Seven McDonald

Photographer Patrick Ecclesine sits barefoot under an umbrella in the courtyard of the Hollywood Boulevard apartment complex where he lives. It’s a hot July afternoon. The pool here looks like a working-class take on a David Hockney painting, and the 32-year-old photographer’s eyes are as blue as the well-chlorinated water......

I RECENTLY SPENT THREE WEEKS in New York and had the great fortune to visit with my dear friend Ms. Michiko Kakutani, the acclaimed New York Times book critic. Michi is a warm and generous soul, and, one night, while I was visiting at her apartment, she showed me her......

Ashley Huizenga is sitting on a sidewalk in Los Feliz eating a falafel from a Styrofoam container and sipping soda from a large cup. She leans back against the wall of the Thirteenth Church of Christ Science and smiles behind a pair of cheap sunglasses while licking hummus off her......

Jazz legend and Grammy Award–winning bassist Charlie Haden moved from New York to Los Angeles in the mid-’70s, when his children were still young. Now all musicians in their own right, son Josh and triplets Petra, Tanya and Rachel grew up singing harmonies together as kids while being raised by......

{mosimage}Addi Somekh is sitting on the garage floor of his Altadena home, banging on a collection of drums that he constructed by pulling balloons over various open containers. The salvaged paint cans and cardboard barrels have enough organic aspects that the drums, with their Play-Doh–colored stretched-rubber tops, transcend the visual......

DAVID HARRIS WEBER, better known as Dewey Weber, is a surfer and an actor. You probably remember him as the guy who drives Elizabeth Berkley to Vegas in Showgirls. Or as one of the two villains in Peter Fonda’s Ulee’s Gold. Or even from a recent CSI: Miami in which......

{mosimage} It was the day before Valentine’s Day, and all over Silver Lake people were preparing for the most romantic holiday of the year. Neal Guthrie, the owner of Gillyflowers on Sunset, was buzzing around his beautiful shop, which was packed with every kind of flower. “Is Valentine’s the busiest......

At West Hollywood’s Medical Marijuana Farmacy dispensary on Santa Monica Boulevard, around the corner from Whole Foods and Fountain Day elementary school, Jack Johnson is on the stereo, apple juice and water are set out for the taking, and a sign above the door reads not just “Open,” but “Very......