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Marlayna From His Memory

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Back in the Inland Empire, Marlayna was wild. She listened to Suede, the Cure and Morrissey and went into an alcoholic coma the first time she drank. One time she disappeared from her friends at a Lollapalooza concert, and they didn’t find out where she went until the next day......

SK8ER Girl

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It’s 11 a.m., and Brie “like the cheese” Ford is cautiously making her way up Talmadge Street in Los Feliz. It’s the first time the 22-year-old blond has hit the streets on her skateboard, but she’s been preparing for this moment her whole life. “I’ve always been into the skate-punk......

Liz and Max After School

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Liz and Max are sitting on the steps in front of their middle school. They have been here for an hour, since “3:19,” Liz says, when they were let out. The two brunet eighth-graders are waiting for Max’s dad to come and get him. Which, Max says, should be “soon,......
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Something Wicket This Way Comes

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Photos by Julie Pavlowski Stacy Kiehl’s design inspirations come from all over. Green shoes, chandeliers, ’20s flapper girls, Miu-Miu moccasins, pictures of ’70s food, the Buzzcocks, a plastic white lamb from Pic ‘N’ Save. “I take elements from everything — everyone does,” she says. “You absorb things you see subconsciously......

A Bear of Very Little Shame

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Imaginary Bear is seated on a window table at the newly revamped Bright Spot coffee shop in Echo Park. The bear, who claims to have helped design Stonehenge, palled around with Sid Vicious, modeled for Picasso and jammed with Charlie Parker — he gives his age as “infinity minus a......

Leapin� Ladies

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Forget about the Mercury retrograde and Saturn return. If you�re single, you should be worried about the fact that we�re in the midst of a leap year. Just ask Jo, �no last names please,� a Santa Monica practitioner of the healing arts, whose work, which could be compared to Rolfing,......
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Return of the Free Spirits

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The new Age of Aquarius is upon us. Or at least upon 19-year-old Emily Anne, who sways her hips and twirls her arms in the center of a drum circle on Venice Beach. Transfixed, some 120 people gaze at the blond Salome in the turquoise bikini and blue sarong as......
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Ten Years After

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Dirty-haired Christian Stone’s delicate 6-foot frame is slightly slouched. He wears well-worn Converse and a vintage T-shirt that reads: i want to be ridiculously rich. He looks like an alternative rock star from the ’90s. And he is, sort of. Or almost was before his band, Campfire Girls, spiraled into......
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Ten Years After

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Dirty-haired Christian Stone’s delicate 6-foot frame is slightly slouched. He wears well-worn Converse and a vintage T-shirt that reads: i want to be ridiculously rich. He looks like an alternative rock star from the ’90s. And he is, sort of. Or almost was before his band, Campfire Girls, spiraled into......

Sissy Boyd: Dancing Queen

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Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter “I felt like I could never dance again,” says Sissy Boyd, who stopped three decades ago after a paralyzing bout of Guillain Barré Syndrome. Boyd, who trained with Martha Graham, has done three performances this year with avant-garde L.A. choreographer Ken Roht’s Orphean Circus Ensemble,......