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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2008 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• O.J. Simpson's Day of Infamy: A Holiday Timeline of O.J. News From Every December 5 Since 1994

  published December 11, 2008

  It doesn’t exactly seem like yesterday afternoon but pretty close to it, when I stood in an LAX cocktail lounge that erupted in cheers as... More >>

• Judgment Day: Anand Jon Trial Concludes

  published November 20, 2008

  The sexual-assault trial of fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander (known professionally as Anand Jon) ended on Nov. 13, as... More >>

• Bob and Bob Make It Legal: The LA Arrival of the Milwaukee Tax Attorneys That Saved Wesley Snipes

  published November 13, 2008

  “Do you have a cocktail?” tax-lawyer Robert Bernhoft boomed, Glenlivet in hand. “Come on, let’s get... More >>

• The Night the World Began: The View From L.A. Union Rooms

  published November 6, 2008

  “Fifteen minutes! Fifteen minutes!” a woman yells in the cramped storefront on Cesar Chavez Avenue, reminding... More >>

• Some Girls: Anand Jon Trial Goes to Jury

  published November 6, 2008

  “I want more. I want harder evidence. I want that tampon.” So said Deputy District Attorney Frances Young during... More >>

• Going Door-to-Door for Obama in North Vegas

  published October 9, 2008

  Children’s toys and water skis begin scraping across concrete well before the sun rises over North Las Vegas. Below the... More >>

• The Strange and Disturbing Trial of Anand Jon

  published October 9, 2008

  What I heard was but the melody of children at play . . . and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita’s absence... More >>

• Best Views

  published October 2, 2008

  Best View From Money: La Cañada Flintridge Country ClubWhat first hits your nose is the perspiration scent of... More >>

• Best Independent Car Mechanic: Donny Wong, Far East Auto Service

  published October 2, 2008

  I was f ighting a weight machine in the Hollywood Bally’s when my cell phone vibrated. It was a man from a big-chain tire shop, but not... More >>

• Best Burgers for a Democratic Society: The Original "Original Tommy's"

  published October 2, 2008

  It’s Friday night, and cars are streaming into Tommy’s on Beverly and Rampart — not the big spillover lot... More >>

• Barely Illegal: At Anand Jon rape trial, young models testify and defense argues over age of consent

  published September 18, 2008

  On the screen, Amanda looks like any girl in a home-porn video — a nervously smiling teen who, with awkward fingers,... More >>

• Fashion Victim: Anand Jon

  published September 11, 2008

  CELEBRITY FASHION DESIGNER Anand Jon is facing possible life in prison for committing sexual assaults on 10 women, some of... More >>

• Can Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian Save Terry Christensen From Tony Pellicano's Fate?

  published August 28, 2008

  “If they catch Terry, they won’t care how he got away. All they’ll care about is the circus they can make of the... More >>

• Lonnie Kane

  published August 14, 2008

  Years ago, a dinner-party guest asked Lonnie Kane what he did for a living. Kane replied that he was the president of a... More >>

• Jerome Joseph

  published August 7, 2008

  Don’t even talk to Jerome Joseph about selling coffee in his Glendale store, Brand... More >>

• Judge Kozinski Gets Judged

  published August 7, 2008

  FOR THREE DAYS, it was the hottest story in town, an irresistible fable about pornography, a respected judge and the Internet... More >>

• Sweating It Out in Summer Courtrooms

  published July 31, 2008

  JULY ENDED AS THE WORLD of Leland Wong came crashing down, when a jury found the onetime Los Angeles city commish guilty of... More >>

• Postpartum Woes in Pellicano II

  published July 24, 2008

  “BRING ME THE FATHER. Bring me the father’s head on a platter. Because there is, like, more than a hundred... More >>

• PETA's Lady in a Cage: Protesting Animal Treatment by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

  published July 17, 2008

  Around noon, the usual wave of frowning Hollywood Boulevard tourists, perhaps sensing they wouldn’t be bumping into... More >>

• In on It

  published July 3, 2008

  Call it inspiration or simple serendipity, but here, the right text, a sympathetic director (Michael Van Duzer) and performers with all the right... More >>

• Paper Tigers: How Padded Are Theater Seats?

  published July 3, 2008

  Saturday night they’d almost always go to the theater. Eddy Tingley would get the seats at a cutrate agency he... More >>

• John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out — Way Out

  published July 3, 2008

  Forget shrinking icecaps — for filmmaker-raconteur John Waters, the clear and present danger facing America is the loss... More >>

• In This House That He Called Home: Remembering Jack Marquette

  published July 3, 2008

  Who says the 1980s were terrible? Long before downtown L.A.’s transformation into a hipster playground of luxury lofts... More >>

• Broadway Crowd Pleasers: August: Osage County, Gypsy, November, Top Girls

  published June 19, 2008

  If you’re heading to New York to catch a bit of big-marquee theater during the next few weeks, you’re in luck... More >>

• Will Scat-Porn Trial Bring Down Powerful Judge Alex Kozinski?

  published June 19, 2008

  AS THE YOUNG WOMAN in the movie gulped down her second helping of excrement, one had to wonder how a film critic would begin... More >>