Brandon R. Reynolds

According to one statistic, nearly 100% of us will die someday, but most of us avoid the subject, imagining we’ll somehow know what to do when the time comes. But will we?
Enter the death doula, a person who helps people die better.

On the complicated origins & identity of Silicon Beach.

We've seen "mass hysteria" throughout history. It's always a reflection of the times. Now we may have a version that could lead to an international incident.

In the greater US conversations about various kinds of “freedom,” the “right to repair” may seem minor, but it is a significant power shift: toward consumers and away from corporations, toward true ownership and away from a weird twilit reality in which we only appear to own stuff, only to eventually understand that our ownership is actually ghostly and intangible. Indeed: We have stuff; we don’t own stuff.

After 15 to 20 million years roaming the Mojave, the desert tortoise is in danger of going extinct.

This is bad not only for the tortoise, but also for the desert. That’s because as a keystone species, the tortoise and its burrows are essential for the health of the whole desert ecosystem. What's worse: We had the best of intentions. Really.

As the production center for American fantasies, Hollywood has been projecting our car-loving past onto our ideas of the future for decades. The result is that flying cars seem inevitable, whether or not they make any sense in 21st century LA.

Did you know The Future may be only a few short years away? Did you know that you might soon see actual flying cars in the skies over Los Angeles? And that the city has a goal to have tens of thousands of them zipping around? Did you know it may not work at all?

Let's tell the most important story in the world in a different way.

The difference between coverage of the shutdowns of Apple Daily and PressTV tell us a lot about how we like our journalism served to us.

Trapping you in the seamless media experience.

The history of making you love corporations.

In Los Angeles, the sky has always just been what we stare into instead of reading vanity plates when we’re sitting in traffic. But the empty space above our heads may someday soon fill up with drones — delivering our goods, helping police, and always watching us.
Let’s imagine that future LA together. And let’s start with the question that weighs heaviest on our consumer brains:
Will delivery drones actually become a thing?
The big tech companies are certainly planning on it, says Gregory Mc...

The past and future of LA's movie theaters.

It’s a Sunday morning in September, and members of Grace Community Church are happy to be here. Before the service starts, they’re standing under the morning sky, where the sun would be if not for the wildfire smoke.

Expanding highways and removing homes is one of the great creation myths of Los Angeles. The theory: Where the highways grew, progress would follow. But often that expansion came at the cost of homes in working-class neighborhoods like Boyle Heights. “Getting there” was more important than the actual “there.”