Seven McDonald

Photo by Alex RoseWhile surfing the Net a few weeks ago, 25-year-old DVD-trivia-game designer Hillel Aron was shocked to discover the Encyclopedia Britannica’s disparaging coverage of Los Angeles. Inside his starkly furnished West Hollywood apartment, illuminated by the blue light of his computer, Aron — who is quick to point......

Illustration by Chandler WoodStoryboard artist/illustrator Chandler Wood, surrounded by an array of colorful pillows, is perched in a high, sari-draped alcove at Prasadam* in Silver Lake. His blond Mohawk is growing out, and his brow is furrowed, as he attempts to acclimate himself to the rather convoluted, albeit enchanting, New......

Mary Westphal was flabbergasted after watching the heartbreaking documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip about KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. "I couldn’t believe no one had ever done anything for Rodney. He helped all these bands and made KROQ what it is today, and now he’s banished to a time slot......

Clam Lynch is wiping the drippings of a Reuben from his chin and jonesing for a cigarette. Seated in a booth at Canter’s Delicatessen, the 41-year-old former art director–children’s television personality and performance artist is attempting to explain how he recently found God and entered into the "self-help racket" after......

Photo by Kevin Abosch Pretty Things is the most brilliant show you’re likely to see on public-access TV anytime soon. Part Kids in the Hall, part Ab Fab, the sketch-comedy program is the creation of best friends Amanda Barrett (née Quinn) and Michael Lucid, who play most of the characters......

She loves reggae, Bob Dylan, Ben Stiller and Dostoyevsky. She used to chain smoke, has a dark past and may have once been a pothead. She could have been somebody. Instead, she married George W. Bush. Laura Bush fun facts: 1. A former Democrat, Laura has been known to say......

In January 1970, Lee Zaslofsky fled New York for Canada. Drafted into the U.S. Army the year before, he was serving at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, when he received orders to go to Vietnam. At the time, he had already applied for conscientious-objector status and been denied, twice. He was......

The sky is filled with clouds, smoky gray and pink, as some 90,000 people at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl file out into the night. Eighty-six-year-old Billy Graham, who has mingled with U.S. presidents — he appeared with George W. Bush on the day the president announced the U.S. invasion of Iraq......

IT’S A FRIDAY and "Carrie Berkowitz," a 30-something TV writer who’d prefer to hide her real identity, is sitting over a bowl of bouillabaisse and a glass of white wine musing about a recent development on her social landscape. "In the past few months, I’ve heard of three single girlfriends......

It’s November 3, and Harper Simon doesn’t feel so good. He’s just spent election night with high-level Republican movers and shakers in D.C. as sort of a joke — a Hunter S. Thompson kind of opportunity he couldn’t pass up — but awoke the morning after with an emotional hangover......