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Press Pass is a weekly newsletter that reveals the illusions, contradictions, and peculiar logic of living a creative life while making local media. Lock in for gritty, witty takes on an industry in massive disruption (as always) and how I’m personally surviving and thriving-ish without becoming a cockroach.

Who am I?

I’m Daedalus Howell (DAY-de-lus howl), a writer, filmmaker, and journalist, living and working in Petaluma, CA.

I started my career in arts & letters as a paperboy. Now, I’m a full-grown newspaperman (editor of the North Bay Bohemian and Pacific Sun) who makes movies (Werewolf Serenade and Pill Head) and writes books (Quantum Deadline, I Heart Sonoma, The Late Projectionist), and hosts a radio show and podcasts (The Drive 95.5) while leveraging my own brand of creative disruption, insouciant charm, and sharing my field notes from the front.

I mean, why go behind-the-scenes when you can make a scene?

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