Halloween is my favorite holiday, and yes, I’m that mom. Whenever my kids had a Halloween parade at school, I showed up in my Día de los Muertos bodysuit, rose-and-veil headpiece, and full makeup to cheer and snap photos. The other parents loved it. The...
Everyone has their favorite murder. When we walked through downtown Los Angeles on a night chilled by fall, it was easy to remember Halloween lurked nearby. Especially as our tour guide, Neil, from LA Walking Tours, spoke about all the suicides, unsolved...
With spooky season stealing the light and darkness blanketing the world, spending the night on the haunted Queen Mary with our teenagers was an idea we couldn’t resist. One night, a little girl who looked about seven years old wandered off the ship where...
Houses abandoned overnight, clothes left on hangers, meals interrupted and never finished — no, this isn’t the setting of a post-apocalyptic movie, but the reality of how many of California’s more than 3,800 ghost towns were deserted and left to rot. Creeped...
Whether you’re planning a long weekend with the family, a buddies road trip, or your next golf vacay with someone who values the spa a smidge more than the scorecard, California golf trips deliver year-round play at some of the best courses in the United...
California is basically the overachiever of North America when it comes to lakes. The underrated hero of summer sanity is a boating vacation on one of those California lakes. After years of trial, error, sunscreen mishaps, and more than one PB&J sandwich...