Simply Wholesome is a restaurant and health food store in View Park-Windsor Hills that focuses on serving health-conscious meals while showcasing Jamaican culture through their cuisine and decorative design. “A lot of food in the Windsor Hills community was saturated...
On an average day, dancers arrive at Tommy The Clown Academy at least three hours before showtime. They paint each other’s faces in the bathroom, the front room and in the dance studio as they chatter about weekend plans and the big event they hosted in July. “I like...
Ajay Kusnoor recalls the fear he felt coming out to his Indian parents when he was a teen living in a predominantly white community in Texas. He was afraid of becoming an outcast and wondered whether his parents would ever speak to him again. “A real fear for me was...
In the garage of their Laguna Beach home in 1987, 3-year-old Jennifer Kucera watched her father Don carefully shape a piece of wood into one of the mechanical puzzles that he created with his wife Lee. Around 32 years later, Jennifer Kucera, her husband Jesse Rothman...
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., calculus teacher Arthuro Nunez doesn’t take a break. He walks into Inglewood High School an hour before school starts to lead a classroom of 10 academic decathlon students preparing for their upcoming competition. Then Nunez, who is also the...
It’s 1 in the afternoon as the hot Pasadena sun beats down on 17-year-old Jesus Hernandez. He knows this trail well. Leaping from rock to rock, he looks for copper-colored frogs resting in the shade of the Gabrielino Trail. Hernandez visits this trail often through...
1 Timothy 2:11: “A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.” Modern scholars have a variety of interpretations of Christian teachings like this one....
Next to an abandoned auto shop, tucked away at the back of a parking lot on bustling Carson Street, lies a Filipino fusion restaurant with a Cordon Bleu-trained chef. Its name is Bahay Kainan/BaBoys. The hidden location in Carson is something that the chef, Guilbert...
Aimée Bonar is a poet who discovered her love for writing in an English class. She is a rising senior at Francis H. Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley where she’s editor-in-chief for the student newspaper The Poly Optimist. “I volunteered [to be editor-in-chief]...
Claire Jones uses journalism as a way to write about her passion for attending concerts and capturing the moment.
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