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 – September 2005 Under a steady downpour, one day before a 356-pound tiger is fatally shot near the Reagan Library, Lt. Chris Long, an exhausted 25-year vet of the California Department of Fish & Game, leads me down a muddy trail on Day Creek Ranch in Thousand Oaks. We stop at a black [...]

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 [...]

Men’s Journal Magazine - February 2007 Here’s the cruel truth. Sometimes life grabs you by the balls and twists. Depending upon your point of view, it could be the fault of your mother (Freudian), the planets (Aquarian), or (gasp!) you (e.g. Mel Gibson). We’re not here to assign blame. Just to remind you that stress kills (or [...]

Affluent Magazine - January 2007 Mark Andrew Oliver, the Executive Chef at the exclusive Carrington Golf Resort in New Zealand, is no ordinary chef. He once quit a fine dining gig to sweat for three months in the galley of an Antarctic fishing boat where he served hundreds of exhausted fishermen three meals a day, just for [...]

Outside Magazine - Winter 2006 Nyuh Kuning, Bali If you can’t feel that good nature love here, then you may be hopeless. Because this is the eco-resort’s eco-resort – 25 acres of bamboo and coconut palm groves, waterfalls, swimming holes, organic gardens, top shelf food and guilt-free, world-class style. Linda Garland, famed British interior designer who [...]