Lina Lecaro covers culture, nightlife, fashion, film and TV, music and more for the LA Weekly (where she is the Culture & Entertainment Editor), and other publications including The Village Voice, Playboy, Billboard, Variety, Consequence of Sound, Vice, Ranker, LA Times, Rolling Stone and the WOW Report. She has written two books, Los Angeles’ Best Dive Bars (IG Publishing) and Never Mind the Rules (Generation X Media), and is currently working on her third for Punk Hostage Press. Her radio show "Hot Licks with Lina" broadcasts every Tuesday from 7-9 pm on luxuriamusic.com. She recently won 2nd place “Journalist of the Year” and 2nd place for film criticism, as well as first place for “culture feature,” from the Los Angeles Press Club. She is a proud Latina, LA native, Liberal, feminist, and mother.
