Jeanne Carstensen is managing editor of Salon. Previously, as senior arts and features editor at SFGate.com, she wrote about the first cell phone photography show and the artist who genetically engineered God. She was awarded a National Arts Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University in 2001. Carstensen lived in Costa Rica for six years, where she covered human rights and feminism for the shortwave station Radio for Peace International and worked as a translator. At the Whole Earth Review magazine under Kevin Kelly, she wrote about mail art and the future of the human body in the technological age and served as managing editor of the "Essential Whole Earth Catalog." She lives in Bernal Heights in San Francisco.

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Thursday, Jun 25, 2009 03:24 PDT

Iran? The U.S. should mind its own business

Iranian-American journalist Hooman Majd separates facts from fantasies about the Iranian protests
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 14:00 PST

Luxury gifts for the outdoor adventurer

Make winter a wonderland with these high-end snow toys.
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 12:40 PST

Midrange gifts for the outdoor adventurer

Choose your own adventure -- and stay charged-up and cozy while doing it.
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 11:45 PST

Bargain gifts for the outdoor adventurer

Affordable goodies to thrill the backpacker, snowboarder, skier or cyclist on your list.
Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 03:55 PST

Why churches fear gay marriage

The crusade for Proposition 8 was fueled by the broken American family, explains gay Catholic author Richard Rodriguez.
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 15:30 PST

Bill O'Reilly is very afraid of San Francisco

The drug- and homeless-infested city portrayed in a Fox report shows what the whole country will become under Obama. Video
Friday, Oct 31, 2008 03:30 PDT

A big gay Mormon wedding

The Church of Latter-day Saints has pumped millions into Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage. But for one devout family, the politics are personal.
Thursday, Aug 28, 2008 06:15 PDT

MIA at convention: Anti-Bush swag

All the Obama memorabilia is great, but why so few jabs at our supremely unpopular president?
Monday, Aug 25, 2008 17:21 PDT

Denver cop convention

Police in full riot gear are out in force in downtown streets.
Friday, Jun 8, 2007 04:19 PDT

Voyage to the top of the trees

Just as Jacques Cousteau opened up the oceans, amazing tree-climbers are discovering a new frontier in redwood canopies 35 stories above the forest floor.
Friday, Aug 18, 2006 05:15 PDT

Snuggling with anacondas

Jesus Rivas talks about wrestling the biggest serpents on earth and how he came to travel with two pillowcases full of snakes on a plane.

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