Journalism

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Cover stories (clockwise): Amy Adams, Allure; John Boyega, Man of the World; Kristen Stewart, NYLON; Bill Callahan, FADER; Jessica Alba, Cosmopolitan; Aubrey Plaza, NYLON.

A select list of articles:

Digital cover: Jameela Jamil isn’t trying to get anyone cancelled
Glamour

Cover story: Natalie Portman is done playing the manic pixie dream girl
ELLE

Silence, Please, I’m Healing
California Sunday Magazine

Reality TV has gotten nicer
Washington Post

Richard Madden is tired of playing the good guy
Elle

Chrissy Metz: Hollywood’s New Pin-Up Girl
Harper’s Bazaar

Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos sold certainty and sex appeal
Slate

Margaret Atwood Brings Back ‘Angel Catbird’ and Looks Forward to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Los Angeles Times

Cover story: Lena Dunham and the end of ‘Girls’
NYLON

Cover story: Riding Shotgun with Kristen Stewart
NYLON

Cover story: Winona, Forever
NYLON

The Short List: Y.A. Crossover
New York Times Sunday Book Review

Was “Grey Gardens” Exploitative?
DAME

Geena Davis Has a Simple Way to Fix the Gender Bias in Hollywood
ELLE

Nasty Gal’s Girl Boss Never Thought She’d Be in Fashion
ELLE

Roger Ebert: Remembrance from A Young Film Critic (personal essay)
DAME

Cover story: Shailene Woodley (PDF)
NYLON

Miranda July Sheds Her Pixie Image with “The First Bad Man”
Los Angeles Times

Inside the Home of Two of L.A.’s Fastest Rising Artists, Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood
ELLE

Mimi Pond Sketches An Alter Ego’s Youthful Days in “Over Easy”
Los Angeles Times

L’Wren Scott Never Wanted to Be Identified As “Someone’s Girlfriend”
DAME

The New Family: When A Sperm Donor Seeks Out His Kids
DAME

Is NYT’s Jill Abramson a Bitch or Just a Boss?
DAME

How Eleni Mandell Redefined Family
DAME

Jennifer Lawrence and the Celebrity Love-Hate Cycle
DAME

Beat It
Did Conrad Murray really kill Michael Jackson? The trial is over but Valerie Wass fights on.
Pasadena Magazine

I Sing the Body Electric
Teen Japanese-pop sensation Hatsune Miku proves corporeal reality isn’t necessarily a prerequisite of fame.
Los Angeles Times Magazine

Fiona Apple balances intensity, wit at the Hollywood Palladium
Rolling Stone

Cover story on Evan Rachel Wood
NYLON

Book review: Alex Shakar’s “Luminarium
Los Angeles Times

LA Affairs: Online Dating with White Swan, Black Swan
(personal essay)
Los Angeles Times

Best Coast plays in the sand of a new California Sound
Los Angeles Times

Book review: “Ether” by Ben Ehrenreich
Los Angeles Times

Book review: “The Uncoupling” by Meg Wolitzer
Los Angeles Times

The lady gangsta fantasy of M.I.A.’s video for “Bad Girls”
Los Angeles Times

Moby is leaking L.A.’s secrets on his new architecture blog
Los Angeles Times

Madonna’s new demo track and the case for aging gracefully
Los Angeles Times

Mike Kelley’s students remember their mentor with fondness
Los Angeles Times

Home in the Wild West: Devendra Banhart, Beck and Caetano Veloso at MOCA
Los Angeles Times

Lady Gaga and philosopher Slavoj Zizek have an intellectual/dance thing going on… or do they?
Los Angeles Times

Book review: “Distrust That Particular Flavor” by William Gibson
Los Angeles Times

Nothing dims Bill Callahan’s red-white-and-blue view
Los Angeles Times

Album review: Adele’s “21”
Los Angeles Times

Album review: Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs”
Los Angeles Times

Rufus Wainwright goes pop, doesn’t lose his bang
Los Angeles Times

Album review: Paul Simon’s “So Beautiful or So What”
Los Angeles Times

Album review: Chris Brown’s “F.A.M.E.”
Los Angeles Times

Album review: Erykah Badu’s “New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh”
Los Angeles Times

Bike ride and a concert with the FMLY
Los Angeles Times

“Mad Men”‘s exquisitely flawed family
Los Angeles Times

Kindred Spirits in the Shadows: Don and Peggy of “Mad Men”
Los Angeles Times

I wrote about “Mad Men” weekly for two seasons at the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. Here are a few of my recaps:
“My Old Kentucky Home”
“Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency”
“The Arrangements”

“Mad Men” in the news: January Jones and the so-called “walk of shame”
Los Angeles Times

“Project Runway” star Christian Siriano fierce by design
Los Angeles Times

Nick Cave on his monstrous, funny Bunny Munro
Los Angeles Times

PJ Harvey and John Parish’s artistic marriage on “A Woman A Man Walked By”
Los Angeles Times

Eisner wants 90 seconds from you: The former Disney chief’s super-short format soap `Prom Queen’ gets the hits.
Los Angeles Times

Liars quiet down, mine new sounds on ‘WIWIW
Rolling Stone

Astral oriented art installations expand ‘Knowledges’ at Mt. Wilson Observatory
KCET’s Artbound