This story I wrote about going to Antartica was used as the NY Regents Exam. WHAT?!?!

Brooklyn's skyline has only a few standouts. A building named Broken Angel is one of them. The building, at 4 Downing Street, north of Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, is 10 stories high behind a tract of starter homes on Grand Avenue. It is a jumble of structures cobbled together seemingly without reason; some of its ''stories'' are no more than crow's-nest-size outcroppings perched on wooden beams.

We polled expert guides and travel specialists to find out how best to blend in when you’re behind the wheel in a foreign land.

This is a collection of nearly a dozen Men's Health stories I've written over the years.

Susan B. Anthony once said, "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." A woman on a bicycle, the equal rights champion observed, presents "the picture of free and untrammeled womanhood." Susan and her fellow 19th-century women had been severely trammeled their entire lives.

These are three of about 10 Complex Magazine cover interviews I wrote. I interviewed Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Emmauelle Chriqui, David Cross, RZA, and many others.

I wrote a series of these success stories Men's Journal. I actually still keep in touch with a couple of these guys through social media. https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/success-story-joey-ricca/

A trip to Grain Surfboards in York, Maine, takes the travel souvenir far beyond T-shirts and snow globes. Students who attend the four-to-seven-day shaping seminars stay nearby and learn to use planes, chisels, and other woodworking tools to custom-craft their own surfboards. “We’re on a little farm ten minutes from the beach,” says Grain founder Mike LaVecchia.

Most readers of this magazine will have eaten their first garlic knot on Long Island. This makes sense since the majority of our readers live on Long Island. But we at Pulse believe there’s a case to be made that the first official garlic knots ever were twisted up right here. There are always discrepancies surrounding the origins of foods tied to specific regions.

I wrote this piece about Cesar Milan before he had his Nat Geo show. Two hours with him literally changed my life in terms of dog training.

Long Beach big wave surfer Will Skudin is coming off the most impactful year of his life. It might not have been the most fun, nor the easiest, but it was certainly the most eventful 365 day period in Will’s 28. Skudin began 2013 in the throes of Hurricane Sandy, helping dig his hometown out of the mud; the year’s end brought about a nod from Eastern Surf Magazine as the 2013 Surfer of the Year.

I locked down the real story on how 420 became associated with pot and even interviewed the dudes who started it all!