Not that I am anywhere near the legendary status of Edward R. Murrow, but I did have the privilege to be interviewed by Lawrence Pintak, the founding dean of the Murrow School at Washington State University. He does a regular series called the Murrow Interview, and invited me as a guest on the program recently. …
I took students from the New York Times Student Journalism Institute to the Bayou Boogaloo today to shoot the Rubber Duck Derby – 15,000 rubber ducks dumped in the Bayou for a race for charity. People pay $5 for a duck in the race, and the winning number won a car. Unfortunately, the video camera …
Here are some photos of my new place in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. I have much of everything in place, but I’m still working on organizing the stuff you can’t see — like boxes of CDs and other things in closets. But it was together enough that I could host my first party – …
I don’t print pictures anymore. And I’m sad about that. I need to do it more. It’s a determination I made after unpacking several boxes in the new condo in the new city. Amid all that newness, I ached for the familiar and found it at the bottoms of boxes, in stacks of old photos, …
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There’s something about the Bay Area and the desire to dress up in costumes. And Easter is just one more opportunity for fancy dress. Each Easter Sunday for 12 years running, San Franciscans have donned a get-up and headed for the hill (Potrero Hill) to ride a Big Wheel or similar conveyance down the world’s …
My latest video report is for the New York Times from South Bend, Ind., where neighbors put free labor and their own money into revitalizing the shabby and historic homes left for dead in their small town. I reported it with Susan Saulny during my spring break from Northwestern. A great story about people dedicated …
“First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” The monumental canvas of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851), by Emmanuel Leuntze is the centerpiece of the refurbished American wing at the Metropolitan Museum. The frame is a recreation of the original, based on a photograph of the painting by Matthew Brady …
“Right now there are more people on Facebook than there were on the planet 200 years ago,” begins Jason Russell in a very affecting video that has gone viral this week. And Russell hopes to put those people to work to bring a warlord to justice. The video, which is nearly 30 minutes long, targets …
Images from a weekend in my new city.
Chicago’s most famous ceiling: the Louis Pierre Rigal murals on the lobby ceiling of the Palmer hotel (now a Hilton). They’re currently being restored.