I’m working (slowly) on a new site design here to streamline things and work better with a Twitterized, Facebookified world. In the meantime, please follow me on, you guessed it, Twitter and Facebook for my latest articles and other links. … Continue reading
Wow, it’s been ages since I last posted here. Most of that remains (as I hinted before) due to the vagaries of the dead-tree publication production cycle: Right now I have at least four articles in the can that should … Continue reading
For those of you who’ve been reading my biweekly (and before that weekly) columns in Metro New York for the last two years: I just got word that the Voices op-ed section will be discontinued at the end of this … Continue reading
For those of you in the Twitterverse, I’ve started posting links to all my new articles to Twitter as they appear. You can follow me @neildemause. For those of you who wouldn’t touch Twitter with a ten-foot pole, there’s still … Continue reading
Yes, it’s happened: As threatened previously, I’ve changed this page to a blog-style format. This enables me to do a few things: Post continuous updates here, rather than the every-month(-or-so) schedule I was on before. Add an RSS feed for … Continue reading
Most of last month for me was spent on one story, but oh, what a story. As I detailed at length in the April 11 Village Voice, most of Coney Island’s historical amusement district is at risk of being shut … Continue reading
Okay, looks like that New Year’s resolution didn’t go all that well. I may switch to a more continuous-blog format for this page shortly; in the meantime, here’s a two-month recap of my doings and whereabouts: I usually start things … Continue reading
In a perfect world, I’d have spent the whole of January wrapping up the manuscript of the new edition of Field of Schemes. (Note to Rob at U of Nebraska Press, if by some chance you’re reading this: Any day … Continue reading
August was a month for two major anniversaries: One year since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and the 10-year mark since President Clinton signed “welfare reform” into law. Thanks to my Extra! article on poverty coverage in the wake … Continue reading
I’ve mentioned this before, but one of the odd things about freelance journalism is that you can be drowning in work, and yet the time lag from research to the printed page means there isn’t much to show for it … Continue reading