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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2007 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Phil Noir: Marlowe vs. CSI? The Tycoon of Teen’s Gun Problem — Muzzle Tov

  published May 17, 2007

  He was a little man, not more than five feet four, with thin brown hair and large ears. His eyes had no particular color. They were just... More >>

• Phil Noir: Accidental Suicide

  published May 10, 2007

  The Phil Spector trial is possibly the biggest theater ticket in town, although the house was dark this past week due to star lawyer Bruce... More >>

• Forrest Miller

  published May 10, 2007

  When bartender Forrest Miller moved from Hollywood Boulevard’s Studio Cafe to Boardner’s a few years ago, he brought with him with a sizab... More >>

• Michael Kearns

  published May 10, 2007

  When Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985, Michael Kearns, who then was Hollywood’s only openly gay actor, wa... More >>

• Paul Thomas

  published May 10, 2007

  Depending on your view of pornography, director Paul Thomas is either the Ernst Lubitsch or the Mack Sennett of hardcore. With nearly 300... More >>

• Penny L. Moore

  published May 10, 2007

  {mosimage} Penny Louise Moore’s first theater role was the jack-in-the-box in a production o... More >>

• Susan Block

  published May 10, 2007

  Running a Los Angeles sex speakeasy is no roll in the hay — what with parking, skyrocketing rents and plunging tolerance for lew... More >>

• Phil Noir: A Spectator at the Spector Trial

  published May 3, 2007

  In his 2003 autobiography, Closing Argument, New York lawyer Bruce Cutler spoke of the aphrodisiacal thrill he felt defending the late... More >>

• Shock Corrido

  published April 26, 2007

  Always and Forever, set in Norwalk and Tijuana, is also a coming-of-age story, but is worlds apart from Venecia’s one-man show. ... More >>

• Home Is Where the Fear Is

  published April 19, 2007

  In the stillness of dawn, Mama (Rita Wilson) sits cross-legged and alone, absorbed in reciting the St. Francis Prayer. As heavenly light... More >>

• Thinking Outside the Black Box

  published April 5, 2007

  Company of Angels is the city’s longest-surviving small theater company — organized in 1959, its alumni include Richard Chamberlain a... More >>

• Death by Parking

  published April 5, 2007

  We loved the Tiffany Theater. We loved its spacious lobby, the comfortable seats in its two 99-seat houses and the fact that it was built... More >>

• Casting by Craigslist

  published April 5, 2007

  Amanda Berube is quitting her day job Friday. In the world of small theater, this action might be considered clinical proof of madness, but the... More >>

• Stalin's Fading Progeny

  published March 29, 2007

  {mosimage} If Warren Beatty’s movie Reds More >>

• Carnaby Street Carnage

  published March 15, 2007

  Who Killed Dick Watson? Culture Clash will get to the bottom of the infamous disappearance of an enthusiastic but inept stage manager in the... More >>

• Mr. Moonlight

  published March 1, 2007

  When Harold Pinter writes a play about a dying old man, we’re all ears. His ruminations about imminent mortality, after all, might have... More >>

• No Peace in the Valley

  published February 22, 2007

  Monday is Open Mike Night at Kulak’s Woodshed, a folk-music club that operates four evenings a week from 7 to 10 p.m. On one February nigh... More >>

• Corps Values

  published February 1, 2007

  John Patrick Shanley won the 2005 playwriting Pulitzer for his drama Doubt. Set in a Bronx Catholic middle school in the early 1960s,... More >>

• Brigham Young at Heart

  published January 25, 2007

  Steven Fales was once a “Mormon American Prince,” a sixth-generation member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,... More >>

• I Ain't Working Unless I Get Steak 'n' Eggs!

  published January 18, 2007

  Most barroom chatter is a tedious gurgle of gripes and brag. Sometimes, though, you’ll overhear freewheeling riffs of banter from the... More >>

• The Big Stuff

  published January 18, 2007

  It had rained all morning in Manhattan that Sunday when Salome Jens met Jack Kennedy, just as he was considering running for his party’s... More >>

• Immortal Mayhem

  published January 11, 2007

  The Sweet Smell of Excess“Here, smell this!” Mark Bellinghaus urges in his moderate German accent, handing me a pair of... More >>

• Enter, Stage Left

  published January 4, 2007

  To most people familiar with his name, John Howard Lawson was the really annoying member of the Hollywood Ten who, in newsreel footage, is seen... More >>

• Saint Robert

  published January 4, 2007

  Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s fawning documentary about Robert Wilson tells us everything we need to know about the 65-year-old, Texas-born... More >>