I’ve written on the arts and culture for a number of publications including Outside’s GO, the San Francisco Chronicle and Amherst Magazine.
Outside’s GO Magazine
Vacation Home Havens, August/September 2008
The last thing you want from your second home is for it to feel too similar to your first. Knowing that you demand as much from your playtime as life demands from you, we’ve curated eight second-home spots around the globe that are anything but second-rate. From safaris in the jungles of Sri Lanka to the world-class surfing at Lorne, Australia, our global tour of under-the-radar retreats will have you thinking twice before investing: Why get a second home on Martha’s Vineyard, for instance, when you can pick up your own genuine vineyard in Argentina’s Mendoza province? Consider these eight places the elegant sleepers in the international realty game—the perfect time to buy in the current economy, if you’ve got cash to spare—heretofore undiscovered by the T-shirted masses, refulgent in their natural beauty, robust in their sporting, and refined in their appointment. Welcome home.
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It Takes a Villa, Summer 2007 
Mario Moretti Polegato is a connoisseur of good food, fine wine, and high speed. And like any respectable Italian, he surrounds himself with all three. The inventor, designer, and entrepreneur declared Treviso—the northeastern province of Italy where he was born, resides, and keeps his second home—one of the best places to eat in the entire country. That residence, the Villa Sandi, houses its own vineyard, which produces prosecco, the crisp, sparkling wine from the region; Còrpore, a full-bodied merlot-cabernet blend; and the potent digestif called grappa. And in one of the long, low classical buildings that girds the main villa, Polegato stores his collection: Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and vintage motorcycles, including six Moto Guzzis (dating from 1924 to 1956).
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San Francisco Chronicle
Not-So-Still Lifes, April 8, 2007 
In the back room of the Modern Times Bookstore in the Mission — a locale that looks more like a Sunday school classroom than a venue for erotic entertainment — a curvaceous dancer blithely stripped down to pasties and panties while a crowd of onlookers furiously sketched her every wriggling detail.
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Going Coastal, January 28, 2007 
Is Bolinas, long an insular hippie haven known for its curmudgeonly independent ways, the latest weekend getaway hot spot for urban aesthetes?
The longtime West Marin boho enclave for artists, writers and kindred spirits — everyone from counterculture writer Richard Brautigan, memoirist Anne Lamott and poet Robert Creeley to big-league Democratic donor and Esprit co-founder Susie Tompkins Buell and watercolorist Sally Robertson — has recently become the site of an influx from the Bay Area’s close-knit high-tech design and fashion world.
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Five Questions for Kevin Judd, November 5, 2006 
Through Nov. 13, San Francisco’s Limn Gallery — a chic SoMa space specializing in contemporary furniture design and international art — is hosting an exhibition of wine photography by noted vintner Kevin Judd in its rooftop Bulthaup Showroom. In addition to being an accomplished vineyard photographer — his first book, “The Colour of Wine,” came out in 1999 — Judd has been the head winemaker at the New Zealand powerhouse Cloudy Bay Vineyards since its inception in 1985.
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Amherst Magazine
A Modest Proposal, Winter, 2007
A Crisis By Any Other Name, Summer/Fall, 2006