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John O. Dabiri; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

John O. Dabiri: The Jellyfish Genius

Jill Stewart
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.John O. Dabiri, 32, is the impossibly young chair of faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he studies jellyfish propulsion and fish schooling behavior — just the thing to......
Jennifer Lee; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Jennifer Lee: Disney's New Animation Queen

Jill Stewart
href="https://www.laweekly.com/microsites/people-2013/" target="_blank">One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Disney's blockbuster Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope is a digital princess in a video game who's stripped of her coding and mistreated as a flickering computer "glitch." Vanellope's moxie —......
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L.A. Weekly Seeks Summer News Intern, 2013

Jill Stewart
We're looking for a smart college student who loves hard news to join us as our summer intern for 2013. The ideal candidate will be a good digger and writer with a passion for breaking news and hot subjects such as environment/land-use; crime/cops/gangs; development wars/density/transit; education reform/public school scandals; and......

Hit-and-Run Blowback on LAPD

Jill Stewart
The hit-and-run driver of the minivan that struck bicyclist Damian Kevitt one morning near Griffith Park must have felt and heard the impact. He probably saw Kevitt caught on his hood. Yet as horrified eyewitnesses gaped, the driver — a young, well-groomed Latino — took off down the on-ramp to......
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Best L.A. Novel Ever: Devil in a Blue Dress vs. The Black Echo, Round 2

Jill Stewart
L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins and Hieronymus "Harry"......