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Patti Smith

We think everyone could benefit from the punk goddess/art heroine/ alternative poetess/skilled memoirist’s hard-earned wisdom on almost any subject, but we dream of a weekly column on how to make it in a big city on a shoestring budget — in 2012, that is. So, yes, she’d have to do a little research, but we’re pretty sure it was 80% attitude anyway.