Yankee stadium smells like feet. I went for the first time to a Yankees game the other night — a pretty good game that went down to the bottom of the ninth. The Yankees almost pulled it out, but lost by one. As you may know, this is the last season in the old stadium, …
Greetings from Mill Valley, CA. Apologies that all my posts lately have been about work. But work is mostly what I’ve been up to lately. And that work is nothing if not challenging and eclectic. Today, there are two videos I put together for TIME.com that could not be more different. One is the video …
This past Monday, TIME interviewed Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang for its 10 Questions strand. We met up with the 26 year-old phenom at the headquarters of Steinway pianos on W. 57th Street in New York, and videotaped the interview for TIME.com. The interview can be seen here and heard here and read here. But …
TIME reporter Abigail Hauslohner recently took a road trip with photographer Yuri Kozyrev and their Iraqi fixer/driver/translator Sami, to southeastern Iraq and the cities of Amara and Basra. Much of the areas in the southeastern provinces had been too dangerous and essentially off limits to journalists for the past few years — except for those …
For the new job at TIME, I have an office in the TIME & LIFE building on 6th Avenue just across from Radio City Music Hall. The subway station sits under the Avenue and there’s an entrance directly into the building (something I know I’ll appreciate in the winter time). My office faces 50th street …
A weekly feature on Time.com is called 10 Questions. Readers/viewers write in their questions for famous people who agree to sit down with a TIME reporter and answer them. An abbreviated print version appears in TIME magazine, and it’s also available, in longer form, as a podcast and web video. Talk about multi-platform. This week’s …
I’m an unreliable and intermittent blogger these days. Up to my armpits in boxes after the move and busy with a new job. I did discover my body armor and helmet while unpacking, though it’s doubtful I’ll need those any time soon. No war zones in my near future. Will post some photos of the …
Here’s the first video I helped produce for TIME.com. The magazine’s Sean Gregory meets competitive eater and world record holder Joey Chestnut on the eve of defending his title in the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey eats 2 hot dogs in ten seconds. How long will Sean take to eat one? Have …
CHOLAME, California. June 8. Great Aunt Ruth tells me she remembers meeting me the one and only time we had seen each other before — at the farm where she and her family lived in Arkansas. “I looked down at you, and you looked up at me,” she said, “and I said to myself: ‘now …