2010: Year in Review

This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]

“The game is afoot, Watson …”

I’m very pleased that the contentious New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun is finally complete and out of the way – at least the substantive bulk of it; there has been talk of a fourth and final segment when we are ready to pull up stakes and leave Las Vegas for Los Angeles but I [...]

Homelessness and the Indignity of Hurtful Speech

Part three of the New Homeless series for The Las Vegas Sun is now up and running and it is Miss L’s image at sunset that graces the front page for a change. Excerpt: Henry Miller notes that writers “begin to develop, to reveal their true personality, after passing the age of forty-five” and that [...]

Witness L.A. Pays Witness Again

A few days ago I updated my friend Celeste Fremon on the latest and she, in kind, updated the rest of the L.A. community who frequent her well-worth-reading web presence. Celeste is a damn fine journalist, scholar, and journalism instructor and is a recognized, passionate advocate for social justice, so her interest in my story should come as no surprise [...]

The Myth of the Starving Artist

  If you are a frequent reader of this blog and my work elsewhere, chances are pretty good that you are personally acquainted with someone who makes their living in the creative sector: writers, painters, commercial and graphic artists, actors, dancers, musicians of all stripe, architects, sculptors; in short, anyone who earns a living from [...]