Seven McDonald

Gus Seyffert is tall. Six feet, four and a half inches to be exact. Tall enough so that when the Echo Park bass player gets into the back seat of some cars, like, for example, a VW bug, he has to lie down in order to fit. The handsome, elevated......

PARTY PROMOTER APPLE VIA CUTS a slim silhouette against the moonlight as she lies on a chaise longue poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt. Her Sigerson Morrison–covered feet are kicked up behind her as she speaks about the Monday-night backgammon parties she recently started hosting here. “This is where I want......

It’s a hot and muggy summer day in Silver Lake, and 35-year-old Michael and his friend Scott are drinking iced coffees under the cooling spray of a mister that the owner of Town and Country Café and Bakery has mercifully decided to turn on. The scene is like a grown-up......

Michael Bauer is putting up a “broke-ass flier” for his band The Front on a phone pole at the corner of Sanborn and Sunset in the heart of Silver Lake. “Want to know a secret?” the 25-year-old asks, standing back to eye his work. “I just ordered 3,000 stickers. It’s......

Patti Sun is walking up a dirt path that winds through Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, 280 acres carved out of Los Angeles’ Monterey Hills and Montecito Heights, along the Highland Park stretch of the Pasadena Freeway. She ducks under oak-tree branches that hang low over her path and sidesteps......

THIS PAST JANUARY, 30-YEAR-OLD former lawyer and would-be filmmaker Jeremiah Gall sat down to watch every Tom Cruise film ever made. Two months later, he edited together a one-minute, 16-second “Tomontage,” as he calls it, of Cruise running, over and over in film after film, broken up with the occasional......

Behind a pair of burgundy, oversize Armani shades, 29-year-old “Alex,” as she’s asked to be known here, is navigating her way through Ventura Boulevard traffic. Audition sides and scripts line the floor of her SUV. Beer caps, receipts and a bottle opener clutter the center console; on top is a......

Jason used to work for Infinity Broadcasting selling airtime to advertisers back in Dallas. Before that, he worked for Hyatt Regency. In fact, the well-sunned 36-year-old earned a degree in restaurant and hotel management before he had his “epiphany” and realized he was seeking his father’s love through financial success......

Seated across the table from her 15-year-old sister Natalie, in a Chinese restaurant in Venice Beach, spunky, pretty redheaded Tiffany is talking about her plans to go traveling through Europe just as soon as she graduates high school. “I’m going for two months,” she says, tucking her long hair into......

If you’ve ever seen Angelo de la Cruz ’s customized car, chances are you did a double take. The 1987 Ford Bronco II, which he bought off a friend for a thousand dollars six years ago, has had its paint entirely stripped. It’s been buffed out to create “depth” and......