No neighbors, no market, no town: For people whose homes survived, a painful road ahead
The people whose houses were spared in the L.A. fires are grappling with a flood of mixed emotions: Their homes are still ...
Rents rise as refugees from the fires squeeze into L.A.’s tight housing market
The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed or damaged more than 8,500 homes in an already tight housing market. Experts said the ...
Frumpy Mom: When should you take the rug rats to Disneyland?
This is just wrong. And the reason it’s wrong is that the child in question will be bored with the park before she’s even old ...
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Protesters walked out of an Idaho committee hearing on same-sex marriage. Here’s why
The Idaho House could soon vote on formally asking that the state once again be allowed to ban marriages between same-sex couples.
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Seth Rogen, Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck and Jenna Ortega to debut projects at SXSW
The South by Southwest Film and TV Festival released the program for this year's event, which will run March 7–14. The opening night's TV selection will be ...
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Some parents fed up with battles between Chicago schools and teachers union: ‘Politics is taking over’
Despite having put five of her kids in Chicago Public Schools, Blaire Flowers said once her eldest daughter graduates high school, she may have to make the difficult ...
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Boiling won't help. Explaining the Palisades and Altadena 'Do Not Use' water alerts
At least seven water districts in County — five in the Altadena area and two in the Malibu/Palisades area — have issued do-not-use or do-not-drink ...
At Night Temple, weary composers find refuge in house shows: ‘You can become kind of hopeless. We need each other’
We were so beaten down by the industry,' singer Carisa Bianco Mellado said of L.A. composers. 'We just want to perform.' ...