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Eloise Valentine Lynch sits in an enormous black manicure chair on a rainy December afternoon at Nail Station salon in Silver Lake. Her small knees are pulled into her chest, her brown hair is pulled back in a ponytail, and peeking out in front of her are black-and-white Converse All-Stars......

“DEBORAH,” WHO HAS ASKED THAT her real name be changed in order to protect her family, admits that she was being a busybody when she signed up her unwed 37-year-old brother for both Match.com and eHarmony. But she doesn’t regret it. The way she sees it, sometimes people need a......

ANN BRADLEY, 54, STANDS outside the entrance to the Silver Lake Farmers Market, holding a sign that reads: Please Bring Your Own Bag. To be exact, her sign reads, Please Bring Your Own Bag, Please Bring Your Own Bag, Please Bring Your Own Bag . . . nine times because she has......

Beneath a modest grove of trees at East L.A.’s Garfield High, a few yards from the football field surrounded by handmade cardboard signs advertising candidates for this year’s prom princesses, Gustavo Delgado, 17, and Leila Linford, 27, along with a crowd of about 500 people, await the arrival of presidential......

On a particularly warm autumn afternoon, 23-year-old Emily Keaty sits in the sidewalk seating area of a Los Feliz restaurant, lunching on a bowl of organic lemon-barley soup while presenting an engaging, meandering dialogue on the medicinal powers of food and the collective consciousness of Los Angeles, the city where......

On a particularly warm autumn afternoon, 23-year-old Emily Keaty sits in the sidewalk seating area of a Los Feliz restaurant, lunching on a bowl of organic lemon-barley soup while presenting an engaging, meandering dialogue on the medicinal powers of food and the collective consciousness of Los Angeles, the city where......

KENDRA DENNIS, 28, SITS outside Silver Lake's Intelligentsia Coffee Roasters with her best friends, Amanda and Lauren. They're drinking direct-trade coffee sweetened with agave nectar and discussing text messaging, or rather, as Kendra calls it, “textual relations.” Kendra, a tattooed beauty who lives in Studio City and rode her bike......

Olivia Beall is sitting outside the Café Tropical smoking a cigarette. “Breakfast of champions,” she says, her head at a coquettish tilt. Beall (pronounced “Bell”) is 38. She wears a sleeveless vintage dress and a tan. She has been coming to the Tropical since 1993, long before Silver Lake became......

ALAN, WHO HAS ASKED that his last name be omitted, is standing in the doorway of his bathroom, dressed solely in a pair of khaki shorts, as he is apt to do on warm afternoons. He is going over the finer details of a recent and most unusual event. Apparently,......

Marina and Françoisare drinking white wine out of plastic cups. It’s not yet midnight and the two are deeply engaged in conversation. They lean, seated, against the bar in the lobby of REDCAT, CalArts’ theater at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Their eyes are fixed on one another. Periodically they......