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Source: LA Times

  • Grief changes you. Michael Arceneaux is writing through it

    Forty-eight hours of torrential downpour betray the natural logic of Los Angeles. Submerged roadways, mudslides and record-setting rainfall have transformed the Southland city.

  • ‘I thought it was career suicide’: Ice-T on playing a cop in ‘New Jack City’

    A scene from “New Jack City” featuring, from left, Russell Wong, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson and Ice-T.

  • Op-Ed: L.A. transformed my relationship with football — and with myself

    Los Angeles saved my life. I arrived in the city as a broken NFL player, after suffering a terrible injury, and at the heels of great personal grief.

  • This comedian just won a $550,000 prize. Up next: A boundary-pushing Culver City show

    Part of the world may have moved on from COVID-19, but performance artist Kristina Wong is reliving the worst of the pandemic.

  • Kristina Wong assembled ‘aunties’ to sew masks. Her pandemic mission is now a must-see show

    Performance artist, comedian and community activist Kristina Wong is delivering the pandemic debriefing I didn’t know how badly I needed.

  • Not sure why you say yes when you really mean no? The Consent Wizard is here to help

    “Consent is all around us,” says Mia Schachter, an intimacy coordinator whose classes on consent expand the concept into every part of our lives.

  • Toppling the myth of the motherly aesthetic by going topless in L.A.

    To say I’ve never been a modest dresser may be an understatement. I’ve always been a fan of showing some skin — despite the criticisms lobbed from my parents, teachers and other authority figures; the harassment from men and boys;…

  • Toppling the myth of the motherly aesthetic by going topless in L.A.

    This story is part of Parents Are Cool!, the third issue of Image, which explores the myriad ways in which L.A. parents practice the craft of care.

  • Meet the innovative literary leader Glory Edim of Well-Read Black Girl

    Glory Edim, founder of Well-Read Black Girl, which started as a book club and has launched a literary conference, will appear at the L.A. Times Festival of Books.

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