Los Angeles - The Bold Italic

To Los Angeles From Oakland, I Go

The familiar and novel — in both challenging and affirming iterations...

While the world fell apart, I needed a safe haven: Oakland...

A.k.a. My Love Affair with Craft Fairs...

Before you start screaming, hear me out...

“It’s letters on a hillside. That’s it. Yawn.”...

We were crawling by the end....

The rivalry between LA and SF isn’t on par with, say, the East Coast–West Coast divide, but the...

And some road games you can play to stop freaking out about it...

By Clarissa Wei Let’s be honest — living at Mom and Dad’s is not sexy. In America, it screams...

My parents had always been less than stellar when it came to boundaries....

By Abigail Stone; Illustrated by Allison Gore In other places, life happens in restaurants. Not in LA. Here people invite...

The name has been debated, but anyone who took a high school Spanish class knows Los Feliz is pronounced fey-leece....