Music Editor, L.A. Weekly
I was the first and only female Music Editor for L.A. Weekly.
• My weekly column “Rock & Roll Love Letter” was honored by the Association of Alternative Weeklies and the Los Angeles Press Club
• Founded the L.A. Weekly music blog, and hosted a weekly companion podcast on Little Radio
• Curated and mounted L.A. Weekly Music Awards
• Helmed many cover packages
Music Journalist
• Wrote extensively for Spin, as well as Rolling Stone, Teen People, Seventeen, Nerve, Los Angeles Magazine, City Pages, Blender, and the New York Times Magazine
• Anthologized in the Da Capo Best Music Writing Series, edited by Jonathan Lethem, as well as in Dreams and Inward Journeys, a collection of essays on the self compiled by Stanford University professors Marjorie and John Ford.
• Nightlife columnist (“Hot Child in the City”) for the L.A. New Times
• Staff music critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Theater and film critic for City Pages (Twin Cities)
• Began journalistic career at Prognosis, the first post-Revolutionary English-language newspaper in Prague, in the early 1990s.