Los Angeles magazine arts critic Steve Erickson's nomination for an American Society of Magazine Editors award is for three reviews he wrote last year. One is a piece rethinking his feelings about Battlestar Galactica, another called "The Hurt Locker" and "In the Loop" the first movies to get Iraq right, and the third took stock of the legacy of the Beatles. It's Erickson's first ASME nomination, the magazine's eighth since 2002. Dana Goodyear of the New Yorker was also nominated for a profile of James Cameron.

Noted: Earlier in the week Los Angeles also received 17 nominations in the City and Regional Magazine Association awards competition.

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