What to do with teenagers in Los Angeles: interesting shops, restaurants and activities
We live in Pasadena with our two teenage children, ages 14 and 17. We moved from the East Coast four…
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California women celebrate reprieve from loss of SNAP food benefits
For Zuri Crawford, the last few weeks have been an emotional whirlwind, going from fear to frustration to now partial…
Review of 'Little Amélie or the Rain Character': impressive and mature animation
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> It's the double whammy of an earthquake and a piece of delicious white chocolate from Belgium, a country…
How to have the best Sunday in Los Angeles, according to Nick Lachey
Over the course of his decades-long career, Nick Lachey has done it all in Hollywood: He's acted, released solo albums,…
In 'All Her Fault', Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning take the blame for mom
This article contains some spoilers for “All Her Fault.” For Sarah Snook, having to leave her two-year-old daughter to go…
Contributor: The sinister message behind Trump telling pregnant women to “hang in there”
The 19th-century “doctrine of maternal impression” held that a woman's thoughts and experiences could physically mark her child. Someone who…
Jake Haro receives 25-year life sentence for murdering baby Emmanuel
Jake Haro, the father of missing baby Emmanuel, whose shocking disappearance activated an army of Internet detectives, was sentenced to…
Contributor: Young children should not watch hours of television. But… what if the Dodgers are in the World Series?
This time of year, almost every morning before dawn, my two-and-a-half-year-old son wakes up, calls me into his room, and…
Appreciation: Strong and warm, June Lockhart was a model of television motherhood
In the two decades following the end of World War II, the cultural gods declared that families should be nuclear—that…
June Lockhart dies; TV's favorite mom on 'Lassie' and 'Lost in Space'
June Lockhart, the eternal TV mom who comforted her son Timmy and his faithful pet collie on “Lassie” and explained…