Sometimes irascible
and amused, other times irreverent and bemused, you'll always get
just why we're so flipped off.
Flipped Over is a bit of additional insight into the news
of the world. And it is your world, after all. So the more perspective
you have, the easier it'll be to get through it.
Flipped Out is dedicated to Arts & Leisure. It's basically
a first-person account of the Orange and Pink categories in Trivial
Pursuit. Reviews, previews and just plain weird things that go on
in the streets where we live.
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| -Brooke
E. Wurst- Editor-in-Chief |
A
New York ex-pat and longtime Bostonian, Brooke refuses to
root for the Red Sox or Celtics because, quite simply, they
suck. As the program director for an elite private tutoring
group, she travels the world with her #2 pencils and antibacterial
Handi-Wipes clutched firmly at all times. Brooke
earned her master's degree from Northwestern University's
Medill School of Journalism. She studied Literature as a
graduate student at Harvard University and earned her BA
with honors in Comparative Literature from the University
of Pennsylvania. Her bylines have appeared in numerous publications
including the Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone,
Collier's Encyclopaedia and several technology magazines
here and abroad. She is an agnostic Libra.
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| -Matt
Wurst-
Editor Emeritus |
A
2000 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Matt majored
in political science and may just be gearing up for a run
at the second district seat of the New York City Council
in the not-too-distant future. At Penn, he passed the time
as a sports writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian,
gaining national prominence for his coverage of college
basketball, football, and the Penn Relays. In 2001, he founded
the loveable Poo Magazine, overseeing all programming,
designing, editing, and writing. After spending many years
learning web production with a New York-based interactive
marketing and branding agency, he took his skillzzz to the
National Basketball Association, where he currently leads
the league in flagrant fouls. He once planned on returning
to law school, but is now just a big disappointment to his
parents. He has never had a cavity, loves Thai food, Bruce
Springsteen, Ivy League basketball, and fall is his favorite
season.
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| -Ben
Heller-
Senior Columnist |
Ben
is from Boston and eventually attended Boston University,
where he studied film and was (at different times) the music
editor and a weekly columnist for the school newspaper, The
Daily Free Press. After that, I, I mean he, went to L.A,
ate at In-n-Out Burger, worked on some crappy movies and TV
shows, and then moved to New York to get a real job and make
real money. Shortly thereafter, he conned his way into becoming
a copywriter, and after being "downsized" at his last job,
now works at a somewhat hip marketing firm that hopefully
won't go under tomorrow. Eventually he wants to make movies.
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Liza
was once the editor of The Tufts Daily's Weekender
section, so for the last nine years she has been milking that
resume tidbit to trick her unsuspecting friends into believing
that she actually has something worthwhile to say about movies,
music, TV and the cultural scene in Boston. When not practicing
deceit, she works in public broadcasting, plots ways to "bump
into" Justin Timberlake, and revels in the Red Sox' historic and unlikely
World Series victory.
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| -Spence
Justii -
Lifestyles Correspondent
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A
native Manhattanite, Spence's early claim to fame was that
he was the first normal and well-adjusted kid to have grown
up in New York City. Then he came out during his senior
year of high school, thus shooting that theory to hell.
The only child of a museum curator and elementary school
art teacher, Spence fell in love with music at an early
age, learning to play more than 12 instruments. While a
student at Oberlin, he traveled the country in pursuit of
the ultimate cup of coffee and finished four semesters of
school in five years. He ultimately transferred to NYU after
complaining to his parents that the students at Oberlin
were just "too corn-pone" for him and that he
"needed the bright lights of Broadway." He is
now a proud member of the New York Gay Men's Chorus and
participated in the Gay Games as a javelin thrower, failing
to medal in three straight games. Spence loves culture.
Whether it's fashion, film or food, he's got his finger
on the pulse of what's happening.
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Kate Cohen (katiecohen.com)
cut her teeth at the Tufts Daily, where she impressed
fawning sports editors with both her talents as a photographer
and her endless hockey knowledge in a weekly Inside the
NHL column. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA in a
very small bedroom that she slowly furnishes with her earnings
as a freelance writer for the Boston Phoenix. Her work
has also appeared in Arts Around Boston. When she's
not at work at a major program produced by public television, she can be found tracking Peter
Gammons around the Fenway Park area, getting to shows at the
Middle East too early to be cool, or talking about, but never
actually writing, the next Great American Novel.
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Martin was born the year William Faulkner
died, but things got better after that. He comes from a
long line of advertising people although he still seems
capable of writing sentences that are grammatically correct.
He is married to the exceptionally understanding Cynthia
Bryant, is the father of two brilliant children and has
a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.
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| -Heath
La Fontaine-
Relationship Advisor |
Our Relationship
Advisor has a pretty serious resume. Of course, that resume
doesn't include any successful long-term relationships, but
he's a damned good writer. Heath took the leisurely route
to graduation at the University of California, Berkeley. There
he studied Chemistry and French. However, Heath earned his
degree in English. He spent his five-and-a-half years in the
Bay Area first following, then joining, then being kicked
out of the notorious groove band Ghetto Fabulous Burger. After
returning early from a two-year Peace Corps commitment in
Senegal, Heath attended a personal growth seminar and became
so enamored with "helping yourself, so you can help others,"
that he has dedicated his life toward this pursuit. Thus,
he is our highly qualified Relationship Advisor. He now lives
in DC and is a rabid Washington Freedom fan. In spite of his
history, he still loves Ghetto Fabulous Burger.
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| -Sheila
Goldfarb-
Relationship Advisor |
Sheila,
known as "Chic-She Gold-fab" to her thirteen BFFs at her
old sleepaway camp (where she won Ideal Camper six of her
ten summers, thank you very much), hails from a quaint hamlet
in Bergen County, New Jersey. She did her requisite time
at the University of Wisconsin and dated a "big" and "little"
brother in ZBT. The most meaningful experience she's had
was her semester abroad in Prague. It still amazes her that
the shopping could have been so good so soon after capitalism
was introduced. Sheila now lives in the Upper West Side
of Manhattan and reverse commutes to her father and uncle's
company headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. That
way, she can see Zoe, her parents' bishon frisee, every
day. She is single only because she spends so much time
helping others. Although she is currently available, Sheila
is eminently qualified to be our Relationship Advisor because
"Mystic Pizza" is her favorite film.
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