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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2002 Stories by Judith Lewis

• Peace Gets a Chance

  published December 26, 2002

  ”Are you doing a count?“ I‘m standing on my toes in front of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! trying to estimate the number of peaceniks gathere... More >>

• Drugs, Guns and Money

  published December 12, 2002

  Just about everyone hates the War on Drugs. Public officials and pundits at every point along the political spectrum, from the governors of New... More >>

• Do Not Go Gently

  published November 14, 2002

  A few minutes past 8, Sharon Jimenez, press secretary of the Hollywood Independence Committee, took the podium in the small auditorium of the... More >>

• Death in the Family

  published November 7, 2002

  Last Friday night Judy Heneghan and Peter Staloch opened up their Silver Lake home for a wake. Actors from Minnesota who balance their time in... More >>

• Points of Contention

  published November 7, 2002

  At 6:30 sharp on a Thursday night in mid-October, a crowd gathered quickly at the entrance to 6769 Lexington Ave., a half-block east of... More >>

• The Uncertainty Principle

  published October 24, 2002

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• No RAVE Review

  published July 25, 2002

  Some months ago, if you had asked Graham Boyd, director of the ACLU‘s Drug Litigation Project, whether Congress was about to limit the right... More >>

• With a Little Help From Her Friends

  published July 18, 2002

  Photo by Ted Soqui IN MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTION OF Laura Nix, she is leaning out of her window, handing me a post card announcing a screening... More >>

• Our Bodies, Our Hell

  published July 4, 2002

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo IN THE MIDDLE OF FIGURING OUT WHERE she'd like to rank among the rich and famous (not too famous, a little more rich),... More >>

• Bhangra Chow Mein

  published June 27, 2002

  Photo by Ted Soqui IT'S 1:15 A.M. ON A WINTRY FRIDAY MORNING WHEN a House of Blues security guard bursts through the door of the small... More >>

• Everyday He Writes the Book

  published June 13, 2002

  ELVIS COSTELLO at UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom, May 28 Elvis Costello‘s Tuesday-night show ended after a series of encores (Five... More >>

• Power to the Peer

  published May 23, 2002

  In the last hours of the 12th annual conference on ”Computers, Freedom and Privacy,“ held at a San Francisco hotel mid-April, Frank Hausmann ... More >>

• It Was a Doll Revolution

  published May 9, 2002

  They held her accountable for everything from anorexia to Nicole Brown Simpson‘s bad marriage, but what they often overlooked is that Rut... More >>

• David Schweizer, Theater Maker

  published April 25, 2002

  Described by an Orange County paper recently as the “avant-garde director for the masses,” David Schweizer is arguably at the apex of h... More >>

• The Napster of Human Kindness

  published April 11, 2002

  When 34-year-old college professor Keith Taylor saw the latest statistics claiming that a quarter of a billion people are currently using the... More >>

• Fetal Frenzy

  published April 11, 2002

  Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter IN THE THREE DECADES SINCE ROE V. WADE determined that women in the United States had a right to safe and... More >>

• The Back Story

  published April 4, 2002

  ”My generation’s been through a time machine that‘s left our parents in the old world and put our children in the ... More >>

• Dealing With Druggies

  published April 4, 2002

  When Lindsay Earls set out in 1999 to challenge her high school‘s policy of drug testing students who participate in extracurricula... More >>

• Citizen of the Crossover World

  published March 28, 2002

  At some point in the early 1990s, an American magazine published a cartoon in which a microphone-toting Paul Simon bumps into a DAT-carrying... More >>

• The Back Story

  published March 28, 2002

  "Reason sometimes even succeeds." The wisdom of peacemaking. More >>

• The Back Story

  published March 21, 2002

  "Now, at least, she is free to beg." The liberated women of Afghanistan. More >>

• Review This Book or Else

  published March 14, 2002

  Illustration by Geoff Grahn ABOUT A YEAR AGO, A MAN CALLED with important news: "Rush Limbaugh just said something smart on the radio." Back... More >>

• The Back Story

  published March 14, 2002

  “When they’re fighting really desperately, [it means that] there are top people.” More >>

• Playing the Human Part

  published March 14, 2002

  Lupe Ontiveros arranges herself in the spare plastic conference-room chair at her publicist’s office, vexing about what makes a good interview... More >>

• The Back Story

  published March 7, 2002

  “The Times’ policies prohibit falsifying a news account or using fictional devices in factual material.” Donald Rumsfeld’s contract ... More >>