Huffington Post
Me getting some love in the Huffington Post from SLAKE magazine editor Joe Donnelly JULY 6, 2010 … I never got to work with Joe (Donnelly), who earlier in his career edited the avant surf punk magazine Bikini. His groundbreaking work on Sam Slovick’s Skid Row series might be the finest example of his editing skills… [...]
WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES / GOOD MAGAZINE
I did a story on trans generational poverty / skid row in L.A. for Good magazine. I followed up with documentary series as a companion piece to the story called “On Skid Row”. Good exec produced; I wrote, directed, and co produced. It was a great oppertunity to give a national voice to local issue. [...]
L A WEEKLY SKID ROW COVER SERIES
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. I still go down all the time. DYING TO GET OFF SKID ROW Downtown can be a last chance… or the last stop [...]
IT STARTED WITH A KISS: FINDING SHELTER AMONG THE STRAY CATS
Slovick was an unpolished and unproven talent at the time, but he possessed a sharp eye and a unique voice and, as the street hustler he once was, had an uncanny knack for disarming folks
Choc Nitty
[mp3player width=166 height=99 config=fmp_jw_widget_config.xml playlist=choc-nitty.xml file=Choc Nitty] I met Choc Nitty on Skid Row. I was in the Gang Enforcement Task Force in the Central Division Police station in downtown L.A. when a cop pulled up a six-pack on a computer screen and showed me his picture. He told me how he used this rapper [...]
