Marina V. Shifrin

Aside from a flesh-toned Band-Aid on her left index finger, you’d never guess Caroline Jones spent the past few months in a cemetery carving a four-ton piece of marble into a monument. “I refer to it as a monument because its more than a headstone,” Jones says. “It’s a four-piece......

It’s 5:25 PM and I don’t know where Maureen is. I also don’t know who Maureen is, but I got a text from a 415 area code telling me to meet her in Little Tokyo’s Anime Jungle at 5 p.m. The only thing Maureen and I have in common, so......

There's a man I've seen near the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Avenue who kicks his right foot out sideways when he walks. His whole body faces forward, except for that foot. It's probably a misaligned prosthetic, but I like to pretend it's an empowered appendage. "Why do......