Growing up — and, well, still to this day — my parents have always made sure to give me at least one cozy gift. $39.99 at Dash Hanahana Beauty shea butter With its tagline “Don’t Be Ashy,” Hanahana Beauty is a body butter on the market that’s worth talking about — and for good reason. Crafted with 100% natural cotton, …
This is part of the L.A. Times 2022 Gift Guide. — Bill Addison $42.99 for English breakfast tea set at Rare Tea Company $110 for Old Grove matcha at Song Tea & Ceramics $90 for lao xian weng at Tea Habitat Sunset Cultures sustainable fridge and pantry products As restaurants shut down because of the pandemic and farmers lost that …
As I planned my move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, I found myself awake at 3 a.m. on certain nights, frantically googling, “how to move your houseplants a long distance.” “Put trash bags around the base of the pot,” some websites advised. “Invasive plants that escape into California’s wildlands have the potential to take over native plant communities and native …
The late artist Christo, who died last year at the age of 84, had intended to wrap Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 square meters of fabric in September 2020. Christo’s temporary artwork, L'Arc de Triomphe, due for wrap in September 2021 Plans for the temporary artwork, officially titled L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, “were very advanced” before they were postponed …