Dana Goodyear
The New Yorker
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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The Trial of the Malibu Shooter
Anthony Rauda, who was accused of terrorizing residents of Malibu, one the California’s wealthiest and safest communities, has been convicted of killing a man sleeping in a tent with his two young daughters. → Read More
Watching Putin Burn with Pussy Riot
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founder of the feminist art collective, displays the Russian President’s “ashes” at a gallery show, in front of L.A. luminaries such as Kesha. → Read More
Harvey Weinstein, the Monster of #MeToo
If Weinstein is acquitted in L.A., it will be tempting to conclude that #MeToo is over. But, even if he is convicted, some may reach the same conclusion. → Read More
Without Sylvia Earle, We’d Be Living on Google Dirt
The marine biologist and aquanaut evokes a Bond girl with a Ph.D. To save a species, she says, you have to know it. → Read More
Meeting Cute, Plus Cancer
Stephanie Allynne told Tig Notaro that she was straight. Notaro wrote back, “O.K., dyke.” Now their two kids call them Mom and Mère, Dana Goodyear writes. → Read More
Invasion of the Pacific Footballfish!
When some exceedingly rare, particularly frightful deep-sea anglerfish washed up on California shores three separate times, people floated outlandish theories to explain their sudden arrival. → Read More
Framing the Wide-Open Spaces of “Nomadland”
The cinematographer Joshua James Richards logged some van life with his partner, the director Chloé Zhao, in preparation for her new film with Frances McDormand. → Read More
Extra! Extra! Kim Hastreiter’s Back with “The New Now”
The co-founder of “Paper” and mentor to the young and cool has rounded up a gang that includes Ted Muehling, Michael Stipe, and George Saunders, to help answer the pandemic question: Where are we now? → Read More
After Years of Protests Every Wednesday, L.A. Activists Welcome a New D.A.
The outgoing Los Angeles District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, has sent twenty-two people of color to death row. Now she’s been voted out, Dana Goodyear writes. → Read More
Kamala Harris Makes History
Dana Goodyear writes about the career and the 2020 election victory speech of Kamala Harris, the first woman and the first person of color to be elected Vice-President of the United States of America. → Read More
Laura Dern Plays a Depressed Suburban Housewife in a New Photo Memoir
When the photographer Jona Frank wanted someone to depict her depressed, pie-baking mother in her book about growing up bored in New Jersey, she asked her L.A. best mom friend. → Read More
The Fall and Rise of Kamala Harris
A heady moment of confrontation with Joe Biden at a debate seemed likely to linger awkwardly, dooming a future political partnership. But, on Tuesday, evolution was in the air. → Read More
Mike Davis in the Age of Catastrophe
Once again, reality is catching up with the author’s instinct for prognostication. → Read More
Dept Of Hate Watching News, Opinion, and Analysis—
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The Return of “The Oscar,” an Unseeable, Unwatchable Flop
Patton Oswalt and friends hate-watch a remastered version of the 1966 cult movie that, despite featuring Jill St. John, Elke Sommer, Tony Bennett, and Milton Berle, was the “Gigli” of its time. → Read More
Octavia Spencer Follows the Clues
Inspired by Poppy Parnell, whom she portrays in the Apple TV series “Truth Be Told,” the actress mulls starting her own true-crime podcast, Dana Goodyear writes. → Read More
Katie Hill Returns as a Complicated #MeToo Crusader
Dana Goodyear writes about Katie Hill’s appearance at a rally in California in support of the impeachment of Donald Trump, and about the scandal that made Hill decide to resign from Congress. → Read More
Waking Up from the California Dream in the Age of Wildfires
Since statehood, California has pitched itself as a place of reinvention, prosperity, health, and progressivism. But, in the midst of recent wildfires, this supposed Eden is looking increasingly hellish. → Read More
L.A.’s Fire Zone Prepares for the Blaze
Forced out of my house for the first time, I caught a glimmer of what the fire refugees I’ve interviewed over the years knew fully—that eerie slip from normalcy. → Read More
Thomas Middleditch’s Chat-Room Childhood
Playing Richard Hendricks, the angsty, low-E.Q. coder and star of “Silicon Valley,” required no research for the Internet-native Middleditch, Dana Goodyear writes. → Read More