Life Style

In a dark room, women grunted and stuck out their tongues as they exhaled. Eyes closed, feet bare, they clapped and stomped to house music. Soundproof paneling prevented their guttural …

Nicole Fitzgerald was 25 when she and husband Rick Steil bought a 1926 bungalow in Pacific Palisades on a tree-lined street graced with similarly romantic Spanish Colonial single-family homes. In …

For many Californians, the holidays are a time to show gratitude through thoughtful generosity. For loved ones, we may want to spend the time searching for that perfect present or …

Tamales are gifts you can open again and again. Wait — those are books. Tamales are gifts you can open once, because once they’re unwrapped they’re going directly into our …

I have a confession to make. When it comes to holiday gifting, I’ve always been a bit of a candle curmudgeon. Something about it always struck me as phoning it …

This season, Los Angeles brims with volunteer opportunities, from delivering gifts to walking Doberman puppies. Soup kitchens, animal shelters and outdoor cleanup crews stretch from Long Beach to Santa Clarita. …

In “Sunday Funday,” L.A. people share their ideal Sundays to help us all freshen up our weekends. It’s understandable why Roxane Gay prefers to keep her Sundays laid-back. The bicoastal, …

Scroll through the discussion boards of the home and interior design website Houzz and you’ll uncover a piercing truth: Relationships and renovations clash like wall-to-wall carpeting and avocado kitchen tile. …

It’s hard to be blasé about the Sink Twice. I don’t want to oversell a plastic sink that sits over a toilet tank, but this ingenious, relatively low-cost device could …

There’s something special about a holiday trip to a national park. At many parks, you get more space to yourself, with crowds dispersing after summer ends. Snow falls, depending on …