I’ve been writing about arts and entertainment, high and low brow culture, society, performance, theater, TV, movies, children, parents, travel, techno-gizmos, comedy, tragedy, melodrama and myself  for, oh my, 25 years.

I have written for many national and local newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, Parenting Magazine, AARP, The Advocate, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Slate, Salon, and The Huffington Post.

I served as an arts critic and blogger KQED and 7X7 Magazine. I was the children’s music reviewer for Parenting Magazine, a kids’ media critic for Babble and Common Sense Media and I was a consumer tech/gadgets columnist for Continental Airlines Magazine. I have reviewed film for AOL, Film. the LA Times and other publications and I wrote a regular column about online entertainment for The LA Times, which was syndicated by Reuters. I was the theater critic for the East Bay Express and The Bay Guardian and The Press Democrat and a performance critic and reporter for The New York Post.

Long long ago,  I was a New York City bike messenger, an ice cream cone slinger, a retail sweater folder, a Harlem public school teacher, a bookeeper in a SoHo brewery and the inventory girl at the at the storied Gotham Book Mart — whose small press published cool people like Patti Smith and Edward Gory.  There, I used a typewriter that e.e. cummings had used.

Later, I became the theater critic for the West Side Spirit, which became the Manhattan Spirit. I was also  the New York Post’s “downtown” critic, covering all kinds of young and hip happenings  for the entertainment section of this notoriously conservative tabloid.  I reviewed performance artists like Blue Man Group, John Leguizamo, Eric Bogasian and Karen Finley when they were just starting out. I got a bunch of hate mail and one bomb threat.