Category: Westsiders 2018

The hardest part of choosing 18 interesting people to convey the vitality, diversity and creative...

The original Spago on the Sunset Strip turned Wolfgang Puck into a celebrity chef. The...

Negin Singh’s 9-to-5 has her watching rollercoasters careen over the Pacific before the sun cracks...

TOMS Shoes founder and Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie doesn’t remember his first pair of shoes,...

Actress Lori Petty was born in doublewide trailer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But for the last 28...

You may know Laura Avery’s voice from her weekly farmers market reports for KCRW’s “Good Food,”...

A kite and paddleboard surfer who frequents local beaches, pain medicine and management specialist...

Seventy-five years ago developer Frank H. Ayres took business-woman Ella Drollinger out for a...

As a boy growing up in Kansas City, Marcus Gladney was obsessed with two things: the movie “Willy...

The year the Olympics came to Los Angeles, Fernando Guerra was at UCLA researching a dissertation...

If you’ve been to the Venice Skate Park lately, chances are you’ve seen Kanya Sesser grinding by...

For the fourth summer in a row, 19-year-old Jake Hofheimer is trading his native Los Angeles for...

Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, a new political voice emerged in Venice. They...

What must have been a million meals and three million beers ago — before Mo’s Place became the...

Mar Vista entrepreneur Nanxi Liu has worked her way up from a village in rural China with no...

Somewhere not far from his Marina del Rey condo or Playa del Rey alma mater St. Bernard High...

When entrepreneurs and investors discuss Playa Vista, they usually talk about tech or real estate....

The end of July marks the conclusion of San Diego Comic-Con, one of the largest festivals of pop...

Nonny de la Peña could be accused, perhaps fairly, of bringing the vegetables to virtual reality....