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We were enjoying my friend's dad's sky box tickets for the Wizards vs. Celtics game this weekend. Neither team seemed to want to win, and nobody in the stadium seemed to care much about the contest. Everybody was glued to the TV to see the result of the Redskins game.
And then, the door opened. Where there is usually a silhoutte and a backlight, there was total darkness. A shadow crouched and emerged from the door frame, it was something much larger than the door. A smile illuminated the room like a new gibbous. It was a familiar face from the Transylvanian region of Romania.
Gheorghe Muresan!!!
I jumped out of my chair. Whenever Gheorghe used to appear on TV during the mid-90's, I was transfixed. A man like this makes reality into a fantasy world. He makes mortals experience the life of Lilliputians. And he has always had a sense of humor about it all (think: ESPN commercials, Snickers, agreeing to appear with Billy Crystal in a bad movie).
I told him I've been scouring ebay for the past 6 years for one of his jerseys. I asked him to tell the Wizards management to start selling Muresan retro Bullets jerseys. He smiled and laughed and gave me high-five.
Spudd Webb, if you're reading this, let's hang out sometime soon.
"They have deserved a better life, but I constantly have the feeling that, no matter how much I do, I let them down. It's a tragedy." Antonia is providing psychosocial support for refugees in Eleonas camp, Athens, with her NGO "The Smile of the child". Due to constant shortage of funding and change of official plans concerning the treatment if refugees, a lot of NGO-employees in Greece are on the verge of a burn-out.
The whole story (in German): amrandederhoffnung.tilda.ws/
Bay Pointe Ballet performs the Nutcracker during the Reno Tour at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nevada, on December 6, 2015. (Stan Olszewski/SOSKIphoto)
Pow Wow 2012 - Monday Feb 11. Undercover.
My favorites from Pow Wow Hawaii 2013. Coverage for features at Contrast Magazine and ESPN.
Former site of Kay Jewelers, Destroyed in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (see photo: hypervocal.com/news/2014/american-riot/ and dchistory.archivestree.com/object/viewfile.php?object=498...)
Center DeMarcus Cousins (12), left, prepares to shoot the ball during a USA men's basketball Olympic team practice at UNLV's Mendenhall Center in Las Vegas Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Jason Ogulnik/Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Outtakes from San Francisco Magazine assignment for the November 2009 issue