Those who know me best have always called me an “old soul.” As a child I was most comfortable around the classmates of my older siblings; as a teenager I was hard-pressed to choose between listening to Glenn Miller or the Go-Go’s... Read More

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Hollywood suspense and the supernatural, as seen through the eyes of the then 6-year-old Los Angeles Magazine editor-in-chief Read More

...the movies that stuck with me most as I sat next to my sister at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, or in the living room with my brothers watching A Clockwork Orange (!) on Betamax, were the gory ones. Read More

This month Dave Grohl, front man of the Foo Fighters (and object of a few crushes around our office), is releasing a documentary he directed about Sound City Studios in Van Nuys. Read More

OVER THE PAST year  we’ve been printing interviews with candidates for mayor of Los Angeles. This month we spotlight Kevin James, a gay Republican lawyer and former radio talk-show host whose platform boils down to: “The other candidates—all veteran City Hall seat warmers—have gotten us into a financial mess. I am the only one you can trust to get us out.” Read More

Clubbing’s never been my thing. When my teenage friends tried to cajole me into crawling out the bedroom window to crash the Odyssey disco on Beverly Boulevard, I passed, preferring to catch up with Tootie’s exploits on The Facts of Life or flip my Cabaret LP to side B. I like vodka, I like dancing, and I like music. But the combination of all three in nerve-shattering superabundance sets me reeling. Read More

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