New York Times, July 11, 2015: "My Mother, Lost and Found"
Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2015: "'Furious 7': What Happened to the Wrecked Cars"
New York Times, December 13, 2014, page A1 (with Larry Rohter): "Downbeat Legacy for James Brown, Godfather of Soul: A Will in Dispute"
Associated Press/Denver Post, October 7, 2014: "Kid's ready for a rock festival? One dad's tips"
Men's Journal, September 2014: "Johnny Manziel's Secret Weapon"
BuzzFeed, June 20, 2014: "Joe Dorsey's Big Fight: How An Unknown Boxer Knocked Out Segregation In Louisiana"
Rolling Stone, May 22, 2014: "How Coachella, Bonnaroo and More Festivals Revamped the Music Industry"
New York Times Magazine, April 20, 2014: "Sia Furler, the Socially Phobic Pop Star"
Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2013: "The Golden Age of TV Theme Songs: In the age of binge-viewing, it's more important than ever that a show's theme music be engineered to reward multiple plays"
Rolling Stone, June 21, 2012: "Inside Dance Music's New Boom: Top DJs now make $1 million a show -- how big can the scene get?"
Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2012: "Scouting the World for Killer Ski Slopes"
Rolling Stone, September 15, 2011: "Who's to Blame in Deadly Stage Collapse Tragedies?: 12 die, dozens injured as disasters strike shows in Indiana and Belgium"
United Hemispheres, June 2010: "The Rebirth of Cool: Sophiatown, the swinging birthplace of South Africa's signature township sound, was silenced under apartheid rule. Sixteen years after Nelson Mandela's historic election, the beat goes on"
Islands, January/February 2010: "The Beat of Jamaica: Reggae -- the world's most recognizable island music -- didn't end with Bob Marley. A pop-music expert takes to the streets and the hills to see what stirs it up"
Rolling Stone, July 9, 2009: "Inside Ticketmaster's Empire: The ticketing giant wants to rule the concert biz. Should you be afraid?"
Wired, March 2008: "Algebra, geometry, functions: At 38, taking the SAT is tough"
Wired, December 2006: "Diary of a Scalper: Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the Web to turn tickets into cash"
Wired, August 2006: "Home Is Where the EKG Is"
Wired, June 2006: "18 Days of Reckless Computing"
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 22, 2005: "Maybe he's amazing: McCartney embraces 'Yesterday' and today"
Backpacker, June 2005: "Camp Like a Rock Star . . . Or at least near one, in our harrowing survival guide to sleeping outdoors at a mass music festival"
Chicago Tribune, May 23, 2004: "BOOKS: The devil you know revealed in 'Delta'"
National Geographic Traveler, April 2004: "Neighborhood Watch: Highlands, Denver, CO"
From Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (Barricade Books, 2004): "The Who, Tommy (MCA, 1969)"
Newsday, August 24, 2003: "Still Kicking: Thirty years after Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon,' the mainstream martial arts movie survives as his legacy"
Rolling Stone, August 21, 2003: "The Wanted Man: By suing college freshman Jesse Jordan, the RIAA turned him into a folk hero"
Chicago Tribune, April 11, 2003: "Reviewer critiques pop music in terms of family values"
Rolling Stone, May 1, 2003: "Pearl Jam, Pepsi Center, Denver, April 1st, 2003
Spin, May 2003: "COLDPLAY, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, February 6, 2003
Book, March/April 2003: "The Head Coach: Athletes may be known more for brawn than brains, but Phil Jackson figures having them hit the books can't hurt. Nine NBA championships prove he's on to something."
Spin, November 2002: "DAVE WILLIAMS, 1972 -- 2002: Drowning Pool singer was a born performer"
Chicago Tribune, May 30, 2002: "'Sweet Home Chicago' leaves sour taste for some"
Spin, November 2001: "FIGHT NIGHT: THE COOL KIDS WHO INHABIT THE LATEST REAL WORLD LOCALE -- CHICAGO'S WICKER PARK -- WANT THE CAST TO SUFFER"
Chicago Tribune, June 9, 2001: "After a slow start, Chuck Berry hits his stride at Blues Fest"
Details, January 2000: "Rocket & Roll: What do astronauts listen to in outer space? Details tracks the sounds of the final frontier"
New York, November 29, 1999: "The Great Rock-and-Roll Swindle?"
Details, September 1999: "Satellite Sneaks: Sometimes the best TV comes from the stuff the networks never intended for you to see"
Chicago, March 1999: "My Phair Lady: Homegrown rock artist Liz Phair, queen of the F-word and mother of two-year-old Nicholas, cleans up her act"
Chicago Tribune, January 31, 1999: "Blues highway: Following the musical notes from the Deep South"
Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1997: "CLASSIFIED FAILURES AND SUCCESSES: Help wanted: gtrist for rck bnd; crazies need not apply"
Request Line, September 1997: "NEXT STOP NOWHERE/THE QUINCY PUNK-ROCK EPISODE: "Quincy's Klugman scrubs up for a Request Line interview"