Welcome to the life and times of Sooz where I've been documenting my work and life adventures since 2002. Work = Sooz Media, my consulting business for web marketing, website project management, event planning and event photography. Life = shooting concert videos + photography, cooking for friends at The Granitorium, and scheming with my favorite Boston bands.
Third annual Soozapalooza at TT's with Good Night States, The Phil Aiken Army, Somerville Symphony Orkestar and The People's Karaoke on Friday, January 20th

Third annual Soozapalooza at TT’s with Good Night States, The Phil Aiken Army, Somerville Symphony Orkestar and The People’s Karaoke on Friday, January 20th

Soozapalooza, an annual party I host featuring some of my favorite bands is almost here. This year the v3 installment is happening on my 39th birthday this Friday, January 20th at TT"s in Central Square, Cambridge. The night features three of my favorite bands: Good Night, States (from Pittsburgh), The...
Event Photography: Science Club For Girls Catalyst Awards at the Broad Institute

Event Photography: Science Club For Girls Catalyst Awards at the Broad Institute

Science Club For Girls held their annual Catalyst Awards ceremony and rundraising event at the Broad Institute on November 9th.
Event photos of OUTSPOKEN 2011: Queer Women of Color & Trans POC spoken-word and live music showcase

Event photos of OUTSPOKEN 2011: Queer Women of Color & Trans POC spoken-word and live music showcase

I shot event photography at OUTSPOKEN, part of Queer Women of Color and Friends annual QWOC Week.
A photo walk through the Minuteman National Park in Lincoln

A photo walk through the Minuteman National Park in Lincoln

When a friend with a car says he wants to take photos at a location you can’t generally get to — you know it’s going to be an awesome day. As a result of my friend Mike visiting from New Jersey, I finally made it out to Minuteman National Park...
The Life & Times of Sooz

New 8tracks mix: Anyway

It had been a while since I checked back in with 8tracks, a streaming music website where you can build mini internet radio stations and share your music recommendations in playlists of eight or more songs. Here's a recent mix I made titled "Anyway" -- songs to listen to...

2nd Annual Soozapalooza is around the corner on Saturday at The Middle East Downstairs

Last year I hosted a big party at Precinct in Union Square a couple days after my birthday and jokingly called it Soozapalooza. It was so much fun, it had to happen again. This year the 2nd Annual Soozapalooza is taking place at The Middle East...

Reflections on ten years of sooz.com

I bought the sooz.com domain towards the end of 2000 and this website came to life in 2001 thanks to web designer and developer Makiko Itoh. Maki was writing a book about Javascript at the time and used the work she did on my...
New Drupal work and photos from the Drupal 7 Party

New Drupal work and photos from the Drupal 7 Party

I’ve been digging back into Drupal work this year via consulting work for Michael Skok at North Bridge Venture Partners. One of the projects is The Future of Open Source forum that leads up to the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco each year. Built with Drupal Gardens, the forum is the companion website...

The Rock and Roll Book Club

I started a new book club in November 2010 called the Rock and Roll Book Club. The idea is that we’ll all read the same rock music related book each month. The book will either be directly about rock music or written by a musician-turned-author. Most of us spend way too much time at our...
Free Agent Holiday Party at WorkBar

Free Agent Holiday Party at WorkBar

My event planning company Awesome Office Party has teamed up with WorkBar to host a party for those of us who never get holiday office parties: freelancers, consultants, free agents and solopreneurs. It’s called Free Agent Holiday Party and festivities happen on Thursday, December 9th at WorkBar, an office share and coworking community in downtown...

New photo: woman in a tree watching a performance at HONK!

The 5th Annual HONK! Festival Saturday, October 4, 2010 I shot this photo at the HONK! Festival while wandering around checking out the various performances. Perched up in the tree, she had a great view of the street band playing in front of a big crowd. See more of my portrait photos in my portfolio...

Photo: Journeyman Restaurant at night

photo taken outside Journeyman Restaurant, 9/23/2010, 7:30pm Journeyman recently opened in Union Square, Somerville after a year-long adventure bringing the restaurant to life. They’re located at 9 Sanborn Court towards the back of the same building that Ronnarong is in across the alley from The Independent. I took a look at the menu information on...

New Event: Boston Tech Games at Microsoft NERD

My event planning company Awesome Office Party is hosting a fun board game night for the Boston tech and startup community called Boston Tech Games. It’s happening Thursday, October 14th 6:30-9:30pm at Microsoft NERD (One Memorial Drive, Cambridge — near Kendall Square.) The game night at NERD will be happening every 1-2 months to bring...

Trying out a recipe: Post Punk Kitchen vegan tofu scramble

I’ve been making a lot of tofu scramble since I became vegan in March; but I hadn’t tried out Post Punk Kitchen’s recipe yet. I finally made it for lunch today. Unfortunately I didn’t have all the ingredients that their vegan tofu scramble recipe called for (including nutritional yeast) but I did have all the...

Photo + Recipe: Vegan Summer Pasta Salad

[tweetmeme]Recipe: Vegan Summer Pasta Salad Summary: Quick and easy to make vegan summer salad with a fresh lemon vinaigrette Pasta Salad one box whole wheat pasta (cooked al dente) green scallions petite peas garbanzo beans dried cranberries powdered ancho chilli pepper (sprinkle on top of salad) Lemon Vinaigrette 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 3...

New Photo: Tecate Ranch Whole Wheat Bread

[tweetmeme] My roommate Chris is an avid bread maker and has just about every ingredient you can think of when it comes to making bread. I flipped through his bread machine book: The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook and found Tecate Ranch Whole Wheat Bread. It was smaller than I expected; but still tasty. That’s...