About Us

Chico, CA, is a place associated with almonds and keggers; rice paddies and couch fires. It’s in this Northern California town where conflict rages between agriculture and drunken college debauchery that Synthesis.net was born. Beginning in 1994 as a weekly entertainment tabloid, covering events in and around the Chico area, Synthesis spread its reach to the World Wide Web in 1995. Feasting on any and all forms of popular media—from music to video games to films and everything in between—Synthesis.net grew as the Net grew and eventually became the snarling, sexy beast you see here today. Now incorporating video and audio in addition to written articles, an archive of content spanning back over a decade and an obsessively updated blog, Synthesis.net has expanded its arsenal to better decipher the ever-changing world of pop culture.

Synthesis Contributers

  • Synthesis Web
  • Logical Craftsman: Chris Shreiber
  • Ninja Team: Rene Fulcrum and James Barone.
  • Dir. of Science & Cloning: na3s
  • Synthesis Radio
  • The One, the only Dain Sandoval
  • Synthesis Weekly
  • Editor in Chief/Publisher - Karen Potter
  • Managing Editor - Ryan Prado
  • Art Director - Melissa Dubs
  • Senior Editors - Maurice Spencer Teilmann, Daniel Taylor & James Barone.
  • Designer - Mat Held (Uncle Grumpy Inc.)
  • CEO - Bill Fishkin

Past, Present and Future Contributers:
Writers: Ron Barker, Lord Corey Bloom, Dana Hocking, Koz McKev, Connell B. McDaniel, Harland Spinks, Bian Mazzanti, Chad Inman, Robin Bcior, Matt Kiser, Emilie Clart, Bob Howard, Brendan McNerney, Brittany Nickles, Ryan Laine, Matt Matlock, Darren Cordano, Dave Brown, Wyatt Nation, Noah G. Prado, Bustin Bennet, Aaron Bloom, David Boone, Jeremy Gerrart, Michael Rosen-Molina, Mike Kieran, Grant Kerber, Jana Selig, Jesse Hall, Janae Lloyd, Lynsie Cameron & Mark Friesen. Photographers: Pamela Morgan, Hali McGrath, Melissa Welliver, Mallory Rose, Cameron Goehring, Rhiannon Carman, Kyle Delmar, Aaron Rollins, Christy Hardin & Matt Matlock. Illustrators: Matt Loomis & Matt Held Public Relations: Dani Kay Video People: Video Matt (Kreative Films) and Darren Cordano. Interns: Jake Sprecher, Becca Sonnenberg, Jessica Sequira, Andy Bonnenfant, Amber Newton. dap1

Names have probably been unintentionally left unwritten.