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My work has appeared internationally in The Guardian, Thrillist, Men's Health, Billy Penn, Time Out London, and many other news outlets.
Since 2014, I've earned four first-place Keystone Press Awards from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, under the Feature Beat Reporting and Personality Profile categories.
As a culture writer, I've reported on live concerts, restaurants/dining, museum exhibitions, films, TV shows, live comedy shows, festivals, and more.
Here's a (certainly incomplete) list of the many artists I've interviewed over the years:
Buddy Guy, Yo La Tengo, Kurt Vile, Brian Wilson, John Hodgman, Nels Cline (Wilco), John Stirratt (Wilco), actor David Morse, comedian Eugene Mirman, Interpol, Dr. Dog, Julien Baker, David Bromberg, chef Lidia Bastianich, Deer Tick, Ages and Ages, Field Report, Lucy Dacus, Son Little, The Felice Brothers, Car Seat Headrest, Algiers, James Cotton, Chad Rosenthal ("Food Network Star," "Chopped"), artist David Plunkert, Roadkill Ghost Choir, David Wax Museum, The Districts, film critic Carrie Rickey, filmmaker Michelle Major, Oscar-winning sound editor David E. Stone, Ben Goldberg, Scott Kremp (ABC's "The Goldbergs"), film composer Antonio Sanchez ("Birdman"), Nathan East, Rob Bruce ("Comic Book Men"), comic book artist Jamar Nicholas, filmmaker Daniel Sickles ("Mala Mala"), Andrew Lipke (Get the Led Out).
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AMBLER >> "Do you hear it?" Jean Parry asks, leaning in a bit. It's less than 10 minutes into the roast, on a Friday evening in early August, and the coffee beans are starting to pop and crackle, like a campfire.
Justin Brown, 33, a former student athlete, has been living on a hospital bed in his parents' Upper Dublin, Pa., home for 10 years. He can't feed himself, can't speak for too long, and can't even sleep for more than four hours at a time.
COMICS IN THE CLASSROOM: How one Wissahickon teacher uses comic books to connect with his students - LOWER GWYNEDD >> A few years ago, Wissahickon High School social studies teacher Tim Smyth, a by-the-book AP instructor who had earned himself a reputation among students for being "very challenging," did something unexpected.
Ambler >> It was November 1938, less than a year before the Nazis invaded Poland, and 11-year-old Ellen Nussbaum was startled awake at 5 a.m. to the sound of two gestapo officers knocking on the front door of her parents' home in Berlin, Germany.
THE ASBESTOS KING: The life & times of Dr. Richard V. Mattison, who built an empire in Ambler Borough - Editor's note: This story is part of The Ambler Gazette's "Asbestos & Ambler" project, an exploration into how the borough's industrial roots impacted its past, present and future.
STORY WRITTEN BY DUTCH GODSHALK [email protected] @dutchgodshalk on Twitter Not two days after a gunman opened fire in the historically-black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., June 17 - killing nine and raising to a scream the already-fervent national debate on racism in the U.S.
PHOTO GALLERY: Forest & Main co-owners discuss the past, present and future of their brewing company - AMBLER >> Four years and 241 beers ago, Daniel Endicott and Gerard Olson reopened the doors of a once-withering 19th century home here in the borough.
David Morse's career as an actor began after he graduated from high school - but it wasn't a year after he graduated, or a couple months. It wasn't even a week. Less than 24 hours after donning his cap and gown, a 17-year-old Morse had his thumb out on the highway, hitching a ride for Cape Cod, Mass, making his way to the Boston Repertory Theatre.
Three days into the 2009 Marathon Des Sables-a grueling, 156-mile footrace through the Sahara Desert-Alex Flynn realized he was lost. Separated from his group, Flynn stopped, did a full 360-degree spin, and saw barren horizons in every direction. It was a blisteringly hot day.
STORY WRITTEN BY DUTCH GODSHALK [email protected] @dutchgodshalk on Twitter The last time Yo La Tengo took the stage at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, it was the fall of 1994, the trio had just released the loose and hazy electric masterwork "Painful" - perhaps their most beloved album to date - and they were opening shows for Johnny Cash.
STORY WRITTEN BY DUTCH GODSHALK [email protected] On a single afternoon in 2012, in a studio somewhere in Brooklyn, NY, Bay Area-based jazz clarinetist Ben Goldberg assembled four friends to record a full album, beginning to end, in a single, fevered session, pretty much laying it all down between breakfast and dinner.
[email protected] Twitter: @DutchGodshalk About 70 miles north of his hometown, Portland, Ore., and deep in the woods of Washington State, Tim Perry of Ages and Ages found himself removed from the world, of his own volition. The songwriter had fully immersed himself in a 10-day, silent meditation retreat, where he wasn't allowed to speak or write or play an instrument.
Upper Dublin High School graduate explores gender identity in acclaimed documentary 'Mala Mala' - UPPER DUBLIN >> When Daniel Sickles was 22 years old, he was spending a lot of time in Puerto Rico, but he wasn't lazing in resorts or dozing off on beaches.
BEING SANTA: Santa by Train's Moose Ott looks back on decades as Ambler's Mr. Claus - AMBLER >> Somewhere inside Doug "Moose" Ott's cozy, two-story Ambler residence - in front of which sits a sign reading "Moose Hollow" - hangs a crimson robe that touches the floor, along with a matching cotton-tipped hat.
Dr. Dog builds new studio, records 'B-Room' and schedules two nights at the Electric Factory - To hear it from lead guitarist Scott McMicken, indie rock band Dr. Dog's latest album began one quiet night while he was sitting at an acoustic piano in the middle of an empty, dust-covered warehouse in Clifton Heights, Pa.