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...
How Reggae Fest Is Bringing Authenticity Back to Nightlife
Eventbrite The party scene is an ever-evolving, ever-changing beast. But the basic ingredients for throwing a successful soirée are fairly consistent: good music, good drinks, and lots of dancing. CJ Milan, the founder and mastermind behind Reggae...
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,...
Derrick Knight’s Grand Plan to Perform on the Moon
LA Weekly On a Friday night in May, a smattering of people hangs around outside the Moon Pad, a peach-colored house-turned-hostel in Boyle Heights. I have been invited to a party here by Derrick Knight, the Moon Pad's 28-year-old founder and manager. He promised a...
Snooping Around Nicolas Cage’s San Francisco House
Could I learn more about my favorite actor by poking around his old Victorian mansion? OK Whatever I know a lot about Nicolas Cage. I know, for example, that he has a fondness for flamboyant jackets. He’s worn zebra-striped blazers on dinner dates and gold leather...
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...
Visiting Dead Relatives on Google Street View
Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased. OK Whatever Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a...
Will the Original Bob Ross Painting Please Stand Up?
In the market for a genuine piece of artwork by the iconic artist? Good luck. (You’ll need it.) OK Whatever Bob Ross was a mythical unicorn. From his perfectly coiffed and permed hair to his gentle demeanor and ASMR voice, there was nobody else like him on TV for...