Here are a few highlights from my illustrious freelance career, in no particular order.
If At First You Don’t Succeed: How My Father Tried to Reconcile His Big Ideas With a Small-Minded World Inc Magazine, 2003
The Economy of Modernism How architecture saved Columbus, Indiana Worth Magazine, 2000
Who’s The New Kid? Tim Draper’s Initiative Worth Magazine, 2000
The Great Gubernatorial Quiz Ventura County Reporter, 2003 (PDF)
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Feminine Path To Power, Ventura County Reporter, 2003 (Word doc)
On The Boat Where She Lives O the Oprah Magazine, 2002 (PDF)
Rebuilding Shangri-La When the Ojai Valley Inn was forced to close for renovations, it faced losing most of its work force. Instead, manager launched the ultimate job-retraining program. Inc Magazine, 2005
The Next Management Revolution Instead of relying on Sun Tsu’s The Art of War, I use my housekeeping encyclopedia as a management bible. Inc Magazine, 2004
Chanel at Home Plate The story of what it’s like to live with a Chanel suit, Equity Magazine, 1999
Rocio Romero’s Fab Pre-Fab Inc Magazine 2006
Driving To the Board Room Why golf matters so much, Equity Magazine, 2000 (PDF)
Rear Window On the outsider artist Lemoyne Redmond, LA Weekly 1999
Why I Read Business Blogs Inc Magazine, 2005
From my LA Times beauty archives:
Feet First (PDF)
Red, She Said (PDF)
The Flaw That Punctuates Perfection: Owen Wilson’s Nose
Oscar Style
Selected Book Reviews from the LA Weekly:
Stephen Elliott
Michael Connelly
Chuck Palahniuk
Dennis Potter
Thom Jones
Celebrity interviews (archiving in progress):
Subjects include Courtney Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Antonio Banderas, Winona Ryder, John Cusack, Jennifer Lopez, Madeleine Stowe, Rebecca Gayheart, Joan Collins, Julie Delpy, Tom Sizemore, Gina Gershon, Tea Leoni, Kimberly Williams, James Woods, Gabriel Byrne, Olivia D’Abo, Tim Roth, Laura Linney, Roseanna Arquette, Nastasja Kinski, Laura San Giacomo and more.