THE VILLAGE VOICE

Contributing Writer

Book-ish (COVER STORY)Brooklyn’s Nkiru Books Rises Up Once More With Help From Talib Kweli

Book-ish (COVER STORY)

Brooklyn’s Nkiru Books Rises Up Once More With Help From Talib Kweli

Tipping & Chipping (COVER STORY)How New York City’s Service Industry Is Facing a New Era

Tipping & Chipping (COVER STORY)

How New York City’s Service Industry Is Facing a New Era

Remember the Warriors (COVER STORY)Behind the Chaotic, Drug-Fueled, and Often Terrifying Making of a Cult Classic

Remember the Warriors (COVER STORY)

Behind the Chaotic, Drug-Fueled, and Often Terrifying Making of a Cult Classic

Kilo Kish, Smooth Operator (COVER STORY)The Accidental Star: Getting to Know Kilo Kish

Kilo Kish, Smooth Operator (COVER STORY)

The Accidental Star: Getting to Know Kilo Kish

The Once and Future RatkingPatrick “Wiki” Morales, frontman of the Harlem hip-hop group Ratking, is dressed in a baggy T-shirt and jeans, sitting at the Pakistan Tea House in Tribeca…

The Once and Future Ratking

Patrick “Wiki” Morales, frontman of the Harlem hip-hop group Ratking, is dressed in a baggy T-shirt and jeans, sitting at the Pakistan Tea House in Tribeca…

Here Was Marc Maron’s New YorkIt’s been almost two decades since Marc Maron last lived in Manhattan, and more than fifteen years since he first got sober…

Here Was Marc Maron’s New York

It’s been almost two decades since Marc Maron last lived in Manhattan, and more than fifteen years since he first got sober…

VICE

Freelance Writer

Learning to Cook Is Helping Me Battle DepressionFor years I’ve been bouncing from therapist to therapist, in the throes of an all-consuming vacuum of existential dread. But I've found that the physical act of cooking alleviates symptoms of stress an…

Learning to Cook Is Helping Me Battle Depression

For years I’ve been bouncing from therapist to therapist, in the throes of an all-consuming vacuum of existential dread. But I've found that the physical act of cooking alleviates symptoms of stress and anxiety almost immediately…

Schmaltz and Sturgeon Made Me Remember My Jewish RootsSince I moved to Brooklyn roughly two years ago, dining in New York's old-world-style delis and dairy restaurants has allowed me to rediscover my own Jewish identity, despite years of apathy and …

Schmaltz and Sturgeon Made Me Remember My Jewish Roots

Since I moved to Brooklyn roughly two years ago, dining in New York's old-world-style delis and dairy restaurants has allowed me to rediscover my own Jewish identity, despite years of apathy and neglect…

Can Boxing Help Save Baltimore’s Youth?[M]ore than teaching the fundamentals of fighting, boxing programs have proved to be a useful tool for keeping at-risk youth in school, out of detention centers, and away from the gangs that infest their neighb…

Can Boxing Help Save Baltimore’s Youth?

[M]ore than teaching the fundamentals of fighting, boxing programs have proved to be a useful tool for keeping at-risk youth in school, out of detention centers, and away from the gangs that infest their neighborhoods…

Why Watermelons Are a Symbol of Political Protest for PalestiniansIn many ways, the red, black, green, and white of fruit and rind—colors that match those of the Palestinian flag and the flag of the Arab Revolt—tell the story of the plight and pride…

Why Watermelons Are a Symbol of Political Protest for Palestinians

In many ways, the red, black, green, and white of fruit and rind—colors that match those of the Palestinian flag and the flag of the Arab Revolt—tell the story of the plight and pride of the Palestinian people throughout generations...

I Had Cancer and Now I'm Addicted to Japanese FoodIt is 11 PM on a Monday night and I am sitting at the bar at Yakitori Taisho, a divey, izakaya-style Japanese joint on St. Mark's Place in lower Manhattan…

I Had Cancer and Now I'm Addicted to Japanese Food

It is 11 PM on a Monday night and I am sitting at the bar at Yakitori Taisho, a divey, izakaya-style Japanese joint on St. Mark's Place in lower Manhattan…