A selection of articles that I have written and some that I’ve had the privilege of editing.
Recent work
“Chocolate’s Shady Past Could Be the Key to Its Survival”
Interview with the Founders of Motherly
Op-Ed: “Don’t Trade Pay for Flexibility”
“Are We Getting Closer to a Perfect Car Seat?”
“Spinning the Story of Wixarika Culture”
NEWS
- “Reasonable Doubt: Can the Bexar County Public Defender’s Office be Saved?”
- “Red Dawn: Why San Antonio is the GOP’s Best Bet for the Future”
- “Out of Obscurity: Medical community finally responds to needs of teens and young adult cancer patients”
- “Dismantling the Boys Club: Can the San Antonio Police Department fix a problem it won’t document?”
- “A Cure for the Blues: SAPD’s sexual misconduct woes reflect national problem”
- Op-Ed: “Ride and/or Die”
FILM
- “Jenny Slate Won’t Shut Up About Abortion in Obvious Child“
- “While Tommy Lee Jones Plays, Hillary Swank Steals The Homesman“
- “Blue Ruin De-Glamorizes the Classic Revenge Tale”
- “Tim’s Vermeer Captures a Strange Artistic Obsession”
MUSIC
- “Interview: Big Freedia Everywhere”
- “Interview: Fierce Emcee Ana Tijoux Returns for Free Show”
- “Interview: There’s Plenty to Celebrate on the Old 97s Birthday”
- “El Parche Slips Away: Obituary for Esteban ‘Steve’ Jordan, the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion”
- “How to Suckseed in Bizness: A case study of the Insane Clown Posse“
LITERATURE
- “Uprooting the Ancestors: John Phillip Santos writes family-future-historical nonfiction”
- “The Other Side Tackles Writing About Trauma”
- “Once Upon a Time in the West” – How the American West led the charge in women’s rights
- “9 Badass Suffragists”
In 2015, I covered the last few weeks of the Texas Legislature session for Houston Press. You can read all my coverage here.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- “Why This Teen-Created Police Accountability App Rules“
- “SeaWorld’s Post-Blackfish Syndrome”
- “Should I Buy This?” (Flowchart)
- “Teaching the Middle Class to Invest Like the One Percent”
- “(Don’t Be Still), My Beating Heart” – The invention of the heart stent
- “Love Lost and Found” – The Holocaust History Project and the largest library of Holocaust documents in the world
- “Good Read: Reagan’s Comeback“
- “Good Read: To Selena, With Love“
