List of recent freelance articles

Some Other Magazine (www.someothermagazine.com)

Some Other Magazine's current issue

Art: How To Article About Film Festival Submissions, November 2005, v.1
"Fun With Film Festivals" (Click on More Art Articles, click on "Fun With Film Festivals" on the right side of the page)

Art: Interview With Documentary Subject/Indie Film Guru John Pierson, October 2005, v. 2
"This Side of Paradise"

Art: Student Academy Award Winner Alternative Storytelling, July 2005, v.2
"Lights Lights, Camera Camera, Knock Knock"

Art: Indianapolis International Film Festival in April 2005, May 2005, v.2.
"An International Film Fest? In Indianapolis? Sweet."

Music: Profile/Preview of One-Man Show, Corn Mo, September 2005, v.1
"Step Right Up! Welcome to the Corn Mo Show!"

Other Needs: Toothpaste Taste Test, August 2005, v.2
"Misty Flavored Toothpaste Memories (of the way we were)"

Humor: Camping Trip in Southern Indiana, July 2005, v.1
"10 Things I Learned This Summer in the Forest"

Nuvo newsweekly (www.nuvo.net)

Nuvo's current issue

Cover story: Profiles of Hoosiers Living With HIV/AIDS, Oct. 5, 2005
"Living With HIV"

Arts story: Interview With Student Academy Award Winner (first published on www.someothermagazine.com), July 27, 2005
"And The Winner Is..."

News story: Preview of National HIV Testing Day, June 22, 2005
"Find Out Now"

INtake Weekly (a special project of The Indianapolis Star) (www.INtakeWeekly.com)

INtake's current issue

Calendar "Best Bets" issues of Aug. 25; Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29; Oct. 6 and 13, 2005
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"Reel Paradise" SOM article

I have a new article on www.someothermagazine.com in the October V.2 Arts section about "Reel Paradise," a movie about John Pierson, an indie film guru credited with discovering Spike Lee, "Blair Witch" and Kevin Smith. Pierson and his family leave New York for a year to live in Fiji and run a movie house.

For the article, I interviewed John Pierson and his wife Janet over the phone. I also watched the movie, so it's part profile, part review.

If you like movies of any kind or if you're curious about what it would be like to live on an island for a year, check out "Reel Paradise." It opens in the Boston area on Oct. 21 at Kendall Square Landmark Cinema in Cambridge, but I'm not sure where else it's still playing.

For more information on the film, check out www.reelparadise.com.

HIV/AIDS Awareness article in Nuvo (nuvo.net)

My very first cover story for an alternative weekly was published today in Indianapolis' own Nuvo. The story is also available online at www.nuvo.net, specifically at http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2005/10/05/living_with_hiv.html.

The story was written over the course of a month or so by interviewing four people in the Indianapolis area living with HIV/AIDS. I found them through Gina Pope-King, a photographer who has been chronicling these same people since about this time last year. She chose these four to represent an unconventional look at people in Indiana with HIV/AIDS to show that they don't all fit into a stereotype.

Previously for Nuvo, I wrote an article about HIV testing, http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2005/06/22/find_out_now.html. This article has more statistics about the virus in Indiana and the AIDS walk article is more of a personal look at the people who are affected and infected.

I am also walking in this year's AIDS walk in Crown Hill Cemetery on Sunday, Oct. 9 and encourage others to at least come out for the day and see Pope-King's photos at the Mausoleum as part of the event.

For more information about the AIDS walk, please visit www.indianaaidswalk.org.