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Steve Lopez: A candid take on mortality and the power of friendship

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They gather several times a week in the parking lot of a Vons supermarket in Mar Vista, and no subject is off-limits. Not even the grim medical prognosis for 70-year-old David Mays, one of the founding members of the coffee klatch.

"It's one of our major topics of conversation," said Paul Morgan, 45, a klatch regular.

Mays is a cancer survivor...Read more

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On Gardening: This new Bright Pink phlox is bringing a 'touch of Texas'

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Southern Blaze Bright Pink phlox is coming next year and with it brings a "Touch of Texas." It will do its part to make sure your neighbors don’t "out phlox" you when it comes to garden flowers. It is indeed a phlox that you will immediately feel is special, even refreshing with a touch of nostalgia.

There is nothing more nostalgia than being...Read more

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Colorado tries to combat teacher shortage with $10,000 grants for educators

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DENVER — When Jolene Phillips decided to go back to school to become a special education teacher, the 52-year-old had already spent nearly two decades in the classroom as an aide.

She graduated from Western Colorado University last year, a feat she said was made possible by a $10,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Education.

“It ...Read more

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Ask Anna: I feel like I'm competing with my boyfriend's hobby for attention

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Dear Anna,

I’ve been with my partner for two years in a rocky but loving relationship. Our main issue is his all-consuming passion for photography. He's on his camera club's volunteer committee, attends meetings every Monday, shoots Wednesday and Thursday evenings plus some Fridays, and spends Saturday and Sunday mornings on photo walks. He ...Read more

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Ask Dating Coach Erika: When should you ask about their financial situation?

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A question I occasionally get (though, not too often since I mainly work with people in the very early stages of meeting and new relationships) is this: “When should I ask the person I’m dating about their finances?”

This has been especially relevant lately in light of the movie "Materialists" out right now about a matchmaker is ...Read more

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How to host the perfect game night, according to the woman who plans Questlove's star-studded ones

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PHILADELPHIA -- The key to hosting a game night so good it brings out Taylor Swift’s competitive side? Overprepare, according to Cathy Rong, Questlove’s chief of staff and the woman behind his viral star-studded board game bashes.

Rong can spend up to three months in advance planning semi-regular game nights for the Roots frontman, ...Read more

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Former shark fishermen now work to protect the animal. A university shark expert helps

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They hesitated at first, but the fishermen jumped into the water after realizing how calm the tiger sharks were, said Chelsea Black.

Black, a postdoctoral researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, spent two weeks at sea, teaching shark fishermen how to tag and release the animals rather than kill them.

Black partners with Project Hiu, a nonprofit ...Read more

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How social work interns are changing lives at these public libraries

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- “That bench, that’s where I used to sleep,” Paul Jackson said, pointing across the street from the Sacramento Central Library. “I went to sleep over there one night. I woke up with one shoe, and my glasses were gone.”

Blind in one eye and living with seizures, Jackson was alone and struggling with access to ...Read more

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Arsenic in books? Exhibit shows that some pages can kill

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BALTIMORE -- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill?

That’s the premise of an exhibit at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum that looks at four toxic pigments used for millennia and around the world to illustrate and bind books: mercury, arsenic, lead and the bright-yellow mineral known as “orpiment.” The...Read more

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An astronaut called a satellite 'impossible.' With UC Davis, he'll help launch it

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Not much can surprise someone who partook in four shuttle missions and three space walks during a 36-year career with NASA. Let alone, for someone who has spent their life studying space and space travel, the proposal of a new satellite technology.

But when Stephen Robinson, director of UC Davis’ Center for Space ...Read more

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This former teacher and coach is staging his first art exhibition -- at age 90

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PHILADELPHIA -- Seymour Lemonick just accomplished something few 90-year-olds can dream of: staging his first art exhibition.

For the retired Philadelphia teacher and football coach — a sculptor and self-taught woodworker whose Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, home is a makeshift museum — it’s a pinch-me moment.

“This is beyond my wildest ...Read more

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Lori Borgman: Making good moves to stage a house

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The last time we sold a house was 40 years ago, so we were unfamiliar with the current concept of “staging a house” before selling it. When our youngest daughter and husband mentioned staging their house, we thought live music and refreshments might be involved. Wrong again.

Staging a house means you declutter, deep clean and enter all your...Read more

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The Kid Whisperer: How to deal with constant requests for snacks

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Dear Kid Whisperer,

My question is about snacking. My kids are eating 24/7. We have plenty to do, but everything we do needs a snack to go with it. I also don’t want to give my kids eating complexes. I’m trying to balance it out. I need phrases to get them through to the next meal. We do have a midday snack every day, but they want dessert ...Read more

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Ex-etiquette: Putting the adult children first

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Q. Although my ex has never been officially diagnosed, she must have some sort of affliction because no one could be as terrible as she is without having something. That’s fine for me. I left her long ago, but my children, who are now adults, constantly complain about her. I can certainly identify with their observations, and I wish I had been...Read more

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The Palisades fire spewed toxins into the Pacific. Summer surf camps are paying the price

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LOS ANGELES — The wave is all anger and elegance. Shaped like a cursive C, it hurtles toward the Santa Monica shore.

A child on a surfboard balances on its crest. Or at least he tries to.

The boy wipes out. Hard.

But then he pops up in the whitewash, all smiles. His Aqua Surf School instructor is grinning too.

On this happy day, the ...Read more

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Jerry Zezima: Sorry, wrong number

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If Alexander Graham Bell, who is credited with patenting the first telephone, were alive today, he’d be:

(a) On hold.

(b) Getting relentless calls about his car’s extended warranty.

(c) Convinced that my new smartphone has a dumb owner.

The correct answer is:

(d) All of the above.

At least Bell has the good sense not to call me — and...Read more

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Ask Anna: My partner uses AI for emotional support instead of me

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Dear Anna,

I've been with my girlfriend for eight months, and I'm starting to feel like I'm competing with her phone for her attention — but not in the way you'd expect. She's become obsessed with AI chatbots. At first I thought it was just a novelty thing, but now when she's stressed about work, upset with her family, or even excited about ...Read more

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At Paris Fashion Week, accessories were more personal than anything else

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A few weeks ago, I was bound to crutches after fracturing the neck of my femur while running a half-marathon with Image's fashion director at large, Keyla Marquez. This happened right before Paris Fashion Week for the men's spring/summer 2026 season, which we both had plans to attend, and I was left with two options: resign myself to a Frida ...Read more

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Heidi Stevens: On long list of things being cut, art may seem inconsequential. It's not

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In the past few months I’ve traveled to an extravagant, loveless wedding on the coast of Rhode Island, a midsize prep school outside Boston, a long, awful, gorgeous goodbye between two soulmates inside Graceful Shepherd Hospice, a retirement community in Maine, a beach-town rental on Cape Cod and a whole bunch of spots in Los Angeles, both ...Read more

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Reel in the fun: Californians can fish for free, no license required, for 2 days this summer

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As beaches fill up and grills fire up across California for the Fourth of July weekend, the state is offering another way to enjoy the great outdoors — free fishing, no license required. This Saturday, anyone can cast a line in a lake, river or the ocean without spending a dime.

July 5 will mark the first of two free fishing days offered by ...Read more

 

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