I brought my camera to the Baltimore music festival, and I was allowed in the press pit for Rodrigo y Gabriela and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. I took a ton of pictures - you can find a selection of the ones I deemed the best below, and find more after the jump.
Sharon Jones
Guitar picks portrait
Hi. I disappeared for a while, but now I’m back.
I spent the last three months shuttling between northern Virginia and southern New Jersey - working as an editorial intern at USAToday.com’s Life section by day and a barista at my sister’s coffee shop by night - as well as finishing a few neglected projects, procrastinating a few new ones (master’s capstone, what?) and listening to Kanye West’s Graduation one too many times.
A few highlights of my time at USA Today: I covered the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore with Korina Lopez, sussed out the fashion of the Jonas Brothers with Arienne Thompson and worked with Whitney Matheson on her Pop Candy blog (my self-granted title: mistress of all things RSS, Wikipedia and social networking).
This friday marks the end of my internship and my time south of the Mason Dixon line. I return to New York at the end of August, when and where I will start my final semester at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism – you can find me there, or, as always, waiting for the G train.
I am continuing to update this project, but if you are antsy for some more Flash action from yours truly, check out this website (and check back often, because it too is a work in progress).
I have been dishing up more celebrity news on USA Today’s Lifeline Live today. Check out my posts below:
Electra complains about wedding pressure
Sheen vows to never utter ‘what’s-her-face’s’ name again
‘Vanity Fair’ stands firm on Clinton/Gershon item
I wrote a story about missed connections on the L train that amNY published in March. As I previously wrote, the chicagotribune.com picked up the story, but today I found out (thanks to the Google searching techniques of my dear friend Benjamin) that the OrlandoSentinel.com also ran the story.
Adding further excitement to my day, I also found out that Topix.com and nyctransitforums.com both posted the story for discussion.
Check out the raw data I gathered, which fueled my story.
I blogged for USA Today’s Lifeline Live today, and even though my name isn’t attached to any of my posts I am still pumped that my coworkers trusted me enough to ask me to write for the website during the second week of my internship. If you can trust me too, check out the posts that I am telling you I wrote below:
Rosie will wait to re-tie knot
Check out my latest story on the Brooklyn blogging community published in the New York Daily News.
A world seethes beneath New York where love-seeking straphangers interact with stolen glances between jostling bodies.
Those who enter that world at the L train’s Bedford Avenue stop in Brooklyn take to the Internet more often than riders on any other line to turn furtive eye contact into trysts.
In romance fever’s high-season — the two weeks before and after Valentine’s Day — 421 men and women posted to the “missed connections” thread on craigslist.org hoping to connect with a stranger they chatted with or made eye contact with underground.
Read the rest of my story, also published by chicagotribune.com here.
You can also check out the missed connections mapped out by gender here.
Two of my classmates, Eliot Caroom and Lakshmi Gandhi, produced a multimedia package for Newsweek on the Quaker vote in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can find the video and story here.
or other ways to avoid Times Square.
By Erin O’Neill
Buried beneath our streets and seas lie the fiber optic cables that allow entire continents of people to communicate and trade in the economic phenomenon known as globalization. That same spidery web of cable connecting people in different countries has also spawned a new trend taking place in the cafes and bars of south Brooklyn.
At noon on a Thursday a health care consultant, graphic designer, architect and accountant sit in a French bistro on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens talking about the Spitzer scandal and things to do in Brooklyn – and not one of them took the day off. It is the office break room evolved – fitted for the needs of the growing population of Brooklynites that work from home.
“When you’re home all day it’s nice to find people to meet up for lunch,” said Ginger Smith Carls, a healthcare consultant who works from her home in Park Slope.
