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Legendary Locations: Super Bowl at Jonathan Baker Lifestyle

As a journalist, I have been fortunate to be included at limited access special events. I have been invited twice to the United Nations once as a “Champion for Humanity” and once to cover the UN GA 74 for Ms. Magazine. United Airlines brought me to Row A of the Red Carpet for the Oscars and then there was the time Kangaroo Lanie took me to the Playboy Mansion for the Easter Egg Hunt!

Jonathan Baker was a close friend of Hugh Hefner and spoke about him recently on Nightline:

Playboy opened the door to the sexual revolution. What people don’t understand is that Playboy,Playboy clubs , Playboy Mansion,The Bunnies and the Playboy Playmates we’re all very different from Hugh Hefners private life. Hefner was a gentleman at the corehttps://t.co/tHwSg71gIj pic.twitter.com/irNeLSWhhH

— Jonathan Baker.com (@jonathanbaker) January 26, 2022

Baker renovated Warren Beatty’s Former Hilltop Home next to the Tree People on Mulholland.

I remember when I was first invited to the Playboy Mansion, my hula-hoop teacher said, “You cannot even win that ticket in the lottery.” So when I was invited to the Jonathan Baker Lifestyle event for the Super Bowl, I knew I had to say, “YES!”

Great ready for his next film, FATE, and see Sam, Jessie and Tilly in “An Unforgettable Fate, A New Film” By Jonathan Baker!

SAY IT WITH YOUR CHEST! #SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS! pic.twitter.com/c8pTPDmSNe

— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) February 14, 2022

CONGRATS TO THE LA RAMS: SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS

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Niver In PRINT: Blog Bytes November 2021 Jewish Journal

[image error] Thank you to the Jewish Journal for publishing me online for over a decade. Since they resumed print publication in Fall 2021, I have been in the Blog Bytes section more than fourteen times!Here are the two issues that I was in during November 2021: Jewish Journal Nov 5, 2021: p.28

During my trip to Las Vegas for the US Travel IPW Conference, I stayed at the Venetian hotel and went on a gondola ride:
“My favorite thing was my gondola ride. It reminded me of my time in Venice, Italy. I enjoyed the gondolier singing and the gorgeous colors at sunset. We picked an outdoor ride but you can also choose indoor! We floated beneath bridges and listened to the songs. Next time, I want to see The Gondolier March! It is a special tradition when the team of gondoliers sing in unison as they march along the indoor canal at 9:50 a.m. and 4:20 p.m., beginning at the gondola turn-around in the Grand Canal Shoppes.”

[image error] [image error] [image error] Jewish Journal Nov 12, 2021: p.28

From my article, “Thank you IPW 2021 Resorts World Las Vegas:“

What is IPW?

U.S. Travel Association’s IPW will continue to reunite and rebuild the global travel industry in 2022, providing an in-person platform to conduct business and renew our relationships around the world. As the leading inbound travel trade show, past IPWs have generated more than $5.5 billion in future travel by connecting U.S. travel exhibitors with travel buyers and media to promote their product and negotiate future business, securing America’s position as a foremost global travel destination and showcasing the best of what the U.S. has to offer.

[image error] [image error] [image error] [image error] THANK YOU TO THE JEWISH JOURNALSee my stories that were in the September print issuesthe October print issues

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CONGRATS to Sydney Roberts, youngest swimmer ever to swim Bonifacio Strait from Sardinia to Corsica!

[image error] [image error] Sydney Roberts swam FIVE hours from Italy to France: Bonifacio Strait from Sardinia to Corsica Summer 2021–YOUNGEST SWIMMER EVER!! Her advice: “Keep PUSHING yourself!” [image error] LISTEN to Conversations with Coach Pedro with Sydney Roberts talking about swimming! [image error]

Sydney Roberts is an open water swimmer who started her swimming in the San Francisco Bay with Water World Swim when she was only 12 years old. Her goal was always to swim long distances and she set a goal, to swim a challenging swim. Once she started swimming in the cold waters of the bay, she immediately started to become one of the fastest and dedicated to take challenges like swimming from Alcatraz and other long distances swims, either with wetsuit or skin.

When she was only 16 years old she found her goal by becoming interested in a 15 to 16 kilometers swim, like the Bonifacio Channel in Italy, a swim from the Island of Sardinia, Italy  to Corsica, France Unfortunately, her goal came right before the pandemic hit the entire world. She definitely did not give up her dreams and kept her commitment to keep training and not to give up.

With the help of Water World Swim coaches, like Coach Mike and Coach Jake, and others in the coaching team, she kept persevering, just waiting for the opportunity once the countries would reopen. Being a High School senior, came time that she would have to start choosing her School to go to college but at the same time to continue with her training. Even knowing she would swim in warmer waters, she continue training training in open waters, due to the closing of all places like swimming pools, and during the pandemic and winter. She finalize her training in Winter of 2021 swimming four hours and without wetsuit. On this conversation she tell us details of her training and also about her swim across the Bonifacio Channel in 5 hours. She is also a great musician, that plays many instruments, being her favorite, the fidler, that she plays with a musical group. Giving us a demo of her virtuosity at the end of this conversation.

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Learn about Sydney’s swim from Bridge to Bridge: Swimming in San Francisco to Change the World! and Will You to Swim Bridge to Bridge to Change the World?

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BIPOC Writer Scholarship to UPOD Academy

Upod Academy Scholars Program@josmerijimenezScholarships Available for Upod Academy

MARCH 12-13, 2022 UPOD ACADEMY WORKSHOP FOR FREELANCE WRITERS. LIVE TWO-DAY WEEKEND SESSION VIA ZOOM.

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with

LAUREN N. WILLIAMS
SENIOR EDITOR, CULTURE & ‘ AMERICA IN PERSON ’ SECTION
THE ATLANTIC POOH SHAPIRO
HEALTH & SCIENCE EDITOR
THE WASHINGTON POST MICHELLE LEGRO
FEATURES EDITOR
WIRED
(FORMERLY LONGREADS, THE NEW REPUBLIC AND LAPHAM’S QUARTERLY)

SASHA WEISS
SENIOR EDITOR, CULTURE DESK
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

DERRIK J. LANG
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
SHONDALAND

Thanks to the generous contributions of the Upod writers community, several free spots are available at Upod Academy workshops for writers and journalists who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color.

More information about the latest workshop here.

SPONSOR A UPOD SCHOLARSHIP

SUCCESS STORY: June 2020 Upod Scholar Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts:

See what I mean? Wow, right? Keep reading: In April 2021, Tracey got a second book deal! Take a look! Two book contracts in one year:

By the way, Black Joy did incredibly well when it released in 2022. How well? We’re talking NAME IN LIGHTS ON BROADWAY well, with interviews on Good Morning America and other places. Go Tracey, go, go, go, goooooo!

Black Joy by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts!

Here’s another success tale, just from that June session, from longtime Upod member Tre Johnson:

Okay, one more (there are many but I know you’re busy.). Nicole Young pitched an idea—a complex and emotional one—at a Upod session to a Vox editor about collective mourning in New Orleans. Here’s the Vox story that ran in January 2022

That wasn’t it for Nicole in January 2022. On her Upod weekend, she had pitched an Elle editor an idea about dating in the Black “manosphere.” Here’s that beautiful story on the bad Zoom date that led her down a rabbit hole of toxic masculinity.

Good things. But you need to apply. See the form down yonder. Or if you’d like to sponsor a scholarship, click here. Please and since thank yous.

A portion of each scholarship goes to support The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which increases the ranks, retention and profile of reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting.

Major gratitude to Upodder and freelancer Jennifer Chen for the initial inspiration and her ongoing donations, as well as to the following generous sponsors and contributors:

Andrea King Collier
Marie Condron
Tara J. Ellison
Alexis Garcia
Dr. Cynthia Greenlee
Marc Hertz
Daniel Higgins
Pamela K. Johnson
Eric Messinger
Rachel Ng
Kristin Ohlson
Nicola Pulling
Jessica Ritz
Connie Sommer
Esther Tseng
Paul Tullis
Several anonymous donors

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@lisaniver Lisa in PRINT: #Thankyou #JewishJournal 10/22...

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♬ Pieces (Solo Piano Version) – Danilo Stankovic

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