He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. with degrees in English and Communications. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ adds a doctor: ‘I make women pretty for a living’ ‘Bridgerton’ fans can party with the queen in LA in March 2022 The newest ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ star had a fairy-tale life.
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