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Kat Von D
Ink stained
By Lina Lecaro
Kat Von D has really thick skin, and it’s got very little to do with her tattoos. The past couple of years have been a whirlwind of highs and lows, art and commerce, not to mention lovers and haters for Los Angeles’ best-known female tattoo artist. And almost all of it has been captured… Keep Reading »
Kat Von D
Ink stained
By Lina Lecaro
Kat Von D has really thick skin, and it’s got very little to do with her tattoos. The past couple of years have been a whirlwind of highs and lows, art and commerce, not to mention lovers and haters for Los Angeles’ best-known female tattoo artist. And almost all of it has been captured… Keep Reading »
Charles Phoenix
Kodachrome king
By Lina Lecaro
Los Angeles, the happiest place on Earth? With Charles Phoenix as your guide to our most fascinating characters, Frontierland-like outposts and Tomorrowland-style structures, you might just think so. Seen through his kitsch-king/historian bifocals, the similarities between the Magic Kingdom and our shopping malls… Keep Reading »
Pau Gasol
King Pau
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
When you’re seven feet tall, an inconspicuous stroll down the Venice Boardwalk is a difficult thing to pull off. When you’re Pau Gasol, the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers and the 7-foot savior of the team’s title aspirations, it’s pretty much impossible. … Keep Reading »
MoJow & the Vibration Army
Superheroes
By LINDA IMMEDIATO
It was a memorable sight, like a Black Rock City version of the Saint Paddy’s Day parade: a 6-foot-8 redheaded man in a bright-green jump suit, like a leprechaun on steroids, with looping pedals belted around his waist. He’s playing a guitar, with a saxophone hanging behind his back. Improbably, he’s also on roller… Keep Reading »
Frangela
Battling hateration
By Jonathan Gold
If you are promiscuous with the talk-radio dial, you may have heard Frangela coming at you on KTLK-AM 1150, a blast of common sense amid the pasty drone of their sub-Limbaugh competitors; a pair of musical, finely meshed African-American voices, postracial yet black as hell, finishing each other’s sentences, dissecting the economy or… Keep Reading »
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