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You need to cook with nigella seeds. Start with this potato salad

June 8, 2021 at 2:26 p.m.

Nigella seeds look like black sesame seeds but taste like a mix of fried onions and oregano. Sometimes labeled kalonji, calonji or onion seeds, they add an herbaceous fragrance and...

Vegan spaghetti and beetballs (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times / prop styling by Casey Dobbins/TNS)

How to make the best vegetarian meatballs without fake meat

June 7, 2021 at 7:16 p.m.

These as-good-as-the-real-thing meatballs contain no beef or pork — and no fake meat either. It was the lab-grown meat substitutes invading our lives that led me to beetballs. I knew...

Regina Mitchell, along with her sous-chef for the day, her husband Stan Mitchell, at their private residence in Henderson, Nevada. Seven years ago Mitchell lost her sight and now teaches cooking classes over Zoom to others who have visual impairments. (Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Chefs and cooks in the disability community share recipes for accessibility

June 7, 2021 at 2:46 p.m.

Chef Regina Mitchell's Zoom cooking class begins like a lot of Zooms: friendly banter, reminders to mute here, some technical adjustments there. A few minutes after the 4:30 p.m. start...

Billy Corgan performs an acoustic-electric show April 14, 2016, at the Civic Opera House in Chicago.

Liz Phair is totally good with being a Gen X feminist in a Gen Z world as she reconnects with her Chicago roots

June 5, 2021 at 1:15 p.m.

Before it was legal in California, Liz Phair never used to buy weed. "I'd always preferred it to drinking, but I wanted to be able to stand up in a...

Hashtags felt dated and cringeworthy. So why are influencers still using them?

June 3, 2021 at 11:47 a.m.

Internet fads tend to have a distinct life cycle. First, the embrace by early adopters and tastemakers, particularly the young. Next, an explosion of popularity leading to inescapable ubiquity. Finally,...

Taylor Swift in January 2020 at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/TNS)

Every acting role Taylor Swift has ever booked, from ‘CSI’ to ‘Cats’

June 3, 2021 at 11:41 a.m.

Are you ready for Taylor Swift's next big-screen appearance? A couple years after starring in Tom Hooper's certified flop of a film adaptation of "Cats," the pop superstar and sporadic...

Some companies have become more accommodating of flexible work schedules and permanent remote work. The tricky bit is that the arrangements are often up to employees and prospective employees to negotiate. (Dreamstime/TNS)

The ultimate guide to working remotely forever

June 3, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

Have you been working from home since March 2020? Hearing rumblings that you'll be expected to go back to in-person work this year? If the thought of returning to your...

Eddie Vedder performs at the Vax Live concert at SoFi Stadium on Sunday, May 2, 2021 in Inglewood, California. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

20 music festivals in the Western US this summer

June 1, 2021 at 10:25 a.m.

How will it feel to finally part a festival gate for the first time in 2021? Relief? Trepidation? Absolute unbridled exuberance to be seeing music, any music, on a stage...

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009, file photo, DMX arrives at the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York. The family of rapper DMX says he has died at age 50 after a career in which he delivered iconic hip-hop songs such as "Ruff Ryders' Anthem." A statement from the family says the Grammy-nominated rapper died at a hospital in White Plains, New York, "with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days. He was rushed to a New York hospital from his home April 2. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

Review: DMX’s posthumous ‘Exodus’ is an artistic triumph amid a tragic new normal for hip-hop

May 28, 2021 at 6:55 a.m.

One unsettling sign of how big the business for posthumous hip-hop albums has become: DMX's "Exodus," which arrives just weeks after the gravel-voiced rapper's death on April 9 at age...

Thuso Mbedu plays Cora, a runaway slave, in "The Underground Railroad." (Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios)

The 15 best TV shows of the year (so far)

May 27, 2021 at 11:50 a.m.

We love a season preview, don't get us wrong. But when the question you're asked most frequently is "What should I be watching right now?" looking to the future has...

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