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Dusty Wright, born Mark Petracca, is an online/on-air personality, creator, writer, producer and co-founder of Culture Catch. Culture Catch is a smart culture audio-video podcasting site. According to Mr. Wright, the site is the "perfect convergence of all (his) past experiences: agenting, writing, directing, editing, publishing, producing and performing.

The mission of the site, which Mr. Wright founded together with Ed Bennett (former president of VH1) and Richard Burns back in 2005, is to encourage people to discover new things in the world of smart pop-culture. This is all done through in-depth interviews with figures in all areas of the entertainment world, dissecting everything from art to politics to even food.

After earning a BA in Fine & Applied Arts from the University of Ohio, Akron, Dusty moved to New York and began a career with the prestigious William Morris Agency. From 1981 to 1986, he worked his way through the ranks to a post as a TV-Variety agent.

After years with William Morris, he decided on a career turn in journalism. From 1991 to 1993, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Detroit based Creem Magazine and then editor and publisher of New Power Generation from 1994 to 1995, a magazine owned by Prince.

Dusty has also written six screenplays, taken on broadcast journalism and is also a singer/songwriter. He has released three solo albums, contributed to Chris Butler's The Devil's Glitch Project, and is a member of the rock-folk quartet Giant Fingers.

For more information about Dusty Wright, see www.culturecatch.com.