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EVEN IF YOU haven't heard Estevan Oriol's name, it's likely you've seen one of his photos: a shot of a woman making an L with her right hand and an [...]

THERE IS A MOMENT on season three, episode three of Julia Child's Baking with Julia where a young Nancy Silverton is visibly gripped with terror. After eating a forkful of [...]

Barbie NEVER HAS A DOLL BEEN SO POPULAR (OR CAUSED SO MUCH CONTROVERSY). BUT BEFORE SHE COULD GO FROM LA. GIRL TO AMERICAN ICON, SHE HAD TO PROVE SHE WAS [...]

THE NOSTALGISTS THESE DESIGNERS-WHO REPURPOSE PRECIOUS HEIRLOOMS. PUT A 21ST-CENTURY TWIST ON OLD THREADS, OR RESURRECT MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES-ARE KEEPING IT CLASSIC. REVAMP VINTAGE Annam arie von Firley makes men's and [...]

DESPITE A TITLE THAT SETS OFF cliche alarm bells, director Damien Chazelle's film La La Land, opening December 9, is the opposite of trite. The candy-colored musical (which has swept [...]

* The world considers us amaxomaniacs--vehicle-obsessed people whose feet are more comfortable atop gas pedals than on sidewalks or dirt trails. But we know better. There's something magical about cutting [...]

* SOMETIMES YOU NEED A BREAK, A BREATHER, A CHANCE TO LOOK OUT A DIFFERENT WINDOW. WE ASKED NOTABLE ANGELENOS WHERE THEY GO TO REFUEL. HERE'S WHAT THEY SAID: Close [...]

THE RED CARPET at the Oscars is always a cacophonous scene, what with bleachers full of bystanders shrieking at the famous people. This year, though, there was a moment when [...]

There's a moment in season one of The Deuce, HBO's series about the budding sex-work industry in 1970s New York, that is undeniably hot. Maggie Gyllenhaal's character has sex with [...]

'I SUFFER FROM PAINFUL SEX' Lara Parker, 27 * I never was able to have pain-free sex. I always thought that was normal--everyone tells you your first time is going [...]

THERE ARE A few instances in which I it's socially acceptable to be a ghost--at a Halloween party, in a distressing dream, if you're dead. But ghosts have crossed over [...]

* Los Angeles has always been a place that makes its own rules. There is no 'going by the book' here--a truth that carries an exquisite thrill when applied to [...]

1 Ai Weiwei Shows>> In a year full of significant L.A. art world news--LACMA's David Hockney exhibition; MOCAs firing of Helen Molesworth and hiring of MoMA maverick Klaus Biesenbach; the [...]

T'S AN HOUR before show time at Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Morgan Freeman has just slapped Kimmel across the face. The actor and the host are filming a skit that [...]

> NOT MANY SHOWS on TV are as unapologetically L.A. as the CWs Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This month the groundbreaking musical series marks its fourth and final season (premiering October 12). [...]

GREYSTONE MANSION * Edward Doheny's massive Beverly Hills estate barely ever opens its doors (see page 50), so most people aren't aware that visitors are welcome on its sprawling grounds [...]

The Wetlands Villegs Diversion The Castle in the Air The lost Realm of Green Space The Foraotten Empire Tot Territory The Giving Trees TO Foorhills Fine Art To Isle of [...]

LAKEITH STANFIELD IS about to sit down to dinner in New York, but before he dives into a filet or maybe a whole-roasted branzino, he is on the phone with [...]

IN 2013 THE Natural History Museum unveiled Becoming Los Angeles, a permanent display that details L.A.'s complicated and sometimes unlikely origin story. Scores of items from NHM's 35-million-piece collection recounted [...]

Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music MARCH 15, 17, 22, 24 * Performance artist Taylor Mac (above) charts the history of American activism--from the early women's lib movement [...]

HISTORIC AWARDS SHOW MOMENTS >> We're not talking about that Best Picture gaffe at the Oscars. The 69th Emmys in September were crammed with landmark wins: Lena Waithe (Master of [...]

IMAGINE A WORLD in which the Beatles have been wiped from the memories of all but one human on Earth. Now imagine that human possesses enough talent to co-opt the [...]

ANDREW GARFIELD IS one of those people who's phenomenal at a lot of stuff. Surfing. Ping-Pong. Imitating a Valley girl with pitch-perfect vocal fry. And, yeah, acting (see an Oscar [...]

Italian immigrant Simon Rodia spent 34 years single-handedly creating one of our most astounding pieces of public art: the Watts Towers. Three spires--the tallest of which stretches nearly ten stories [...]

THERE ARE A handful of things that bring Tony Hale immense joy: his wife and daughter, a fruitful career, his transformative faith. But nothing takes his breath away quite like [...]

RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD. Relationships in Los Angeles are harder. Maybe the 405 is to blame for canceled dates? Perhaps Peter Pan Syndrome prevents substantive connections? No matter the cause, single [...]

* LA.-BASED ADVICE COLUMNIST HEATHER HAVRILESKY ANSWERS THE MISSIVES OF THE LOST AND LONELY > AS TOLD TO MARIELLE WAKIM I'VE ALWAYS GIVEN unsolicited advice. I'd meet people at parties [...]

NETFLIX'S QUEER EYE reboot gets a lot of things right, not the least of which being the casting of its incredibly lovable and well-dressed crop of hosts-slash-experts (Jonathan Van Ness [...]

MOST OF US have logged more face time with the cast of Parks and Recreation than we have with our real friends. That includes Ben Schwartz and his alter ego, [...]

* THE WORLD WIDE WEB wouldn't be possible without ARPANET, a government-funded research effort launched at UCLA in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock, a professor of computer science at the university and [...]

REFER TO BUSY Philipps's Instagram bio--'It's all happening'--and you'll get a good sense of what's going on in her life: On October 16, the 39-year-old actor (best known for Freaks [...]

EAST L.A. IS the mecca of lowriding. Our lowriders are famous for being extra clean and well built, and our paint jobs are the best. But the painters are usually [...]

I TOOK MY FIRST trip to L.A. from Memphis in 1956 because my aunt Lee and grandmother Nan lived in Hollywood. My aunt used to take me on the bus [...]

Where do you go after writing for Seinfeld (especially if you penned the famed 'Yada Yada' episode)? If you're local writer Peter Mehlman, who has also written for The New [...]

MUSIC L. A. Fest OCTOBER 4-14 >> The LA. Phil's centennial rolls onward, and we're reaping the benefits of the birthday-palooza. See six performances at Disney Hall over a week [...]

MARK CONSUELOS KNOWS a hit soap opera when he sees one. The 47-year-old actor spent seven years portraying Pine Valley heartthrob Mateo Santos on ABC's All My Children, where he [...]

MOST TRANSPLANTS HAVE a Story about couch surfing during their early months in L.A. Kristen Bell's is better. 'My friend Ariel Ash had an internship at SNL and was living [...]

FALL Spin to Win on Wheel of Fortune * So you've stood in line for The Price Is Right, and Jeopardy! hasn't acknowledged your genius? Try your hand at getting [...]

THEATER Bacchae SEPTEMBER 6-29 * It's no Acropolis, but the amphitheater at the Getty Villa is about as close as you'll get without splurging on a plane ticket to Athens. [...]

ART A Journey That Wasn't JUNE 30-EARLY 2019 >> About 100 works from Eli and Edythe's blue-chip collection are on display in this exhibition at the Broad, which focuses on [...]

WHEN THE prolific L.A.-based Light and Space artist Larry Bell was starting his career in the late 1950s, he was chasing a dream we're all familiar with: reaching a permanent [...]

TITUSS BURGESS DOESN'T often come to L.A., but when he does, he stays horizontal. 'I love the poolside situation,' the New York-based actor says (that's 'love' with like, four extra [...]

> MAX HENRIQUEZ NEVER TRIED WHAT HE CALLS 'A RIGHTEOUS PIECE OF FRIED CHICKEN' UNTIL HE WAS IN COLLEGE. THESE DAYS THE VETERAN CHEF MAKES A LIVING OFF HIS DEEP-FRYING [...]

ROSEWOOD GARDEN * At 145 square feet, this little guy is the city's smallest designated pocket park. Grab coffee from Paramount Coffee Project down the block, pop a squat, and [...]

* Architect Michael Maltzan has a massive face-lift in store for the Westwood art institution: Over the next two years, the museum will roll out various improvements and add 40,000 [...]

POP-UP Bloom JUNE 22-24 * We, too, are starting to wonder when we'll reach peak pop-up art installation, but this one's for a good cause. Part of Griffith Park becomes [...]

FRUIT OF THE LOOM * Diedrick Brackens uses tapestry to tell stories of race, sexuality, and the South. Here, the 29-year-old Leimert Park-based artist walks us through the creation of [...]

BILL HADER WAS barely late for our interview--30 seconds, maybe--but he apologized profusely anyway. When faced with a sarcastic reply ('Yeah, I'm super-offended'), the 39-year-old actor looked mortally wounded. This [...]