Email Author Patrick Range McDonald

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 16, 2010

  "City of Airheads"

• 2011 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published March 6, 2010

  "Black Lung Lofts"

• 2011 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published July 22, 2010

  "Educating Maria"

• 2011 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published September 16, 2010

  "City of Airheads"

• 2011 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published December 9, 2010

  "The Parent Trigger"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 9, 2010

  "The Parent Trigger"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 16, 2010

  "City of Airheads"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 26, 2009

  "Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 26, 2009

  "Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published October 8, 2009

  "The Secret Lives of Queer Leading Men"

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2008 Stories by Patrick Range McDonald

• Queer Town: New Poll Shows Voter Hesitancy To Strip Gays of Marriage Right

  published Sep 19, 2008

  The Sacramento Bee reported about a new Field Poll yesterday, which showed 55 percent of Californians would oppose Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage November ballot measure. The numbers for voters ... More >>

• Queer Town: Brad Pitt Challenges Hollywood on Prop. 8 Fight

  published Sep 17, 2008

  This morning, Queer Town reported that wealthy folks in Los Angeles County weren't donating as much as they could to fight Proposition 8. Karen Ocamb, news editor of In and Frontiers magazines, also ... More >>

• LAPD Chief Bratton Wants 4 Officers 86'ed for May Day Screw Up

  published Sep 17, 2008

  More than a year later, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton has offered his suggestions for disciplining 15 officers who were involved in the May Day fiasco in 2007, which saw groups of p... More >>

• Queer Town: Gay Marriage Supporters Behind in Fund Raising

  published Sep 17, 2008

  Yesterday, the "No on 8" campaign sent out an urgent email to their supporters asking for $200,000 in the next 48 hours, and with good reason. According to the most recent campaign contribution repo... More >>

• Queer Town: Pro-Gay Marriage Fund Raiser at Ultra Suede

  published Sep 15, 2008

  It was a quiet early evening in West Hollywood this past Saturday--few people were walking the strip on Santa Monica Boulevard, the Abbey wasn't jammed, and the house music wasn't pounding away. But a... More >>

• How Mayor Villaraigosa Spends His 16-Hour Days

  published September 11, 2008

  MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA logged roughly 900 hours of work during a 10-week period from May 21 to August 1, a time during... More >>

• The All-About-Me Mayor: Antonio Villaraigosa's Frenetic Self-Promotion

  published September 11, 2008

  Please also see: L.A. Mayor with Baggage Seeks Job: Antonio... More >>

• Queer Town: LA Unified Opposes Prop. 8

  published Sep 10, 2008

  Board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District leaped into the political arena yesterday and unanimously voted on a resolution to oppose Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that chang... More >>

• Michelle Obama's Night Out in L.A.: Malia and Sasha Meet the Jonas Brothers

  published September 11, 2008

  Tucked away in Holmby Hills, not far from the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Wallace Neff–designed home of CAA managing... More >>

• Strange & Ugly Times for Villaraigosa

  published Sep 08, 2008

  Something strange and ugly is happening in Los Angeles, although you don't hear Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa speaking much about it. On Tuesday, the National Fair Housing Commission visits Los Angeles t... More >>

• Queer Town: The Obama Pool Report

  published Sep 04, 2008

  Rather than watch the Republican National Convention or the U.S. Open in tennis, I covered Michelle Obama's visit to Los Angeles on Wednesday night as a "pool reporter." A pool reporter is someone w... More >>

• Queer Town: Obama's Gay Moment

  published Aug 29, 2008

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• Brewer's Back-to-School Speech

  published Aug 29, 2008

  According to the Daily News, LA Unified Superintendent David Brewer gave one of his rousing speeches at the Los Angeles Convention Center yesterday, as he welcomed administrators back to school. The e... More >>

• Queer Town: The Unexpected Twists of Gay Marriage

  published Aug 28, 2008

  Whenever the accepted norms of society are changed, something unexpected always seems to pop up. With gay marriage in California, this truism of sorts is already starting to play out. According to a ... More >>

• The Unfolding Mess at SEIU Local 6434

  published Aug 26, 2008

  Tyrone Freeman seems to be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg at the Service Employees International Union these days. Freeman, if you remember, was the target of an LA Times investigation early... More >>

• A Lesson in Philanthropy for Villaraigosa

  published Aug 25, 2008

  Over the weekend, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew into Denver for several days and nights of glad-handing and back-slapping at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. It'll be a good time for Villara... More >>

• Queer Town: The Catholic Power Play to Ban Gay Marriage

  published Aug 22, 2008

  Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has been keeping somewhat of a low-profile in the battle over same sex marriage in California, but he can't keep his... More >>

• Villaraigosa's Early Bird Endorsement Sweepstakes

  published Aug 21, 2008

  The mayoral primary election is six months away, and other candidates like developer Rick Caruso may still jump into the race, but a coalition of downtown business owners has decided not to hold out a... More >>

• Donald T. Sterling Fakes His Philanthropy in a New Los Angeles Times Ad

  published August 21, 2008

  When Alice Callaghan turned to page A16 of the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, August 6, she was... More >>

• Queer Town: The Cold Winds of Gay Marriage

  published Aug 19, 2008

  It had been a relatively quiet summer for gay marriage supporters and their opponents, and people hit the beach or flew out of town without any real cares other than the high cost of gasoline...and so... More >>

• No Face Time in Denver for Villaraigosa

  published Aug 18, 2008

  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, according to the LA Times, may be the "Latino point man" for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, but when he arrives in Denver late this week for the Democrat... More >>

• Queer Town: Gay Republicans and the Persuadables

  published Aug 15, 2008

  I was sitting on a leather couch at O-Bar last night, watching handsome gay men in tight jeans and tighter T-shirts order free drinks during a five-minute open bar. Usually Thursday nights are a time ... More >>

• Donald T. Sterling's Cattle Call

  published Aug 14, 2008

  Sam, a leggy blonde dressed in a navy blue power suit with high heels, stood outside Sterling World Plaza on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The former model had just been rejected. "It was the ... More >>

• LA Times Takes on the Violent Menace...A Year Too Late

  published Aug 11, 2008

  Al Martinez, the beloved columnist for the LA Times, came out against violence by the animal rights crowd today. He cited a few stats from 2003, threw in a few humorous anecdotes, and basically said f... More >>

• Queer Town: All-American Memories

  published Jul 28, 2008

  I It was time for a vacation and my parents wanted to see me. So I flew back east last Wednesday and visited them in Spring Lake, New Jersey, a beach resort town 60 miles south of New York City. T... More >>