About Us

Welcome to the guest list, baby.

We’re finger lickin’ Hollywood.

Sasha Perl-Raver, senior writer and Head Sauce
A graduate of USC with a minor in cinema, Sasha traveled the world with her family at the age of nine, started her first business at 16, was crowned Miss San Francisco in 1999, baked Lindsay Lohan's 18th birthday cupcakes (before she was a big ol’ train wreck), can be seen in a series of jump rope exercise videos with Eric Nies of MTV's The Grind fame and has written and produced for LA2Day.com, CBS.com, AOL, Fox Atomic and Buzznet. A personal chef and caterer for 12 years with clients like CAA and Us Weekly, she was named a “Celebrity Chef” and appeared on Bravo and Food Network before making the jump to entertainment journalism. The New York Daily News declared her “funniest in LA” in September 2005 and designer Randolph Duke recently called her a chubbier Angelina Jolie.

Rob Garretson, editor in chief
An award-winning journalist with more than 26 years of experience in newspaper, magazine and online publishing for such world-renowned organizations as The Washington Post, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Institutional Investor magazine, IDG Communications, Ziff-Davis and many others. Yet his favorite movie remains Monty Python and the Holy Grail. His only real brush with celebrity – aside from interviewing Bill Gates one-on-one and riding in the Washington Post elevator with Jessie Jackson – was waiting on the now-late "Evel" Knievel and Paul Lynde at a restaurant in Roswell, GA, in the summer of 1978.

Brian Cognato, assistant editor
Brian not only counts three out of the six Rocky movies among his favorites, but also has no problem admitting he actually enjoys Love Actually. Though still an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, Brian is also a frequent contributor to College Magazine and currently works with the international nonprofit Peace Players International – because hustling is a fulltime job.

Lisa Johnson Mandell, contributing editor
An award winning multi-media journalist and author, Lisa has covered film, food, fashion and design extensively and has been featured on Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, Bravo, TNT, Telemundo and network affiliates throughout the US and Canada, as well as radio stations worldwide. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Forbes, Cosmopolitan and myriad other magazines and newspapers. She serves as a Hollywood correspondent for CN8’s Backstage, as well as Tribute Entertainment in Canada. Her film reviews and features can be heard on Entercom radio stations nationwide, and she is an active member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

About Digital Publishing Corp.
DPC is a well-funded media company that is building a new type of digital publishing engine with a collective audience of more than 20 million people. DPC turns the conventional publishing paradigm on its head. Unlike traditional publishing and media companies that conceptualize publications and launch them hoping to build an audience, DPC employs sophisticated data mining and behavioral analysis techniques to identify unique communities of interest within our audience, and then applies publishing expertise to deliver timely, relevant and engaging editorial content to them. We publish e-newsletters, e-zines, weblogs and other websites rich with both high-quality professional journalism and insightful community-generated content on a wide range of topics – from movie reviews to Christian humor and lifestyle – uniquely tailored to our highly targeted audiences.