Feature Stories

When driving through the streets of Pacific Palisades, Latino workers are seen sifting through debris in search of anything salvageable. Trying to clear the properties to prepare for the demolition and rebuilding process for their employers, people are seen at work throughout the neighborhood. In the distance, the crashing of the waves, the whistling of […]

Environmental journalist Ray Ford is based in Santa Barbara, California, and has been there his whole life. When he first got on the phone, Ford wanted the reporter to have a mental picture of the area in which they were traveling. He described the geology of the land, the ways the mountains don’t only move […]

Elvis Santiago moved to Los Angeles from Mexico in 2001 when he was 21 and after two years was able to start his landscaping business. He was able to branch out his business to Pacific Palisades where he has worked ever since. Unfortunately, due to the impacts caused by the fires, work for Santiago has […]

The air is muggy and dense in downtown Pacific Palisades – more accurately, what’s left of it. A once-bustling Sunset Boulevard is now eerily vacant, with only a few charred buildings spared from destruction. Along the side of a parking lot that used to serve a now-ravaged Ralph’s grocery store, half-a-dozen food trucks line the […]

For the last 21 years, Cristina Carlos has lived in Altadena with her family in a small hacienda-style house. The interior was filled with life, with Carlos’s husband, two kids, and all their pets. The home where her kids had their childhoods, filled with family heirlooms that had been passed down over time and irreplaceable […]

Joe D’Amore’s story begins in Boston’s North End, where his Italian grandmother passed down her beloved recipes just before she died. Her legacy and his grandfather’s experience as a butcher laid the foundation for D’Amore’s culinary journey. After moving to California to pursue acting, he opened his first pizzeria in 1987 in the San Fernando […]

Al conducir por las calles de Pacific Palisades, se ven trabajadores latinos revisando los escombros en busca de algo rescatable. Intentando despejar las propiedades para preparar el proceso de demolición y reconstrucción para sus empleadores, se ve gente trabajando por todo el vecindario. A lo lejos, se escucha el romper de las olas, el silbido […]

People have been telling each other stories for thousands of years, from myths to poetry to the modern novel. Bill Stauber Soik explores the world of storytelling with five experts.

A community clothing swap centering fat folks is reshaping access, style and solidarity in Milwaukee. Carmella D’Acquisto checked it out.

In the 1970s, Eugene Gregorich Sr. grew up in the peak of smelt fishing in Kewaunee, Wis. Now, he reflects on the dying sport with his daughter Jennifer Gregorich.

Lidia Perez is a musician at heart but admits it’s a struggle to balance life and making time for her beloved viola.

Diego Avila, Erika Gilbertson and Nora Bravo look back on the first time they fell in love and how it ended up for them. Adriana Avila reports.