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“Hi. You’re cute,” I said. I was dressed as Squirrel Girl, and he was wearing a Venom T-shirt. Our eyes...

A beige tejana sits atop Antonio Rodriguez’s freshly dyed, icy blond, buzzed hair. It’s the final piece to his look.He’s...

“The word that comes to mind with L.A. is expansiveness,” the dancer Marissa Brown says. “Every time I’m dropped into...

Some Dans and Daniels. One Danny. A multitude of Ians. Zachs with an H and Zacks with a K. All...

For weeks you’ve been exchanging paragraph-long text messages with your crush, but they’ve yet to ask you out on an...

“Here’s some Wagyu for you, Sumi.” I scrape chunks of marbleized meat into my shiba inu’s bowl. Its white, fatty...

Los Angeles’ hottest private members club — with its annual fee of $2 and at times nudity — hides in...

Father Rodel Balagtas sees it across the Roman Catholic churches he visits in the archdiocese of Los Angeles: A significant...

This story is part of Image Issue 14, “Elevation,” where we examine beauty as a state of being, a process...

Where is beauty in L.A. really going? Just follow the people tasked with making people more beautiful every day. What...