Magazine / Feature Writing
Pinched Maryland is for crabs. But getting the state crustacean from Bay to table is hard. And it’s only getting harder. Follow the voyage of a boatload of jimmies and sooks with the people whose livelihoods depend on them. The Local Palate
Here's the Beef Baltimore loves its crabs but the runner-up dish is a meaty mountain of a sandwich: Baltimore pit beef The Local Palate
Back to the Land (and Sea) Can the revival of historic foodways breathe new life into Virginia's Eastern Shore? The Local Palate
Swelling Interest Ever eaten a sugar toad? They're not amphibians, but fish; and not scary, but tasty. Garden & Gun
How a Lost Boy Found Himself Jacob Atem experienced unimaginable hardships as a Lost Boy fleeing war-torn Sudan. How this traumatized refugee ended up earning a PhD is a whole other journey. National Public Radio
Sea Change It was rough seas for the first women to enter the U.S. Naval Academy back in 1976 Baltimore
One Alt-weekly Dies, Another Emerges When Baltimore lost its 40-year-old newspaper, former staffers scrambled to start a brand-new one—in print, no less. The Atlantic CityLab
Second Act for a Former 'Glamour Girl' The philanthropy of an erstwhile studio-system starlet who co-starred with Jimmy Stewart and lived with Marilyn Monroe Chronicle of Philanthropy
You're Not Too Old For That Drumming in a rock band at 91? Drag racing at 70? Going to med school at 53? Yes, and more. AARP The Magazine
Nine Secrets to Getting Ahead at Work Chatting up career experts for a playful look at moving up in the office. Take a shower and don't whine, just for starters Washingtonian
Barroom Politic Why do Democrat U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich both have warm and fuzzy feelings for a dingy pool hall in Hampden? Baltimore
Glory Hole The history of a hotel basement that hosted both Fred Astaire and Iggy Pop. City Paper (Excellence in Journalism winner for feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists)
The New American Family It's no longer all nuclear---meet six clans redefining kinship. AARP The Magazine
In Defense of Naps Standing up for laying down in the afternoon. Washingtonian
Turning the Page How and why a fourth-generation publisher traded print for probiotics and Orthodox Jews for the Amish. Baltimore
Bee All You Can Bee Tales of trichotillomania from the nation's biggest spelling showdown. City Paper
The Paper Chase Submerging into the bureaucratic sinkhole for a marriage license. Baltimore Bride
Past Prime Chasing gastronomic ghosts at Baltimore's storied but long-shuttered steakhouse. Urbanite
The Next "Next America" Columbia was cutting-edge suburban design in the 1960s. Can a new-urbanist retrofit keep it sharp for the 21st century? Urbanite
From Raising Cain to Raising Money Alice Cooper invented "shock rock." But what might be more shocking is his Christian philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Academia
Our Best Shot Six Strategies for Solving America's Vaccine Dilemma Johns Hopkins Public Health
Mr. Science Television The untold story of a pioneering prime-time science TV show that took on Milton Berle and Dragnet to show Ike-era viewers the power and potential of scientific research Johns Hopkins Magazine
The Damage Done As the opioid crisis ravages Western Maryland, the public health response taps into the enduring bonds of community. Johns Hopkins Public Health
Cross-Pollination Johns Hopkins School of Nursing researchers take a collaborative approach to the toughest health challenges Johns Hopkins Nursing
Our Favorite Things Six curators mine their museums to find their fave artifacts Johns Hopkins Magazine
User's Guide to the Common Cold Americans catch more than a billion colds a year. Here's advice for avoiding being among them (and what to do once--almost invariably---the sniffles do arrive. Johns Hopkins Health Review
A Different Kind of Mind MBA students taking classes at a fine arts school? How "Design Thinking" is reshaping business education. Carey Business
Generations Seven public health giants and the researchers standing on their shoulders today. Johns Hopkins Public Health
Twenty Questions: Africa Edition Can Facebook slow the spread of HIV in Uganda? Has Bono done any good? And just what was the Egyptian "festival of drunkeness" anyway? Johns Hopkins Magazine
Doing Good From East Baltimore to East Africa, dedicated students have made Public Health Studies the major for the 21st Century. Arts & Sciences Magazine
The Big Picture An abandoned moderne theater reborn as a gleaming film center where Thomas Dolby----the '80s-synth-pop-hitmaker-turned-professor----will teach. Hopkins Gazette
Big Crane on Campus What's behind the university building boom? Urbanite
White Hat Hackers The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute fights the good fight against cybercrime. Hopkins Gazette
Red Screen New documentary casts a unflinching eye on the fall of the Soviet Union. Johns Hopkins Magazine
Travel Writing (and photography)
Slo Good Melania Trump might have helped put Slovenia on the map but the clean, green nation has more to offer than wives for billionaires. Baltimore Style
Tucson: Hot ‘n’ Cool Hummingbirds, tiki bars, a large museum dedicated to miniatures and desert vistas for days—rambles across Arizona’s second city
A Less Touristy Tuscany Few roads lead to Barga, a beautiful, off-the-beaten path corner of Italy away from bus parking lots and selfie sticks. Baltimore Style
The Other Shore Virginia's untrampled Eastern Shore trades beach resorts and boardwalk fries for 16th-century houses and plates of "swelling toads" Baltimore Style
Pie in the Sky Getting high on Backbone Mountain, Maryland's tallest mountain City Paper
Desert Island Day Trip Virginia's Cedar Island is an antidote to Ocean City Washingtonian
Patsy Cline and Dinosaurs Exploring Shenandoah's quirkier attractions Washingtonian
Sorry, Björk All Iceland adventures are not created equal
Drinks Writing
State Spirit Rye returns to Maryland, the state that made the spirit famous The Local Palate
Hooch A spirited spirits column that explored bottom-shelf bourbon, checked in at a mezcal library, and found evermore uses for Italy's gift to glassware: Campari City Paper
The Next Round My drinks writing continues on Splice Today
The Spirit is Willing Craft distillers proliferate in Maryland despite headwinds. City Paper
Mondo
Period Pieces Why a Maryland man turned his rec room into the world's first museum of menstruation. City Paper
Poop Dreams Meet guano-covered Navassa Island, where the the world's most powerful nation battled one of the world's poorest and an erstwhile California gospel singer sued President Clinton and the U.S. government. City Paper (Excellence in Journalism award winner for feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists)