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About Me

I am a bilingual English/Portuguese freelance writer whose main focus has been on the music business, although I occasionally publish pieces on subjects that move me for a reason or another, like the recently published rant on the situation of Praia de Iracema in Fortaleza, Brazil, which got printed (as of this writing) in two different alternative publications. There have also been some business and travel-oriented pieces; in addition, I have published some foodie articles as well.
Most of my articles have been featured on alt-weeklies around the country. Currently you can see my byline in Kansas, New York, Florida, Cleveland, Texas, New Jersey, San Francisco and Arizona (most of these papers published by VVM around the country).I am always open to new assignments, and I am working towards being hired by a larger publication so that I can quit my day job and concentrate on my writing full-time. I am progressively reducing my ESL teaching hours at a Midtown language center; hopefully, I will be dedicating myself solely to writing by the summer of 2008.
Editors who are willing to send me gigs or translations in the two languages I master please email me directly at mailto:[email protected]
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I'd like to meet:

ahref="http://www.headcount.org/push.asp?ptbid=1365"> People who can help take me to the next level in my writing, such as musicians, editors, fellow writers, etc.Of course that is a two-way street and can give a few tips to newcomers. I have few friends in the writing side of the business; a lot of people might know my name from reading my work, but I am yet to see their faces...
But I guess that's how the business itself works, right?

My Blog

Ernest's Weekly Articles and the Death of Bipartisanship in the United States

  The recent developments in the current political situation in the United States has shown that bipartisanship is definitely dead and gone. When we all expected debate and evolution, ...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:41:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles, Feb 19

 Too Much Information?By Ernest Barteldes This week I came across a piece in the news about this new site called pleaserobme.com, which filters Twitter users' 'tweets' that say exactly wh...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:55:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles, Feb 11

 During most of last summer, I could not help but laughing at the Tea Party movement as they accused President Obama of being Kenyan communist hell-bent on annihilating everything that 'their' America...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:08:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles + Thoughts on hyphenate-Americans

  by Ernest BarteldesThe fact that I don't have a last name that sounds obviously 'ethnic' often causes people to ask me where I am 'from.' When I tell them that I was born in the state o...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:47:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles, Jan 21

  With the election of Republican senator Scott Brown in Massachussets, we are now ushering an era of eternal gridlock when absolutely nothing will get done in the US Congress thanks to t...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:53:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles + McCartney bio review

 Beatle fans who still think that Yoko Ono broke up the band should take a look at the recently released Paul McCartney: A Life (by Peter Ames Carlin; Touchstone Books; $ 374; $ 25), a new biography t...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:47:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles - January 10 2010

 After the failed underwear bomb attempt came to light last Christmas, the US government has decided to tighten security at local airports and also on US-bound international flights. There's talk of p...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:29:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles: Happy New Year!!!!

  When 2009 began, it had been six months since I'd quit my full-time position at a local language center to dedicate myself to writing full-time. Even with the recession, things looked p...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:25:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles + Goldman Case, the aftermath

 After five long years since his then-wife Bruna Bianchi left Newark airport for a supposed two-week vacation, David Goldman has finally recovered his son Sean, who had been unlawfully kept in Rio de ...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:40:00 GMT

Ernest's Weekly Articles, Dec 10

 Enough With The Christmas Controversyby Ernest Barteldes With the Holiday season in full blast (in the United States, we begin counting after Thanksgiving all the way to New Years' Day),...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:37:00 GMT