Lauren Weiner

Content & Entertainment Writer

I’m always looking for the story in a piece or project because narratives are what draw people in. 

From music and film to local culture and history, my work spans across a breadth of platforms, and peoples. I've contributed 25+ articles on Northern Virginia culture for Colgan Team, and write weekly on music, TV, and film for Trill Mag. My film criticism appears in City on Fire, That Shelf, and The Geekly Grind. I translate local culture into digestible reads as a contributor to Chicago’s Third Coast Review, and for Country Standard Time, I bring that same approach to the world of country and bluegrass.


City on Fire
CST
That Shelf
3CR
Trill
Logo
Graceland
Geekly Grind
City on Fire
CST
That Shelf
3CR
Trill
Logo
Graceland
Geekly Grind

Select Works

Retrospective: The Who’s Tommy Has Its 50th Anniversary; IMAX Screens Crisp 4K Scan 

Conspiratorial Movies for a Conspiracy-Crazed Year: A 2026 Watch List

Emily Nenni’s Movin’ Shoes Album Review

Ella McCay Movie Review

Graceland Cemetery Presents

WOMEN OF GRACELAND

A self-Guided Audio Tour