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A selection of contemporary clips drawn
from diverse publications and formatted for easy reading.
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Broadway musicals
For its first edition, I contributed nine articles on different topics. This one, on Broadway musicals, was among the first, and it received a boffo response. This is the original text I sent in, which was edited to the length of a spread.
2006 edition
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Futures & Options : Winter Festivals
Without Walls
A nice, one-page column I contributed, based on my own idea for one of the Weekend Journal's regular departments. Hours of web research and phone calls condensed into a few info-packed grafs that I trust got someone traveling.
February 11, 2005
Desktop Traveler : Broadway Bound
This was one of several Desktop Travelers I wrote for the Personal Journal until the column expired last year. But it lives on here.
August 3, 2004
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Katharine Hepburn in Manhattan
One of my favorite pieces, assigned not long after the screen
legend's death. Biographer James R. Parish incorporated some of this article into his book, Katharine Hepburn: The Untold Story (Advocate Books, 2005). James says my name is on the Acknowledgments page.
Cover story, August 2003
Anne Heche, Crazy for New York
Minus her alter ego Celestia, the actress talked to me about her work on the Broadway revival of Twentieth Century, for which she later received a Tony Award nomination.
Cover story, March 2004
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Raising the Roof: Creating a More Authentic Shtetl
for the New Revival of Fiddler
In the seven years I worked full-time with the publication, I never landed a single cover story. As a freelance writer, I've had several. The first was my behind-the-scenes look at the design of the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. [Fiddler, as it happened, proved to be my first piece, and my first cover, for the New York Theater News newsletter.]
Cover story, April 2005
Inside the Athens Summer Games
Way inside...the skinny on most every technical design challenge posed by the opening and closing ceremonies, and a real workout for my long-distance provider.
Cover story, November 2004
Spam Filters: The Design of Spamalot
Once more into the breach, with phone calls and e-mails to and from India and South Africa to ferret out the design details of the Tony Award-winning musical.
Cover story, June 2005
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Paul McCartney at the Super Bowl
A day after the former Beatle was spotted at one of my favorite local hangouts, he was in Florida for the big game. I got the story, but, alas, never ran into Sir Paul.
Cover story, April 2005
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Backstory: Jarrett Hedborg
The magazine launched a new back page feature with this brief but funny designer interview, displayed here in its unedited form.
Spring 2006 issue
In the Kitchen with Adam Tihany
A new publication, from the New York Design Center, had me go one on one with one of the world's top restaurant designers. Soup's on.
Fall 2004 issue
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All things Kong-sidered
I made my feature debut with this story, a lengthy piece about King Kong, in all his many appearances. (The King and I go back a long way, making me his natural chronicler.) This is the first draft of the story.
Spring 2006 issue
DVD Review: Eyes Without a Face
As a newly minted associate editor my name made the masthead in this issue, and a DVD review of one of my favorite horror films, Eyes Without a Face, scares up a little space besides.
Summer 2005 issue
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