 He also wrote freelance arts features for "Frontiers", "The Advocate", "High Performance" and "San Francisco Sentinel", including interviews with Clive Barker, Chita Rivera, and Paul Bartel.Provenzano moved to San Francisco after visiting in 1992, when he was offered a position as an assistant editor for the "Bay Area Reporter".He completed a language certificate at Florence's Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in 1995.