We knew what The Hot Tomato looked like but not what it would become.
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All I had to do was interview Mike Hotaling and he made me a free sandwich. A big one. Biggest one I’ve ever seen. “It’s…
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The first time I interviewed Griselda Rocha in Wimauma, FL, she was wearing a tee-shirt that read: “Fear is for Others.”
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Vietnamese-American bodega owner Von Nguyen has experienced extraordinary, even unimaginable events in his life. He told me three of them.
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David Bulit’s Abandonedfl.com is, to paraphrase Diane Arbus, full of “things which nobody would see unless he photographed them.”
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Several decades ago I was a penniless young man living in a third floor flat in Peabody, Massachusetts. Believing I could affect change and meet…
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The daughter of a bodega owner makes a decision to abandon her college plans to help at the store.
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The facade of the A & I Convenience Store is the most bizarre I’ve encountered while doing The Bodega Project.
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Manuel Mariñez had a formula to get into the bodega business at the young age of 22. It meant making some sacrifices, but he was sure it would work. He was right.
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It doesn’t look like it belongs. Mama’s Ti Marche bodega sits just outside of Boston’s busy Mattapan Square. But from its quaint sign outside to…
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