Features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. Previously at the Miami New Times. His byline has also appeared in Miami magazine and the Orlando Sentinel.

Maroon 5 keeps Preakness popping 5/19/2012
The rockers reminded the crowd how deep their 10-year catalog is The rockers reminded the crowd how deep their 10-year catalog is.

Preakness revelers try to catch sight of Maroon 5's Adam Levine 5/19/2012
Twenty-year-old twins Kyla and Keegan Cytryn of Allentown, N.J., stood on their tip-toes to catch a glimpse of Adam Levine, the lead singer of Maroon 5 Twenty-year-old twins Kyla and Keegan Cytryn of Allentown, N.J., stood on their tip-toes to catch a glimpse of Adam Levine, the lead singer of Maroon 5, from the grass beside the outdoor stage.

Preakness 2012 Infield beer waits swell to 30 minutes 5/19/2012
Preakness 2012 Infield revelers picking winners, watching music Revelers in the Preakness Infield were jovial Saturday morning, staking out prime spots --  near the track for some, and near concert stages for others.

Preakness infield largely laid-back 5/19/2012
The crowd as a whole is behaving surprisingly lucid and laidback, enjoying their neon yellow mugs full of beer. Anyone turned off by the debauchery of say, five years ago, might want to consider coming back.

Onetime Preakness infielders upgrade to the grandstands 5/19/2012
This year marks the second Preakness for both Dave Bowser and his girlfriend, Angela Alexander -- and both expect this experience to be quite different from their first.