Profiles: Secret to their success

April 27, 2008

SUNDAY PROFILE

Muscle-car designer makes U-turn

For the son of a General Motors designer -- born and raised in Detroit in the final years of the "big, bigger and biggest" age of American cars -- creating a vehicle that doesn't even have a combustion engine would seem an unlikely fate.

SUNDAY PROFILE

Laguna Beach chef has a fresh take on sushi

Miki Izumisawa isn't your typical sushi chef. If Japanese customers come to her cafe "expecting an ordinary sushi restaurant," she says, "they will be surprised."

January 11, 2008

Keeping an eye on city coffers

The gig: As city treasurer, De Foor serves as the primary banker, investor and custodian of public funds for Los Angeles and oversees its $7.5-billion investment program.