Los Angeles is home to many fascinating, original and authentic characters. Our annual Best of L.A. People issue celebrates more than 60 of them... More >>

Above a 7-Eleven on Ventura Boulevard, a teacher imparts to her students methods that will enable them to make their dreams a reality. No, it has... More >>

Sutan Amrull knows how to look like Tyra Banks almost more than Banks herself does. After getting his start as a makeup artist on America's Next... More >>

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This is some kind of Sunday for Luis Arriaga. Wake up and go shoot .357s in Burbank, even though he's been scared of guns since losing his best... More >>

At 9 o'clock on a crystalline Saturday morning in South L.A., more than a dozen 16-year-olds are in perhaps the last place you would expect... More >>

Ask Kazakhstan-born tenor (and occasional vaudevillian) Timur Bekbosunov about Achim Freyer's controversial staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle last... More >>

Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk and a gay rights activist, stares at the screen of a silver MacBook Pro inside a quiet... More >>

Don't expect Brian Butler to tell you anything about his life before he took up black magic. He's vague and evasive about his past, as are most... More >>

Beauty, much like obscenity, is in the eye of the beholder. The beholder looks upon either with a discriminating eye and determines if what he... More >>