Jim Kennedy

How to Succeed In Politics and Showbiz Without Being Evil

Jim Kennedy is the antithesis of slick. That’s sort of a shock. He’s a former press secretary for the Clintons (Bill and Hillary) and a current executive vice president of global communications at Sony Pictures Entertainment, so somehow I was expecting to be meeting with a cross between Ari Gold and Ari Fleischer. Instead, the man sitting across from me at Rush Street in Culver City nursing a Stella is a mild-mannered, bespectacled, bearded man in his 50s. If you spotted him on the Sony lot you’d think he was …

by T.A. Frank | November 2, 2011

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David Figueroa Ortega

Mexico’s Man in L.A.

by Andrés Martinez | October 5, 2011

Mexico’s man in Los Angeles, David Figueroa Ortega, is a plain-spoken, affable northerner from the state of Sonora, which sits across the border from Arizona and a sliver of California. …

Ruth Fowler

Brit Writer Bares All

by Marissa Engel | August 10, 2011

There’s nothing orthodox about Ruth Fowler, so it shouldn’t surprise me that having drinks together gets off to an unconventional start. Drinks, as in alcoholic beverages, will not be consumed …

Justin Jampol

The World's Greatest Collector of Brezhnev Busts

by T.A. Frank | August 3, 2011

I can’t help it. Thanks to the Wende Museum, I’ll have an even harder time throwing stuff away. Whose bright idea was it to erase almost every trace of the …

Ceci Bastida

Tijuana’s Ska Punk Star Talks About Going Solo

June 28, 2011

From her days as a teenager in Mexican ska punk band Tijuana No!, Ceci Bastida has been a star on the Mexican music scene. Now living in Los Angeles, the …

Christina Sánchez

Ivy League Revolutionary

by Andrés Martinez | June 8, 2011

What is it about the moment you arrive at your first college dorm room and meet your roommates while unpacking your stuff? That’s a scene seared in most people’s memory, the …

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