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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2007 Stories by Judith Lewis

• Can David Nahai Keep the Lights On?

  published December 27, 2007

  If there has ever been an uncontroversial moment in the history of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, this isn’t it. Facing a... More >>

• Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Now

  published December 20, 2007

  “You don’t meet the book when you meet the writer,” the novelist William Gibson has said. “You meet the place where... More >>

• The World on Fire

  published October 25, 2007

  This is October in Southern California. At the beach, the horizon is a murky bank of clouds, with just a hint of yellowish brown, like a can of... More >>

• Best Concierge Service for Slackers (and Their Spoiled Dogs)

  published October 4, 2007

  I don’t know what my pet sitter does when I’m gone. Does she light incense and chant to cast a spell? Does she get out her pendulum... More >>

• Best Way to Get Ripped

  published October 4, 2007

  “Your skin is really dry,” Elisha says as she prepares to roll a tube of hot honey wax across my furry calf.“I... More >>

• Best Way to Get All the Way Through Moby-dick in a Weekend

  published October 4, 2007

  Back in the days when whales stove ships and not the other way around (of course, the men on those ships had harpoons, but that’s another... More >>

• Blue Whale Requiem

  published September 27, 2007

  ON SEPTEMBER 11, as pod after pod of massive endangered blue whales migrated through Southern California’s waters, lingering in... More >>

• Something in the Air

  published September 20, 2007

  It was 2001, a few weeks after hijackers flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The Bush administration had withdrawn its campaign... More >>

• Jodie Foster: Chaos Control

  published September 6, 2007

  There was a time in Jodie Foster’s life when she was on the verge of giving up acting. She no longer found it rewarding, this business of... More >>

• Sympathy for the Van Man

  published August 23, 2007

  It’s around 10 p.m. when we hear the sound. A clanking and crashing, the sound of metal on metal, and metal on something not metal. Then,... More >>

• Countdown to Extinction

  published August 16, 2007

  Tell me not, friar, that thou hear’st of this,Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:If, in thy wisdom, thou canst... More >>

• A Heavy Load

  published July 26, 2007

  An Even Heavier Load   On Thursday, Nov. 1, the LA Harbor Commission unanimously approved a... More >>

• Griffith Park $50 Million, Catalina Zero

  published July 26, 2007

  BOB RHEIN PILOTS AN ALL-ELECTRIC Toyota RAV4 up the precipitous one-lane blacktop that passes for a highway on Santa Catalina Island,... More >>

• Dog Busters

  published July 5, 2007

  WHEN THE GOVERNMENT “can come into our homes and decide whether our dogs can have gonads,” says Carol Hamilton, “that’s the d... More >>

• Cut the Mustard

  published May 24, 2007

  In the days after a fire blackened more than 800 acres of Griffith Park, Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge got into the habit of... More >>

• David McNeill

  published May 10, 2007

  {mosimage} Imagine this: You live downtown. You take the train — the brand-new Exposition Line — all t... More >>

• H. David Nahai

  published May 10, 2007

  One morning at the Regency Club in Westwood, at a breakfast hosted by the Los Angeles Business Council, H. David Nahai, president of the Los... More >>

• Deena Metzger

  published May 10, 2007

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• The Steben Sisters

  published May 10, 2007

  During a heart-thumping moment In Cirque du Soleil’s 1992 production of Saltimbanco, Karyne Steben would lay her body on top of he... More >>

• Do the Jane Fonda

  published May 3, 2007

  “When women tell their truth,” says Jane Fonda, “everything changes.”She is sitting on a sofa in a room on the 15th floor of... More >>

• Looking for Mr. Begley

  published April 19, 2007

  Blame it on that big-name environmentalist author and activist Bill McKibben. The guy told us 20 years ago that nature was over (in his... More >>

• Clown Power

  published April 19, 2007

  We found the first of the stilt walkers crawling up a thin mountain trail on his belly, pushing ahead of him the carcass of a red toy truck.... More >>

• The Bird Lady Vs. The Tree Outlaw

  published March 29, 2007

  “Kneel down here so you can say you touched a native California plant,” commands Robert “Roy” van de Hoek, holding a... More >>

• 100 Days of Sniffling

  published March 29, 2007

  The first sign of doom came in February, when I refused to shake a man’s hand at a meeting. “I’ve come down with a wicked cold... More >>

• Everything's Gone Green

  published March 15, 2007

  Two thousand and six may go down in history as The Year We Got Scared. Our hearts began to break for polar bears. Al Gore was redeemed as a... More >>