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Before the fire, Lucy’s Place would come alive in the morning. Gardeners and day laborers would come by for a morning pastry or breakfast burrito and coffee served up by …

The sidewalk sign outside of the Gym Venice was promising: “Your 40+ Comeback Starts Here.” “Well, how about an 80s-plus comeback,” my mom quipped, as we headed inside. She’d just …

For many Californians, crab bakes, crab cakes and crab feeds are traditional holiday fare. But the need to protect humpback whales in California’s coastal waters combined with widespread domoic acid …

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p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Hundreds of VHS tapes are meticulously arranged and displayed. Garage rock tunes blare as guests scour the collections. High-spirited exchanges about “Scream” and “Halloween” fill the air. This …

Renee Tajima-Peña and Melina Abdullah hadn’t met before they gathered in Crenshaw to have a candid conversation about Asian and Black solidarity for the L.A. Times. Tajima-Peña is an Asian …

Nine-year-old Avery Norbryhn can ski backward, which is no small feat. The fourth grader has also mastered jumps at her local hill, Snow Valley Mountain Resort, in the San Bernardino …

Let’s just kick the elephant out of the room right away. It’s hard to write a guide to Highland Park without addressing the “G” word. The neighborhood has been described …

The coastal city of El Segundo is an unlikely location for a massive, new artificial surf park. Other California surf parks with machine-powered wave pools are inland, far from natural …

Though the Dodgers are forever embedded in baseball history, some parents are making extra certain they also prevail in the future — by naming their children after the Boys in …