- Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - Jonathan Gold
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 prize. Gold often chooses small, ethnic restaurants for his reviews, though he covers all types of cuisine. He has championed the many dim sum palaces of the San Gabriel Valley, the noodle bars of many sorts, and has published guides in the LA Weekly to both Sushi and Italian food in Los Angeles. Gold is also author of several books. - Ella Taylor
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 television critic. Taylor is the author of the book "Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America" (1991). - Marc Cooper
Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, and blogger. He is currently a contributing editor to "The Nation". He also pens the popular "Dissonance" column for "LA Weekly". His writing has appeared in such publications as the "Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, Playboy" and "Rolling Stone". He has also been television producer for PBS, CBS News, … - Cobrasnake
The Cobrasnake is the pseudonym of Los Angeles photographer Mark Hunter. His eponymous website, which features candid digital photographs of parties, club nights and various promotional events, was known as PolaroidScene.com until the camera manufacturer threatened legal action. Although Hunter appears to have access to every nightspot possible, he actually started shooting parties while still a teenager, … - Manohla Dargis
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 film critic for the "Los Angeles Times", and the editor of the film section at "LA Weekly". She has written for a variety of publications, including "Film Comment" and "Sight and Sound". Dargis grew up in Manhattan's East Village, and is a 1979 graduate of Hunter College High School. - Ernest Hardy
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 "New York Times", "Rolling Stone", the "Source", "Millennium Film" "Journal", "Flaunt", "Request", "Minneapolis City Pages", … - Alan Rich
Alan Rich (born 1924, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American music critic who currently writes for LA Weekly magazine. He first studied medicine at Harvard before turning to music. He was music director of KPFA, the Berkeley radio station, and successively a music critic for publications including The New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, New York magazine, Newsweek, California magazine and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. - Doug Ireland
Doug Ireland (b. 1946) is an American journalist and blogger who writes about politics, power, media, and also about gay issues. His writing currently appears regularly in "The Nation", "LA Weekly", Gay City News, The Advocate, and TomPaine.com, and in many other publications both here and abroad. He is based in New York City. - Michael Totten
Michael J. Totten is a blogger who writes on politics in the Middle East, regularly reporting first-hand in mainstream publications, Web sites, and his blog, "Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal". Totten supported the war in Iraq and in an article for the conservative FrontPage Magazine.com entitled "A Liberal's Case for Bush's War" wrote "If you don't join us now, when Saddam's regime falls and Iraqis cheer the US Marines, … - Margaret Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics. These books include "Pythagoras' Trousers", a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet". - Cory Kennedy
Cory Kennedy (born 1990, full name Cory Kennedy-Levin) is an American Internet celebrity who became an international style phenomenon in 2006. Labeled an "Internet It girl" by Gawker.com and a "club urchin" by "LA Weekly", her MySpace page has garnered over 7,000 "friends". She was able to parlay her minor celebrity into a career as a fashion model, all before her parents were even aware of what was going on. - Lalo Alcaraz
Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip "La Cucaracha". Alcaraz was born in the San Diego, California area and grew up in the neighboring city of Lemon Grove. Alcaraz began drawing editorial cartoons for his college paper, San Diego State University's "Daily Aztec", in the late 1980s. - Sheila Callaghan
Sheila Callaghan (b. 1973) is a New York City-based playwright who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theater) movement of the 1990s. Her work is considered to be part of the downtown theater (or "experimental") scene, and is known for its unusual use of language and narrative structure. Callaghan's writing has been described as "comically engaging, subversively penetrating", "whimsically eloquent", "unique and completely contemporary", and "downright weird". - Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport (born 1938) is an American journalist and author, currently living in San Diego, California with his wife, Dr. Laura Thompson. He has studied philosophy for four years at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1960. He has published nomorefakenews.com since 2001. He has been an investigative reporter for over 20 years. Rappoport has written seven books. Topics that he has reported on include medical fraud, deep politics, … - Carol Lay
Carol Lay (born 1952) is the author of a weekly comic strip, "WayLay", which first appeared in 1992 and which runs in the "LA Weekly" and on salon.com. It is also printed in daily and weekly newspapers as far afield as Hong Kong and Norway. Lay has been drawing professionally for over 25 years. Lay was born in Whittier, California. In 1975 she graduated with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from UCLA, after which she found work as an illustrator. - Martin Ludlow
Martin Ludlow (born 1964) was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2003 to 2005. He represented the 10th district. He was elected May 20, 2003 and resigned on June 30, 2005. After the death of close friend Miguel Contreras at a place where police later conducted stings where it was a known to be a brothel, Ludlow rose to succeed him as the County's labor leader. - Susan Block
Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D., also known as Dr. Susan Block and Dr. Suzy, is an American sexologist, author, filmmaker, therapist, cable TV talk show host and cultural commentator. She is perhaps best-known for her television specials on HBO Chosen as one of "America's Greatest Thinkers" by the Great American Think-Off of New York Mills, Minnesota, … - Jennifer Fitzgerald
Jennifer Fitzgerald (born Jennifer Ann Isobel Patteson-Knight in 1932) is a retired U.S. diplomat who allegedly had a long-term affair with President George H.W. Bush from the time he was United States ambassador to China which continued while he was Vice President and then President. She served under Bush "in a variety of positions" (as the "Washington Post" later put it) for much of this time, … - Jake Halpern
Jake Halpern (b. 1975) is an American writer, commentator, and radio producer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, where he attended City Honors School. Halpern later attended Yale University, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1997. He has written for "The New York Times", "The New Yorker", the "New Republic", "LA Weekly", "Outside", "Boston Magazine" and other publications. - Kitty Yung
Kitty Yung (born February 6, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actress of Korean and Hawaiian descent, a fact she states has helped her during her career. She describes herself as a tomboy during her early life, enjoying sports and outdoor activities. She initially worked as an account manager, and in 1993 became involved in the adult film industry after answering an ad in the LA Weekly for lingerie modeling. - Dennis Gersten
Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc. in New York City, a playwrights' theatre company. There, he wrote "Mine" and the one-acts "Rhetoric" and "Puppy Chow" and directed and performed in original works. Gersten attended the graduate program in acting at California Institute of the Arts where he wrote "Willie Said To", … - Alexis Rivera
Alexis Rivera is a music figure in Los Angeles, California who owns the management and promotion company Echo Park Records. He currently serves as the manager for Los Super Elegantes and Mickey Champion, and previously worked with The Blood Arm. Rivera also owned Little Pedro's, allegedly the oldest bar in Los Angeles. He has been profiled in publications including LA Weekly, LA Times, Flaunt Magazine, The Fader, Cover Magazine, Angeleno Magazine, and LA.com. - Mary Pascoe
Mary Pascoe is a singer/songwriter and actress born October 17, 1982 in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 2006, Pascoe released her indie album "Who Brings a Cat to the Disco?" on her own record label. She plays guitar and piano, and writes all her own music. She opened for Jill Sobule in 2001 while attending Wellesley College where she earned her Bachelor's Degree at the age of 20. She also filmed a principal role in the Julia Roberts film Mona Lisa Smile while in college in 2002. - Kate Hutton
Kate Hutton, nicknamed the Earthquake Lady or Dr. Kate, is staff seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Hutton received a B.S. in astronomy from Pennsylvania State University in 1971, and an M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) in astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has worked for the Caltech earthquake center as a seismologist her entire career. - Mark Ringer
Mark Ringer American writer, theater and opera historian, director and actor. Ringer’s books include "Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles", a critical analysis of theatrical self-awareness in the seven Sophoclean tragedies, and "Opera's First Master", … - Norman Kelley
Norman Kelley is a freelance journalist, author, and former segment producer at WBAI 99.5 FM. Kelley has written for numerous publications, including (but not limited to) LA Weekly, The Village Voice, and Newsday. Kelley is also working on 90-minute documentary entitled "The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome" which will discuss what he describes as the "dead end" in African-American political thought. - Dan Shor
Daniel Shor is a veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years. Shor was born and raised in New York City on November 16, 1956. He graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School in June 1974, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois before returning to New York where his attentions were aimed towards the theater. He landed the lead role of Alan Strang in the first national company of "Equus". His acting career had begun. - Hunter MacKenzie Austin
Hunter MacKenzie Austin (Born March 22, 1966 in San Diego, California) is an American voice actor who has had roles in various anime. While she was in her teens Austin was a journalist for such famous magazines like "Tiger Beat", "Glamour" and "LA Weekly". Most of Austin's dub work is done at New Generation Pictures, she recently completed work on "Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria". - Zapata Espinoza
Zapata 'Zap' Espinoza is a journalist and an editor for Motocross Action Magazine, a Hi-Torque Publication. He was formerly editor of two American mountain biking magazines, and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1995. He began his writing career working for LA Weekly in the early 1980s, writing on local politics. In 1985 he began working for Hi-Torque Publications writing for "Motocross Action Magazine". - Robbie Conal
Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for his use of snipes to distribute his poster art throughout a city overnight. Conal's parents were both union organizers, and he grew up in Manhattan. He received his bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University in 1968 and his MFA from Stanford University in 1978. - Eric Schaeffer
Eric Schaeffer is an actor/writer/director in film and television. He is known for struggling with eating disorders, a problem that he has incorporated into his more autobiographical projects, such as "Starved" and an episode of "Too Something". He rose to fame with fellow actor/writer/director Donal Lardner Ward on the 1993 independent film, "My Life's in Turnaround" which was made in 15 days for only $200,000. - David Weir
David Weir is a journalist who's written for "The Economist", "HotWired", "L.A. Weekly", "Mother Jones", "The Nation", "New West", "New York Magazine", "The New York Times", "Rolling Stone", "Salon.com", "San Francisco Chronicle", "San Francisco Examiner", and others. With Dan Noyes, Weir wrote "Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story". - Stephen Nichols
Stephen Nichols is an American actor. After turning down an art scholarship to Ohio State University, he traveled west, studied Yoga and lived as a monk while preparing vegetarian meals for the monks and nuns in a Hollywood ashram. After three years of celibacy, a steady diet of ice cream and the films of Truffaut and Bergman, he landed at the Theater Academy of Los Angeles City College where he studied for two years. Nichols went on to study with Stella Adler, … - Wendy MacLeod
Wendy MacLeod (born 1959) is an American playwright. MacLeod received a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-Residence. She received a MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Her works include the plays "Sin" and "Schoolgirl Figure", both of which premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and were directed by David Petrarca. - Michael Kupperman
Michael Kupperman, also known by the pseudonym P. Revess, is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He created the comic strips "Up All Night" and "Found in the Street", and has written scripts for DC Comics. His work often dwells in surrealism and absurdity "played as seriously as possible." His work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", "LA Weekly", "The Wall Street Journal", "Fortune", … - Jesse Walker
Jesse Walker (born September 4, 1970) is managing editor of "Reason Magazine". The University of Michigan alumnus has also written the book "Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America" (NYU Press, 2001) and maintains a blog called "The Perpetual Three-Dot Column". His articles have appeared in a number of publications, including "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Washington Post", Salon, … - Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson is a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she writes the Thompson on Hollywood blog. Born and raised in New York City, she’s a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, London Observer and Wired. She served as the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter from January, 2005 to March, 2007 and before that was the West Coast Editor of Premiere, from 1996 to 2002. - Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is an left-wing American journalist, Editor-at-Large of "The American Prospect". Meyerson is also political editor and columnist for the L.A. Weekly, the nation's largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have also appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The New Republic", … - F.X. Feeney
F.X. Feeney (born September 1, 1953) is an American film critic and producer of "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession", the promotional guide to Z Channel in Los Angeles. He was one of the influences for the promotion of "Heaven's Gate" uncut on film. He was also a friend of the programmer of Z Channel, Jerry Harvey. Feeney has been a film critic for L.A. Weekly, Variety and KPCC Public Radio.
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