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It’s 4:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and the lights are blazing at Food Forward’s Pit Stop warehouse. Big trucks are...

For Jay 305, smelling good is sanctity. A trail of musks, resinous woods and creamy florals follow him around like...

If you’ve ever considered growing your own pot plant at home in Southern California but found the whole tents-and-timers-in-a-closet thing...

DILLON BEACH, Calif. —  A stay in Brian Maggi’s house, per the Airbnb listing, is what coastal California dreams are made...

Skateboarders, creative directors, chefs and hip designers are all captivating subjects for photographer Todd Selby, who has traveled the world...

I was at dinner in Los Feliz recently trying to encourage a couple I’ve been friends with for more than...

SUTTER BUTTES, Calif.  —  About 60 miles north of Sacramento, the Sutter Buttes rise starkly from the floor of the...

Travel writer Christopher Reynolds floats in a pond at the magnesium-chloride-rich waters of the Guerrero Negro saltworks in Guerrero Negro,...

Kathleen Ferguson grabbed a pair of pruning shears from a mailbox nailed to a garden bed and leaned down to...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada —  For many, the lure of Las Vegas is the near complete immersion in a man-made world. Visitors...

In the mid-2010s, celebrities such as Khloe Kardashian, Rihanna and Floyd Mayweather Jr. socialized at Lure Nightclub in Hollywood, drawing...

(Beth Hoeckel, featuring “Silver Gemini keychain” by Rick Owens) This story is part of Image’s May issue, Homemaking, about home...

Book Review Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles By Craig StanfordHeyday: 264 pages, $24If you buy...

Donato Martinez reads his poetry at the Libros Lincoln Heights bookshop. On a Saturday evening in late April, the door...

As we walked back to our cars after the party, my ex-boyfriend said, “I have something for you,” and dropped...

I couldn’t help it. In the course of scouting out great adventures for West Coast 101 — our new guide...

Michelle Woo is the West Coast experiences editor for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she worked as a senior editor...

If you thought the wildflower season was over in Southern California, think again. The easily accessible Highway 39, also known...

We met Brian Hawkins, a Redondo Beach mechanical engineer-turned-videographer, in the near-empty lobby of the Yosemite Valley Lodge. It was...

Do you want to live to 100? The path to becoming a healthy centenarian — as opposed to just a...

Aleali May loves an Easter egg. And at Paris Fashion Week last year, it was unmissable: a giant, gleaming butterfly...

Immersive entertainment firm Meow Wolf, whose multiple locations of floor-to-ceiling psychedelic-leaning art have attracted about 10 million visitors across its...

Since bursting onto the Hollywood scene with memorable performances in shows like “Nurse Jackie” and the critically acclaimed FX drama...

Las Vegas —  There are multiple dance duets in “Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms,” a mixed-media theatrical production that debuted...

Heartbroken after a breakup that was long overdue, crushed by a stalled entertainment industry and depressed by my temporary day...

Despite a 58-year age difference, Reita Green and Beverly Pate have been best friends and business partners for four years,...

On a brisk mid-March night in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley, more than 100 people crowded around...

I only sleep in silk. It’s a bit of a dirty secret.This isn’t the type of thing you want to...

The waterbed was invented by a San Francisco State University graduate student in 1969, and it quickly captured the American...

A Meow Wolf exhibition is designed as a dream space, a walk-through floor-to-ceiling collection of psychedelic art with a sci-fi...

Advertisement Advertisement The author is a writer and cartoonist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of “Drawn Together:...

On a rainy Sunday morning in Inglewood, while most of the sprawling Edward Vincent Jr. Park was empty, one area...

It’s the first Sunday morning of spring in the Wilshire-Montana neighborhood of Santa Monica and local artist Kim Krans, 43,...

The laundromat is the perfect place to cry in public. I’m here now, crying as I type this. I don’t...

Artist Sarah Kim belongs to a poker group of up-and-coming art-world denizens. Part poker group, part art collective, they’re an...

Balenciaga’s Le City bag is bringing back the early aughts Fashion is in love with the early 2000s right now,...

Last fall I met a guy.He had a thick mustache and was, by my estimate, at least 10 years my...

Meagan Culberson, 32, was on a third date with a guy she met on Hinge when she decided it was...

As a newly single woman in my 50s in Los Angeles, I was terrified. I’d been married so long that...

Icelandic Chinese vocalist and songwriter Laufey (pronounced lāy-vāy) has an appreciation for life’s many wonders. It’s apparent in her music,...

Picture this: It’s a Thursday night in Santa Monica, and you’re feeling good. You’re sitting across from a cute stranger,...

Avila isn’t the only one who built a community from LAF. Frankie Osorio, 24, Oscar Alba, 31, and Sabrina Sandoval,...

Take our survey and let us know when you think it's OK to grab fruit from someone else's tree. Your...

On June 12, California will open its first new state park in nearly a decade, setting aside 1,600 acres near...

“Visitation,” 2024, photo-collage and thread (dama / For The Times) This story is part of Image’s April issue, “Reverie” —...

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger demolished a famed midcentury home designed by late architect Craig Ellwood to make room for...

On the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 25, I drive to West Hollywood to spend a night at a hotel. I...

Carrizo Plain National Monument in eastern San Luis Obispo County is one of California’s most iconic wildflower viewing areas, but...

Joy Lee has lived in the L.A. area for her entire life, but the 48-year-old says she hasn’t felt an...

Every tattoo has a story. Some are good; others may leave a nagging sense of regret.Those tattoos that make you...

I begrudgingly met my husband. I had been in L.A. for a short time and was keeping busy with the...

pet-tree-kor’s Green Helicteres Isora Jacket. (Photo Illustration by Beth Hoeckel) We find ourselves in that time of year dedicated to...

What should you do if your pot-smoking neighbor is stinking up your yard? Why aren’t there any legally licensed consumption...

“Is that the trail?” I asked Steve, my longtime adventuring buddy. Not out of frustration or worry. I was more...

What is a dream if not a vacation for the mind? To get lost in a reverie is a momentary...

With the city of Anaheim unanimously voting to pass DisneylandForward, the Disneyland Resort will be forever changed. Twice in the...

In 2021, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour created new interactive exhibits focused on the company’s recent history, unveiling areas dedicated...

A bag becomes a different thing entirely when worn by different personalities — similar to how no one perfume smells...

Our 17-year-old Honda CR-V (affectionately dubbed “Broomhilda”) met her tragic, premature demise last summer when a deer bolted out of...

A bag becomes a different thing entirely when worn by different personalities — similar to how no one perfume smells...

Book Review Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder's Lens By José VadiSoft Skull Press: 256 pages, $26If you buy books linked...

Sunday is Tia Mowry’s favorite day of the week because it’s the day that she gets to do whatever she...

My mother, a UCLA graduate, switched her allegiance on a dime the day I enrolled at USC. She and my...

A bag becomes a different thing entirely when worn by different personalities — similar to how no one perfume smells...

A bag can be an appendage. A hiding spot for secrets. An extension of self. It is, in its purest...

Word got out that there was a whistleblower wanting to meet. The company was suspicious, but this was the first...

Disneyland’s Star Tours: The Adventures Continue has proved to be one of the theme park’s most versatile attractions.Though perhaps no...

Los Angeles residents hoping to see a superbloom this spring don’t need to go far — a field of flowers...

Scan the rolling hills of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve and you’ll notice something missing. Golden poppies. Even as...

When my partner Daniel and I reached our late 20s, our social lives became attending other people’s weddings. Another Friday...

In a cavernous convention hall in Northern California, at the end of a long, loooong day of important, yes, but...

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for...

Two weeks after I lost my sister, she visited me in a dream. Was it her, or was the dream...

The L.A. Times Plants booth returns to The Times’ Festival of Books on April 20-21 with the Theodore Payne Foundation...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in...

If you’re lucky, some concerts are free with RSVP. This one is free if you bring dirty laundry.Laundry Wand is...

Tyler, the Creator teams up with Louis Vuitton and Pharrell Williams Louis Vuitton has teamed again with rapper, producer and...

We plodded through an obsidian darkness, one deliberate step at a time, our headlamp beams illuminating the way. The steep...

My first spot in L.A. looked like a scene from “Melrose Place.” Two stories, old motel style, courtyard in the...

You’d be hard pressed to find someone with local roots deeper than L.A.-born Cheech Marin, who parlayed a 1970s stoner...

The iconic L.A. nightclub the Conga Room closed its doors for a final time Wednesday night, but not before filling...

It’s a rainy Wednesday evening at low-lit, moody Arts District hangout Tea at Shiloh, where a dozen students including myself...

Early Sunday morning, hundreds of hikers and Dodgers fans gathered in a parking lot in Griffith Park. They were decked...

When the Los Angeles Times decided to launch its version of a news quiz earlier this year, I suddenly found...

An immaculate metal box built in 1931 to symbolize the future bounced around the East Coast for decades before recently...

In 1994, Eric Nakamura launched a zine he dubbed Giant Robot, a photocopied, hand-stapled fanboy’s ode to manga, anime, Japanese...

Eli Susman was a fairly experienced meditator when he attended a month-long retreat at Plum Village, a Buddhist monastery in...

There is something about getting on a bus in L.A. that puts transport — in the mystical and joyous sense...

It wasn’t like Marlon Brando to go spilling his private beans to the world about the life he had spent...

The theme park industry is expansive. The catch-all term encompasses your favorite rides, yes, but also an assortment of industries,...

I met an executive chef in November 2022 at a posh Las Vegas restaurant where he worked. Sitting alone at...

In the last couple decades, a new way to measure an L.A. party has emerged: If there’s not a Glenjamn...

Jesse Kingsley was in full geek-out mode.Despite being a puppet builder and enthusiast for more than two decades, he had...

In her poem "Play, 1966," from her forthcoming collection "With My Back to the World," Chang observes the effects of...

I always start with a photograph on my phone. Sometimes I’m not looking for images — the images are just...

With all the recent rain, 2024 is shaping up to be a fabulous year for flowers, not just in the...

Seated on a chair, with the hum of twin furnaces and the Impressions playing in the background, glassblower Cedric Mitchell...

Don’t hold off until summer: March and April are two of the best months for weekend road trips because the...

People will soon be able to trek from the steps of the Nevada state Capitol in Carson City through the...

I was a teenager getting ready to attend Sequoia Junior High School in Reseda in 1960. My father heard that...

Jess wears Hellstar shirt, Brain Dead pants, Prada shoes, Heaven by Marc Jacobs bag. (Jennelle Fong / For the Times)...

The castle is immaculate, its gold etching regal and its towers a bold shade of sky blue. The band at...

Avery, styled as the Priestess, wears Balenciaga dress and shoes, Ashton Michael necklace and cuff. I want so badly to...

Come for the matcha latte, stay for a potential sighting of Justin and Hailey Bieber. Or is it the other...

Over dinner in Hollywood, a friend confides that she’s spritzing it on the soles of her feet at night and...

Krysta Grasso, 27, is the owner of the crochet brand Unlikely Fox. Surrounded by a sea of colorful yarn, 27-year-old...

Crossing up and over the fabled Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada and descending to Lake Tahoe is one...

The first time I called Scott by my ex’s name, we were lying side by side. The morning air was...

Miss Dior Avenue pop-up comes to West Hollywood (Christian Dior Parfums / Marc Patrick/BFA.com) Sometimes you need a 1960s-inspired style...

Alexis Fischer was excited to jump back into the dating world after being single for two years. The professional dancer-turned-entrepreneur...

To say it’s difficult to date in Los Angeles is almost like saying the traffic is bad. Yes, we know!...

Michael Arceneaux at the Hollyhock House. Arceneaux wears Loewe shirt, Isabel Marant denim jeans and jacket, Louis Vuitton shoes, Akoni...

Come spring in California, after even a little bit of rain, people start asking the big questions: When does the...

It’s hard to know what to do or say when a loved one is in the throes of a devastating...

When I opened the door of my apartment, something felt off. The way the click of the lock echoed in...

Walking through the garden of designer and sculptor Vince Skelly’s Claremont home is a distinct local sensory experience. Following a...

For some Los Angeles galleries, home is where the art is — or in the laundry room, also known as...

Book Review Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings By Matt LodderWilliam...

With a comfortable stroll, Sean Bankhead stepped into Evolution Studios dressed in a black Nike sweatsuit. It was January and...

A queer bar. A bedroom. A freeway. A swap meet. A billboard. “At the Edge of the Sun” celebrates the...

Under red lights, a man in a cowboy hat swings his partner around a crowded dance floor. House and disco...

Under the canopy of the enormous olive tree that shades his home, Daniel Gerwin’s 11-year-old son ascends the tree’s gnarled...

If there was an award for the most wellness-focused couple in Los Angeles, Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia would take...

As the Ferris wheel reached its apex and Sam leaned in to kiss me, I felt like Meg Ryan or...

I’ve never given much thought to my scalp. Aside from the occasional subconscious scritch-scratch or vigorous shampooing, it’s kind of...

Beyoncé revealed she hasn’t always been “flawless” when it comes to her hair. The “Break My Soul” singer got candid...

On the first new moon in February, not long after Pluto had entered Aquarius, Shima Moore stood like a priestess...

REI will close up shop in Santa Monica at the end of the month, marking the second move out of...

It’s Valentine’s Day, so of course, my thoughts have turned to love.My love of candy. See’s candy, specifically, which I...

In December 2022, I was at Zara in the Glendale Galleria, helping my sister find a coat suitable for a...

When it comes to healing from grief, there’s often not a simple answer, but there are some recommended standbys. Therapy,...

Mike had me cornered. He’d graduated ages ago, but his tastes hadn’t. He still went to high school house parties...

Los Angeles is a city that demands you go outside. The weather, the vibes and the ever-present feeling that anything...

Lynn Bufka isn’t sure how she’s going to get through the next nine months.The licensed psychologist, stress expert and spokesperson...

“Looking for banter!”It’s a dating app standard, among the Billboard Hot 100 of bio banality. Along with a passion for...

I met one of my exes on Grindr. He was an astrological match, and our Virgo/Taurus vibes were palpa­ble. But...

At first glance, the scene unfolding on a leafy, half-crowded patio in West Hollywood looks like any other gastropub on...

“Grandfather! Look over here!” calls Rita Earl Blackwell, her New York accent dissolving into the whipping wind. Wearing an electric...

In a cozy pool house in Holmby Hills, 33-year-old Liana Levi counts backward from 10 as I move my leg...

“At 6601 West 82nd Street, there is the biggest naked coral tree I have ever seen. It’s stunning. Instead of...

At first, Cathlene Pineda was reluctant to join the Atwater Village Moms’ Facebook group.The jazz pianist and composer doesn’t particularly...

In a neighborhood filled with homogeneous Midcentury Modern residences, Brandon McBurney’s Palm Springs home stands out thanks to its 10-foot-tall...

For a moment, I fell under the spell of Bryan Johnson.Bathed in early-morning sunlight, the 46-year-old L.A.-based tech centimillionaire and...

They say you shouldn’t sleep where you work, but Pixar chief Pete Docter means it at as a compliment when...

When NASCAR reached out to Ozzie Juarez, artist and founder of Tlaloc Studios, to make a trophy for the NASCAR...

I had been married for six weeks the night I met Anthony. Tall, olive-skinned with electric green eyes, he was...

LONDON —  Over the bar of a 200-year-old pub in southeast London hangs a sign: “For the people of East Greenwich,...

My dad was born in 1952, the Year of the Dragon. He’s an immigrant from Taiwan who came to the...

If you’ve read our coverage of accessory dwelling units, you know that they are one of the most popular housing...

Many of Lanny Smoot’s best-known inventions are, at least to nonengineers, more like magic tricks. Floating disembodied heads, a lightsaber...

Tearing out your lawn can be a tough decision, especially if you have children or dogs who love to roll...

For the story “The greatest trees of Los Angeles,” writer Ryan Bradley and photographer Devin Oktar Yalkin went on a...

There is a sycamore in the front yard of my grandparents’ house, the house where my father grew up. It...

My eyes scanned the crowd in the arrivals area of Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International Airport. Then I saw...

On the stand-up stage, comedian Kate Berlant is a lot — a lot of exaggerated faces, a lot of abrupt...

Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. I’m Adam Tschorn, senior features writer, former game show question-and-answer man and...

Festival season has begun at the Disneyland Resort, with the annual Lunar New Year celebration landing at Disney California Adventure....

Paddleboarding just got simpler with the omission of one major element: water. Los Angeles’ marinas, canals and channels have long...

Thwack! Thwack! Thud!Oh, thank god, my whole body exclaimed. After a few swings, the razor-sharp pick I clutched lodged firmly...

Common and Jennifer Hudson, have a lot in — well, common. They’re Grammy, Emmy and Oscar winners. They were raised...

The older I get, the more I enjoy acting like a kid.I jump at every opportunity to do backflips in...

Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. I’m Adam Tschorn, senior features writer, former game show question-and-answer man, and,...

Close your eyes and imagine Los Angeles. You might conjure palm trees, beaches and blue skies. Traffic-clogged freeways, the downtown...

The bar was almost full when I walked into the restaurant. The hostess greeted me with a smile, a slicked-back...

One night as she was lying in bed, Becky Feldman wondered, “Do I remember how to have sex?” It had...

Louis Vuitton SS24 pop-up in WeHo Louis Vuitton pop-up in West Hollywood. (Brad Dickson) Louis Vuitton has brought the Pont...

Jeanette Marantos started writing for the Los Angeles Times in 1999, doing Money Makeovers until 2002. She returned to write...

Murrieta Hot Springs, a palm-shaded haven of steaming streams and coveted mud just north of Temecula, has been home to...

Since 2014, a recurring art show dedicated to cats has captured common feline actions (commandeering a pet parent’s lap, unflinchingly...

The style gods of Los Angeles walk among us after the sun goes down. (Nichelle Dailey / For The Times)...

In the world of video games, there are plenty of so-called dating simulators, a.k.a. “dating sims,” in which players can...

Since her usual hazardous waste disposal site closed last year, Dashiel St. Damien has accumulated 20 pounds of batteries and...

From Bottega Veneta tinted shades to S'YTE T/W Gabardine pants, Coveted can help you get right for the grand finale.

You might be reluctant to stay at a $475-a-night inn that warns of flashing lights and foghorns throughout the night,...

If you’ve spent any amount of time on TikTok or talking to your 12-year-old niece, you’ve probably heard of the...

Ten years ago, when Bianca Del Rio was crowned the winner of Season 6 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” it was...

Last weekend, when my family was shopping at Costco, one of the free sample lines caused a shopping cart traffic...

The thought of the approaching holidays and having to attend the firm’s end-of-year party without a plus-one made me gasp....

Arezu Aghaseyedjavadi signed up for her first Barry’s class in 2017, motivated to give the high-intensity workout a try after...

Years ago, when they were feeling lost and directionless and leaning too heavily on their vices, Edgar Fabián Frías cast...

SEDONA, Ariz. —  The rock formation known as Kachina Woman rises like an obelisk out of a cool green canyon. At...

It’s about 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, and the all-white-clad members of the House of Avalon are huddled in...

Channel your inner adventurer. You may have seen “Nyad,” the Netflix film about Diana Nyad, in which the American distance...

I was a worrier. An overthinker. A planner. But plans don’t always work out. So I shut my eyes and...

Even if you didn’t feel the ground move beneath your feet during Friday morning’s 4.2 magnitude SoCal earthquake, or the...

What if the end of the world is a constant, rather than a finale? (Joelle Grace Taylor / For The...

Ken Gun Min is a daydreamer.“I have one foot in reality and the other in fantasy,” the painter says as...

My New Year’s resolution this year is simple. This weekend — my first back in L.A. after visiting family for...

Bobby Kim, left, and Ben Shenassafar, a.k.a. Bobby Hundreds and Ben Hundreds, are co-founders of the brand. Over the last...

In a story with outrageous, less-than-savory personalities, one character stands apart: the stage. Or, in this case, the 13th-story penthouse...

We tend to look to the new year as a new beginning, as an opportunity for a fresh start. Aspiring...

I packed up my life in New York for Los Angeles, certain love was waiting for me on the other...

Photographer Paul Yem illustrates what he calls “manufactured happiness” — how we’ve turned to our houses to give us what...

(aliana mt / For The Times) In Silver Lake, there’s a canyon that feels very Middle Earth-esque. Totaling out like...

In L.A., a runway takes on many forms. The Lassens on Sunset: Runway. The Hammer on a weekend: Runway. The...

(aliana mt / For The Times) A gruff nun introduced me to the concept of apocalyptic architecture. She was my...

What’s that old adage? If you want to know what the kids are wearing, go to Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival....

When I read the news that Silver Lake’s Café Tropical had abruptly closed, memories came flooding back — memories of...

Take a moment to time-travel back to December 2019, when invitations to actual, in-person holiday parties flew fast and furiously...

Saptarshi Majumdar likes to say he always has the best seat in the house. Sometimes it’s next to the DJ...