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Can you write novels if you don’t read them? Tim Blake Nelson doesn’t think so

‘The Lowdown’ star talks about life in the arts and his novel ‘Superhero’ on Bookish on March 20.

Actor, director and producer Tim Blake Nelson is also a novelist. On March 20, 2026, Nelson appears on “Bookish,” the virtual program by the Southern California News Group, talking about his career and writing his second novel, “Superhero.”(Photo courtesy of Unnamed Press)

Founded in the UK in 2011, a Death Café is simply as a place where people gather to eat cake, drink tea — and discuss death. (iStockphoto via Getty Images)

Visiting a Los Angeles Death Café to talk about mortality

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles are studying AI and VR technologies for mental health applications.
(Illustration by iStockphoto.)

At Cedars-Sinai, AI and virtual reality research shows promise for mental health coaching

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Chapters of our Lives

“Nacho’s bowl” illustration by Jeff Goertzen. (Credit Jeff Goertzen)

What the life, and death, of my 10-pound chihuahua taught me about living

I realized he hadn’t been holding on to my pain. He’d sent it away.

Be The Change

Ashley Covarrubias and Johnas Pulley, both of Pasadena who work for the Rams, help build walls for homes lost in the Eaton fire during San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity’s “Walls of Hope” volunteer day at Brookside Park in Pasadena on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Habitat for Humanity is planning to build homes in Altadena using The Foothill Catalog. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity taught me more than how to swing a hammer

That overwhelming amount of satisfaction you receive by having a part in building that house is something you carry the rest of your life.

I Love California

Catalina Horseback Adventures owner Jeff Skelton poses for a photograph in Avalon on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Here’s the man who returned the cowboy tradition to Catalina Island

“Chief Experience Officer” at Catalina Island Horseback Adventures Jeff Skelton thinks everyone needs to ride a horse.

Do Anything

In Talk to Me Nice: The Seven Trust Languages for a Better Workplace, workplace consultant Minda Harts explains how and why improving interpersonal communication can build trust among coworkers. (Photo courtesy Minda Harts/Cover image by Flatiron Books)

‘Talk to Me Nice’: How (and why) to speak to others in a way that builds trust

Can speaking kindly to others build or repair trust? A workplace expert says yes.

Outdoor Restore

Brendan Hughes and Danielle Segura of Mojave Desert Land Trust make their way down a sand dune at Cadiz Dunes at the Mojave Trails National Monument on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (File photo by Kurt Miller, Riverside Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

The Mojave desert has a song all its own – if you take the time to listen

The Mojave's Kelso is one of just seven dunes in North America known to sing,...

Books and Art

Noteworthy Southern California authors of 2024 include, from top left, Percival Everett, Danzy Senna, Jason de León, Rachel Kushner, Alex Espinoza, Venita Blackburn, Rachel Khong, Obi Kaufmann, Nicola Yoon, Thomas Fuller, Don Winslow and Moon Zappa.

These 12 Noteworthy books by California authors made an impact in 2024

In 2024, there were so many books by California authors whose influence reached beyond the...

Big Idea

Win Cowger, research director for Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, displays a vial of microplastics from a Southern California beach in Long Beach on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A small nonprofit in Long Beach wins some battles in the long war on plastics pollution

In a Long Beach shopping center near where the San Gabriel River empties into Alamitos...

Games People Play

The Revenge Of comic book shop hosts an all-ages pinball tournament in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 30, 2024. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

Low-tech, high entertainment: Why an old game appeals to new pinball wizards

At Revenge Of, experts and novices alike geek out on the thrill of bumpers and...

Ticket to Paradise

In this May 16, 2023 file photo, lifeguard, Bella Gutierrez watches the third floor pool deck at Yaamava Resort & Casino in Highland. Yaamava’ Resort & Casino was voted Best Southern California Casino in the 2023 Best of Orange County balloting. (File photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)

Yaamava’ Resort & Casino is the best way to Vegas without going to Las Vegas

Only have one day that you can run away? Pack your bags for a jam-packed...

Creatively Yours

These are six of 10 books published in 2023 that our editors picked for the third annual ‘Noteworthy’ salutes to regional authors whose works made an impact. (Cover images courtesy of Macmillian Publishers, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House and Counterpoint Press)

‘Noteworthy’ salutes Southern California authors whose books made an impact in 2023

What were some of the most important books to come out of Southern California last...

Vitality Now

Dr. Dan Plotkin is a physician who specializes in adult and geriatric psychiatry.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)

Think you’re too old for therapy? Think again.

Older adults are less likely to seek or obtain mental health services compared to other...

SoCal Living

Visitors listen to a docent-led tour during the Twilight Tours of the botanical gardens at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens, Friday, July 14, 2017. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)

What we can learn from the botanical gardens of Southern California

Novelist Susan Straight reflects on the ways botanical garden intertwine with her family’s memories.

Go+Eat+Adventure

Wil Dee pictured in the tasting room at Chapman Crafted Beer & Coffee in Orange on Tuesday, January 31, 2023. Dee is the founder and CEO of Haven Craft Kitchen + Bar, Provisions cafe-coffee-beer-wine-shop and founding partner of Chapman Crafted Beer & Coffee, all are located in Old Towne Orange. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Meet the entrepreneur who kicked off the craft beer craze in Old Towne Orange

Wil Dee helped revolutionized the craft beer scene in Orange County. How does he get...

On Living Well

The Alzheimer’s Association in California estimates that 690,000 people aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s, and almost 12 percent of those aged 45 and over report worsening confusion or memory loss known as “subjective cognitive decline.” (Illustration by thinkstock.com)

How can you live well after being diagnosed with dementia?

“Once I came out of the darkness,” Bonnie Erickson says, she had one question: “Do...

pets magazine

Reporter Brooke Staggs brings her rescue dog, Bruce Hornsby, on a hike in Corona. (Photo by Brooke Staggs, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Here’s where to hike with your dog in Southern California and how to do it safely

There are great options for hiking with your pooch. Here’s a primer on getting the...

Going Places

Take the orange line of the Metrolink for tasty adventures at each stop. (Photo illustration by Jeff Goertzen)

Take the train to explore great Southern California restaurants – and save gas

Did you know Metrolink’s Orange County Line connects travelers to lots of prime food destinations?

bookish

Author and Chaffey College journalism professor Michelle Dowd enjoys a nice day in her backyard with dogs, Cedar, left, and Edith. Dawd’s “Memoir Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult” will be released March 7, 2023. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Cult survivor Michelle Dowd explores a harsh childhood in her memoir ‘Forager’

Raised to survive the apocalypse and Satan’s rule of Earth, Dowd ultimately learned to survive...

Game Changers

Community Organizer Kavon Ward, co-founder of Where Is My Land and founder of Justice for Bruce’s Beach, is shown at Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach on Thursday, February 17, 2022. Ward, spearheaded the movement to get ownership of Bruce’s Beach land back to descendants of the Black couple Willa and Charles Bruce who ran a Black-serving beach resort at the location. Nearly a century after the property was seized from the Bruce family it will be returned to their descendants. The Bruce property consists of 2 parcels located between the park and the beach. Currently, the Los Angeles Lifeguard Training Center partially sits on the 2 parcels. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

How Black activist Kavon Ward found her calling in the fight for Bruce’s Beach

Ward believes her purpose for coming to Los Angeles in 2015 was something much bigger...

foodies

The amuse-bouche at 360 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, included an Oreo-inspired bite with wafers formed from olives and cream from goat cheese. (Photo by Todd Harmonson, SCNG)

How do you become a foodie? Eat your vegetables – and everything else

My transformation from a kid who was picky, even about meals of meat and potatoes,...

Roam

Visitors up for a little adventure while visiting the Las Vegas, Nevada environs can take a 90-minute ride in a Rail Explorer, a pedal-powered vehicle. (Photo courtesy RailExplorers)

A trip to Las Vegas offers plenty of adventure if you venture far from the Strip

Long-distance travel not in the cards for the family this year? Then consider Las Vegas....

Elements

An aerial view of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, northwest of Bakersfield. (Photo by Mark Rightmire)

Visiting the earthquake capital of California

Parkfield is a town caught out of time. Or perhaps it would be more honest...

Illuminate

Fourth grader Ashley Aranda talks to Dr. Linda Ventriglia-Navarrette, the Creator of Project Moving Forward at La Granada Elementary in Riverside on Thursday January 18, 2018. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

How a UC Riverside professor got help from her cartoon panda to teach kids online

They say necessity is the mother of invention. In this case, it’s the mother of...