AltWeeklies Wire
Phil Spector Is Sentenced to Life and the Victim's Family Speaksnew
Unlike his second trial's verdict reading, Phil Spector's sentencing hearing was the definition of "anticlimax."
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
06-05-2009 |
Crime & Justice
With a Probable Run for Governor in Sight, a High-Profile Celebrity Drug Case Couldn't Hurtnew
The Anna Nicole Smith indictments and California Attorney General Jerry Brown's contact high with the political power grid.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
03-20-2009 |
Politics
Judgment Day: Anand Jon Trial Concludesnew
Designer found guilty of 14 felonies and two misdemeanors against seven of the nine women, including one forcible-rape charge and multiple counts of lewd acts upon a child, and faces life in prison.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-21-2008 |
Crime & Justice
The Strange and Disturbing Trial of Anand Jonnew
Even in its quietest moments, the Jon case is a volatile fable of rape, ambitious but naïve girls, the rag trade and feral male vanity. It is a trial junkie's dream. Inexplicably, the proceedings have so far garnered little media attention.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
10-10-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Going Door-to-Door for Obama in North Vegasnew
I've come to believe that in my own small way I've helped to allow the takeover of Washington by the present coalition of free-market buccaneers, armchair imperialists and religious zealots -- whose supporters have been all too eager to do the grunt work of politics. And so I take my clipboard and trudge forward in the 97-degree heat.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
10-10-2008 |
Politics
John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out -- Way Outnew
On gay marriage, the presidential race, the corrupting influence of irony and the release of his new 'Til Death Do Us Part DVD.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
07-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?new
Officially, stereotypes don't exist in Hollywood, only archetypes -- representative characters based on real people. To complain about movie stereotypes is to risk being labeled a humorless, P.C. crank.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
04-25-2008 |
Movies
An L.A. Playwright's Struggle to Go Eastnew
Can Michael Elias make it there?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
04-04-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinventionnew
Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
03-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scenes from the Strikenew
"It's not going to be as much fun in two months, I'll tell you that," says John Carlen, a veteran Writers Guild member carrying a union placard.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-09-2007 |
Movies
California Fires Fan the Flames of Hate and Stupiditynew
Long before the blazes were anywhere near contained, the rhetorical ash began raining down from the blogosphere and elsewhere, as both ends of the political spectrum saw in the fires grave portents for the republic.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-02-2007 |
Disasters
LA People: Michael Kearnsnew
Brad Davis' death jolted Kearns into speaking out not only about AIDS, but against the entertainment industry's self-congratulatory, red-ribbon response to it.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
05-11-2007 |
Movies
LA People: Paul Thomasnew
Depending on your view of pornography, director Paul Thomas is either the Ernst Lubitsch or the Mack Sennett of hardcore -- with nearly 300 titles under his belt, he is Silicone Valley's premier porn director.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
05-11-2007 |
Sex
Tags: Vivid
Immortal Mayhemnew
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
01-12-2007 |
Movies
Asphalt Junglenew
Parkers are prey in the new Hollywood.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-17-2006 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
