Artful dodger

When you live in New York, you quickly adapt to the festival atmosphere of the streets. After just a few days, the speechifying panhandlers and busker/hipsters (bucksters?) recede into the background, barely registering as you hustle to the subway. In the weeks before I left Brooklyn, I made myself try to memorize the cast of [...]

If there’s an iced tea in that bag …

The new X Files movie has taken a thrashing from critics. It scored a measly 34 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and moviegoers apparently took note: It earned some $10 million in its opening weekend, a third of the cost to make the film. 
So it’s been ten years since the first film. So no [...]

Just one more week til SHARK WEEK

As the editor at Oceana, I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about the bad rap sharks get. Humans kill 100 million sharks a year, while your chance of being killed by a shark is one in 264 million. Yet every time some asshat wants to make a scene at a beach, he [...]

Bad ideas department

The D.C. police tip line number is 1-818-919-CRIM. I am not joking.

Fit to print

 
 
 
 
Yes, the second-most emailed story from the New York Times is a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Monkey meat

This past week, Away.com published a series of blog posts from my trip aboard the Ranger. Right now it’s featured on the home page, and you can read the entries themselves here.
I’m really no good at writing in first person. I think what drew me to journalism in the first place was the idea that [...]