Despite warnings from friends and fellow travelers, we decided to spend a December vacation in Chicago. Nearly everyone tried to talk us out of it, saying it would be too...
Family vacations are one of those things I plan yearly that bring excitement and nausea. As the eldest daughter of my family with aging parents who, after a lifetime of...
One of the most powerful inventions of the 20th century is also an object that no one ever wants a reason to use. The sexual-assault-evidence collection box, colloquially known as...
United States food regulators have banned Red Dye 3, a dye used in food, drinks and medicine after evidence found that it causes cancer in rats. On Wednesday, the Food...
Botika, a started focused on AI-generated fashion models, has raised $8 million and launched its new mobile iOS app. While human fashion models are not going to like this, Botika...
It’s hard to pinpoint what makes Colorado’s ski town Snowmass stand out. I could argue that it’s the mountain itself. As one of the state’s largest ski mountains, people spend...
An Indonesian woman can breathe clearly again after firefighters rescued her from the captivity of an office chair. The young woman was at work in Bandung City, Indonesia, when she...
The Avian Influenza has claimed the lives of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo announced they received results that confirmed the highly...
The day that the Eaton fire began, Jake Viator had just finished some work remodeling his midcentury Altadena home. Viator, a mastering engineer for the local record label Stones Throw,...
Felipe Ortega has spent 38 years — more than half of his life — working at Gladstones in Pacific Palisades. He started as a busboy and worked his way to...
