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Highlights!



POP CULTURE/SOCIETY


>Invasive species crusader saves national park (CS Monitor)


>Inside the hotel condo explosion (Improper Bostonian)

>Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2007: O
f goblins and make-believe


>New York Times, March 23, 2007: Tolkien fans or freaks?



>Psychology Today, Sept/Oct 2004: "Suburban Warrior Syndrome: From The Matrix to Harry Potter, heroic fantasy is hot stuff. These modern epics tap into our frustrated impulse to be 21st-century knights—and may even help unleash the workaday hero inside each of us."

>The Christian Science Monitor, June 21, 2004: "Behind 'The Terminal,' a true story: Mehran Karimi Nasseri has lived in Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport since 1988."

>Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (cover story), November 16, 2003: "Lord of the Ka-Ching -- How commercial excess is spoiling the legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien."

more POP CULTURE/SOCIETY....


TRAVEL

>Boston Sunday Globe, April 23, 2006: "Caving: wriggling through tiny crevices in the earth" Page 1 / Page 2

>The Boston Sunday Globe, June 4, 2006: "How to cultivate positive travel karma"


>Boston Sunday Globe, July 10, 2005: "Walk the West Highland Way: With a good pair of hiking boots, and a week to spare, this is how to see Scotland," TEXT VERSION or PDF with ART (Page 1 / Page 2 / Page 3)

>The Washington Post, March 21, 2004: "Mountain Biking in France: Pedal Power"

>Boston Sunday Globe, November 9, 2003; "Spritied and Spiritual: On the coast of South India, beach-bound tourists mix with Hindu pilgrims"

>New York Post, April 6, 2004: "New Directions: Ethan Gilsdorf introduces the must-see Paris you've yet to discover"

>more TRAVEL....


FILM

>Boston Sunday Globe, August 3, 2003: "The kid (barely) stays in the picture: As an extra in 'Le Divorce,' Ethan Gilsdorf jockeys to get his face, and his poetry, on-screen" PDF p 1 / PDF p 2

>Boston Sunday Globe, December 13, 2004: "Love and war and Hollywood: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the visionary director of 'Amelie' and 'Delicatessen,' returns with a sweeping World War I epic made with an American studio but done entirely on his terms."

>Boston Sunday Globe, Sunday January 9, 2005: "'After School Specials': Still Learning from that '70s series"

>more FILM....



COMMENTARY/HUMOR


>iPhone is iFunny (CS Monitor)

>Why my basketball is career over (Boston Globe)


>Boston Globe, September 10, 2005: "EVACUEES OF ANOTHER SORT: TWO WEEKS AFTER Hurricane Katrina and the streets are still scattered with the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. "

>Boston Globe, July 12, 2005: "An escape into heroic empowerment: a response to our Harry Potter and Star Wars summer"

>Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2004: "You Deserve a Break Today -- to Hunt a Little Dinner"

>Maisonneuve, June 2004: "Island Guide: Paradise is just a former Swiss colony away"


>more COMMENTARY/HUMOR....


LITERARY/ART


>The Walrus, June 2004: "The Bookbinder: How to Save a Dying Art"

>Boston Globe, April 18, 2004: "From margins in his poetry, paintings emerged: Harvard prof Peter Sacks shows his art in Paris"

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, June 13, 2003: "Andre Breton and Surrealism's Bittersweet End "

>more LITERARY/ART....


PROFILES

>Christian Science Monitor, Sept 29, 2006: profile of writer Alain de Botton: "Search for Meaning in a Skyscraper"


>Boston Globe, January 12, 2005: "She keeps the faith for death penalty opponents: Sister Helen Prejean, author of follow-up to 'Dead Man Walking'"

>Boston Sunday Globe, September 25, 2005: "Mike Mills goes the distance: 'Thumbsucker' director maintains focus on art, life"

>Paris Notes, October 2001: "A Day with a Bread Baker at Poilane"

>more PROFILES....

FOOD/LODGING

>Boston Sunday Globe Magazine (cover story), June 26, 2005: "The Opening: Follow Brian Lesser as he launches a Back Bay trattoria."

>Toronto Globe and Mail, June 11, 2005: "Three Nights: When tourists think "Paris hotel," images of the Ritz often dance in their heads"

>Reno News and Review, March 10-16, 2005: "A Beer and a Shot: How to coerce those insurgent, die-hard beer drinkers to switch to the wired life? Caffeinated beer"

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Boston Globe, January 12, 2005: "Food bloggers chronicle their delicious obsessions"

>more FOOD/LODGING....