Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram Editor Shana Nys Dambrot She is a proud Latina, LA native, liberal, feminist and mother. She was recently nominated for “Journalist of the Year” by the Los Angeles Press Club.

Her radio show “Hot Licks with Lina,” broadcasts every Sunday from 2-4pm PST on. She covers nightlife, fashion, news, film and TV, music, art, shopping and events here and for other publications including Playboy, Billboard, Variety, Consequence of Sound and the WOW Report. She has written two books, Los Angeles’ Best Dive Bars and Never Mind the Rules. She has been a contributor and columnist at the Weekly for over 2 decades.

Lina Lecaro is LA Weekly’s Culture & Entertainment Editor. He lives with his beautiful wife and son in Long Beach, and he can’t believe his luck.Ĭulture & Entertainment Editor Lina Lecaro He believes that the music editor position at any city’s alt weekly is the best job in that city, and to hold that responsibility in Los Angeles is an incredible honor. His byline has also appeared in the SF Weekly, OC Weekly, Tucson Weekly and Denver Westword alt weeklies, and national publications/websites such as Music Connection, idobi Radio and Alternative Press. In Detroit, Callwood worked his way up to the position of music editor at the Metro Times alternative weekly. It worked - Callwood wrote for UK magazines such as Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Bizarre, and wrote biographies of the MC5 and The Stooges, before relocating to the United States. Callwood’s life in music journalism began when, after attending numerous dive bar shows and driving friends to distraction with his endless observations, one of those friends convinced him to write that gold dust down, probably so that he’d leave them alone. The truth is somewhere in-between, and yet completely unrelated (he was spawned in the north of England). Some say he was forged in the fiery pits of Asgard, while others believe that a Disney princess wished him to life. His alt-weekly addiction started in San Francisco for the SF Weekly and, upon his arrival to the LA Weekly as Creative Director, he continued to design and manage award winning creative for the Seattle Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, OC Weekly and The Village Voice. A Hollywood native with an obsession for underground art and music, began his career with a background in art direction for advertising and marketing. Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director Darrick Raineyĭarrick Rainey is the EIC and Creative Director for the LA Weekly.

MC5 by Brett Callwood