By Betty HallockLos Angeles Times LOS ANGELES—Rose Wilde’s West Adams garden is a living, growing hub for L.A.’s vanguard of cake making and decorating. It’s teeming with tomato plants, passion fruit vines, roses, lavender, cosmos, herbs, and chickens for eggs. On a recent July morning under a gazebo in her backyard, the master gardener, preserver, … Read more
Jennifer Lawrence’s 2013 Oscar win was supposed to be remembered for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook. Instead, one stumble on the stairs turned into one of the most replayed moments in Academy Awards history. As reported by British Vogue, Lawrence fell while walking up to accept her Best Actress Oscar, wearing a voluminous Dior … Read more
Kurumi Otake was a general goods retailer, who returned to Aeon Mall Kumamoto on July 28. A 22-year-old store employee in Japan died in an explosion at a shopping mall after she had already escaped the building following a powerful earthquake. Her employer later admitted that she and another employee had been asked to go … Read more
The Tesla Cybertruck has never exactly been known for blending in.With its sharp angles, steel-grey body and unusual shape, the electric pickup already stands out wherever it goes. But one Cybertruck in the US has taken things several steps further by getting a colourful makeover inspired by India’s famous decorated trucks.The transformation was done by … Read more
You may be sitting on the fence about building a new home or accessory dwelling unit (ADU), wringing your hands and wallowing in worry about what it’s really going to cost. You’re frozen with fear that the price of your project will exceed your budget by many thousands of dollars. The risk is multiplied if … Read more
Dey’s victory marked India’s first-ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo. When Asmita Dey stood on the Commonwealth Games podium in Glasgow, there was one person she kept thinking about. Her father, Arjun Dey, was not there to see the moment. Her father had passed away seven months earlier after suffering a brain stroke.On Friday, … Read more
Coco Chanel is an iconic fashion designer credited to have created the casual chic style “Fashion changes, but style endures.” – Coco Chanel Some fashion trends last for years. Others seem to disappear almost as soon as they arrive.One month, everyone is wearing the same kind of shoes. Then it’s a different jacket, a different … Read more
For years, the forest had been a source of survival for Anil Mistry. He had grown up in West Bengal’s Sundarbans, where poaching was woven into the lives of many families struggling with poverty, floods and a lack of opportunities. He hunted deer and, if a tiger appeared, that too could become a target. Then, … Read more
Nelson Mandela’s timeless quote on failure and resilience: “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” Life does not always turn out as we want it to be. Some days we stumble, we fail, we get rejected or feel as though everything is going against us. … Read more
