This afternoon, I joined my father for a 50th wedding anniversary celebration for his cousin Peggy and her husband Bud. In a community hall in San Miguel, California, Peggy and Bud’s children and church members planned a lovely afternoon celebrating a half century of marriage. It was a pleasure to meet them. Of course, I …
One of my favorite places to view the city of San Francisco is from the Marin Headlands in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It’s just across the Golden Gate bridge to the north the city, and a quick turn under the highway and up the cliffs leads you to some amazing sights. There are …
…on the bayou. On Facebook yesterday, I twittered a dilemma I had about what to do that afternoon. Should I go to the French Quarter to find the blind man who uses a pony instead of a guide dog, or should I go to the bayou on an air boat? Since I had no idea …
With the project in its final day, the students at the New York Times Student Journalism Institute (who come from Historic Black Colleges & Universities as well as other journalism programs at schools with chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists) have completed seven video stories in the past two weeks. Among the 24 …
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At the roller derby in the Mardi Gras float warehouse on Saturday night (and what a wonderful and eclectic life I live to be able to begin a sentence with those words), Gregory was interviewing one of the Big Easy Roller Girls. The beautiful woman with tight blond braids is a Dutch psycho-therapist who moved …
The video of kids playing jazz with old timers at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park in the French Quarter is now on view at the New York Times website. The young journalists here at the NYT Institute are excited to see themselves represented on the mothership. And I couldn’t be happier to help …
They are three pillars of New Orleans culture: the lively music, the spiritual undercurrent and the critters in the mud that are a staple of Big Easy cuisine. And today, young reporters in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute covered all three of the subjects in online videos. Sha’Day Jackson and Jhenelle Johnson went …
Two years ago, I worked with my friend and colleague Andy Revkin, a science reporter at The New York Times, to create a video piece for Memorial Day. Andy had written a song about Arlington National Cemetery, so I went there to shoot images to complement Andy’s lyrics and music. With finite space, and with some …
Voodoo priestesses welcomed Edgar Jean-Louis — a Haitian voodoo priest — to a New Orleans backyard on a full moon night. They performed the Brule Zin Fire Ritual as part of the 3rd annual La Source Ancienne Ounfo’s Couche Voodoo initiations, created to celebrate and revitalize the spiritual growth of this city. I was there with two …
Two worlds collided when I passed the Petra Food Mart on Youngstown’s north side yesterday. This little mini mart sits among urban squalor where locals stock up on beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets. Weeds poke up through the asphalt, and the red paint is peeling from the roofs. But the sign shows the proud facade …