OVERVIEW
WRITING
My editorial beats are pop culture, books, food, and fashion. Previously: associate editor and writer for The Village Voice.
Bylines: Mental Floss, RollingStone.com, The Village Voice, NYMag.com, TimeOut New York
Content Writing: Audible, Gap Inc., RetailMeNot, Sommsation, Meta
RESEARCH & FACT-CHECKING
Smithsonian Magazine, RollingStone.com, ESSENCE, Us Weekly, The Village Voice, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and other sites and publications.
Previously: Deputy research editor for The Village Voice and Us Weekly
Email: [email protected]
*Nita is pronounced "Nee-thuh*
OVERVIEW
WRITING. Elyse Lovenworth is passionate, determined, and genuine; a Certified Sommelier who strives to normalize that "moms can drink for a living, too."
In 2000's The Virgin Suicides, Kirsten Dunst is a milk bubble of a nymphet – luminous, lustful, and blessed with splendid hair.
WRITING. Imperfect and struggling, Elizabeth Strout's characters grind through the dulling routines of ordinary life in this exquisitely spare "novel in stories."
RESEARCH/ FACT-CHECKING/ ADDITIONAL REPORTING. "In the Belly of the Beast" was nominated for a Webby Award in the News category.
FACT-CHECKING. The musical virtuoso leaves her old persona behind with her third album, Dirty Computer.
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WRITING. Michael Meagher wrote his master's thesis on screw-capped wines in the United States. In 2010, he swept the title of Best Young Sommelier in America after winning the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs annual national sommelier competition.
WRITING. The late Joan Rivers was many things—a trailblazing comedian, a fastidious filer, an acerbic critic of Hollywood fashion—but not many knew her as a history buff (beyond, perhaps, her often joking that she was older than dirt). It turns out that for all of her expensive tastes, Colonial Williamsburg long remained one of Rivers's most beloved vacation spots.
WRITING. David Brown worked his way up from line supervisor at a bakery to management positions at Philadelphia-area Walmart, Print-O-Stat, and Family Dollar stores before pivoting to build a small private transportation business 15 years ago. He brings a deep understanding of the unique challenges and barriers many Black-owned small businesses face to his role as President of the Initiative for Black Owned Small Businesses (IFBOSB).
Buy time, don't lose it. Duran Duran was on like Simon LeBon, mewling and ambrosial, with gnashing guitars and buttery highlights.
Lo! Across rainless acres parched by drought swaggers Captain Russell, a Machiavellian British fop, to the ascot born, with his Freddie Mercury overbite and muttonchops.
WRITING. Josh Peeples couldn't afford any employees when he was starting out in the wine business in the early 2000s so he labored alone instead, doing "grunt work" at a winery in Napa Valley for up to 21 hours a day – typically from 3 a.m. until midnight – until a little light bulb finally went off in his head.
Italian for "bearded", Barbuto is the rustic, rambling restaurant that shares space with Industria Superstudio, in a converted warehouse and garage, with eight separate studios rented for high-fashion photo shoots (sister atelier: Milan).
WRITING. There is the spellbinding Morocco of travel websites and guidebooks: ancient mosques; labyrinthine streets; bustling markets filled with a dizzying array of wares: slippers, spices, ornate tea glasses, lanterns, love potions, and drums.
Visionaire fashion and art magazine and Gap have teamed up for the third time to design "The Gold Collection," a new line of 15 limited edition T-shirts. The result? Gossamer-punk doily art.
Brit designer Katy Bell hauls left-for-dead burlap coffee sacks off city sidewalks back to her studio where she transforms each bag– prickly fibers, block type and all– into the bespoke Maltby tote that launched her Lost Property of London high-end eco label in 2009.
Stealing Buddha's Dinner is a tenderhearted homage to the musty dried fish and sandalwood smells of Asian grocery stores and to moon boots spackled with snow.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand author, Helen Simonson's wry, perceptive debut novel about love, the British class system, and family obligations, genially unfolds amid a quaint, leafy English village, as tweedy and provincial as any Miss Marple mystery, drafty vicarage and all.
FACT-CHECKING
Awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. LEAD RESEARCHER/FACT-CHECKING.
RESEARCH/FACT-CHECKING. A Republican kingmaker, Ted Cruz's campaign manager and questions of faith hounded an "anti-corruption" crusader Tom Schweich until his tragic end.
FACT-CHECKING. Why a 100-year-old game is still spreading across our playgrounds.
RESEARCH/REPORTING/FACT-CHECKING. A tragic accident exposes the dangers of an out-of-control billion-dollar industry.
RESEARCH/REPORTING/FACT-CHECKING. Members from the Patriot Movement track a U.S. Military exercise
FACT-CHECKING. The game show offers clues about how the annoying tic got its start.
FACT-CHECKING. When the New Horizons spacecraft races by the quasi-planetary body, Alan Stern will have finally met his match.
FACT-CHECKING. From the 19th century to today, a geological trove offers a strong foundation for the nation's cities.
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