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  Sitting Bull - Dennis Justice

  WHEN LITTLE FEAT'S LOWELL GEORGE wrote his classic road song "Willin'?" ("I've driven ev'ry kinda rig that's ever been made"), he could have been writing about Dennis Justice, a 59-year-old professional bus driver who can measure his life in real mi...

  by Matthew Duersten on April 20, 2006

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  The Fabulous Belle Aire - Scott Presley

  Drag queens aren't exactly a rare commodity in Los Angeles; anyone who lives near Santa Monica Boulevard can attest to that. But drag queens who help raise substantial sums of money for charity every week, now that's a different story. Scott Presley...

  by Jami Supsic on April 20, 2006

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  The Accidental Hero - Pioln

  GROWING UP IN OCOTLN, JALISCO, MXICO, as the rancho's ?class clown, Eddie "Pioln" Sotelo would watch Mrio Almada films screened by a traveling projectionist on a white sheet. Almada is the Mexican Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson wrapped into ...

  by Ben Quiñones on April 20, 2006

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  Growth Management - Lauren Bon

  Artist Lauren Bon focused attention on the potential of downtown's new Cornfield state historic park last year with an act as brilliant as it was obvious: She planted the swath of empty, low-lying land with corn. The corn grew tall as the summer sun...

  by Gloria Ohland on April 20, 2006

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  The River Guide - Joe Linton

  Visual artist Joe Linton has a rather formal job title -- director of outreach for Friends of the Los Angeles River, the group pushing for a revitalization of the city's nearly dormant waterway. But informally, Linton jokes that he is more like the ...

  by David Zahniser on April 20, 2006

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  Sure Thing - Rocco Somazzi

  "The best live music goes completely unnoticed," says Rocco Somazzi about L.A. Sure, there are plenty of good sounds here that exist for worthy purposes of relaxation, meditation, hormonal agitation or release of aggression, but the Swiss-Italian cl...

  by Greg Burk on April 20, 2006

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  The Beat Goes On - Rick Rubin

  Rick Rubin must've had a crap stereo when he was a kid. Listened a lot in the car, too, the way you do. The difference between him and many other producers is that he never forgot the power of a simple song bashed through cheap speakers. Not a techn...

  by Greg Burk on April 20, 2006

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  Ups and Downs - Ruben Pardo

  For nearly 30 years Ruben Pardo has worked in the same building, held the same job title, and occupied the same 6-by-8-foot office space -- except that it keeps moving from floor to floor: He's one of the city's only elevator operators. "I was bor...

  by Liz Arnold on April 20, 2006

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  Warm Jello - Bill Manspeaker

  "I didn't come here to be a rock star," Bill Manspeaker, lead singer of seminal kook rockers Green Jello, says inside his legendary loft in Thai Town. "I came here 'cause it's warm." Manspeaker, who founded Green Jello in 1981, brought the troupe t...

  by Peter Fletcher on April 20, 2006

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  Flick Chick - Nicole Holofcener

  It's not a big stretch to imagine some upstanding filmgoer in Kansas -- or, for that matter, East L.A. -- coming out of a Nicole Holofcener movie muttering, "Can you believe those asshole narcissists?" Holofcener, whose third acid-laced chick flick,...

  by Ella Taylor on April 20, 2006

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  Close to the Ground - John Peterson

  Whether you're a Hollywood local or a tourist from Winnebago, Minnesota, you're bound to spot John Peterson on your way to Grauman's Chinese Theater. He's the fellow hunched over on his knees, intently rubbing the crap of a billion feet off the sta...

  by Peter Fletcher on April 20, 2006

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  Punk Rock Royalty - Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry

  Okay, so I'm the last person in Hollywood to have developed a mad crush on Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, which is weird because Pleasant has had columns in mags for which I am or was an editor (including this one) and Iris did time with my wife, a...

  by Joe Donnelly on April 20, 2006

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  Literary Armenia - Harout Yeretzian

  Instead of the musty smell of old novels, one is more likely to get a whiff of cigarette smoke rising from the back of Abril Books, where owner Harout Yeretzian sits flicking his ashes into a coffee cup, surrounded by "No Smoking" signs. A bespectac...

  by Siran Babayan on April 20, 2006

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  Union Maids - Sylvia Garza, Yolie Rios, Cookie Lommel, Julie Butcher and Cheryl Parisi

  MARIA ELENA DURAZO, THE REVERED PRESIDENT of UNITE HERE! Local 11, is one of the city's best-known labor leaders, but there are plenty of other women activists in town. They may not enjoy Durazo's name recognition, but they are taking charge at coun...

  by Annette Stark on April 20, 2006

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  Girls Don't Run - Shirley Bushnell

  Shirley Bushnell's path to becoming an activist for the transgender community started about a decade ago in the kitchens of UCLA, where she worked as the senior cook at Dykstra Residence Hall. At an employee Christmas party her supervisor, a lesbian...

  by Christopher Lisotta on April 20, 2006

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  Writing on the Walls - Judy Baca

  In 1976, muralist Judy Baca cofounded Venice's Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) to preserve and promote her art form. Today she's busy inaugurating a Masters of Fine Arts program, in cooperation with UCLA and Antioch College, to help em...

  by Mehammed Mack on April 20, 2006

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  L.A. People 2006 Intro - Character Studies

  Our relationship to a city is always determined by the people we meet. Not just the friends we make, but the woman who bakes our morning croissant and the nightclub doorkeepers who sneer at our shoes. We count on spotting the man who walks the paths...

  by Laurie Ochoa on April 20, 2006

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  L.A. People 2006 - Who we are: An introduction and index of the profiles.

  {mosimage} Our relationship to a city is always determined by the people we meet. Not just the friends we make, but the woman who bakes our morning croissant and the nightclub doorkeepers who sneer at our shoes. We count on spotting the man who wal...

  by Laurie Ochoa on April 20, 2006

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  Get Naked for Gaia or Go Clean a Stream - Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

  Last year in Taiwan, a squad of six students distressed about the state of the Earth stripped to their skin and plowed past security into a government building. "It's such an audacity for the government to walk about naked and say it's wearing beaut...

  by Judith Lewis on April 20, 2006

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  Crossword - The In Crowd

  Click the crossword below to download a printable PDF file of this week's crossword puzzle. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your system, click here to get it. Click here to download last week's puzzle.

  by Henry Hook on April 20, 2006