selected writing
2024
L.A. Times: Modern Death Cafes are Very Much Alive in L.A. Inside the Radical Movement
2023
L.A. Times: Hollywood Assistants Aren’t in the Writers Guild. They’re Still Hit Hard by the Strike
2022
L.A. Times: How VHS Store Whammy! Became the L.A. Hub of a Rewind Revolution
L.A. Times: How the Elysian Theater Pushes the Limits of Live Performance
The Cut: A Murder Solved in DMs
2021
The New Republic: The Year When Everyone Bullied Their Mayor
Vanity Fair: The Shockingly Melancholy Britney Spears Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of
2020
GEN: What Was the Nasty Woman?
The New Republic: The Ballot Initiative That Could Change How You Think About Defunding the Police
theLAnd: Holly Mitchell is Ready to Take on Los Angeles
2019
Marie Claire: Inside Churchome, the Celebrity-Endorsed Megachurch
theLAnd: L.A.’s Country Music Scene is Processing Two Mass Shootings in Two Years
Washington Post: How Kaitlyn Bristowe Became Bachelor Nation’s Unlikely Lifestyle Guru
2018
Rolling Stone: Versace, Champagne and Gold: Meet the Director Turning Porn Into High Art
Rolling Stone: Is the Porn Industry Doing Enough for Performers' Mental Health?
Washington Post: Meet the Dominatrixes Who Control Men Where it Really Hurts: Their Wallets
Washington Post: A New Wave of Comedians Is Exploring the Anxieties of our Instagram Age
L.A Times: Rapper Sirah is Leading a Movement to Better Understand Mental Health in the Music Community
Interview: Brigette Lundy-Paine is the New Player in Town
Curbed: How Gilroy Became the Garlic Capital of the World (Named an honorable mention in Best American Food Writing, 2019)
Curbed: The future of Historic Filipinotown
2017
Curbed: How a Tiny Town Fought a Wildfire Without Fire Hydrants
LA Weekly: A Sexual Harassment Scandal Has Imploded at Cinefamily. Can It Be Saved? (Finalist, News Feature, L.A. Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards)
SELF: Ruby Rose Isn't Who You Say She Is
Curbed: The Rise of 'Three Car Garage Rock
Rolling Stone: Las Vegas Cab Driver on How City Is Surviving
Rolling Stone: How Democratic Socialists are Building on Bernie's Momentum
VICE: One Man's 14-Year Fight to Get Weird Al a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
MEL: 'Small Hands,' Big Porn Career
L.A. Weekly: Comedian Moshe Kasher Wants to be the New Phil Donahue
2016
VICE: How a Beloved Puppet Theater Became a Battleground in the LA Gentrification Wars
Curbed: The Last Artists’ Haven in Los Angeles
LA Weekly: Why Is It So Hard to Catch Drink-Drugging Assholes? (Finalist, Best News Feature, L.A. Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards)
VICE: CSI Fur Fest: The Unsolved Case of a Gas Attack at a Furry Convention
VICE: What It's Like to Sell Political Merchandise for a Living
MEL: Pick-Up Artists See a Kindred Spirit in Trump
VICE: There's a Network of Christians Praying for Hollywood and the Film Industry
2015
TAKEPART: How this Tiny Clinic is Fighting for Trans Patients Illegally Denied Medical Care (Nominated for GLAAD Media Awards’ Outstanding Digital Journalism Article)
VICE: Murder by Prescription: Is it the Doctor's Fault When a Patient Overdoses?
VICE: Can Locking Up Pill-Pushing Doctors Put an End to Prescription Drug Abuse?
VICE: Elisa Lam Drowned in a Water Tank 2 Years ago. The Obsession With Her Death Lives On
L.A. Weekly: These LA Comedians Are Turning Their Women's Basketball League into a Phenomenon (1st Place, Best Entertainment Feature, L.A. Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards)
