noe_the_g is the founding editor of Guitar World. He created many of the features -- Sounding Board, The Woodshed, Axology, Transcriptions -- you currently enjoy and some, like Collectors Choice centerfold, which you no longer enjoy. Noe Gold has been a contributor to Variety since 2003, as an editor of Oscars-related special reports and a writer covering a wide range of topics, notably the animation and special effects business, music and movies, indie films, media personalities, producers and directors of note and the interface of art and technology in Hollywood. Mr. Gold is also a regular columnist for his local paper, The Studio City Sun. His company, noemedia, produced FX HEROES, a national newsstand magazine about big action movies. He has been features editor at the Hollywood Reporter, editor-in-chief of Movies USA, Home Entertainment, Bikini and Guitar World and a columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. In television, he has served as the Managing Editor of VH1 and a writer/producer for Turner Broadcasting. His entertainment news column, The Daily Fix, was a regular feature of the AOL Entertainment Channel. His stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, USA Today, Premiere, The Movies and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. He is the author of articles and books on the music of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder, Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King and Jaco Pastorius, among others.