California

January 19, 2024

Courses in Wilderness and Survival Tactics Thrive in an Anxious Time

In the chilly dusk on a recent Saturday, nine people were creeping through the California hills. Their faces were painted in shades of green, yellow, brown […]
January 18, 2024

The TikTok ‘Tunnel Girl’ Is Not Alone

Hobby tunneling is a rare, but not unheard-of, pastime that has produced frustrated neighbors, media frenzies and at least one state landmark. A Virginia woman who […]
November 9, 2023

How the Rollettes Dance Team Created a Sisterhood for Women with Disabilities

“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. When Chelsie Hill dances in her wheelchair, her face tells you everything. She […]
October 30, 2023

Robert Irwin Helped Us See the Light

Being with Irwin as he watched and questioned everything around him, I learned that a work of art succeeds when it challenges our perceptions. Robert Irwin, […]
September 10, 2023

Salvation Mountain in California Searches for How to Save Itself

The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. Salvation Mountain, a sculpture […]
August 17, 2023

Britney Spears’s Husband, Sam Asghari, Files for Divorce

The couple married in June 2022, just months after her conservatorship was ended in a Los Angeles court. Mr. Asghari is her third husband. Britney Spears’s […]
July 3, 2023

Prue Leith’s 2,200-Mile Road Trip From California to Florida

The “Great British Baking Show” judge steps out of the tent to sample the flavors of America. Is her 2,200-mile drive a showstopper or a technical […]
June 15, 2023

Eli Russell Linnetz, Fashion’s Reluctant It Boy

About two months ago, Eli Russell Linnetz moved into a house built in the mid-1980s by the actor Dennis Hopper. Mr. Linnetz had spent the last […]
June 9, 2023

Is ‘Flamin’ Hot’ a True Story?

Richard Montañez, a janitor turned Frito-Lay executive, has said he invented the spicy snack. A new film tells his story, but the evidence isn’t on his […]
June 9, 2023

Is ‘Flamin’ Hot’ a True Story?

Richard Montañez, a janitor turned Frito-Lay executive, has said he invented the spicy snack. A new film tells his story, but the evidence isn’t on his […]