Robert Pursell

The sun has hardly risen on Newport Beach, and a long-haired, middle-aged man stands on the shore staring out into the ocean while speaking into a voice recorder about mushy water and waves made of corduroy. To the uninitiated, these might sound like the inane ramblings of another vagrant or......

In the high school circles of L.A.'s Eastside, Cynthia Erenas is something of a poster child for the growing national movement behind ramping up STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology, Math) in public schools where these subjects too often aren't even grasped by the teachers. An 18-year-old senior at Roosevelt High School......

“I’m a little afraid if I drink too much I might need to piss. What if I have to pee in the middle of the date?” This won’t be the last time we hear this question tonight. The guy posing it is a 28-year-old post-production manager from Chicago named Mike,......