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 October 8, 2009

  "The Secret Lives of Queer Leading Men"

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

  "Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year"

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2009 Stories by Patrick Range McDonald

• Queer Town: To Protest or Not Protest Prop. 8 Ruling

  published May 26, 2009

  Just a few minutes ago, a friend of mine wrote an email to me. He was deciding whether or not he should go to the protests scheduled for tonight in West Hollywood and tomorrow at the Beverly Hilton, w... More >>

• Queer Town: California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8

  published May 26, 2009

  In an unsurprising ruling, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 today. As for the fate of approximately 18,000 legally married same sex couples, the supreme court decided they remain vali... More >>

• Queer Town: Prop. 8 Ruling Finally Arrives Next Week

  published May 22, 2009

  Over the past few weeks, a lot of speculation has been floating around the Internet on when the California Supreme Court will rule on Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that took away the righ... More >>

• Daryl Gates to Bill Bratton: 1956 Statistic 'Meaningless'

  published May 19, 2009

  On April 30th, L.A. Weekly published a cover story ("Bratton: LA Is as safe as 1956") that questioned the validity of Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton's insistence that this city's str... More >>

• Greig Smith Hits Back Over LAPD Hiring Freeze

  published May 18, 2009

  Now it's getting interesting. Last Friday night, 12th District City Councilman Greig Smith released his own salvo over a proposal to freeze the hiring of LAPD officers during Los Angeles's budget cris... More >>

• Bill Rosendahl Unexpectedly Votes for LAPD Hiring Freeze

  published May 15, 2009

  Over the course of Bill Rosendahl's run as L.A.'s 11th District councilman, he has been called a lot of things by friends and foes alike: eccentric, opportunistic, someone who knows the issues and get... More >>

• FIND OUT WHAT "MERENGUE" REALLY MEANS!

  published May 14, 2009

  Not too long ago, local philanthropist and businesswoman Suzanne Saperstein had an idea. With the wild popularity of the TV show Dancing With... More >>

• Queer Town: Theories Abound Over Proposition 8 Ruling

  published May 12, 2009

  As gay rights activists and anti-gay marriage forces wait for the California Supreme Court to finally rule on Proposition 8, the ballot measure that took away the existing right of gay and lesbian cou... More >>

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  Villaraigosa Trades Gift Cards for Uzis

  published May 11, 2009

  On Saturday, the city of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were trading Visa and Ralph's supermarket chain gift cards for hand guns and Uzi submachine guns, with Villaraigosa declaring that t... More >>

• Bratton and Villaraigosa Seek More Cops During Fiscal Crisis

  published May 08, 2009

  Yesterday, at the Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Dispatch Center in downtown, Chief Bill Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were buddying up again, with City Attorney candidate and Cou... More >>

• Villaraigosa's Strange Clean Air Claim

  published May 01, 2009

  As L.A. Weekly often reports, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a habit of making strange claims -- remember how he calls himself the hardest working mayor in America and says, with LAPD Chie... More >>

• Bratton: L.A. Is as Safe as 1956

  published April 30, 2009

  In the weeks leading up to the tepid re-election of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last month, Bill Bratton, the... More >>

• Queer Town: The Torie Osborn Speech

  published Apr 24, 2009

  In a recent speech given by Torie Osborn at a grassroots training seminar called Camp Courage, the longtime gay rights activist and former executive director of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Cente... More >>

• EPA Awards Million Trees L.A. Initiative

  published Apr 21, 2009

  Last Thursday, two days after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave his "State of the City" address and touted his questionable environmental record, the United States Environmental Protection A... More >>

• LA People 2009: Marriage Counselor — Rick Jacobs

  published April 23, 2009

  Rick Jacobs has just wrapped up another weekend of training gay activists at Camp Courage. This time, work took the... More >>

• LA People 2009: Rock and Soul — Kevin Morgan

  published April 23, 2009

  They call him the “Rock Star.”For the past six years, Kevin Morgan has been building Stonehenge-like... More >>

• LA People 2009: Developer of Ideas — James Morel

  published April 23, 2009

  James Morel, a 38-year-old transplant from the East Coast who prefers action to talk, describes himself as a “purist... More >>

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  Queer Town: James Neiley Comes to L.A.

  published Apr 20, 2009

  An hour before 1Fest kicked off at UCLA's Wilson Plaza this past Sunday afternoon, James Neiley and Dave Valk, the student organizer of the gay and civil rights rally, sat at a long table in the air-c... More >>

• Villaraigosa's State of the City Address

  published Apr 14, 2009

  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was running late. His "State of the City" address, which took place at the Balqon Electric Truck Factory in Harbor City, a community of middle-class and lower-in... More >>

• Queer Town: L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Holds Amateur Contest to Fend Off Gay Marriage Foes

  published Apr 14, 2009

  Last week, the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay marriage group, released a very professional, very message-driven video titled "Gathering Storm" on YouTube and also bought TV air time i... More >>

• MAKE LOVE NOT 8

  published April 16, 2009

  Back in November, Dave Valk, a political-science major at UCLA, was leading marches through the streets of Los Angeles, protesting the passage of... More >>

• SxSW Scene: Fannius Has Fun at Rusty Spurs

  published Mar 22, 2009

  On Saturday afternoon, Fannius, the female rapper from West Hollywood who drops a power pop beat, stands outside Rusty Spurs Saloon on E. 7th Street in downtown Austin, watches people walk around on t... More >>

• SxSW Live: A Bizarro Night of Metallica and Devo

  published Mar 21, 2009

  View live photos in the "Metallica Thrashes Stubb's" slideshow.On Friday night in Austin, something very weird, maybe even life altering, happened: Metallica and Devo played inspired concerts in the s... More >>

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  SxSW Scene: Metallica Sets Up Shop at Four Seasons

  published Mar 20, 2009

  View live photos in the "Metallica Thrashes Stubb's" slideshow. On Friday afternoon, the four members of arguably the world's most famous heavy metal band flew into Austin, Texas, from San Francisco t... More >>

• SxSW Live: The Precise Danger of The Soft Pack at Opal Divine's

  published Mar 20, 2009

  "We're The Soft Pack," lead singer Matt Lamkin told the crowd at Opal Divine's Freehouse in downtown Austin last night. "We're from California." The Los Angeles-based band then launched into a hard-d... More >>