Email Author Steven Mikulan

Awards

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Rage Against the Sex Machine"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Tet Offensive"

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2009 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Full Court Press: 99 Candles — Phil Spector Sentenced to Life ... Clarkson Family Speaks

  published June 4, 2009

  Last Friday legendary music producer Phil Spector, 69, was sentenced for the second-degree murder of Lana Clarkson, the... More >>

• I Rode With a Zombie: An Undead Memoir

  published May 14, 2009

  More zombies: Read GENDY ALIMURUNG's More >>

• "Our Secret Weapon": R.I.P. Mike Menza, L.A. Weekly Circulation Director

  published April 30, 2009

  L.A. Weekly took a blow where it hurts last week with the loss of Mike Menza, the longtime... More >>

• LA People 2009: No More Mr. Nice Guy — Damien Goodmon

  published April 23, 2009

  “I’m a take-to-the-hills kind of guy,” admits Damien Goodmon. “When something’s not being done... More >>

• LA People 2009: Traffic Mythbuster — Eric A. Morris

  published April 23, 2009

  “Cars are an irrational love but not one that’s driven by Madison Avenue,” says Eric A. Morris.... More >>

• LA People 2009: Well-Staged — Racquel Lehrman

  published April 23, 2009

  Racquel Lehrman is an interviewer’s dream. You don’t have to think up a lot of questions beforehand — just... More >>

• LA People 2009: Never-Married Woman — Susan Mogul

  published April 23, 2009

  “People are threatened by people who make autobiography,” Susan Mogul is saying in a vaguely Long Island accent,... More >>

• Wall of Years: The Spector Verdict

  published April 16, 2009

  “I understand,” Judge Larry Paul Fidler announced at around 2 p.m. Monday in his downtown courtroom, “how... More >>

• Star-crossed at Starbucks: Strange Twist at Anand Jon Sentencing

  published April 9, 2009

  Judge David Wesley takes the bench on April 1 for fashion designer Anand Jon’s latest sentencing hearing, following his... More >>

• Accidental Suicide? New Involuntary-Manslaughter Option in Phil Spector Murder Retrial

  published April 2, 2009

  When Phil Spector, his wife, Rachelle, and Spector’s bodyguard emerged from a black Lexus last Monday morning, it was,... More >>

• They Still Heart Huckabee

  published March 26, 2009

  Mike Huckabee ambled onto the stage and was handed a bass guitar, which he played with retiring charm through a version of... More >>

• The Anna Nicole Smith Indictments and Jerry Brown's Contact High With the Political Power Grid

  published March 19, 2009

  California’s 70-year-old Attorney General Jerry Brown was looking fit and sounding aggressive, as he usually does at the... More >>

• Hammer Time: Pellicano's End, Judge's Verdicts, Juror's Accusal

  published March 12, 2009

  Last week, as Judge Dale Fischer ruled with sudden finality in the Anthony Pellicano racketeering case by lowering the hammer... More >>

• Full Court Press: Dominick Dunne's Cameo at Phil Spector Retrial; Anand Jon's Explosive Evidence of Juror Shenanigans

  published March 5, 2009

  Before his midlife career as a novelist and celebrity murder-trial correspondent for Vanity Fair, Dominick Dunne was a... More >>

• The Martini Doctor Is In: Manny Aguirre

  published March 5, 2009

  People who visit Musso and Frank Grill for the first time make two pleasant discoveries: a restaurant/bar that forms a bridge... More >>

• H8ters L.A. Vacation: Fred Phelps’ Antigay Baptists Come Out on Oscar Night

  published February 26, 2009

  During his Oscar speech Sunday night Best Actor winner Sean Penn attacked supporters of last November’s Proposition 8... More >>

• The Porn Star's Revenge: Formerly Known as Jeff Stryker, Charles Peyton Has Turned His Toxic Feud Over the Folk-Music Club Kulak's Woodshed Into a Real-Life Online Obsession

  published January 8, 2009

  The grandiosely named Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Service Center is a normally placid Van Nuys outpost of... More >>

• On Trial: Pellicano, Scat-Porn King Ira Isaacs, Designer Anand Jon

  published January 1, 2009

  I propose a new opening voice-over for Law and Order: “In the criminal-justice system ... nothing ever... More >>