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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2000 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Stage Rage

  published December 28, 2000

  “I‘m sorry we ruined your evening,” the giddy woman said to the theater critic. “And I’m sorry you‘re such a moron,” I r... More >>

• Field of Wet Dreams

  published December 14, 2000

  There once was a time when sex was dirty, a time, you could say, when the word fuck really meant something. Then, in the early 1970s, sex... More >>

• What the Coroner Saw

  published November 30, 2000

  It’s a story so classic that many of us may not remember its origin, although we‘re pretty sure the source is an old movie: A detecti... More >>

• Shut Up and Park

  published November 16, 2000

  ”Neighbors are pretty good at ratting on other people,“ Sergio Valdez assured an appreciative audience in the echoey Silverlake Recreati... More >>

• Trial by Theater

  published November 16, 2000

  William Moses Kunstler was by far the most famous of all the left-wing lawyers who rose to prominence during the politically supercharged... More >>

• Zoo Story

  published November 2, 2000

  Just when theatergoers had gotten used to the idea of plays being adapted from films, we were faced with the far more unnerving prospect of... More >>

• Lost in Yonkers

  published October 26, 2000

  In a way Gus Hall truly was, as has often been said, a genuinely American Communist -- not so much because he was a sentimental patriot, but... More >>

• Impeachment Loser

  published October 19, 2000

  Known as an avid collector of political memorabilia, GOP Congressman James Rogan must surely appreciate the irony of his 2000 campaign buttons... More >>

• Hell’s Kitchen

  published October 19, 2000

  Viewers of Donald Margulies‘ Pulitzer Prize--winning play Dinner With Friends may be forgiven a shudder of deja vu during its first scene. ... More >>

• Press Comes to Shove

  published October 12, 2000

  Almost any news story involving a professional organization rent by fratricidal conflicts, financial controversy and bitter generational... More >>

• Revisionist Dreams

  published October 12, 2000

  Few jobs are as treacherous as charting the political undercurrents that have shaped America’s cultural history. In a country with virtually n... More >>

• Arrows of Desire

  published October 5, 2000

  By now there are few excuses for not having seen any work by Bay Area playwright John Fisher, the UC Berkeley drama-school wonder whose Medea:... More >>

• High Fidelity

  published September 14, 2000

  I‘ll tell you one thing Speed-Hedda isn’t: another drag show hung on the bones of an old movie, replete with cheap gags and half-assed make... More >>

• Two Men and a Baby

  published September 14, 2000

  Two hoods named Longbaugh and Parker (Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillippe) are sitting around the old sperm-donor center one afternoon when... More >>

• Should I Stay or Should I Go?

  published August 24, 2000

  Ronald Harwood‘s 1995 play, Taking Sides, is a troublesome thing: The story revolves around a historical figure, yet isn’t a biography; i... More >>

• Mood Indigo

  published August 17, 2000

  AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Immediately after the L.A. Lakers won the NBA title on June 19, a small mob of fans spiraled out from Staples Center... More >>

• Beaver Cleaver in Hell

  published August 10, 2000

  Standup comic Ric Borelli bears a passing resemblance to his hero, the late John Belushi. The similarity has never been lost on others,... More >>

• The Mound Builders

  published August 10, 2000

  Photo by Kevin O’ Sullivan Baseball may no longer be our national pastime, but the sport still enslaves many a male psyche, taunting us wit... More >>

• Ethnic Slights

  published July 27, 2000

  Lynn Manning‘s play The Last Outpost, presented by the Watts Village Theater Company at Los Angeles Theater Center, is a rare invitation fo... More >>

• Family Business

  published July 20, 2000

  Family, we might like to wistfully think, a la Sartre, is other people. But then come the winter holidays. And Mother’s Day, Father‘s Day a... More >>

• You Can’t Take It With You

  published July 6, 2000

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• TV Guide

  published June 15, 2000

  It‘s not easy being Eddie Izzard in America. A heterosexual English transvestite comedian touring a country that makes little distinctio... More >>

• Brechtmachine

  published June 8, 2000

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• Thieves Like Us

  published May 25, 2000

  Any new Woody Allen film, even a minor one, is cause for a round of cultural pulse-taking, not to mention scrutiny of the man who has come to... More >>

• The Unmaking of a Counterculture

  published May 25, 2000

  Bill Graham was one of those beautiful tyrants of 1960s San Francisco who, along with minicelebrities like lawyer Melvin Belli, Episcopal... More >>