A submission I made to a book anthology out of the noted Kelly Writers House has been accepted. The collection, called Philos Adelphos Irrealis, was meant to portray various states of Philadelphia that never came to pass — in 200 words or less. I focused mine on the aborted effort in the late 1980s for [...]

More than 20 years after the Internet and web-based technologies stormed onto college campuses, the life of a university student is still rapidly changing. So goes the focus of another feature I did for the newly rebranded Temple University alumni magazine. Read the story here or see the sleek new design here [PDF]. As usual, [...]

A feature story covering the as-yet unreleased Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections API-based online tool ‘License to Inspect,’ its inspiration and hope was published on Technically Philly Monday, a story I reported and wrote during the last couple months. It is the last major feature of the Transparencity grant project I’ve been leading, and [...]

To promote the amusing book Broetry, which is a collection of poems from the “bro” perspective, Geekadelphia and Quirk Books held a Broetry Slam at National Mechanics, a bar in Old City Philadelphia. Attendees were encouraged to come with a broetry of their own to compete for a crown and a swag bag of great [...]

I am not going back to freelancing. Last month, I came on full-time with Technically Media, a company I helped launch and produces Technically Philly. Still, going back on my own, in some form, has returned me to thinking about and combing through some of the advice I collected in 2009, during my year freelancing. [...]

Well that’s a nice perk of the job. It wasn’t so long  after I started my job as national media director at homeless running nonprofit Back on My Feet that I was presented with what would be a rewarding opportunity. Not so long  at all after I first started talking about how traditional marketing was [...]

Travel is most often the privilege of the privileged. Two years ago last month, I was returning from a trip that was certainly a great privilege. If you can’t go out to eat with friends without referencing something you learned or experienced from some travel experience you had, then I think you’re doing it wrong. [...]

Updated h/t He was an ogre of man, slimy, rat-toothed and overbearing, with day old five o’clock shadow and a crunch of black hair falling out of a sun-weathered red trucker hat. This man, maybe 45, was propped up on the aged bar of Quinn’s Irish Pub II, a neighborhood drinking establishment with so colorful [...]

All you need to make a journalist is pressure and time. Those same elements can disrupt a writer. Under pressure and no longer feeling the same need to impress someone can make even the most capable of scribes turn a phrase that shouldn’t be turned anymore. Hell, I may be one cliche away from a [...]

One year ago I was cleaning out my desk in Room 243, the newsroom of The Temple News, the college newspaper of Temple University since September 1921. I spent one year as a reporter, one year as a columnist, one year as a contributor and one year as an editor. It is, truly, where I [...]