NBA Looks to Asia for Next Growth Spurt
March 2014
March 2014
When Bruce Lee Meets Graffiti and Hip Hop
October 2012
Hip Hop's Damon Dash Sets Sights on Asia
February 2012
Getting More Rock Into Hong Kong
January 2012
Stephon Marbury, Entrepreneur, Plans on Staying in China for a While
January 2011
Checking in With Charles Smith
December 2011
SLAM DUNK: How Japan's Love of Basketball Can Be Traced Back to a Comic
May 2013
No Country for Big Men: How Video Game Offenses Portended a Strategic Shift in the NBA
May 2013
From Hardwood to Hashtag: How the Word Throwback Can Be Traced Back to NBA Culture
Aug 2013
LeBron Has Broken the Video Game Player Rating System
July 2013
The NBA's China Connection
April 2015
Profile of China's only non-Chinese sports agent, and how he left Milwaukee for the east.
How Steph Curry Broke The Way Basketball Video Games Are Built
February 2016
How Little-known Phone Maker Freetel Is Planning To Help Japan Reclaim Its Tech Throne
June 2016
Singing Foreclosure Protesters Occupy Queens Courtroom
February 2012
May Day! The Voice Staff's Live Coverage of Occupy Wall Street's M1NYC
May 2012
MSG Leverages the Linsanity: Last Night's Chinatown Watching Party
February 2012
Lower East Side Neighbors Rally Against Notorious Landlord
May 2012
They came, they saw, they rocked
Hong Kong had, perhaps, the greatest live concert year in 2011. I speak to industry insiders about the record-setting year.
December 2011
December 2011
Special K - Idols Unlimited
A look at the Korean pop industry and how it's became an international phenomenon.
January 2012
January 2012
Grunt work
They're middle-aged with beer-bellies, and aside from the police, they're the only people in Hong Kong with guns. My profile of the Hong Kong boar hunting team.
December 2009
December 2009
This Chinese bike-sharing start-up just put 70,000 bikes on the streets of China in one month
Jan 2017
Hong Kong Hold'em (PDF copy)
For years, Hong Kong's poker rooms have operated in the open, thanks to a legal loophole. But in March of 2010, the poker community was shocked when police raided a venue in movie-like fashion–-with an undercover cop posing as a player. This is my investigative look at what happened that night, and what the future holds for the city's poker scene.
May 2010
May 2010
100 Best Mainland Chinese Films
l was part of Time Out's international panel in picking the 100 best Chinese films.
March 2014
LeBron James didn't kill the NBA, but he did kill the NBA videogames
November 2012
Are real sports becoming more like sports video games?
December 2012
Hip Hop Culture
My first longform feature--4000 words--examining Hong Kong's hip hop scene, from its beginnings to current commercialization.
September 2009
September 2009
Clowning with Chow
I spoke with Stephen Chow--Hong Kong's highest grossing movie star of all time--on his film CJ7, his career, and Hong Kong's movie industry.
February 2008
February 2008
All in! The comprehensive guide to poker in Hong Kong and Macau
January 2010
Going to the movies sucks in Hong Kong
December 2010
Jordans and Do The Right Thing, 25 Years Later
June 2014
On the significance of Air Jordans and Spike Lee's seminal Do The Right Thing
June 2014
On the significance of Air Jordans and Spike Lee's seminal Do The Right Thing