About Tricia Romano
Award-winning
writer Tricia Romano documented the city’s club scene
for Village Voice for eight years, covering the
trends that have come and gone (electroclash, the
eighties revival, Friendster, the Strokes), and
followed club culture as it shifted from small,
grungy venues to upscale bottle-service lounges. Via
her two columns, “Fly Life,” and “Club Crawl,” cover
stories and features, she documented the crackdown on
clubland, writing about the city’s smoking ban and
the cabaret law. 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.
Additionally,
Romano is an authority on the cabaret law, giving
interviews on the issue to The New York Times, Der
Spiegel, The Guardian, Channel 13 WYNET, and WBAI
Radio. A Las Vegas, NV native, she has contributed
to Spin, Radar, The New York Post, Urb, Rolling
Stone, 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.
photo
by: Nikola Tamindzic; ambrel.net