MAX SPARBER
612.332.1058
1009 Park Ave #324a - Minneapolis 55404 - USA
maxsparber@gmail.comhttp://sparberfans.blogspot.com/OBJECTIVE To find a position in online editing that makes use of more than a decade's experience writing and editing with a special focus on art and culture.
WORK EXPERIENCE University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Minneapolis, MN2008
Senior Web editor
Maintain School of Dentistry Web page. Write and edit news stories about school for Web's "news" section.
Secrets of the City/MnSpeak, Minneapolis, MN2007
MnSpeak Editor/Secrets of the City Arts Critic
Editor and moderate MnSpeak Web forum. Write and edit several weekly film and theater stories for magazine portion of Web page.
Pulse of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN2006 - 2007
Head designer
Design and layout ads and editorial. Maintain and update Web pages. Write regular content for newsweekly.
Daily Lush, New Orleans, LA2005 - 2006
Managing editor
Created and edited online magazine about cocktails and the culture of drinking.
Pioneer Publishing, Omaha, NE2003 - 2006
Editorial Layout Designer
Designed and laid out editorial, including designing unique cover and culture stories every week. Designed ads. Spearheaded newspaper redesign. Designed and laid out additional publications for newspaper. Frequent contributor as freelance writer.
City Pages, Minneapolis, MN2000 - 2003
Theater Critic
Wrote 2-3 weekly reviews of theater in Twin Cities metro area, oversaw theater listings, wrote theater recommendations for weekly "A-List," wrote additional arts and culture editorial.
Minnesota Daily, Minneapolis, MN2002 - 2003
Arts and Entertainment Editor
Oversaw arts section, including editing theater page, overseeing three sub-editors, budgeting, and layout. Oversaw redesign of arts page.
Access Press, Minneapolis, MN2000 - 2000
Assistant Editor
Assigned and edited stories for monthly newspaper serving the disabled.
Reader Publishing, Omaha, NE1996 - 2000
Writer/Editor; Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-chief - Supervised entire editorial staff. Oversaw all editorial printed by newspaper. Developed budget for department. Developed new editorial and new writers. Represented newspaper to the readership. Established editorial agenda and standards. Developed Web presence. Wrote film and theater stories for each issue.
Managing editor - Organized editorial department. Assigned and edited stories. Supervised copy editing staff and assistant editor. Supervised photographs and other art for stories. Oversaw redesign of newspaper. Streamlined and administered writers' payroll. Arranged interviews, press passes, etc. Wrote articles for every issue. Oversaw interns.
Cultural reporter - Wrote 2-3 film reviews per week. Wrote articles on art, theater, music and general culture. Wrote frequent cover stories.
EDUCATION University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1986 - 2001
SKILLS Writing, editing, digital photography, Microsoft Word, Quark, InDesign, Photoshop, HTML, basic CSS
PUBLICATIONS City Pages; The Onion; MAKE Magazine; Metroblogging New Orleans; Metroblogging Minneapolis; Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine; METRO Magazine; The Anchorage Press; Modern Drunkard Magazine; Creative Loafing; Ace Magazine; Boulder Weekly; Washington Week; Home and Away; The Old Market Encounter; Rootsworld.com; Monk.com; Metropolitan Forum; Strange Horizons Magazine; Las Vegas weekly; Access Press; Suspect Thoughts Magazine; Siren; Scat Magazine
AWARDS AND HONORS Frank Premack Award for Public Affairs Journalism, 2007, for a feature story about homelessness in Los Angeles.
INTERESTS Longtime blogger. Past and current projects can be found at my blog at sparberfans.blogspot.com. Created and edited Daily Lush and The Bottle Gang, two related projects that looked at the culture and craft of the cocktail. The contents for both can be found on the current Bottle Gang Web site at
bottlegang.blogspot.com.
DOWNLOAD RÉSUMÉ AS A PDF
Max "Bunny" Sparber establishes, at age 41, that he is an Irish-American, and sets out to explore what this means.
Bunny Sparber spends a year at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis's contemporary art museum; an experiment in new forms of arts criticism.
Max "Bunny" Sparber documents the process of writing a one-man show about performer Tiny Tim, including posting his rough scratch demo recordings of original songs, his early drafts of the script, and his research for the project.
A free full-length album of original music by America's favorite drunken sailor puppet, available for download here. Songs include "Pour Me Another Box of Wine," "One Million Frogtown Whores," and "Why Are Women So Afraid of Seamen?"
