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(05, 21, 2023): (L-R) Sister Vida Vegana, Sister Loose Clarita, Sister Unity, Sister Kumonawanna Leya, Sister Tootie Toot, Sister June Cleavage, Sister Suga N Spikes, Sister Candy Cide, Sister Bearonce Knows, Sister Harlot D Lite, Sister Perkie Dot of The Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence at Elysian Park in Los Angeles on May 21, 2023. a story about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, its members in LA and their vocational call to the Sisterhood. (Erik Carter/ For the Times)

For Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, being a drag nun transcends Dodgers drama. It’s a calling

For the Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, it’s about comforting those in need, Pride award or not. After the Dodgers tumult, the drag nuns reflect on their ministry.

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SHERMAN OAKS, CA - APRIL 6, 2023 - Swimming pool interior of a Richard Neutra's design house renovated and restored to it's original design by owners, architect team, Dora Chi & Erik Amir (of the firm Spatial Practice), photographed on April 6, 2023, Sherman Oaks, CA. In 1961, prolific TV writer & composer Stephen Lord (CHiPs, Fantasy Island, etc.) commissioned mid-century modernist architect Richard Neutra to design a home on a 26,500-square-foot promontory lot with jetliner views toward the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley and beyond. The property is located off Mulholland Drive at the end of a private road. Husband & wife architect team, Dora Chi & Erik Amir discovered the single-floor home in 2021 gutted and dilapidated. Not much is known about this house but the bones of the house are classic Neutra: a floating roof plane sliding over smooth stucco vertical planes with strong horizontal lines, centralized freestanding fireplace with a floating hearth, and walls of glass framing views. Working together with Lord's daughters, the architects renovated the property to restore Neutra's design, modernize the kitchen and bathrooms. They also added a contemporary pavilion featuring a guest house and deck that appears to float over the hillside. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

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Moorpark College Biology Professor Jana Johnson coaxes a Palos Verdes Blue butterfly onto her finger.

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Sandra Mejia, left, and her husband Bantalem Adis, the owners of The Plant Chica.

They created a ‘safe space’ in South L.A. But can this beloved plant shop survive ‘gentrification?’

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Plants

Illustration of gloved hands cradling bright snap peas and pea blossoms as muted petals fall in background.

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Opinion: How to dig your way out of climate grief

California’s ominous winter proved the planet is in terrible flux. To save what we can, head for the garden.

Jennifer Shupper heads up the steep route on the Beaudry South Motorway trail in Glendale

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A Santa Ynez groundstar plant with a penny placed standing next to it for scale. Plant is about third of a size of the coin

A plant smaller than a penny is rediscovered on a Lompoc military base. Here’s why we should care

The bright yellow blooms of the black mustard plant.

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RANCHO PALOS VERDES-CA-MAY 1, 2023: Pedestrians walk amongst the wildflowers in Rancho Palos Verdes on May 1, 2023. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Beware! These California superblooms are beautiful but treacherous

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With eyes on the planet, an L.A. woodworker turns fallen trees into stunning vessels

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Relationships

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Cannabis

Willie Nelson performs at Farm Aid 30 at Northerly Island in Chicago in 2015.

I went to Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday concert and left with a lot of weed wisdom

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