Nikki Finke

Nikki Finke

female
The New York Times, premiere magazine, esquire, esquire magazine, Newsweek, media commentator…LA WEEKLY
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges...

Jonathan Gold

male
LA WEEKLY
Jonathan Gold is a food critic who writes for the "LA Weekly. "He won the 2007 Pulitzer prize for criticism, the only food critic to ever win the...

Ella Taylor

female
film critic, American, LA WEEKLY
Ella Taylor is a film critic for the "LA Weekly", an alternative newspaper based in Los Angeles. Before taking on that role, she was a longtime...
Marc Cooper

Marc Cooper

male
Pacifica Radio, Playboy, author, NBC, PBS, Los Angeles Times…LA WEEKLY
Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, and blogger. He is currently a contributing editor to "The Nation". He also pens the popular...

Cobrasnake

male
photographer, indie rock, American, polaroid, LA WEEKLY, The Like
The Cobrasnake is the pseudonym of Los Angeles photographer Mark Hunter. His eponymous website, which features candid digital photographs of...
Manohla Dargis

Manohla Dargis

female, 48 years old
from New York City, Hunter College High School alumni, village voice, film comment, New York Times, LA WEEKLY
Manohla Dargis (born c. 1961) is one of the chief film critics for "The New York Times". She was formerly a film writer at the "Village Voice", the...

Ernest Hardy

male
African American, LA WEEKLY, Request, Flaunt, 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Classic Material The Hip-Hop Album Guid…LA Times
Ernest Hardy is a film and music critic who is based in Los Angeles. His criticism has appeared in the "LA Weekly", the "LA Times", "Vibe", the...
Alan Rich

Alan Rich

male, 85 years old
from Massachusetts, American music journalist, from Los Angeles, The New York Times, So I've Heard Notes of a Migratory Music Critic, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner…LA WEEKLY
Alan Rich (born 1924, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American music critic who currently writes for LA Weekly magazine. He first studied...

Doug Ireland

male, 63 years old
new york post, TomPaine.com, wikt Blogger, Student for a Democratic Society, In These Times, New York Observer…LA WEEKLY
Doug Ireland (b. 1946) is an American journalist and blogger who writes about politics, power, media, and also about gay issues. His writing...

Michael Totten

male
Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil, Erbil, journalist, LA WEEKLY, September 11, 2001 attacks
Michael J. Totten is a blogger who writes on politics in the Middle East, regularly reporting first-hand in mainstream publications, Web sites, and...