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A t the top of the Santa Monica Mountains range in Beverly Hills, standing in the middle of the "urban forest" campus of the environmental group TreePeople, California...
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Last week was our annual People issue! And so, last week, we heard from a bunch of fanboys and -girls who were thrilled with the personalities we'd profiled and with Kevin...
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Debbie Search, a quality technician in Torrance, first suspected something when her financial adviser seemed to fall off the grid. She had a mysterious issue with her taxes...
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This millennium has not been kind to cigarette smokers. Each year more locales prevent them from lighting up: restaurants, bars, beaches, parks. Since 1999, 47 states have...
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Check out our People 2012 issue here.
Every city has its interesting people: the artists, the inventors, the dreamers, the visionaries. You can find actresses in Omaha and...
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Last week's feature, "Murder on Montana Avenue" by Tessa Stuart, explored the death of LAUSD art teacher Sasha Merman. Among other facts uncovered by Stuart: Merman met his...
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Conversations about fracking, the controversial technique for natural gas extraction (alternately known as "that thing that turns your tap water flammable") are typically...
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The living room of Sofia Merman's West Hollywood apartment is filled with photos of her only son. Sasha in cap and gown, Sasha sitting for his Navy portrait, Sasha and his...
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Who can resist a siren in a red dress? Not many of you, apparently: Last week's Dita Von Teese cover flew off the newsstands ("The Most Famous Stripper in America," by Gendy...
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You'd be surprised at what goes on just below the surface of Los Angeles City Hall, which is mired in years of fiscal cutbacks that at various times have decimated the hours...
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To hear the wildly divergent reactions among neighbors to the University of Southern California's long-brewing and massive $900 million, 5 million-square-foot University Park...
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In 2007, having served with distinction during two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force firefighter John Brownfield Jr. took a job as a correctional...
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By Tibby Rothman and Jill Stewart Published:
May 3, 2012
Westside Innovative School House, or WISH, had been quietly successful at its small charter grade school near LAX, where it mingles typical and high-achieving students with...
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Twenty minutes before his apartment-management certification class is supposed to start, students pepper Joseph Cavalin with questions. "How do you get rid of the tenants?" a...
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In last week's First Person column, contributing writer David Futch explained what he has learned driving an ancient Toyota Corolla in this car-obsessed, wealth-conscious city...
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Marcos Aguilar was dressed in what can only be described as a pretty good Halloween costume of an Aztec warrior, and he had come to the Los Angeles Unified School District...
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As Gene Maddaus reported in last week's cover story, something clearly is rotten at the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office ("Let's Make a Deal"). When appraiser Scott...
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Owen Harris has a reputation within the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office for being a stickler. Middle-aged, balding, with close-cropped gray hair, he's a supervising...
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Cop watching — the act of turning a camera on police — is not illegal.
But in areas policed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, it can still land you...
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Roughly 300 surfers, activists and residents watched the Malibu City Council on April 9. That's more than 2 percent of the population of Malibu. If the same percentage of Los...
