Best of the Bay editor

Marke B.

Local Heroes editor

Tim Redmond

Art director

Mirissa Neff

Assistant art director

lllustration by Mona Caron

Ben Hopfer

Contributing designer

Jake Balakoohi

Cover and illustrations

Mona Caron

Contributing writers

Charlie Anders, Robert Avila, Bruce B. Brugmann, Garrett Caples, Chris Carlsson, George Chen, Kimberly Chun, Duncan Davidson, Cheryl Eddy, Camper English, Rita Felciano, Eliana Fiore, Deborah Giattina, Masha Gutkin, Johnny Ray Huston, Steve Jones, Tim Kingston, Beth Kohn, Emily Landes, John Marr, Kat Matutina, Ivy McNally, Annalee Newitz, Sarah Phelan, Erin Podlipnik, Lynn Rapaport, Tim Redmond, Paul Reidinger, Julie Ross, Charles Russo, G.W. Schulz, Karen Solomon, Caitlin Van Dusen, Josh Wilson, Amanda Witherell

lllustration by Mona Caron

Contributing photographers

Saul Bromberger and Sandra Hoover, David Gregory, Pat Mazzera, Rory McNamara, Neil Motteram, Charles Russo

Senior copy editor

Scott Steinberg

Copy editors

Juliana Froggatt, M.P. Klier

Interns

Benjamin Bruckman, Joseph DeFranceschi, Kelli Ell, Nicole Gluckstern, Michael Harkin, Justin Juul, Kevin Lee, Michael Manekin, Tina Rodia, Jason Shamai, K. Tighe

About the illustrator

Swiss-born artist Mona Caron is an illustrator, graphic designer, muralist, and costume and set designer who has lived and worked in the Bay Area for more than a decade. Among her well-known and much-<\h>loved local achievements are the Market Street Railway mural (a rainbow-<\h>hued vision of San Francisco from distant past to hoped-<\h>for future) and the Duboce Bikeway mural (the "wiggle" one with the big snake behind the Market Street Safeway in San Francisco). For more on Caron, go to www.monacaron.com.

Celebrate with us!

The Guardian's Best of the Bay party's gonna be huge. Schmooze with all the winners. Dig performances by Zion I, Extra Action Marching Band, Erase Errata, DJ Omar, Ren the Vinyl Archeologist, and many more. Peep new Future/Fantastic art by students and alumni of California College of the Arts. Wednesday, Aug. 2 at Club Six, 60 Sixth St., SF, www.clubsix.com