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The Collector
Photograph by Gregg SegalAt swap meets and on the roadside, in library stacks, private archives, basements, and attics, Jim Heimann has spent the past several decades sifting through the detritus to...
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Bullied Pulpit
For the past year Assembly Speaker Karen Bass has led a political life fraught with irony. A lifelong activist, Bass won an assembly seat in 2004 representing California’s 47th District, which...
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He Shoots, He Scores
For his ESPN column, in podcasts, and on the cover of his new 700-page epic, The Book of Basketball (Ballantine/ESPN, $30), Bill Simmons styles himself “The Sports Guy,” but that’s an inadequate title....
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Sound Off
Photograph by Marc GoldsteinRuth Seymour retires this month after 32 years as general manager of KCRW (89.9 FM). Seymour, who is turning 75, leaves a legacy unique in broadcasting. KCRW is one of the...
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Dame of The Docks
Photograph by Misha GravenorMuch has been made of the fact that Geraldine Knatz is the first woman to run the Port of Los Angeles—7,500 acres of land, water, ships, cranes, piers, and trucks that make...
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City Center
Photograph by Dustin SnipesGoya would have painted him: Square jaw on a long neck, soulful eyes, the pilgrim’s beard. Even for professional basketball, Laker center Pau Gasol i Sáez is a giant, yet...
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At the Wheel
Photograph by Gregg SegalWhen 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/cliff1066In 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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Radical Defense
Photograph by Gregg SegalIt’s a good thing Brian Jenkins is on our side. For nearly three decades, first on countless index cards and now in 15,000 computer files, he has amassed an arsenal of...
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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 his...
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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 SegalHe 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 GandolfoWhen 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 GandolfoWendy 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 council...
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Prince of the City
Photograph by Christina GandolfoEric 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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