Life Style

The way Sheila E. remembers it, she received her first call about a gig as a working Los Angeles musician as she was busy unpacking the moving truck with which …

I’m so disheartened at the ability of men to work through their emotions. I’ve been chronically lovebombed and ghosted. I changed therapists, did nine months of celibacy, started dating slow …

I’ve never been good at giving news. I wanted to be a journalist in college, but I kept crying when I listened to NPR, so I chose comedy instead. With …

For families, the Palm Springs Air Museum is an unexpected gem. Kids 12 and under are free, and many of the volunteer docents are veterans who can share insights and …

The man I’m talking to tells me he has no name. “Hey” is what he responds to, and he says he can be best described as a “travel agent,” a …

After losing count of just how many bush poppy shrubs were blooming around me, I snapped a few photos of the delicate yellow flowers and texted them to my friend …

According to relationship scientist Paul Eastwick, online dating is a market where there are dramatic winners and losers. “I think our modern existence happens to pull from modes of interaction …

The photograph is so intimate, so vulnerable, it’s painful to look at. It depicts a woman in her early 20s lying on a hospital bed twisted to the side, her …

Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers’ makeshift kitchen worktop, waiting to be cooked. Ecologist Greta …

Editor’s note: Following the death of Times plants writer Jeanette Marantos, we are pushing pause on our monthly L.A. Times Plants newsletter. We’ll be back when we have an update …