Called to the threshold, a death doula learns from the dying
While I traveled from my apartment in Los Angeles to B’s house in the woods of Pennsylvania, I realized I knew nothing about death. I prepared myself to meet a ...
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Dental offices don’t need to be sterile holding pens. This Beverly Hills project is plush, pink and magical
Can I interest you in a trip to the dentist? No? Not exactly the trip you’re looking to win on a game show, is it? Most people, myself included, fear ...
Youth, summer, beach. The costumes tell a story in Durga Chew-Bose’s “Bonjour Tristesse”
One of the things that struck me while watching “Bonjour Tristesse,” written and directed by the celebrated author Durga Chew-Bose, was a feeling of being — and I don’t know ...
At the Met Gala, women performed the dandy at its best — twisted, contorted and pumped
The Met Gala is always something of a performance art spectacle. The 2025 edition was no different. What was unique was that it sought to celebrate not just clothes or ...
By deifying Alice Coltrane, we’re missing out on the actual idiosyncratic person she was
In 1971, Alvin Ailey choreographed “Cry!” as a birthday gift for his mother. Alongside music by Laura Nyro, Alice Coltrane’s elegiac “There’s Something About John Coltrane” anchors the choreography, which ...
Relive a Y2K quinceañera in L.A., in all its nostalgia and tenderness
Los Angeles Nomadic Division is celebrating 15 years of championing the city’s artists, and cultural curator Anita Herrera is throwing a true Y2K L.A. quinceañera in its honor on April ...
‘This is art.’ The rich world of lists, stationery and discarded pieces of paper
For the past couple of years, I’ve been going through my dad’s collections. For context, my family moved to Santiago de Chile in ’92 from L.A. — I was born ...
L.A.’s abundant fruit trees, celebrated with style
When I first moved to L.A., I was doing a lot of walks around my neighborhood. I used to live in Pico Union, and then I moved to Echo Park, ...
When is it time to end a relationship?
When is the time to end a relationship if you are in love with your partner? It might be helpful to reframe this painful reality as not the ending of ...
‘We’ve always been here’: An oral history of L.A.’s Black indoor roller-skating scene
It’s a Thursday night and West Coast rap anthems are thumping over the sound system. A group of O.G.s are playing spades at a nearby table. Skaters are lacing up ...
