by Lynn Lipinski | Mar 24, 2011 | Writing
Remember being 14? If you need a comic refresher on the drama, pressure, self-doubt, bullying, fear and hormones, “Skippy Dies” is a great place to start. Irish author Paul Murray writes beautifully, humorously and sympathetically about the inner lives of...
by Lynn Lipinski | Mar 16, 2011 | Essays and Features, Unsolicited advice
Japan’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear plant explosions have prompted thousands of news segments and blog posts on risk. Here in Los Angeles, we’re being inundated with risk calculations from experts and officials on a variety of...
by Lynn Lipinski | Feb 28, 2011 | Essays and Features, Personal
There’s nothing particularly fancy about a piece of satin-finished Frankoma pottery, made of creamy beige clay from the Arbuckle Mountains or reddish clay from Sugar Loaf Hill. But something about its blend of Western inspired lines and practicality appeal to...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jan 31, 2011 | PR
Whether you’re promoting a pie-eating contest, a press conference on the courthouse steps or a perfume product launch, a media advisory is a great tool for inviting the media, particularly television and radio. I think of media advisories as shorthand press releases –...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jan 26, 2011 | Essays and Features, Oklahoma, Personal
It was the opposite of an Oklahoma land rush in Picher this week, as giant yellow CATs started knocking down abandoned homes and businesses in this town scarred by eight decades of mineral mining. Most of the town, including its multiple piles of discarded rock,...
