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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 this year — from singers and doctors and chefs to scientists and teachers and filmmakers and others. We’ve even got a television pitchman who has been......

One morning in the autumn of 1990, a Los Angeles Times reporter named Mike Connelly greeted a certain city editor with a request: He wanted a private meeting. Connelly covered the cops for the Times’ satellite office in the San Fernando Valley. The city editor feared the kid reporter was......