Lifestyle

Moms: This Mother's Day, it's time to put yourself first
Mother’s Day is about more than flowers and brunch. It can also help set the tone for a year in which women feel more connected to community and find ways to care for their bodies and lifestyles. “I hear from so many moms who forget to breathe, hydrate and take care of themselves in the smallest...

Calendar Letters: Writer, subject converge
Beautiful interview [“Inside the Artistry of Paul Simon,” May 8]. It provided insight into [Robert] Hilburn’s thinking as well as opening a window into what Paul Simon is like. I think in order for the latter to happen, it was necessary for the former to be present. John Snyder Newbury Park :: ...

Elon Musk unveils video of his first underground L.A. tunnel, predicts rides within months
Angelenos may be able to hitch a ride through town on Elon Musk’s in just a few months. The entrepreneur Thursday night of what riders can expect from his proposal to help unsnarl the . “First Boring Company tunnel under LA almost...

There will be no Nobel Prize in literature this year. And that's a shame.
Let’s be honest: The Nobel Prize for literature was broken long before the announcement this month that it would go dark in 2018. That’s not to say its recent laureates are undeserving — OK, maybe not Elfriede Jelinek or (forgive me) Bob Dylan — but then, this raises the question of what deserving...

1 person hospitalized, suspect detained after reports of armed man at Palmdale high school
One person has been detained after a report of an armed man at a Palmdale high school sparked a massive law enforcement response Friday morning. The suspect was spotted at 7:05 a.m. on the campus of Highland High School in Palmdale, according to Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida....

Mountain View's proposed 'Google tax' reminds us that big employers bring not just jobs, but problems
For years now, the debate about job growth in America has sounded one note: More is better, and hugely more is hugely better. But lately, a few communities have sounded discordant notes. The latest is Mountain View, the home of Google and several other big and rapidly growing tech companies. The...

Shohei Ohtani homers again, Angels beat Twins 7-4
It was not a hit. It did not snap a slump that has dragged on for five weeks now. This mattered little to Kole Calhoun, the Angels right fielder who did something with the bat that, for a change, he could feel good about. Calhoun’s sacrifice fly snapped a tie score in the sixth inning and pushed...

Yolonda Ross and 'The Chi' go past the headlines to delve into people's lives on Chicago's South Side
The characters that fill out Showtime’s “The Chi,” which looks at the lives of a mix of people living in the South Side of Chicago, are the kind that often get truncated into stereotypes to boost the stakes of a police case or legal proceeding on television shows: the single black mom working a...

Michael Cohen turned his access to Trump into big money — and now big trouble
Three weeks before the 2016 election, New York lawyer Michael Cohen filed paperwork in Delaware, known as a welcoming host for shell companies, to create the blandly named entity Essential Consultants LLC. At the time, Donald Trump was stumbling toward what the political world assumed would be...