Rachel Schnalzer

Audience Engagement Editor

Rachel Schnalzer is an audience engagement editor for the Los Angeles Times. She previously worked at BuzzFeed and Snapchat. She’s a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.

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Lifestyle

The best place to make 2020 resolutions is in Pacific Palisades: Four Hours

Lifestyle

The best place to make 2020 resolutions is in Pacific Palisades: Four Hours

Whether your resolution has you experimenting with veganism, meditating or spending more time in nature — or some impressive combination of the three — the Pacific Palisades provides an ideal place to take a breath and recharge before diving into 2020.
Lifestyle

Four Hours in El Segundo: Craft brews and high-brow culture

Lifestyle

Four Hours in El Segundo: Craft brews and high-brow culture

With plenty of restaurants, watering holes, shops and Mayberry-esque charm, downtown El Segundo just might be one of coastal L.A.’s best-kept secrets.
Travel

For views of the Rockies you can’t see any other way, ride Amtrak’s Zephyr

Travel

For views of the Rockies you can’t see any other way, ride Amtrak’s Zephyr

Savor the views and camaraderie all the way from Chicago to Emeryville aboard Amtrak’s California Zephyr.
Travel

Here’s the best way to experience the ‘Field of Light’ in Paso Robles

Travel

Here’s the best way to experience the ‘Field of Light’ in Paso Robles

Come for the wine. Stay for the 58,800 technicolor flowers. Paso Robles is home to the “Field of Light at Sensorio,” 15 acres of fiber-optic solar-powered lights.
Business

Kacey Musgraves and Tom’s One Hour Photo: The whole story

Business

Kacey Musgraves and Tom’s One Hour Photo: The whole story

Kacey Musgraves and her sister explain why they put the 1990s-era photo studio into the spotlight. And Tom’s has its most surprising, busiest week in a long time.
Music

Kacey Musgraves and Tom’s One-Hour Photo: See the private photos that started it all

Music

Kacey Musgraves and Tom’s One-Hour Photo: See the private photos that started it all

Check out the behind-the-scenes tour photos that singer Kacey Musgraves developed in L.A., which prompted a viral fan campaign for a struggling local business.
Lifestyle

Four Hours: For an instant getaway, just head to Topanga Canyon

Lifestyle

Four Hours: For an instant getaway, just head to Topanga Canyon

One of the advantages to living in Los Angeles is the ability to get away from it all, without too much of a drive (assuming traffic cooperates, which is a big assumption). When I need a serious change of scenery but can’t hop on a plane, I head to Topanga Canyon.
Lifestyle

Four Hours: Laid-back Mar Vista is a calm haven amid the bustling Westside

Lifestyle

Four Hours: Laid-back Mar Vista is a calm haven amid the bustling Westside

Mar Vista is changing things up.
California

Suicide prevention resources

California

Suicide prevention resources

As part of our Column One story on Kevin Howard’s struggle to build a life beyond the battlefield, here is a list of organizations that provide support, information and resources to veterans and others.
Food

Checking out the super bloom? Here are four places where you can eat and drink on the way

Food

Checking out the super bloom? Here are four places where you can eat and drink on the way

As you know from your poppy-populated Instagram feed, Los Angeles has been in the grips of super bloom mania for the last few weeks.