Shea Backes

A teen magazine so daring, so outrageous, so scandalizing and sexually suggestive that it only lasted…five issues.

You might know that Los Angeles beaches get dirty after a winter storm, but it remains a problem in the summer, too. Why? And does it keep anyone away?

Measure A – on LA County ballots this November – asks voters whether or not to approve a sales tax hike to fund homeless services and affordable housing.

Field trips to the Ballona Wetlands bring environmental education to kids who might not spend time in nature.

Summer is a fine artist and stay-at-home mom who wants to become financially independent by the time her youngest son moves out.

For the first time since World War II, Japanese Americans gathered at the site of the former Manzanar internment camp to play baseball at a reconstructed field.

Small stages provide a place for newer acts to gain exposure. But faced with inflation and corporate competition, venue owners have to be scrappy.

Hobbyists and nostalgia chasers are coming back to film photography. Meet the local small business owners keeping up with demand.

The origin story of Miss Pamela Des Barres, the original queen of the groupies, author of the iconic memoir, I’m With the Band.