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I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s Tasting Notes. The hard work of ‘forging a new path’ “How can we rectify the screaming and shouting …

On the Shelf Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences By Neal Allen and Anne Lamott Avery: 208 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The …

Replacing Griffith Park’s historic but idle swimming pool is likely to take at least three years and cost $40 million while delivering a competition pool, a neighboring recreational pool and …

There is no such thing as a day of rest for artist Kenny Scharf, not even Sunday. “I wake up super early. It’s still dark outside,” the Los Angeles native …

My father spent the 1970s selling hunger to America: soda, waffles, chips, anything that promised satisfaction in 30 seconds flat. He also weighed 450 pounds and was always on a …

War in Iran. Sleeper cells. Soaring gas prices. A new virus. ICE arrests. The acceleration of AI. And a rogue food delivery robot. Is your heart racing yet? Amid one …

I have never managed to score a reservation to Bar Cecil, the restaurant that opened in April 2021 as an homage to Sir Cecil Beaton, the famously flamboyant British photographer, …

Most people think you can’t walk without an Achilles tendon. Jo Giese begs to differ, especially since she hikes without one. The L.A. hiker, journalist and community activist shares her …

The line at Holbox during the midweek lunch hour has become a cultural sensation, a queue of locals and visitors trailing past the automatic doors and around the parking lot …

Scattered orange California poppies, California Lilac with bright blue blooms, and hummingbird sage with dark rose-lilac-colored flowers spontaneously tell us what we already know: Spring has arrived. Southern California, especially …