Here’s Danielle:
Psycho is Jarod Ceres, 26, a Middleton garbage collector by day. He leaned against a ring at Chaotic’s North Andover training center, wearing a striped shirt and corduroy bucket hat over his dirty-blond hair. The blond was no more real than the pink: he dyed it for a wedding. Just behind his head, wrestlers [...]

Check out Konrad:
Helio Castroneves is late. Not by much, but enough to be noticeable for a man who makes his living getting from one place to another as quickly as he can.
The source of his lateness Wednesday, four days before the running of the Indianapolis 500, is a crowd. His crowd.

Lee Hill Kavanaugh:
Her phone rings at 10 p.m. The voice on the other end is quiet, uncertain.
I just got picked up by the police. … Do you hate me?
Donnette Siems takes a deep breath and looks down at Victoria’s baby cradled in her lap.
Maddie. Seven pounds of hope.
Big eyes and silky curls. A near copy [...]

Ashlee in an e-mail: Some Mike Levine teachings have trickled their way into my dailies. A co-worker and I just completed a profile of a man who died in a mysterious house fire.

Meghan Murphy: Adam Bosch definitely used some workshop tips on a daily crime story in today’s Record. Note that he asked the neighbors exactly what they were doing (vacuuming and tinkering with the leaf blower) when Elisabeta ran into their garage screaming, with a hole in her shoulder “the size of a half dollar.”

Update from Janine: My editor was not happy when I suggested brown bags for writers. Then we had one, where I got to talk about things I learned at the workshop. Everyone participated, asked great questions, had a great time … and he approved of everything everyone said. Now he wants to have them once [...]

Lindsey in an e-mail:
I would like to tell Mr. Ottaway that the workshop was a powerful way to pass on the legacy of Mike Levine, a man many of us never got to meet but whose influence we felt keenly last weekend. I thought the workshop struck the right balance between informality and structure, between the solitary work of writing [...]

Scott Waldman is now seeing stories everywhere.

Lee in an e-mail:
I asked the managing editor if I could start a writing group here. He said he was all for it. Said that the mood has been so down here, with editors overworked due to lay offs and additional editing responsibilities. “In the end, it’s good stories that will either save us or [...]

Christian Livermore: “The day after the Mike Levine Workshop, my assignment was to cover the Orange County Chamber of Commerce luncheon, where Reps. Maurice Hinchey and John Hall were scheduled to speak. No news came from the event, but I noticed things like the fact that everybody’s shoes were pristine in spite of a sudden [...]