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ABOUT US

Stay Free! is a nonprofit, Brooklyn-based magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American (consumer) culture. We've been around for over ten years, in one form or another. Stay Free! is published once or twice a year, depending on how ambitious we are feeling. The next issue (#25) will be out in February 2006. We also run a blog, Stay Free! Daily, which is similarly focused on mass media and American culture.

Stay Free! heartily welcomes outside contributors. If you've got an idea for the magazine, just write a letter pitching the idea and send pertinent samples of your work. If you'd like to join the Stay Free! Daily blog team, start sending us tips for the blog. We'll credit you for anything we use and, if you submit them regularly, we'll invite you to join. (Don't be afraid to ask us as well.) Stay Free! is distributed in book and record stores across the U.S. and Canada, as well as in eateries and shops throughout Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, and Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. • If you do not see Stay Free! at your favorite local bookstore, please inquire within.

For more background on Stay Free!, check out the interview with Carrie in Crimewave USA.

CONTACT US

Stay Free!
23 Hawthorne Street
Brooklyn, NY 11225
(347) 715-2013
temporary282 (at) stayfreemagazine.org

DISTRIBUTION

Click here for a list of our national distributors, as well as the eateries and shops in Brooklyn, NY, that carry us.

WHO WE BE

EDITOR & ART DIRECTOR
Carrie McLaren

VICE PRESIDENT
Charles Star

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Carrie McLaren
Rick Prelinger
Alexandra Ringe

COPY EDITORS & PROOFREADERS
Mike Janson, Kris Kohler, Allison Miller

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Jason Torchinsky, Alexandra Ringe

TECH SUPPORT
Ivan Drucker

PRIVACY POLICY
Stay Free! does not share subscriber info with third parties.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
We could always use an intern. Click for info.

RECENT CONTRIBUTORS

Chris Boznos lives a few miles from Harvard, Illinois, "Milk Capital of the World" and the home of the Milk Day Queen, whom he hopes to marry someday. Francis Heaney is a puzzle writer, songwriter, and playwright. His humor book, Holy Tango of Literature (Emmis), is due out this fall. Mikki Halpin is the author of It’s Your World–If You Don’t Like It, Change It (Simon & Schuster Children’s). Tim Harrod has written for The Onion, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Star Wars Insider. He is getting better at the ukulele. Sabrina Hartel is a New York—based documentary and portrait photographer. Mike Janson wants to know what that girl on the back cover is doing with that guy. Steven Joerg spent much of the past year producing Shrimp Boat’s Something Grand box set, which he considers to be one of the greatest collections of American music ever, and therefore gently urges you to buy a copy at www.aumfidelity.com. Kris Kohler works for the political action committee of a large construction union and moonlights as an aural landscape artist ("DJ"). When not working on Stay Free!, Carrie McLaren pays the rent by doing freelance web and graphic design, and is always on the lookout for gainful employment. Emily Pugh is the drummer for sissy pop band the Mean Corner. In her spare time she is getting a Ph.D. in art history. Alexandra Ringe has had the good fortune to live in the Olga–second only to the Mildred in Park Slope buildings with great names–since 1995. Om Rupani is a photographer who splits his time between searching for God and half-naked women. For half-naked women visit www.OmRupani.com. Jack Silbert is a writer and magazine editor residing in Hoboken, NJ. He costarred with Ethan Hawke in a middle-school production of Meet Me in St. Louis. Charles Star is a standup comic living in Prospect Heights. He gets no press despite the Jews’ control of the media. Jason Torchinsky never turns in his bio, but we know for a fact that he's the short guy in the sketch-comedy group the Van Gogh-Goghs. Also, he's a Jew. Emily Votruba is the copy chief at Cargo magazine (Lucky for men), an editor for the Rubber Band Society Gazette, and she still gets emails from Howard Dean.

PEOPLE WHO OWE US MONEY
Desert Moon Periodicals / JR Fesperman