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At the Wheel
Photograph by Gregg Segal When he was a bus driver, all Art Leahy wanted was a paycheck to get through college. Now that he runs the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the view...
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Naked Truth
Photograph courtesy Flickr/cliff1066 In 1953, 27-year-old Hugh M. Hefner set out to change America’s relationship with sex. Working from the kitchen of his Chicago apartment, with a $1,000 loan from...
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He Still Looks Good
He is 83, but the man behind the catchphrase “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good” is still trim, tan, and impeccably groomed. Almost half a century has passed since Vidal Sassoon invented...
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Shock Absorber
You’ll recognize Lucy Jones by her face, not her title. She is a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and has been a visiting research associate at Caltech’s Seismological Laboratory since...
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The Long Run
Last month, Austin Beutner quit his job as first deputy mayor to embark on what some regard as a quixotic bid for city hall. Though the election is two years away, the former Wall Street executive has...
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Divided We Fall
For a decade the leadership of the Screen Actors Guild was marked by conflict that pitted some of America’s most famous faces against one another (and led to the coming and going of seven executive...
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Restoration Artist
Since Michael Govan became director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2006, the institution has raised its profile by living large. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum was already in the works...
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Ask the Manager
It hasn’t been an easy time for Don Mattingly, the Dodgers’ manager. A close adviser to Joe Torre when they were both with the Yankees, he was considered a lock to replace his mentor. Instead the...
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Looking In
Conversing with the writer Jonathan Lethem is like playing Ping-Pong with Serena Williams. Even if it isn’t exactly his day job, he’s surely good enough to wipe the floor with you if he feels like it....
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The Loud Mouth
Photograph by Gregg Segal He has called Frank and Jamie McCourt “chowderheads” and compared Pete Carroll to a Roman emperor. Since 2007, sports radio’s Petros Papadakis has conducted his daily Petros...
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That Other Election
Photograph by Christina Gandolfo When Jan Perry abruptly quit her post as city council president pro tempore in November, she said she couldn’t tolerate the backroom dealing and insider culture of Los...
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Control Central
Photograph by Christina Gandolfo Wendy Greuel got her first taste of city hall politics when she served on Mayor Tom Bradley’s youth council while in high school. After being elected to the city...
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Prince of the City
Photograph by Christina Gandolfo Eric Garcetti has the sort of résumé that other politicians pine for. He’s an Ivy Leaguer (Columbia), a Rhodes scholar, and a Navy Reserve officer. When he first...
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Grand Ole Soap Opry
Callie Khouri’s career first took off from the edge of a cliff, when Thelma & Louise sparked a national conversation (and sent Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis hurtling into the great wide open). The...
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And Now, The Long Shot
Among Los Angeles’s field of mayoral candidates, Kevin James sticks out like plaid on polka dots. A gay Republican in a bedrock blue city, he still speaks with the folksy drawl of his Oklahoma...
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A Wealth of Reasons
Photograph by Christina Gandolf Los Angeles has a rep for having tremendous riches and a paucity of rich people who give. But in fact, the city ranks second nationally in terms of philanthropic...
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Prophet Margin
Photograph by Christina Gandolfo Ben Goldhirsh has spent the past decade trying to figure out how to profit from doing, well, good. He is the publisher of GOOD magazine and recently launched the Web...
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Think Again
This interview originally appeared in the December 2010 issue of Los Angeles magazine When TV news producers or opinion page editors find themselves in need of a Muslim American voice to weigh in on...
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The Bigger Picture
Sherry Lansing’s grinding work ethic helped her ascend from being a struggling actress to becoming the first woman to head a movie studio when she was named president of production at 20th Century Fox...
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Bullish About L.A.
Photograph by Christina Gandolfo The construction cranes are swinging at the site of the Broad museum, which is set to open next year. Built to house the modern art collection of its patron, Eli...
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