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Seeing live music is expensive these days. Since the pandemic, the costs of touring are higher, the processes for getting tickets are more difficult, and the demand for live music …

Anita Herrera on the corner of Florence and Pacific in Huntington Park, where she grew up. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) After running to every corner of the city …

I invited my then-girlfriend to spend the day with me at the Happiest Place on Earth, one of her absolute favorite things to do. What she didn’t know was that …

If you’re swooning over the superbloom, Skull Canyon Ziplines has a two-fer deal for you — a chance to walk on private trails through lush beds of wildflowers and then …

I’ve never really understood the Hillstone Restaurant Group marketing strategy, which seems to be … whatever the opposite of building brand recognition is. Houston’s, Hillstone, R+D Kitchen, Honor Bar, South …

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, the snowpack in the Sierra was a mere 65%, which meant that rafting seasons were short-lived on some rivers. This year, …

Dozens of balloon fragments, plastic arrow caps, water bottles and granola bar wrappers litter the Lower Arroyo archery trails I’m hiking with twin sisters Kelly and Christy Villasor on a …

Slowly, but as surely as the sun will rise, our Southern California landscape is changing. Recent rains notwithstanding, water is becoming too precious a commodity to use on irrigating huge …

Hiking a social trail behind Joshua Tree National Park’s famed Cap Rock, I came across a peculiar sight that, if you know what you’re looking for, actually isn’t so unusual …

At the top of my wish list for Los Angeles restaurants: more chefs articulating the spice-fragrant, sun-soaked flavors of North Africa and western Asia (a.k.a. the Middle East, a term …