writing
70+ Tips to Perfect the Interview: Download Your Complimentary Expert Guide
In early 2011, Kevin M. Kermes, of Career Attraction, selected my professional input to be included in his current guide, 70+ Tips to Perfect the Interview: Advice from Leading Job Search Experts, Career Coaches, Recruiters and HR Professionals, published in August of 2011. Inside, you'll find in...
Chicago, Rochester & Cleveland: Three Cities, Three Decades, Three Lives
This past August 4, while at Hopkins Airport en route to a flight to Chicago, I picked up the new issue of Spin magazine, which featured an old photo of Kurt Cobain in a pool — marking the twentieth anniversary of Nirvana’s prolific album Nevermind. This cover got me thinking about the...
Bliss vs. Bills: Spike Jonze, Lisa Cholodenko & Ted Hope discuss indie films & doing what you love
Back in 1994, while supporting myself as a communication student at DePaul, managing a card and gift shop at Water Tower Place, life was, at the very least, complicated. Taking on way more responsibility, personally and professionally, than one should at that age meant lots of long hours...
Back to the Future @ Sweet Moses
Two and a half years ago, at a marketing trend conference in the very trendy Miami, I had the unique pleasure of personally meeting chef-star Anthony Bourdain. His discussion, on the history of food, and his overall presence – no PowerPoint, no show and tell, just the man, fully in the...
Boom Box Challenge @ Capitol Theater: Will the Real Lloyd Dobler Please Stand Up?
One rainy, late Saturday May afternoon, about thirty people descended to the front steps of Gordon Square’s Capitol Theater, all in the effort to channel their best Lloyd Dobler. Dressed in comfy shoes, jeans and colorful pop-culture t-shirts, men and women lined up and, at exactly 4PM...
Bridesmaids
Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. four slates out of five What if Judd Apatow (“40 Year Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up”) could turn the tables and produce a film about women behaving badly? What if he could cast some of the funniest female comedians acting out the most absu...
Klezmafour @ Anatolia Cafe – The World Converges in Cleveland
Once in a rare moon, you find yourself in a place and time where you have no concept of year or geography… where everything blurs into some sort of creative vacuum, one most often found while watching an engaging movie. Except, in these surreal moments, you begin to realize the you are...
One Lucky Elephant: Using film to question animal captivity
What is it about movies that excite and thrill us? And how fortunate is Cleveland to be the new cinematic artery, pulsating with a tax incentive that the Film Commission fought for and passed, bringing The Avengers production here and a newly announced, not yet named Paramount project? And how...
Is Google the New Babel?
[caption id="attachment_1638" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel"][/caption] According to biblical history, after the great flood, people, all speaking the same language, gathered in a city and decided to build a tall tower, one close to God. God...
Win Win
Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. four slates out of five “Win Win,” the new dramedy written and directed by Thomas McCarthy (“The Visitor,” “The Station Agent”) and starring award-winning thespian Paul Giamatti, has heart, brains and courage. The beautifully craf...
