Okay, I'm posting here in case somebody might decide to look at the posting with only one measly comment.
Actually, though, this is important. T-N you were, as we used to say in Texas, walking in some tall cotton this past weekend. On a panel for the New Yorker Festival with NY Times Executive Editor Bill, Slate curmudgeon Jack Shafer, and the Wall Street Journal's aging babe Peggy Noonan -- and the magnificent Ken Auletta as moderator. Well done, sir.
about the new Atlantic look: The font used for the body of text is much better, as are the colors, but I am not sure I like the banner at the top. It's too retro for my taste, too strongly associated with a particular 50's sophisticate style. (The New Yorker of the 50's?) It's not that it's ugly, or that it isn't bold in a good way, but the association is so strong for me that it's distracting. Overall, though, the change to the site is definitely positive.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
Today just wasn't the same without having TNC to read until now.
Okay, I'm posting here in case somebody might decide to look at the posting with only one measly comment.
Actually, though, this is important. T-N you were, as we used to say in Texas, walking in some tall cotton this past weekend. On a panel for the New Yorker Festival with NY Times Executive Editor Bill, Slate curmudgeon Jack Shafer, and the Wall Street Journal's aging babe Peggy Noonan -- and the magnificent Ken Auletta as moderator. Well done, sir.
Read about it at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/festival/3.html.
Wish they had a video or podcast.
about the new Atlantic look: The font used for the body of text is much better, as are the colors, but I am not sure I like the banner at the top. It's too retro for my taste, too strongly associated with a particular 50's sophisticate style. (The New Yorker of the 50's?) It's not that it's ugly, or that it isn't bold in a good way, but the association is so strong for me that it's distracting. Overall, though, the change to the site is definitely positive.