Tudor, Silke

San Francisco native Silke Tudor was a columnist and nightlife editor at SF Weekly for ten years. She currently lives in an anarchist service community on New York's Lower East Side, where she slings soup for the poor.

Houston, Penelope

Penelope Houston balances her dark folk rock solo career with fronting the reformed Avengers and glorious library day job.

Sinister, Bucky

Bucky Sinister has released one CD and written four books, the latest of which is Get Up, a recovery book for the punk crowd.

Rezabeck, Rozz

Rozz Rezabek was front man of Negative Trend and Theater of Sheep. Continues to write LoverLegendLiar, his yet unpublished memoir of scandalous seminal obscurity and 15 minutes that lasted way too long.

John, Chicken

Chicken John is a contrarian, game show host, politician, ringmaster, chaos maker, riverboat mechanic, and all-purpose hatcher of unrealistic balderdash.

McKnight, Kareim

Onetime Cloyne Court denizen Kareim McKnight was clinic defender for the Women's Choice movement, and co-founder of Direct Action Against Racism, Roots Against War, and Not in Our Name. She lives in Oakland.

Luscious, Jesse

Jesse Luscious aka Jesse Townley is a 924 Gilman and KALX volunteer. Alternative Tentacles employee. Band member of Blatz, Gr'ups, Criminals, and Frisk. Green Party politician and elected Berkeley official. All-around rabble-rouser.

Breedlove, Lynn

Lynn Breedlove is known for his work as front-thang for homocore band Tribe 8, his bike messenger-stripper romance novel and short film Godspeed, and his traveling trans-up comedy one-freak shows. His new book is Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show. lynnbreedlove.com

Springer, Anna Joy

Anna Joy Springer was a member of the bands Blatz, Cypher in the Snow, and the Gr'ups. She is now an ex-punk Buddhist dyke writer of cross-genre works about the complicated intersections of love and grief, and teaches writing at UC San Diego.

Geek, John

A former pseudo-revolutionary suburban East Bay acid-punk dirtbag kid, John Geek founded Geekfest. He fronts the Fleshies, Triclops! and the Street Eaters, and is an overeducated Berkeley wingnut doing archaeology and cultural heritage preservation.

Canfield, Oran

By the time Oran Canfield was ten, he had lived in nearly 15 different situations, including two years as a circus juggler and a stint at San Francisco's legendary outlaw commune The Farm. He is the author of the memoir Long Past Stopping.

Rank, Hank

Hank Rank aka Henry Rosenthal is drummer for Crime, and his son and daughter are in the band Lou Lou & the Guitarfish.

Strike, Johnny

Johnny Strike is a founding member of the protopunk band Crime, and the author of Ports of Hell and A Loud Humming Sound Came From Above.