Paul Gaita

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Location
Los Angeles, CA
School
Emerson College
Expertise
Beer Connoisseurship, Pizza Recipes, Food History
  • Paul covered regional dessert makers throughout Southern California for Westways magazine.
  • He has been making his own pizza dough and pasta for more than a decade.
  • Though he's eaten at hundreds of restaurants in the United States, Europe, and Mexico, he thinks the bacon, egg, and cheese (with regular coffee) at the Croton Mini Dell in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, is the best thing he's ever had.

Experience

Paul has been a professional writer, editor, and researcher for more than 25 years. During that time, he has contributed to Variety, MasterClass, LA Weekly, Apple News, Company Cue, AAA Westways, Flood, The Fix, The Costco Connection, The Nationwide, Merry Jane, and The Los Angeles Beat, among many other publications and websites. He wrote home video reviews and blogs for Amazon for more than 14 years and penned a daily movie and television awards season blog for the Los Angeles Times. He was also the managing editor of The Newsreel, the Walt Disney Company's monthly corporate magazine. Paul began contributing to Looper in 2020 and has applied his extensive knowledge of and voracious appetite for movies, television, fiction, comic books, and pop culture ephemera to numerous features.

Education

Paul has a bachelor's degree in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College.

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