Lucy Mary Taylor lost touch with most of her classmates from Coleg Gwent in Newport, Wales, but she kept in close contact with her pal Gabrielle Lopategui. Ms. Lopategui, whom she met in 2010, was the first of her friends to marry, and Ms. Taylor felt honored to be invited to the wedding. But beside … Read more
As a widow for nearly four years, I was hoping to answer the question “Can I find love again?” with a yes. I had been happily married for 45 years when my husband died from heart failure and complications of multiple sclerosis. I didn’t expect that he would die at 67 — that I’d become … Read more
There are 63 national parks in the United States, but at the start of 2023, I’d made it to only one. So when my partner, Reanna, bought us tickets to see Big Thief and Lucinda Williams at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, we had an exciting (though surely unoriginal) idea: What if we made it a … Read more
For years in fashion, it was trendy for one designer to helm two brands: their own, usually a relatively small one, and a big heritage house at which they acted as, essentially, talent for hire. John Galliano did it, so did Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang and Karl Lagerfeld (well, he actually ran three brands). Then, … Read more
You can hear the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band before you see them, the sounds drifting down a residential street in Los Feliz at 11 a.m. on a summer Thursday. Packed into a two-car garage that’s full of movie memorabilia, music stands and a truly staggering amount of guitar and mic cables, the ragtag crew … Read more
In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration for where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends. For children of the ’90s wondering whatever happened to predictability, Jodie Sweetin brings some comfort. Along with starring in Hallmark movies, … Read more
In the middle of an unrelenting Los Angeles heat wave, potter Daniel Dooreck greeted his neighbors as they said hello from the sidewalk in front of his single-car-garage pottery studio in Echo Park. It may seem like an unusual place for a pottery studio, but Dooreck’s professional life as an L.A. potter began in an … Read more
An apple-and-honey snacking cake, not long out of the oven, sat on the stovetop in Jake Cohen’s Long Island City apartment. A few feet down the counter was a freshly baked challah blanketed with sesame seeds and flaky salt. A visitor was hungry but tentative. Mr. Cohen was apologetic but firm. The pastry and the … Read more
It’s the open-air bookshelves and palm trees standing sentry in the courtyard. It’s the inventory of more than 100,000 books, including rare finds such as a first American edition of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey,” It’s the Instagram-famous cats that have dwelled at the shop through the years. It’s the long-standing traditions, like selling some books … Read more
Brittany Montero and her brother, Jose, weren’t close growing up. With a 10-year age gap between them, they didn’t have much in common. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, the siblings reconnected through their shared interest in plants. It started as a hobby to cope with quarantine isolation, said Brittany, 33, and a means of healing … Read more