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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2006 Stories by Judith Lewis

• In Search of The Authentic Character

  published December 21, 2006

  There is a scene in David Lynch’s Inland Empire in which a character played by Laura Dern, breathless from having climbed a flight... More >>

• The Secret of His Success

  published December 7, 2006

  IT IS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, the day after billionaire Eli Broad’s foundation announced it would invest $10.5 million in Steve... More >>

• Eco-Club Chic

  published November 30, 2006

  The early-morning sun has just begun to gleam off the towers of Wilshire Boulevard as Renee Kelly leans against a wall on Grand Avenue, her... More >>

• The Lost Streams of Los Angeles

  published November 9, 2006

  Southern Californians hate moisture like cats.—Carey McWilliams, An Island on LandA formidable chainlink... More >>

• A Good Spore

  published October 26, 2006

  “I only have 25 minutes to save the world,” Paul Stamets gripes. He is wearing an edible hat made of dried mushroom fibers, round... More >>

• Last Orgasm in Hollywood

  published October 12, 2006

  What makes movie sex dirty?This is the question that looms as the first few scenes of John Cameron Mitchell’s new film,... More >>

• Best Spot Online to Meet a Pushmi-Pullyu

  published October 5, 2006

  Best Spot Online to Meet a Pushmi-PullyuYou want a dog, a cat, a ferret (okay, you’d have to import one —... More >>

• Best Place to Die on a Very Short Hike

  published October 5, 2006

  Best Place to Die on a Very Short HikeCheck the tide tables, don’t bring your dog, and don’t eat anything funky... More >>

• Hidden Yoga

  published October 5, 2006

  You have options for yoga in Los Angeles: (A) You can take classes at the gym, in a glass-encased room with a newbie instructor more... More >>

• Best Thinking Outside the Box

  published October 5, 2006

  Best Thinking Outside the BoxDelicately filigreed unicorns, tissue-paper puppies, fortune-cookie messages and cutouts of tiny... More >>

• Let It Burn

  published September 21, 2006

  Ever since the Big Blowup of 1910 ripped through the wilderness of western Montana and northern Idaho — incinerating 3 million acres of... More >>

• The Green Rooms

  published September 14, 2006

  Cut a RugWanna save the Earth? Put in a carpet: Yes, you heard that right — a carpet. Almost every flooring you can think of, even... More >>

• LEEDing the Pack

  published September 14, 2006

  The Van de Kamp Bakery building, even with its interior scraped nearly clean, already stands apart in its neighborhood: With its storybook... More >>

• In With the Red Nosers

  published September 7, 2006

  I’m thinking it’s about 4 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, but I’m never sure about time at Burning Man. I’ve been... More >>

• The Story of O

  published August 17, 2006

  IF YOU WANT A LITTLE INSIGHT into why it takes so long for a city to address the obvious problem of stopping the flow of garbage,... More >>

• Beaches of Shame

  published August 10, 2006

  THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL announced last week that it would sue the Environmental Protection Agency for neglecting a... More >>

• Apocalypse in Progress

  published July 27, 2006

  The morning I talked to Daniel Pinchbeck over the phone from his home in New York, much of New England was submerged in floods. A week or two... More >>

• Four Electric Seconds

  published July 27, 2006

  “Are you comfortable with acceleration?”“I am . . . I think I am.”“Because if at any... More >>

• Fuel to the Fire

  published July 20, 2006

  LAST WEEK’S WILDFIRES, which as of this writing have ripped through 85,000 acres of enchanted landscape from the high Mojave... More >>

• Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

  published July 13, 2006

  The 1946 Oldsmobile that sits amid the old boat hulls and flywheels in the Reverend Gadget’s Culver City machine shop harks back to an... More >>

• Pump It Up

  published July 13, 2006

  Any old diesel car without modifications will burn biodiesel, a cleaner-burning diesel fuel refined from vegetable oil instead of traditional... More >>

• I'll Believe It When I Breathe It

  published July 6, 2006

  TO MOST PEOPLE LIVING IN LOS ANGELES, the 2,400 premature deaths attributed annually to soot and smog generated by the state’s... More >>

• Flights of Logic

  published June 22, 2006

  TWENTY-POINT-FOUR ACRES: That’s how much land the U.S. Forest Service determined would be occupied by oil and gas companies under... More >>

• Hoping Machines

  published June 8, 2006

  THERE MAY BE ALL SORTS of wonderful things about the band Blizzard. Unorthodox song structure. Dark, radical chord progressions. Rock... More >>

• Tank Goodness

  published June 8, 2006

  HERE’S A PUZZLE FOR ANYONE looking to breathe cleaner air in California: Why would the world’s largest shipping conglomerate... More >>