There aren't many reporters who can segue from covering alternative bands in dingy clubs to uncovering the financial problems of a major art museum, but Mike Boehm, longtime Los Angeles Times critic and reporter who died May 2, was one of them. He was 63.
Michael Lewis Boehm was born Oct. 23, 1955, in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Early in his career, Boehm covered government and police for the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times and the Miami Herald. At the Providence Journal, he moved to the arts and culture beat.
After being hired by the Times in 1988, Boehm covered the burgeoning Orange County music scene, giving early and supportive coverage to emerging bands. He remained at the Times until 2015. He was working at MFour Mobile Research, an Irvine-based marketing firm, at the time of his death, but part of him remained a music critic. Earlier this year, the Times published a letter to the editor he wrote taking a music critic at the paper to task for dismissing a classic-rock performer.
Boehm spent the first half of his nearly 30-year career at the Times as a music critic and the second as an arts reporter. It was in the latter capacity that he made his biggest splash by digging into a budget crisis at downtown Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in 2008. Boehm's doggedness as a reporter, love of music and generous good nature were qualities repeatedly mentioned to the Journal and in online remembrances and memorials.
Boehm is survived by a son .
Chapel Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Chapel, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Graveside Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Reception will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:30 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Tranquilty Room, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA.
Published in Jewish Journal, Obituaries: May, 10, 2019
Michael Lewis Boehm was born Oct. 23, 1955, in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Early in his career, Boehm covered government and police for the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times and the Miami Herald. At the Providence Journal, he moved to the arts and culture beat.
After being hired by the Times in 1988, Boehm covered the burgeoning Orange County music scene, giving early and supportive coverage to emerging bands. He remained at the Times until 2015. He was working at MFour Mobile Research, an Irvine-based marketing firm, at the time of his death, but part of him remained a music critic. Earlier this year, the Times published a letter to the editor he wrote taking a music critic at the paper to task for dismissing a classic-rock performer.
Boehm spent the first half of his nearly 30-year career at the Times as a music critic and the second as an arts reporter. It was in the latter capacity that he made his biggest splash by digging into a budget crisis at downtown Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in 2008. Boehm's doggedness as a reporter, love of music and generous good nature were qualities repeatedly mentioned to the Journal and in online remembrances and memorials.
Boehm is survived by a son .
Chapel Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Chapel, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Graveside Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Reception will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:30 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Tranquilty Room, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA.
Published in Jewish Journal, Obituaries: May, 10, 2019
There aren't many reporters who can segue from covering alternative bands in dingy clubs to uncovering the financial problems of a major art museum, but Mike Boehm, longtime Los Angeles Times critic and reporter who died May 2, was one of them. He was 63.
Michael Lewis Boehm was born Oct. 23, 1955, in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Early in his career, Boehm covered government and police for the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times and the Miami Herald. At the Providence Journal, he moved to the arts and culture beat.
After being hired by the Times in 1988, Boehm covered the burgeoning Orange County music scene, giving early and supportive coverage to emerging bands. He remained at the Times until 2015. He was working at MFour Mobile Research, an Irvine-based marketing firm, at the time of his death, but part of him remained a music critic. Earlier this year, the Times published a letter to the editor he wrote taking a music critic at the paper to task for dismissing a classic-rock performer.
Boehm spent the first half of his nearly 30-year career at the Times as a music critic and the second as an arts reporter. It was in the latter capacity that he made his biggest splash by digging into a budget crisis at downtown Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in 2008. Boehm's doggedness as a reporter, love of music and generous good nature were qualities repeatedly mentioned to the Journal and in online remembrances and memorials.
Boehm is survived by a son .
Chapel Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Chapel, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Graveside Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Reception will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:30 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Tranquilty Room, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA.
Published in Jewish Journal, Obituaries: May, 10, 2019
Michael Lewis Boehm was born Oct. 23, 1955, in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Early in his career, Boehm covered government and police for the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times and the Miami Herald. At the Providence Journal, he moved to the arts and culture beat.
After being hired by the Times in 1988, Boehm covered the burgeoning Orange County music scene, giving early and supportive coverage to emerging bands. He remained at the Times until 2015. He was working at MFour Mobile Research, an Irvine-based marketing firm, at the time of his death, but part of him remained a music critic. Earlier this year, the Times published a letter to the editor he wrote taking a music critic at the paper to task for dismissing a classic-rock performer.
Boehm spent the first half of his nearly 30-year career at the Times as a music critic and the second as an arts reporter. It was in the latter capacity that he made his biggest splash by digging into a budget crisis at downtown Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in 2008. Boehm's doggedness as a reporter, love of music and generous good nature were qualities repeatedly mentioned to the Journal and in online remembrances and memorials.
Boehm is survived by a son .
Chapel Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Chapel, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Graveside Service will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA. Reception will be held on May 6, 2019 at 3:30 pm at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Tranquilty Room, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA.
Published in Jewish Journal, Obituaries: May, 10, 2019
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