Adam Skolnick

It’s just after 2 p.m. Filtered sunlight splashes through the teak forest, illuminating a network of stilted bamboo huts that stretches into the surrounding hills. Five neighborhoods are stitched together with pumpkin patches and banana groves, and enlivened by scavenging chickens, mud-soaked pigs, and packs of children dressed in rags. This place is not joyless, [...]

LA Weekly - November 14-20, 2003 “I was a curious child,” concedes Kirpal. She could hardly help it, being the granddaughter to two wise women, one a Celtic Pagan healer from Canada, the other a Mexican Shaman from Echo Park. Peculiarity, in the form of psychic intuitions, and the ability to communicate with spirits and household pets, [...]

Wired - October 2003 Graffiti is art. Throughout the world evocative urban hieroglyphics shine fluorescent and vibrant from stucco walls, freeway overpasses, and howling commuter trains. Artists with monikers like “Exist” and “Cornbread” approach legendary status within an underground culture as their work becomes illicitly ubiquitous. But each year, graffiti causes $8 billion in damage nationwide. It [...]

Healing Lifestyles & Spas – May/June 2003 Seane Corn’s hands and forearms dig into her sticky mat. Inverted, she moves from forearm balance, her legs perpendicular to the floor, into full scorpion. Her upper arm muscles twitch and tremble with strain, her skin glistens with sweat. The only thing audible is her furnace-like breath, and it [...]

BBC.com – January 2012 It never takes long before people realize that Oporto (known to locals as Porto) is an extraordinary city. Perhaps they will be standing along the Douro River in Villa Nova de Gaia – the neighbourhood built and sustained by fortified port wine — captivated by the way Portugal’s second largest city [...]

LA Weekly Magazine - January 24-30, 2004 Sketch. Fill. Outline. Highlight. This four-step approach lifts Sano into a Zen state where the battle scars of a struggling artist – his unpaid traffic tickets, overdue rent payments, cancelled phone service – fade beneath paint clouds. In the past two years he has collaborated with fellow artists on more [...]