Email Author Judith Lewis

Awards

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 7, 2007

  "Chaos Control"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 21, 2007

  "The Way He Lives Now"

• 2007 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, published November 10, 2005

  "Green to the Core"

• 2007 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, published July 12, 2006

  "Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 8, 2006

  "The Lost Streams of Los Angeles"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 10, 2005

  "Green to the Core"

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1998 Stories by Judith Lewis

• Imagining the End

  published December 3, 1998

  Photo by Huger Foote"Do you mind if I tape?" "Do you mind if I film?" Susan Minot is holed up at the Oceana, a blue-and-yellow,... More >>

• Gassed at CNN

  published October 29, 1998

  On June 7, the day the most explosive story of her career aired on CNN, April Oliver's bosses sent her flowers. "Valley of Death," which Oliver... More >>

• Riding Out the Apocalypse

  published October 1, 1998

  After a 1988 earthquake in Armenia killed tens of thousands of people, an expert on the radio, a woman whose name has been long buried beneath... More >>

• Lolita Gets Her Period

  published August 27, 1998

  "I don't understand it. Why don't girls like it when they get big breasts? If I were a girl with big breasts, I'd be happy."Deep in the... More >>

• Virtual Virgins

  published August 6, 1998

  Given a moment's thought, any reasonable 12-year-old could have figured it out. The notion that two teens would lose their virginity live on the... More >>

• Nick Hornby's Single Man

  published July 23, 1998

  If there were a demographic study tracking the gender balance of Nick Hornby's readers, I'd lay bets it would substantiate this anecdotal... More >>

• The Virtual Driveway

  published July 16, 1998

  I saw them both online at the same time, and I just wondered, were they going at it or what? --Woman overheard in a Larchmont bar, ... More >>

• Vinny and the Very Bad Day

  published July 2, 1998

  It keeps getting better every time I see it. The 30-second surveillance video, "badday.mpg" (http://www.masspike. com/badday), by now an Internet... More >>

• Someone To Watch Over Me

  published June 18, 1998

  At first, I get paranoid: Does the tiny microphone attached to the roof near the rear-view mirror transmit everything I say? Is there a camera,... More >>

• Heel!

  published June 11, 1998

  "'VEAL LOIN.' 'What?' 'FOR DINNER WE HAVE VEAL LOIN!'" By way of analogy, Matthew Margolis, author, TV personality and self-anointed "dog trainer... More >>

• Marry Me Before I Get Fat

  published May 28, 1998

  "I always make a distinction between what’s accurate and what’s true," says Elizabeth Wurtzel between giant sucking swallows of the nigh... More >>

• The Scream of the Hard Drive, the Roar of the Fan

  published May 7, 1998

  Over the course of our species' parallel evolution with the desktop personal computer, we have learned simply to accept certain things. We take... More >>

• In Praise of Recklessness

  published April 2, 1998

  Midmorning, late January, 42 degrees Celsius. You’re cruising the Orange River, a fast, broad strip of water that separates western South Afric... More >>

• Smash the Technorealist State

  published March 26, 1998

  On March 12, a self-organized system of writers and pundits proclaimed themselves "Technorealists" and posted a manifesto on the World Wide Web to... More >>

• I Am Not From Venus

  published March 26, 1998

  It's midsummer, 1995. I have just turned 35. I am sitting on a barstool at my friend Mark's apartment in Burbank, drinking a martini and confiding... More >>

• The Myth of the Flush

  published March 19, 1998

  The first thing I did at the Johannesburg airport was rush to the bathroom. No, no - not to pee, and not because I ate something disagreeable on... More >>

• Tripped Out

  published March 12, 1998

  When Barbara Simons accepted her Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award at this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Austin,... More >>

• Iraq Is Not Question

  published February 26, 1998

  DAVID McREYNOLDS is a member of the War Resisters League, a secular international organization formed in 1923 by conscientious objectors who... More >>

• The Best Things in Code Are Free

  published February 26, 1998

  To those of us who never pay for software anyway, Netscape's announcement, on January 21, that it was about to distribute its browser for free... More >>

• Very Serious Sex

  published February 12, 1998

  We need to encourage every Internet site, whether or not it has material harmful for young people, to label its own... More >>