Miss America

I'm in Las Vegas to cover Utah's Jill Stevens, in Miss America Pageant with Matt LaPlante. Photo opportunities have been very slim. Today we had to settle for a hokey shot of Jill horsing around with two Utah National Guardsmen, who are here to cover the event.

Sundance 2008

I didn't spent much time in Park City this year, but I did get to see Bono and The Edge at the U23D premiere.
My favorite part of the festival was when Luke Wilson got into an argument with Jerry Gillman, the owner of the River Horse restaurant. Gillman poked Wilson repeatedly in the shoulder to get him to sit down, and got angry when he didn't immediately take his seat. He told Wilson, "I don't care who you are, this is my restaurant!" Photographer Frazer Harrison immediately jumped into the fray in defense of Wilson telling Gillman he should never treat anyone the way he treated Wilson. An angry Gillman dragged Harrison into the adjoining room, where a bouncer was summoned, and Harrison was tossed out of the restaurant. When Gillman re-entered he dining room, Wilson got out of his seat at the table, walked up to Gillman and told him he was the worst host he had ever seen and said he was never coming back. The waitress standing next to me said "I can't believe this, this is great, he (the owner) treats everyone like S___. This is the first time I've never seen any one talk back to him."
Actress Radha Mitchell asked if she could use Harrison's camera, and shot a few photos of photographers Fraser Harrison and Jesse Grant at the Riverhouse, just minutes before the row.

Cornel West

Cornel West spoke at the U o fU for Martin Luther King Jr day. He was not only the most animated speaker I have ever photographed, but he gave an incredible speech. In West's view, the September 11, 2001 attacks gave white Americans a glimpse of what it means to be a black person in the United States—feeling "unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, and hated" for who they are.[8] "The ugly terrorist attacks on innocent civilians on 9/11," he said, "plunged the whole country into the blues."