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A world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceased father Milton Abel Sr., famed Kansas City jazz musician.

Longtime resident Cynthia Yee embarks on an open-hearted walking tour of Boston’s Historic Chinatown in all its vibrancy—welcoming...

During World War II, Fred Conrad was taken from a troop train in Europe and sent home to Canada to use his pre-war chicken raising skills to stop...

In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen...

A portrait of master woodworker and Vietnam veteran Eric Hollenbeck

Part of the Almost Famous series. In the mid-1960s, four teenagers from Liverpool were changing the face of pop music. Their names were Mary, Sylvia,...

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney...

Boxing gym owner Joe Buckner recalls his troubling history and how that's shaped him into the man he is today. In the United States, about two thirds...

93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time...

Six legendary film composers each write an original piece for a classic pianist to perform.

In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.

Part of the Almost Famous series. In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he...

Part of the Life's Work series. Mother Earth is a portrait of Louise Pentz, a production potter turned feminist sculptor.

McManus & Morgan is the oldest (and once most prosperous) paper shop in Los Angeles. Aardvark Letterpress is a family-run printing business dating...

A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.

Part of Cause of Life series. A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office — and...

Part of the Almost Famous series. As an investigative reporter, Jason Berry exposed the church’s systematic cover-up of sexual abuse. Somehow,...

Part of the Almost Famous series. It was the late 1990s, and 3,000 young actors around the world were scouted for the role of a lifetime. On the ride...

The Final Copy of Ilon Sprecht is an intimate deathbed account of the unsung advertising genius who coined L'Oréal's iconic "Because I'm Worth...

Renowned Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha prints his newest work,”ZOOT SOOT” at Aardvark Letterpress.