Any day that one gets to blog about John Steinbeck is a good day. Cruise over to B&C Beat for a look at Dan Rather’s distinctly Tom Joadian final sign-off. Rather definitely did not go out like a punk last night. But he did seem to hint that he planned to spend his retirement riding [...]

Last summer, I reported on the history of urban development on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue. I wrote the story for my master’s project, the major assignment in the Columbia journalism program. Download the PDF file (103K) Today’s announcement is a major turning point for the Atlantic Avenue community, good or bad. If this really happens, it’s [...]

From today’s online NY Daily News: “The city’s Economic Development Corp. and the state’s Empire State Development Corp. have inked a memorandum of understanding with developer Forest City Ratner – kicking off the formal public review for the $2.5 billion plan, state and city officials said.” In a joint statement with Gov. George Pataki, Mayor [...]

In the March 2 issue of the Fort Worth Weekly, Dan Malone writes about bizarro journalist John Makeig and his strange, strange life. You can expect: pistols, hardnosed journalism, terminal illness, joints stashed in neckties, and obsessive archiving of personal writing. This story is fascinating. I expect Makeig’s life story to be optioned for a [...]