

Last week, over a beautiful Italian dinner in a La Jolla restaurant, my girlfriend paused while raising her wine glass and said something along the lines of, “when the hell did you work with babies?” This sparked a long storytelling session in which I tried my best to recall most of my strange adult life. This conversation has been broached in the past, although I’ve never felt a close enough [...]

Watch, I’ll do four months real fast-like: October 2011 Rufo came to visit, saw a last-minute-finish to a story I had worked long and hard on. It involved following around a guy named Matthew Akins, who at 22 years old, was already fed up by local law enforcement, and decided to do something about it. The story is here, the photos here and the video here. The end of October [...]

by Andrew Mach, The Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 30, 2011: It wasn’t long after officials linked a listeria outbreak with cantaloupe from a Colorado farm that wrongful-death and personal-injury lawsuits began to be filed. The outbreak, which is the deadliest food crisis in more than a decade, has killed at least 15 people and sickened 84 others in 19 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta… read more here.






