À deux doigts de la rue (English Translation)

(c) Nicolas Berube, cyberpresse.ca, 2010, All Rights Reserved Fearing Homelessness Las Vegas, Nevada– The author and screenwriter Rodger Jacobs has always been accustomed to live fugally . Then the recession arrived. Pushed to the street, he now lives with his girlfriend in a motel in a dangerous neighborhood in Las Vegas, and chronicles his misadventures [...]

Journaliste Mauve: À deux doigts de la rue

 Nicolas Berube’s profile of me for Las Presse Canada (both print and online) is now running; the piece is  titled “À deux doigts de la rue” (Rough translation: “Two Fingers from the Street”). If you can read French or if you’re simply curious you can find Nic’s article here. I will post the full English [...]

The Photography of Penelope Fortier

Penelope Fortier is a talented photographer and popular musician from Montreal; she was also featured in a memorable 2007 Mastercard television ad, My Favorite Things (featured at the bottom of this post).  Last October Penelope accompanied Nicolas Berube, L.A. correspondent for La Presse, Canada, to interview me for a profile (more on that adventure in [...]

Meet and Greet

  Greet De Keyser is a veteran radio and television report for Dutch and Belgian broadcasters; in a career that has spanned over 20 years, she has covered news events in South Africa, Ethiopia, Algeria, Iraq, Zaire, and Rwanda. She has covered two U.S. elections, including the controversial recount in 2000, managed to snare two [...]