Since March, I’ve been writing for the features section of the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. For now, my most recent work is available on their website. It scrolls into an archive after a couple weeks, so the links I post here will eventually expire.
February 16, 2010
Today on Next American City I have a piece on Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC BigApps competition, whose winners were announced earlier this month. The competition selected the best app to take advantage of a new mine of government data, with a $5,000 prize and lunch with the mayor up for grabs. But there was more at… [Read more…]
January 29, 2010
My profile of financier and transportation reformer Mark Gorton appears in this week’s New York Observer, you can read it here. Gorton’s been profiled before, mostly for his financial wizardry (the quantitative hedge fund he founded needed trades so fast none of the electronic brokerages he worked with could satisfy him, so he started his… [Read more…]
November 19, 2009
Residents of largely non-white neighborhoods in New York City were far more likely to receive a subprime loan than those in largely white neighborhoods, regardless of the borrower’s race, according to a new study from NYU’s Furman Center. The study, which controlled for differences in income and loan amounts, found that African-American borrowers living in… [Read more…]
November 16, 2009
It wasn’t all doom and gloom at Friday’s premiere of “The End of Poverty?” at Village East Cinemas. The film, which traces the origins of global poverty back to the Age of Exploration, offers a reason for hope: things might soon get so bad that the impoverished will rise up in armed rebellion. The documentary,… [Read more…]
November 4, 2009
The New York Public Library’s Young Lions benefit party Monday night got off to an innocuous start. Library donors in their 20s and 30s gathered under the glass dome of the Bartos Forum in the main branch at 42nd Street, avoiding the dance floor while the DJ spun hits from their youth (Whitney Houston, etc.).… [Read more…]
November 3, 2009
“For me, a legend is someone I look up to and I respect and admire, and I guess I’m not there yet for myself,” said designer Marc Jacobs humbly on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Pratt Institute Legends award benefit, where he was one of the evening’s honorees. “Just because they give me this prize… [Read more…]
October 22, 2009
Ross Douthat, conservative op-ed columnist for the New York Times, was made visibly uncomfortable for a moment while onstage last night at the New School’s Tishman auditorium. Having sailed through a discussion titled “Meet the Neo-Cons: They’re Young, They’re Bright, They Tilt to the Right” alongside his friend and co-author Reihan Salam (Grand New Party:… [Read more…]
October 21, 2009
Ross Douthat, conservative op-ed columnist for the New York Times, was made visibly uncomfortable for a moment while onstage last night at the New School’s Tishman auditorium. Having sailed through a discussion titled “Meet the Neo-Cons: They’re Young, They’re Bright, They Tilt to the Right” alongside his friend and co-author Reihan Salam (Grand New Party:… [Read more…]
October 21, 2009
“Since I was a kid, I’ve been hoping that I could get kids on my side, because they’re the coolest and smartest,” said Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the New York premiere of Spike Jonze’s movie version of the Maurice Sendak children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are, held at Alice Tully… [Read more…]
July 1, 2010
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