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Inside Katy Perry's Real-Estate Drama: Why Nuns and the Catholic Church Are Battling Over Her Dream L.A. Property

For Billboard, I profiled Dropkick Murphys, a band far more interesting than you might think.

For the January 2018 American Way, I wrote the Nick Jonas cover profile, in which I discover that the pop star/actorcigar smoker is shockingly well-adjusted for someone who was once a literal prize for Sasha and Malia.

Had a long, tough conversation with Fred and Maria Wright, parents of Pulse shooting victim Jerry Wright, for Billboard.

You can reach me at [email protected].

Alessia Cara is the future.

Sometimes working with people, you try to accomplish something that you think is going to please them, and you don’t please them, and it creates this shadow of doubt. With Leonard there was never any shadow. He was always like, “Try again.” That’s generous in a way that I’ve never experienced.

“The Trump Swag Merchants Cashing In on the Election Trail” Went to a Trump rally for Bloomberg.

Here is my oral history of Sesame Street’s musical legacy for Billboard’s TV issue.

Worked as a contributing editor on the Festival Issue (summer 2016) of The Pitchfork Review, which was a really fun project. The cover is amazing (the design team actually bought the above bus) and some of the stories I edited are online, including Marc Hogan’s reported piece on the couples who got married at Ozzfest, Quinn Moreland’s interview with Animal, and Philip Sherburne’s great piece on Krakow’s Unsound Festival.

Edited/wrangled/assigned the 10-plus other “New Pioneers” for this Aug. 20 Billboard cover package, which included fun things like Celine Dion writing about Sia; a roundtable with Touré, Joy Reid, and Justin Hunte about Kanye West; a Melanie Martinez mini-profile; a Dev Hynes interview; and short pieces on Kesha, Musical.ly, stage designer Es Devlin.

“Prince's music taught me how to suck titties! He taught me how to be gentle. Because of him, I once sucked a titty for an hour. At the end, it looked like a tater tot. I love Prince.”

Wrote about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice executive producer Michael Uslan and his life-long crusade to bring the dark Batman to the big screen for Mental Floss.

Interviewed Twenty One Pilots and their team for Billboard’s Year in Music 2015 issue.

Talked with Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard for this Billboard print spread. She’s the best.

Who would’ve thought that a critically maligned mass-market airport-kiosk author just might help save reading? My profile of James Patterson for the November 2015 issue of Mental Floss.