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ENCINITAS, CA -- MAY 17, 2025: Barry Blumenthal from Death Racers at Encinitas Skate Park on Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Alex Papke / For The Times)

The ‘Deathracers’ key to staying young? Skateboarding into your 60s and beyond

Deathracer413 is a group of skateboarders in their 50s and 60s who feel the dangerous sport is their key to health and longevity.

LYNWOOD, CA, APRIL 22, 2025: Father Cesar Galan, left, a hospital chaplain at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, prays for patient Jose Barraza Parra on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Fr. Cesar's transformation from gang member to priest began after a 2001 shooting in Artesia that paralyzed Fr. Cesar and his brother Hector was fatally injured. Both were taken to St. Francis for treatment. Hector died there in a room on the 3rd floor. Fr. Cesar, who now uses a wheelchair, broke ties with the gang and eventually entered the seminary. He was ordained two years ago and asked to be assigned back to the hospital as a chaplain. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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A gang bullet cut him down. How the worst day of his life began a journey of faith, forgiveness

Ngo Cong Binh, right, a barber at a Mexican-themed shop in Ho Cho Minh City, Vietnam, cuts a customer's hair on September 30, 2024. Photo by Chris Trinh

In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 02: Bischoff's Pet Preservation in North Hollywood offers pet owners a way to keep their pets' memories alive with their services of freeze-drying, aquamation (a form of cremation using water and chemicals) or preservation of the pets heart, skull, paw or tail. Photographed on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

After 103 years, this L.A. prop maker finds new success freeze-drying dead pets

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This superfan is buying VHS copies of ‘The Mummy.’ The size of his collection is shocking

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Evangelism and Erewhon: They came to L.A. for the Hollywood dream, then shot to Bible stardom

Tony Lam was an original influencer in Little Saigon — and he’s still got it

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