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ABOUT THE LABOR PARTY
Written by Young Pioneers Media founder Dan Eldridge, The Labor Party is a blog about today's creative and cultural entrepreneurs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Most recently the managing editor of North American Publishing Company's consumer technology division, Dan is currently based in Philadelphia, where he works as an independent journalist and guidebook author.

Dan's freelance clients have included The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Us Weekly, Houston Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Telegraph (UK), Forbes Travel, Paste, The Daily, Next American City, Northstar Travel Media, Philadelphia Weekly, Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, Seattle Magazine, Punk Planet, Tango, Made Man, BBC, MSN, AOL, and scores of other print and online publications.

Along with co-authoring Lonely Planet guidebooks to Turkey, Thailand, the Philippines, and New England, Dan is the author of Moon Pittsburgh (Avalon Travel), the first edition of which was nominated for a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award. Moon Pittsburgh's upcoming third edition will be available in mid-2014.

Dan was also the founding editor of Young Pioneers, a magazine about independent travel culture that was nominated for the Utne Reader's annual Independent Press Awards in 2004. Dan is currently in the process of relaunching Young Pioneers; stay tuned to The Labor Party for updates, or follow @YoungPioneers on Twitter.