L.A. Times travel quiz: How well do you know the West Coast?
Travel writer Christopher Reynolds floats in a pond at the magnesium-chloride-rich waters of the Guerrero Negro saltworks in Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur. (Photo by…
California water tunnel cost estimated at $20 billion
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced that the estimated cost of building a tunnel to transport water beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has risen to…
Here Arizona nurtures the Navajo Nation, but lacks water
DENNEHOTSO, Ariz. — Gilarya Begaye looks out across the brush-blanketed pastures, red-dirt plains and flat-topped mesas that surround her home in the Navajo Nation. “Everywhere I’ve…
SAG Awards red carpet: Best dressed at 2024 ceremony
There are only two things certain at the SAG Awards: Stars will reveal how they got their SAG cards, and they’ll deliver award-worthy fashion. A-listers…
Downtown L.A. hotel housing homeless people prompts lawsuit
All across the Academy of Media Arts, there are signs of an active campus life. School projects are still plastered on the walls; books are…
You don’t have to join Soho House to enjoy its free run club
During the middle of a Sunday morning jog through West Hollywood with a run club, marketing executive and digital strategist Mark Baroth exclaims: “I hate…
Santa Cruz’s plans for high-rise living meet opposition
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — You can sense it in the ubiquitous “Help Wanted” posters in artsy shops and restaurants, in the ranks of university students living…
Atheists in Los Angeles seek wonder, awe and community too
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — In the cold dark of a November night, beneath the jagged cliffs of Zion National Park, Dani Hsia posed a question…
Drumboxing is a ‘gym for the brain.’ Would you try it?
It’s an early Wednesday morning, and I’m about to work out — my noggin. I’m at a “gym for the brain” in Malibu, readying for…