1973 lounge fire killed 32
Published in the New Orleans Advocate on June 23, 2013 On the evening of June 24, 1973, Duane “Mitch†Mitchell […]
Criminal Justice, N.O Advocate, Portfolio
Travel Writing
Withcraft Allegations Tough to Counter
This story was published in the Accra Daily Mail in Accra, Ghana, in August 2009Â Gambaga is a small village
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math teacher at home in boxing ring
Published in the Times-Picayune on May 17, 2010 The line of spectators waiting outside the Freret Street Gym snaked down
Criminal Justice, Essay, First Person, Portfolio
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This essay was aired on WWNO Radio as part of the Storyville Project at the University of New Orleans. Â You
Nature Writing
A Night On Mars
Published in Lost in the Woods on August 4, 2012 If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a
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An Open Letter to Drew Brees
Drew, Tough night on Thursday, man. So tough. When I woke up in a nightmarish, cold sweat at 6 a.m
Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Watching the News Bleed: The Radical Mutation of the Times-Picayune
There was a Monday–I believe it was March 19–when I woke up later than I wanted, feeling depressed about something
Central America
A Murder in Copan
COPAN, Honduras — Copan is a sleepy town in western Honduras full of rolling hills and lush fields of coffee.
U.S. Travel
An Evening at the Field of Dreams
Dyersville, IA — I was struck by an overwhelming fear, about 50 miles south of the Iowa-Minnesota border, that I
Louisiana
“Stella!!” Can You Summon My Inner Brando?
New Orleans, La.–In order to obtain the role of Stanley Kowalski in “Streetcar Named Desire,â€Â Marlon Brando drove to playwright
Louisiana
2010: The Birthing of a Decade; the Butchering of an Iphone
New Orleans, LA–The strange thing about New Year’s Eve is that it’s the only form of pre-planned fun that succeeds
Asia
Flooded in the PhilippinesÂ
I was sitting in my hotel room in Macau, when a newsflash came across the television about catastrophic flooding in