I am thrilled and actually quite shocked to announce that I have received 11 nominations for the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2025 Southern California Journalism Awards, including independent/freelance Online Journalist of the Year!
Five of these nominations are for articles published on this very website, the completely independent Lyndsanity.com, which means a lot to me. Three nominations, including Best Anchor/Host, are for the special Totally ‘80s podcast episode “Desperately Seeking: Madonna’s Punk Roots,” featuring Laura Jane Grace and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ director Susan Seidelman. And that one means a lot to me as a lifelong Madonna superfan.
My various nominations are also for articles about subjects near and dear to my heart, like Redd Kross, the Runaways’ Jackie Fuchs, Andy Prieboy’s ‘White Trash Wins Lotto’ musical, the long-lost 1979 music video that Micky Dolenz directed for Sparks’s disco protégé Noel, and Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, a fellow Valley Girl and Los Angeles’s alt-rock ambassador.
I can’t win all 11 awards, because in one of the categories, Online Music Feature, I’m actually nominated three times, competing against myself! But as they say in the business, it’s an honor just to be nominated. And it really, truly is. Congratulations to my worthy colleagues who also received nominations; I’m looking forward to celebrating with you all at the ceremony at Downtown L.A.’s Millennium Biltmore Hotel on June 22! Click here for the full list of categories, and scroll down for the list of my nominations.
ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Independent/Freelance
MAGAZINES, MUSIC FEATURE
ONLINE, MUSIC FEATURE
FLOOD Magazine, “Standing in Front of Poseur: Redd Kross’s Guide to Lost Los Angeles”
AUDIO JOURNALISM, ANCHOR/HOST
AUDIO JOURNALISM, ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING
AUDIO JOURNALISM, REGULAR PODCAST
The Totally 80s Podcast, “Desperately Seeking: Madonna’s Punk Roots”
ONLINE, NEWS FEATURE, MUSIC/CULTURE/PERFORMING ARTS RELATED
Lyndsanity, “Jackie Fuchs is a winner at the game of life: How the former Runaway-turned-board game creator rewrote the rules”
ONLINE, MUSIC FEATURE
ONLINE, THEATER/PERFORMING ARTS FEATURE
Lyndsanity, “Andy Prieboy breaks 25-year silence on cult-classic Axl Rose musical: ‘If anything in my life was like Brian Wilson’s ‘Smile,’ it was ‘White Trash Wins Lotto’”
ONLINE, MUSIC FEATURE
Lyndsanity, ”Micky Dolenz on directing long-lost ‘Dancing Is Dangerous’ video for Sparks protégé Noël: ‘It’s pretty weird, huh?’”
ONLINE, PERSONALITY PROFILE, BUSINESS/GOVERNMENT/SOCIETY PERSONALITIES
Lyndsanity, “Music for the masses: How Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez became L.A.’s alt-rock ambassador”
