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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2001 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Marathon Men

  published December 27, 2001

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• Hurry Sunrise

  published December 20, 2001

  Sunrise in Hollywood. Who ever sees it? Who ever wants to be awake and near a window, on the street or in a car, for this moment of... More >>

• The New Cavemen

  published December 20, 2001

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• The Gloves Come Off

  published December 13, 2001

  No TV-news graphic better captures our Ptolemaic view of history than ”America’s New War,“ three words that relegate the rest of the world... More >>

• Up the Nile Without a Paddle

  published December 6, 2001

  By sheer coincidence this musical, set in the turbulent Middle East, had been scheduled before September 11 to -- kidding! Reading press... More >>

• A Small Universe of People

  published December 6, 2001

  Contrary to Hiram Johnson’s famous aphorism, the first casualty of war is not truth but tourism. Hotels from Cancun to County Cork sit hal... More >>

• Dream Land

  published November 29, 2001

  ”DREAMCENTER.“ Most of us have probably seen these big signs crowning Echo Park’s International Church complex (... More >>

• Panic in the Year Zero

  published November 22, 2001

  From September 11 onward, a sickening vision has gnawed at the back of our thoughts: that in some city, possibly our own, there is a deserted... More >>

• Loose Cannons

  published November 15, 2001

  The excerpt below, taken from an October 25 transcript of Hannity and Colmes, is fairly indicative of what happens when the ringmasters of Fox... More >>

• Beloved Infidels

  published November 15, 2001

  Visitors to Hollywood‘s Cherokee Avenue Post Office were surprised last week to find counter employees conducting business in surgical mask... More >>

• Final Cut

  published November 8, 2001

  There‘s a scene, not quite midway through The Man Who Wasn’t There, in which a small-town barber stares at his sleeping wife in the silence ... More >>

• That Twilight Season

  published November 8, 2001

  As the phrase ”drags on“ begins to haunt descriptions of our Afghan bombing campaign, the hunt for Osama bin Laden has also beco... More >>

• Pushing the Envelopes

  published November 1, 2001

  Fall 2001 may go down as the season when the thoughts of college youth turned to football, anthrax and hate crimes. At least as far as USC is... More >>

• Close Encounter: And a Spider Sat Down Beside Her

  published November 1, 2001

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• Paranoia Runs Deep

  published October 25, 2001

  Sniffer dogs. Memorial ribbons. AWACS. Reluctant France. We assume something bad has happened whenever one of the above... More >>

• The War on the Ground

  published October 18, 2001

  The peace movement — three Catholic Worker activists — held the corner of Los Angeles and Temple streets with a banner reading "Peace, N... More >>

• Memory Corridor

  published October 11, 2001

  Years ago, all the phones on the Columbia lot were the same as anywhere else, with one big difference: When you dialed zero, the voice you... More >>

• Carmen Redux

  published October 4, 2001

  Photo by Bill Cooper It’s hard not to like The Car Man, director-choreographer Matthew Bourne’s glancing homage to Georges Bize... More >>

• Petty Connections

  published September 27, 2001

  I think I know Greek tragedy‘s dirty little secret -- that is, why we still sit through retellings of doomed figures like Medea and Oedipu... More >>

• Memento Mori

  published September 27, 2001

  Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter“‘Bombs bursting in air’ must be music to the ears of Armor Holdings,” crows Hoover’s Online Business Ne... More >>

• The Day the Sky Fell

  published September 20, 2001

  Don’t even talk about closure. Forget liability suits, extradition warrants and all the other make-it-better palliatives that grow out o... More >>

• Love! Valour! Crucifixion!

  published September 13, 2001

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• G.I. Blues

  published August 30, 2001

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• Read the Book, See the Plays

  published August 16, 2001

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• Murder Most Balkan

  published August 2, 2001

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