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Living Literate and ‘Happy’
In the witty and charming way she seems to say and do everything, Annabelle Palacios refrains from disclosing her age, saying that she “no longer lies” and thus, cannot provide any concrete information that may give away how old she is. One is left to wonder, as one is left to d
Living for the Future
The Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice-Communities Against the 710 Expansion is demanding there be no freeway expansion until current air quality is improved and policy changes are made.
Design, Dating and Disillusionment: If Only She Had Told Me She Could Work Me Like a Ball-Peen Hammer!
Dating should be easy in the land of beautiful people. Blame it on what you will—the sprawl, an obsession with perfection or an excess of egomaniacs—most of us know that it’s not. Two lucky strangers were sent on a blind date to document the explosion that resulted.
Magical: Menudo Herbal Mysteries of Mexican Healing
Traditional Mexican-American medicine is un rico menudo, a rich stew, with a long list of ingredients including 16th-century Arab and European herbal medicines, ideas that date back to Hippocrates, 20th-century patent medicines, plant medications from Africa, and herbal wisdom from North American native tribes. But the key ingredient is as old as Mesoamerica—the living legacy of the Aztecs, remnants of a vast treasury of herbal knowledge tha...
Get Your Mind Right
RTLA rounded up some of LA's best Low/No-Cost medical clinics and therapeutic services.
Possible Cure For the Common Hangover
I received a sample box of a Hangover Buster in the mail a while back and what was an editor to do but put these effervescents to the test?
Healthy City: LA’s Safety InterNet
Like many great innovations, Healthy City fills such an obvious need that you can’t imagine a time when it didn’t exist.
HPV: If You Don't Know, Now You Know
10,000 American women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year, and 3,500 will die from it. The National Cervical Cancer Campaign reports that Latino and African American women have twice the rate of cervical cancer as do non-Latino and white women.
Tending the Mind, Body and Spirit
RTLA rounded up natural resources for promoting your health head to toe.
LA Brain Trust: On the Verge in the Vortex
LA spawns genius? Local Scientists crack codes to medical breakthroughs.
Bringing it Back Home: The African Art Form Flowers on Crenshaw
Capoeira is a martial art that has reinvented itself drastically throughout history. A rite of passage among Africans for many centuries, Capoeira incorporates music, call-and-response participation and physical sparring, emphasizing kicks, head butts and leg sweeps.
