During my years as a journalist, I’ve met, interviewed and occasionally socialized with hundreds of rock and pop stars, quite a few Hollywood actors, a handful of professional athletes, and even a politician or two. I’ve been backstage at dozens of award shows and countless concerts, and hung out on more tour busses than I care to remember. But the one event that gets the most attention from my friends is the one week a year I spend covering the AVN Awards – otherwise known as the Oscars of porn.

[private]If there’s one person most responsible for me being the most unconventional looking food writer in Las Vegas (or perhaps America?), it’s my friend Brandon Arthur.  After 15 years of having long jet-black hair that went halfway down my back, I hacked it off and decided I wanted to have …

[private]While I love punk rock, my roots lie in heavy metal.  I spent my high school years banging my head at metal shows at the Philadelphia Spectrum.  And I was a DJ on my college radio station WSOU – at its time the number-one hard rock/metal station in the country.  …