Month: January 2020

1/8 Actress Diana Maria Riva in the backyard of her Spanish-style Burbank home.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 2/8 Chairs made by her son for Mother’s Day.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 3/8 A fire pit.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 4/8 The actress calls her backyard her “comfort space.”  (Dania Maxwell […]

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1/18 Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bündchen are asking $33.9 million for their Massachusetts home, down about $6 million from when the five-acre estate first listed for sale last year.  (Erhard Pfeiffer) 2/18 The Richard Landry-designed manor features a classic brick exterior, modern amenities and a country-inspired kitchen.   (Erhard Pfeiffer) 3/18 Tom Brady’s Massachusetts […]

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January in Los Angeles is a special time: The air feels a little crisper, there’s snow coating the mountains in the distance, and many Angelenos are just easing back into their regular schedules while trying to be mindful of their New Year’s resolution. Whether your resolution has you experimenting with veganism, meditating or spending more […]

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When Los Angeles interior designer Schuyler Samperton was growing up in Maryland, her mother used a men’s black-and-white houndstooth-check suit fabric to recover their sofa, placed against a wallpaper featuring blueprints of Italian villas. Antique Indian tree of life panels were tablecloths. “Our house didn’t look like any of my friends’,” she says. Samperton now […]

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The United Methodist Church has long been riven by bitter divisions between its U.S. and international congregations over whether to allow same-sex marriage and ordain gay clergy. Now it appears the church — whose 7 million U.S. members make it the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination — is heading for a permanent split. On Friday its […]

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LONDON —  British workers who practice “ethical veganism” to protect animals secured a big win in an employment tribunal when a judge ruled Friday that they are entitled to legal protection from job discrimination. The judge said that because ethical veganism is a philosophical belief, its adherents are covered by the U.K.’s anti-discrimination law, the 2010 […]

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SEATTLE  —  Many U.S. residents admitted some concern Friday, but little alarm, over what danger the country might encounter because of the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike. Several shoppers at Seattle’s Pike Place Market said they were following news concerning the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani early Friday near […]

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