Tricia Romano is an award-winning writer who covered underground culture in New York City for the Village Voice for eight years. Via two columns, Romano wrote about the trends that swept the city, and chronicled the changes of club culture as it shifted from small, grungy venues to upscale bottle-service lounges. In cover stories and feature articles, she documented the city’s war on nightlife, covering how bar owners and patrons struggled with the smoking ban, and the enforcement of the only no-dancing law in the country, the cabaret law—on which she is an authority, giving interviews on the issue to The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Channel 13 WNET, and WBAI Radio.
Most recently, she has been the Managing Editor of Pop and Politics, a website founded by former NPR radio host Farai Chideya, where she oversaw a staff of graduate students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication.
Romano is currently writing a column for Blackbook magazine’s website, called La Vida L.A..
A Las Vegas, NV native, she has contributed to the New York Times, Spin, Radar, The Advocate, Defamer.com, The New York Post, Urb, Rolling Stone, Blender, Salon, Paper, and the Seattle Weekly. She is also a photographer, and her images accompanied her column every week in the Voice; her photography has also been featured in Spin.
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Tricia Romano is an award-winning writer who covered underground culture in New York City for the Village Voice for eight years. Via two columns, Romano wrote about the trends that swept the city, and chronicled the changes of club culture as it shifted from small, grungy venues to upscale bottle-service lounges. In cover stories and feature articles, she documented the city’s war on nightlife, covering how bar owners and patrons struggled with the smoking ban, and the enforcement of the only no-dancing law in the country, the cabaret law—on which she is an authority, giving interviews on the issue to The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Channel 13 WNET, and WBAI Radio.
Her March 2006 cover story about sober DJs and promoters in the nightlife industry, “The Sober Bunch,” garnered her a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award for Best Feature.
Most recently, she has been the Managing Editor of Pop and Politics, a website founded by former NPR radio host Farai Chideya, where she oversaw a staff of graduate students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication.
Romano is currently writing a column for Blackbook magazine’s website, called La Vida L.A..
A Las Vegas, NV native, she has contributed to the New York Times, Spin, Radar, The Advocate, Defamer.com, The New York Post, Urb, Rolling Stone, Blender, Salon, Paper, and the Seattle Weekly. She is also a photographer, and her images accompanied her column every week in the Voice; her photography has also been featured in Spin.