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