Email Author Heidi Dvorak

2010 Stories by Heidi Dvorak

• Do You Love Lucy?

  published February 5, 2010

  Girlie-girls didn't get her. But for tomboys who yearned -- but didn't know how -- to reconcile their masculine and feminine traits, Xena came to... More >>

• EXHIBITIONISTS WANTED

  published February 5, 2010

  Last year, costumed revelers partying throughout the streets of downtown had to brave the cold to enjoy the city's best-organized chaos of art and... More >>

• THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CORALINE

  published January 28, 2010

  Thinking outside the lines doesn't even begin to describe writer Neil Gaiman. He likes to scare the bejesus out of kids -- and not with your... More >>

• NOT FOR BETTY OR VERONICA

  published January 7, 2010

  You could dress up as Moose or Jughead for the Los Angeles Anime Convention , but most attendees would advise you to hobble back to your rocking... More >>

• PUT A LID ON THAT KID

  published January 7, 2010

  Yes, of course your child is gifted (aren’t they all?), and, of course his guttural ramblings are the precursor to the Great American Novel,... More >>

• YOU VIL NOT LAUGH

  published January 7, 2010

  Robin Williams said it best on his HBO comedy special. As he tells it, when in Germany being interviewed by a radio talk-show host who commented... More >>

• GET HAI

  published January 7, 2010

  When it comes to accomplishing unparalleled athletic feats, no one can dispute the exceptional physical prowess, remarkable precision and... More >>

• SECOND CITY

  published January 7, 2010

  Little-known fact: Universal Studios has long celebrated March 15, 1915 -- the opening day of Universal City -- as the date when the company... More >>

• MANILOW MELODY MADNESS

  published January 7, 2010

  You say you love Tenacious D's "Fuck Her Gently" but can you hum a few bars? But, when “Mandy” wends its way into your elevator’s... More >>

• WARNING: NOT THAT NICK CAVE

  published January 7, 2010

  Artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits are Halloween costumes on drugs. Who'd have thunk that ordinary textiles could be fashioned into bristling... More >>