When she was just 16 years old, Gayle Theodora Drake so enjoyed helping outfit other people in the latest fashions, she would lose track of time doing it.

Easter is famous for filling churches with happy worshipers.

Worshippers at Wayfarers Chapel celebrated Easter at dawn on Sunday with a traditional sunrise service. The scenic chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, designed by Lloyd Wright, is known for its glass walls and ceilings, with stunning views of the ocean.

Any excuse to dally at the Catalina View Gardens and vineyard is a good one.

God is in the small things says George W. Baum in his second book, “Do Not Despise the Days of Small Things” (Outskirts Press, 2019).

Ruth Lohrer is a woman of faith, passion, and a long history of good works. She’s funny, down-to-earth and kind.

Over the last 34 years, most of the 350,000 audience members who have witnessed the powerful Pageant of Our Lord at Easter time, have little idea of the labor involved.

Q: I have developed intermittent severe stabbing pains on the right side of my face. The pain is excruciating even though it only lasts for a few seconds to a minute.

Why would anyone living in Los Angeles take the train to San Diego?

People around the world were shocked and disheartened to learn about the 50 people killed and many injured when a white supremacist opened fired during Friday prayers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Circle, comprised of 100 dedicated, determined and dynamic women have given their all this year organizing a fundraiser to support the Palos Verdes Art Center.

Naomi Porter is a go-getter. 

Someone once said, “When I come back, I want to be a dog on the Palos Verdes Peninsula."

Death is unavoidable, but a subject that few want to discuss, even doctor to patient.

Q: I have been suffering from shoulder pain for several months. The pain and stiffness are gradually getting worse. I finally had to stop lifting weights and playing tennis. But now the pain is waking me up at night, and it's hard to raise my arm above my head. I don’t recall injuring my sho…

When Aimee Lissantheia was a little girl nothing thrilled her more than dancing barefoot in the wildflowers.

Michelle Tritten, yoga instructor for “Hello Critter,” told her participants to take a deep breath in and a long exhale out while saying, “bahhh.”

Each week, in most of the roughly 400,000 congregations across our land, someone speaks to the people from up near the front and offers what we call a sermon.

The Peninsula Friends of the Library are busy planning a big honkin’ gala to kick off its annual fundraiser as well as organizing a couple of fab trips to places like Croatia or New Orleans.

For bestselling New York Times author Elizabeth Letts "there's no place like home."

A historic home in Pasadena, the Kelsey House, is the grand prize in this year’s Palos Verdes Art Center Dream House Raffle.

The British band Queen who made a massive comeback with the Oscar-nominated film “Bohemian Rhapsody,” continues its resurgence locally as the Palos Verdes Performing Arts Conservatory opens "We Will Rock You" this weekend.

If you guessed that we have 1 million millionaires in California, you would be correct.

When you go on vacation, do you go to a place or country you’ve vistied and loved or, do you go to a new country?

In February 1978, a blizzard dropped more than 25 inches of snow on the Adishian’s home in Northorough, Massachusetts. Three weeks later, Judy and David, along with their four children David, Chris, Tom and Marci, waved goodbye to cold snowy New England and moved into their home in Lunada Bay. 

A hillside Rancho Palos Verdes home designed by famed modernist Richard Neutra is for sale at $4.1 million.

Train enthusiasts may recall the “Red Car,” the Pacific Electric Railway system that covered the Los Angeles region with more than 1,000 miles of rail lines in the early 1900s. By 1914, there were more than 1,600 trains criss-crossing and connecting communities in Los Angeles County daily.

Everyone knows Boy Scouts don’t lie. It is the first tenet of the Boy Scout law as printed in the Boy Scout Handbook—to be trustworthy and to tell the truth.

This past month Christians celebrated the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. It is not just a Catholic event. It is an international Christian ecumenical observance kept annually between January 18th and 25th. January 18th was the Feast of the Confessions of St. Peter, and January 25th the …

“I am a huge fan of self-publishing,” said Rebecca Forster, the best-selling author of more than 35 legal thrillers. Originally traditionally published, Forster switched to self-publishing about 9 years ago.

Rancho Palos Verdes’ Shawn McHatton took a road trip to his native New England a few years back and stayed in one of his favorite spots, a small town called Waterville Valley.

Can you imagine enjoying a foreign destination not only for its scenery and inherent natural beauty, but also for stunning, eye-catching "artworks" painted/installed on almost everything you can see?

There is an old proverb that goes, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." To that I might add, provide a place to purchase a fish, freshly caught, with all the finest spices and sauces and recipe books and preparation ideas, and y…

It seems most of the New Year’s Eve traditions enjoyed around the Palos Verdes Peninsula—such as kissing at midnight, popping open a bottle of bubbly, making improbable resolutions, shooting off fireworks or singing Auld Lang Syne—are steeped in ancient roots.

For more than six years, Palos Verdes Estate's resident Don Davis has been a securities lawyer by day and a murder mystery writer by night with stories inspired by his career and the South Bay.

Alisa Schulman-Janiger has logged so many volunteer hours at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center’s bluff side patio in Rancho Palos Verdes, that she might as well claim it as her primary residence.

The original Yule log was a block-like log burned on the Christmas hearth through the twelve days of Christmas. Each year, a hunk was saved to light the following year's log. It is the origin of the delightful dessert that originated in France in the 19th century—made of sponge cake filled, …

In all my travels and in what I read, I always seek out the distinctive and out of the ordinary. The following four books make unique, even offbeat travel-related holiday gifts:

In early November, the wind driven flames of the Woolsey Fire tore through the passages and canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains consuming 96,949 acres, destroying 1500 structures, damaging 341 others, injuring three firefighters and taking three lives.

Rancho Palos Verdes resident Robin Biggins is a tinkerer.