As a great city-state, Los Angeles is a work in progress, tweaked and altered by its residents each step of the way — and they in turn are changed and shaped by the community and city in which they have chosen to live. Each year, the editors, staff writers and freelancers of L.A. Weekly search out the people in Los Angeles whose life stories represent the breadth of the region’s creativity, aspirations and achievements. From the unknown to the famous, each of the People issue subjects we selected is a participant in the manifold process by which this metropolis of 10 million attracts those seeking a bigger canvas or a place to grow.

 

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