Herb Alpert: Always In Tune

My profile of legendary trumpet player, music executive, and philanthropist Herb Alpert appears in the May, 2011 issue of Los Angeles magazine, out this week.

A Classic Thriller Gets a Prequel

My piece on Satori, novelist Don Winslow's prequel to the classic 1970s espionage novel Shibumi, appeared in The Wall Street Journal on March 4, 2011.

The Virtuoso of Blood and Guts

My profile of special effects maestro Robert Hall appeared in the January 15 issue of The Wall Street Journal. The piece looks at how Hall creates everything from film decapitations to coiffures for movie corpses.

The Defiant Ones

My dual profile of war hero Louis Zamperini (right) and author Laura Hillenbrand appeared in the November 12, 2010 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

The piece tells the story behind Hillenbrand's new book, Unbroken. It shows how her struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome enabled her to empathize with Zamperini's travails as a Japanese prisoner during World War II.