Jessica P. Ogilvie

From men who attempt to resurrect the dead to a woman who spruces up visits to the coroner, here are some of the city’s most interesting and unusual jobs....

Meet the UCLA researcher who's trying to quantify the damage of body-shaming....

For years, Maria Giese has been stirring up trouble at the Directors Guild of America. Unapologetically outspoken, the seasoned director has long insisted that something untoward has been happening behind the doors of the venerable Hollywood union. In regard to disrupting the status quo that perpetuates Hollywood's lack of diversity,......

When screenwriter Phyllis Nagy first read Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt in 1995, she knew she wanted to tell its story on the big screen. Centered on the romantic relationship between two women in 1950s America, it paints a portrait of star-crossed love focused on female protagonists. “The three......

When Cat and Jonney Ahmanson bought their house in Eagle Rock, the backyard was full of tangled weeds. Rather than put in grass or dirt, the newlyweds worked with landscape designer Kim Kelley and greywater expert Leigh Jerrard to create a California dreamscape. Now over the next year, as water......