This is a series of L A Weekly cover stories I did on Skid Row in Los Angeles. I moved to a loft downtown so I was in the thick of it when editor Joe Donnelly gave me the green light. DYING TO GET OFF SKID ROW Downtown can be a last chance… [...]
Previously unpublished photos that take us inside L.A. gang neighborhoods for Sam Slovick’s “Sympathy for the Devil: Crime Stats Say L.A.’s Streets Are Safer Than Ever, So Why Are Gang Hoods Still So Bloody?”
I met Yatra in Alto Paraiso, a small town in Brazil. She’s a shamaness with a temple in the jungle. Her kids have big dub label that she records on. Alto Paraiso is magic & so is Yatra. I did a story about her for LA Yoga magazine. Alto Paraiso is that place that you [...]
I went to Grassway Farms just the other side of Lake Winnebago from Oshkosh, Wisconsin on what must have been the coldest day ever on planet earth. It was a chemistry lesson from some hearty people who have a raw milk farm. After I got back to LA I started drinking raw milk because the [...]
Sometimes, as a journalist, I get some low- rez adolescent SNARK that’s fun to laugh about over dinner and ultimately fuels the engines that drive traffic to my monetized blog. Sometimes, however, resonating at a higher frequency… there’s unexpected surprise… like this one: I’ve been reproduced in ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) NEWS WEEKLY several [...]