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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2005 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• The Buckskin Stops Here

  published December 22, 2005

  Photo by Craig SchwartzPlaywright Robert Schenkkan is best known for The Kentucky Cycle, a two-part exploration of the... More >>

• Top Dogs/ Underdogs

  published December 15, 2005

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• A Beige Green Room

  published November 24, 2005

  Photo by Elizabeth PerrinHollywood’s Celebration Theater is finally getting more depth. About five feet more, according t... More >>

• Stiff Competition

  published November 24, 2005

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• Mr. Greenwald’s War

  published November 17, 2005

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• The Plainsman

  published November 17, 2005

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• The Comeback Kids

  published November 10, 2005

  The mood was apprehensive during the first hours of the election-night party at downtown’s Biltmore Hotel, where union leaders... More >>

• Planet Whatever

  published November 10, 2005

  Photo by Richard CartwrightA recent casualty of the fall TV season was UPN’s Sex, Love and Secrets. But since the show tried o... More >>

• The Jewish Questions

  published November 3, 2005

  In 1982, Ronald Kohn visited Miami and sat his father down with a cassette recorder, asking him to reminisce about some of the places he’... More >>

• Mock Court

  published October 20, 2005

  Photo by Craig SchwartzEarly on in David Mamet’s play Romance (Mark Taper Forum), the aggrieved defendant in a criminal tria... More >>

• Look Homeward, Angeleno

  published October 6, 2005

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• Canards and Clichés

  published October 6, 2005

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• Drug Race

  published September 29, 2005

  Photo by Kristopher BoldtBy now we hardly notice the ads for antidepressants that cover entire pages of magazines — the ones whose firs... More >>

• Too Late the Heroes

  published September 29, 2005

  George Galloway is everything progressives have traditionally despised in a politician — a cigar-smoking womanizer and flashy dresser whos... More >>

• Pacoima’s Lot

  published September 22, 2005

  Along Pacoima’s sunbaked Paxton Street sits a 25-acre vacant lot surrounded by green-tarped fencing. A visitor would never guess tha... More >>

• Who Were You When the Lights Went Out?

  published September 8, 2005

  From every second or third house came the voices of people buried and abandoned, who invariably screamed, with formal politeness,... More >>

• Identity Crises

  published September 1, 2005

  Photo by Ed KriegerEven golden rules were made to be broken. High on a list of such revered imperatives would be the 11th commandment,... More >>

• The Gull Can’t Help It

  published August 18, 2005

  Photo by Ed KriegerAt the time of its release, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film, The Birds, was blown out of the sky with critica... More >>

• Smoke Got in Their Eyes

  published August 11, 2005

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• Yellow Peril

  published July 28, 2005

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• Waiting for Hickey

  published July 28, 2005

  Photos by Anne Fishbein “REPTILES” reads the sign over the mini-mall parking lot on Sepulveda at... More >>

• Music Men

  published July 21, 2005

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• Kicking the Buckets

  published July 14, 2005

  Last week 200 of Southern California’s aerospace-industry janitors dropped mops to begin a "snowball" strike that may soon involv... More >>

• Officers’ Mess

  published July 14, 2005

  Photo by Patricia WilliamsNicholas Kazan’s new play, running at the Odyssey Theater, opens on a set of mud-brick walls, sand bags an... More >>

• Pledges of Allegiance

  published June 23, 2005

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