Every Southern California theme park ride, ranked

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Licorice root, reishi mushrooms and vitamin B-6 are often among the ingredients listed in various adaptogenic…

L.A. Times travel quiz: How well do you know the West Coast?

Travel writer Christopher Reynolds floats in a pond at the magnesium-chloride-rich waters of the Guerrero Negro…

Download the checklist of the 101 best West Coast experiences

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The 10 most memorable things to do on the West Coast

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Tell us: What’s the most extraordinary West Coast experience?

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L.A.’s only Spanish-language kids’ bookstore will soon get más grande

When Chiara Arroyo and Celene Navarrete decided to sell Spanish-language children’s books in 2012, they weren’t…

Experimental art collective Meow Wolf is coming to L.A.

A Meow Wolf exhibition is designed as a dream space, a walk-through floor-to-ceiling collection of psychedelic…

Meet the L.A. artist whose spiritual card decks have touched the world

It’s the first Sunday morning of spring in the Wilshire-Montana neighborhood of Santa Monica and local…

What to know about riding your bike on the Inglewood Pumptrack

On a rainy Sunday morning in Inglewood, while most of the sprawling Edward Vincent Jr. Park…