Month: January 2020

Tim Burton’s aliens, spiral-eyed girl and flying saucers aren’t leaving Las Vegas anytime soon. The “Lost Vegas” art show at the Neon Museum has been extended through April 12, according to a Thursday news release. Burton too will be back to the city he has been visiting “since I was basically a baby,” he said…

In a move that could put the Obama-era health insurance law squarely in the middle of the 2020 election, Democratic-led states Friday asked the Supreme Court for a fast-track review of a recent court ruling that declared part of the statute unconstitutional and cast a cloud over the rest. A coalition of 20 states led…

1/8 Actress Diana Maria Riva in the backyard of her Spanish-style Burbank home.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 2/8 Chairs made by her son for Mother’s Day.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 3/8 A fire pit.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 4/8 The actress calls her backyard her “comfort space.”  (Dania Maxwell…

1/18 Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bündchen are asking $33.9 million for their Massachusetts home, down about $6 million from when the five-acre estate first listed for sale last year.  (Erhard Pfeiffer) 2/18 The Richard Landry-designed manor features a classic brick exterior, modern amenities and a country-inspired kitchen.   (Erhard Pfeiffer) 3/18 Tom Brady’s Massachusetts…

With apologies to multiple lyricists, there’s music in the air and lots of home sales everywhere this week. A rocker bides his time and offers his mountain retreat for lease while waiting for a buyer, a guitarist finds a home that hooks him, and a songwriter puts pen to sales contract in Nashville. Our Home…

Click:mining equipment Winter in Southern California is a time when hikers can take advantage of cooler temperatures, which means longer hikes without risking heat stroke. But days are shorter and darker at this time of year, which means you need to carry more gear to be prepared. Here are some items designed to make the…

You’re just not getting out enough. Really. Author and environmentalist Richard Louv has been warning the world about nature-deficit disorder, loosely described as a state in which humans lose their connection with the outdoors. “An expanding body of scientific evidence suggests that nature-deficit disorder contributes to a diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, conditions…

January in Los Angeles is a special time: The air feels a little crisper, there’s snow coating the mountains in the distance, and many Angelenos are just easing back into their regular schedules while trying to be mindful of their New Year’s resolution. Whether your resolution has you experimenting with veganism, meditating or spending more…

When Los Angeles interior designer Schuyler Samperton was growing up in Maryland, her mother used a men’s black-and-white houndstooth-check suit fabric to recover their sofa, placed against a wallpaper featuring blueprints of Italian villas. Antique Indian tree of life panels were tablecloths. “Our house didn’t look like any of my friends’,” she says. Samperton now…

The United Methodist Church has long been riven by bitter divisions between its U.S. and international congregations over whether to allow same-sex marriage and ordain gay clergy. Now it appears the church — whose 7 million U.S. members make it the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination — is heading for a permanent split. On Friday its…