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....
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,......
Yoga culture in Los Angeles is paradoxically vicious. All over the city, there are women and men with mats slung snugly over their shoulders who silently judge each other for wearing the wrong pants, going to the wrong studio or doing yoga for the wrong reasons. In an ancient practice......
On Monday, L.A. Weekly's cover story, "How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls," reported on the dearth of films written by women, or that allow women to speak onscreen, or star women, or tell stories about the actions, thoughts or lives of women and girls. According to new......
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......
David Asprey was nearing the top of Mt. Kailash in Tibet when he started to slow down. At 16,000 feet and minus 10 degrees, the technology entrepreneur wasn't sure he would finish the climb. But just then, a woman emerged from a guest house on the side of the mountain......
Ever since beloved sitcom star and fatherly figure Bill Cosby openly admitted to giving Quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with — accusations of which had been floating around for years — his image has been shattered. In its wake, activists are demanding that he be stripped of......
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......
Miles Scott had one wish: After battling leukemia for over three years, the five-year-old wanted to be Batman for a day. And so, Make-A-Wish partnered with the city of San Francisco to stage a series of capers through which Scott saved Gotham City. The story turned into a documentary, Batkid......