by Andrés Martinez
Andreas Kluth is licensed to be omniscient, humorous, brief, and anonymous. He is, in other words, a correspondent for The Economist, the fabled English magazine. He’s their man in Los Angeles. …
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Randy Fertel
A Restaurant Empire Heir Airs His Family’s Dirty Tablecloths
On January 11, 2012
Randy Fertel, 61 and sweater-clad, looks professorial, which shouldn’t be surprising: he’s a former academic who taught English at colleges and universities on the east coast and in his native New Orleans. But what he doesn’t look like is the product of a dysfunctional childhood, or a guy with an axe to grind, or a person who spills his guts to strangers. His recently published book, The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir, is both soul-baring and grievance-airing. …
Kerin Asher-Galloway
A Midwife Goes Off the Clock
On November 30, 2011
by Marissa Engel
It’s not every day that you go drinking with your healthcare practitioner. This is what I’m thinking as I meet midwife Kerin Asher-Galloway at Wood & Vine in Hollywood. We had met before at the Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center, where she works when not delivering babies at California Hospital or as part of her own homebirth practice, Haven at Home. The night we meet is ostensibly her day off, though when you have two sons, ages five and nine months, and patients who could go into labor at any time, a “day off” can be an academic concept. …
Kellie Konapelsky
The (Would-Be) Traffic-Jam Slayer of Los Angeles
On November 7, 2011
by Catherine Mangan
Kellie Konapelsky and I meet at Mignon, a wine bar in the pulsating downtown vicinity of where the 110, 10, and 101 so rudely intersect. Kellie is the young co-director of Rethink LA: Perspectives on a Future City, an intriguing effort to imagine what our city would be if it weren’t defined by the two- and three-digit shorthand relied upon above. You know, the one-oh-one. The ten. The four-oh-five. …
Jim Kennedy
How to Succeed In Politics and Showbiz Without Being Evil
On November 2, 2011
by T.A. Frank
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, 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 an actor playing a history professor in a heartwarming film about inspiration and challenges at a northeastern liberal arts college. …
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