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Summer travel: It’s something we think longingly about all winter long — even more so after sticking close to home for more than two years. We daydream about possible trips …

With the Fourth of July holiday recently in the rearview mirror — and Labor Day just barely visible on the horizon — the country has entered peak picnic season. For …

Mike Davis in his San Diego home on July 12, 2022. (Adam Perez / For The Times) This story is part of Image issue 12, “Commitment (The Woo Woo Issue),” …

“The word that comes to mind with L.A. is expansiveness,” the dancer Marissa Brown says. “Every time I’m dropped into different types of work, I try to figure out, how …

Not all friendships are created equal. What you think of as a circle of friends is more like a pyramid of stacked disks; the broad base is populated with random …

Los Angeles is one of the best-known cities in the world, famous for celebrity sightings, gorgeous beaches and warm winters. As any Angeleno knows (native or transplant), these perks come …

On a recent afternoon, Stephanie Carrie walked up to a cork oak tree on Potomac Avenue, a residential street in Mid-City, and put her hand up against the bark. She …

In the now-infamous summer of 2020, the Baziks’ new business had customers lining up down the block. SarahCotta Plants opened its Glendale doors that July, a bold move by its …

Some Dans and Daniels. One Danny. A multitude of Ians. Zachs with an H and Zacks with a K. All these men have lived in my phone contacts, unceremoniously IDed …

TAYLORSVILLE, Calif. —  It was between the third and fourth evacuations from the Dixie fire that Kjessie Essue decided to be a farmer-florist. She was already experimenting with growing flowers in …