Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is so big and sprawling, a puzzle board of cities within cities, that using one name to tie them all together isn’t really fair. Tell someone from out of state that you live in L.A. and you’re not really saying much. But share your...
Bacteria on babies depends on delivery
Los Angeles Times, print edition Concern about a newborn’s bacterial flora is not a topic you’re likely to hear discussed in the waiting room of the maternity ward — but that may change. A new study has found that the way in which babies are delivered exposes them to...
Effect of call-based counseling rings true
Los Angeles Times The therapist-patient relationship is crucial to people battling depression, addiction, weight gain and diabetes. But that relationship might not always have to be in person to be effective. Over the last decade, numerous hospitals and clinics have...
Om and Hip Hop: Exploring the Meaning of Self-Care with Trap Yoga
Evenbrite We’re crouched on rubber mats, our legs apart, knees bent, and butts shaking as “Twerk” by City Girls and Cardi B blares through a set of speakers. A pulsing mass of nearly 100 women of all ages, shapes, and sizes, we’re gathered together on a Sunday morning...
How the Food Community is Using Eventbrite to Pivot to a Virtual Model
Eventbrite Despite our current worldwide pandemic, the last two months have been some of the busiest for Bow Market, a retail and food space in Sommerville, MA. “We have tons of different kinds of shoppers coming through,” says Leah Pringle, the venue’s event...
Virtual Book Clubs Are Getting Us Through Our Time at Home
Eventbrite By the time quarantine is over — whenever that may be — would you rather be able to brag about watching all five seasons of Outlander or finishing all 1,079 pages of David Foster Wallace’s notoriously lengthy and complex tome, Infinite Jest?...
Taking “Shop Local” Global: Renegade Craft’s First Fully-Virtual Event
Eventbrite When can virtual shopping feel authentic? When there’s more to it than just shopping. Renegade Craft knows this. For the last 17 years, they’ve orchestrated art- and design-focused events across the country, in cities like San Francisco, Denver, Chicago,...
The Drug That Makes You Spend All Your Money
Abilify treats depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, but it can also lead to compulsive gambling, shopping, eating, and sex. OK Whatever Last week, Fareed Khalil* bought a figurine for $150. The week before that, he spent a similar amount on a...
Why Would You Fake Having Cancer?
A lymphoma survivor investigates disease scamming — a growing trend of faking health tragedies to rake in donations. OK Whatever Most people didn’t know that I had cancer. They didn’t know why I stopped going to school or why I was suddenly absent from basketball...
Yoga For The Not-So-Young
It’s no secret that humans develop aches and pains in the normal course of spending time on the planet, but while many people pooh-pooh it and carry on, Lulu Bhanda yoga teacher Kira Ryder notes that sometimes these changes can have a big impact. “The small details we...