Deborah Brosseau

Make sure your self-care techniques are in focus and accessible. It can be easy to forget we have the tools to get us through feelings of overwhelm when we are actually in overwhelm. Post-it notes with reminders to breathe, phone alarms with positive affirmations, or a gratitude journal on next to your bed can offer strong visual reminders that you have a care plan. Keep sense-soothing devices like fragrant candles, snuggly slippers, and your favorite tea nearby. Build up your Netflix queue with some favorite films.

Remember the good ol’ days when you could get out of bed in the morning and not hear something crack? Join the club. As we get older, things tend to creak, pop, ache, and in the worst case, actually freaking hurt.

Since childhood, Ellie Laks saw animals as sentient beings, able to heal and be healed just like people. “I would always bring home lost and injured animals. By the time I was seven, I knew I just wanted to be surrounded by animals.” That desire in her soul to create a life driven by empathy, compassion, and peace became reality twenty years ago with the founding of The Gentle Barn.

Southern California’s long, rich history in aviation, space defense, and UFOs includes beautiful locations, military experiments, and bizarre characters.

Many Los Angeles residents are in another at-risk category: creatives. Studies by the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute showed that people working in the arts are 25 to 50 percent more likely to die by suicide. “We have written about the ways in which journalists ignore the role of contagion in their reporting and how that can be a source of further risk for those who are vulnerable,” Romer says. “Those in the creative community who are currently in a crisis moment may be especially vulnerable because of their greater ability to empathize and identify with the deaths of celebrities" such as Spade. So what do these trends and statistics mean? They mean we need to talk about suicide, especially in L.A.

October is not just for Halloween. Someone, somewhere, at some time legitimized dozens of other reasons to celebrate for a day, a week, or the whole month. Because Melrose is the place to go for all things out of the ordinary, you can get into just about any of these left-field holidays with the shops and restaurants on the block.

We all know that Melrose Avenue is a world-famous shopping district. It also boasts plenty of world-class drinking, dining, and entertainment possibilities. It’s the perfect destination for date night, whether you’re looking for an elevated, romantic evening or something loose and casual. We’ve put together five of our favorite dinner and a show date night pairings for you.

Exceptional tattoo parlors and Melrose Avenue have gone hand-in-hand for decades, waaaaaay before tattoos weren’t something you hid from your parents. Tattoos are where art and alt culture met, and both thrive on Melrose today. We continue to boast the world’s best shops, and they boast the world’s best artists.

Yeah, we’re doing this. Forget the Buzzfeed quiz of the day – YOU know which ‘90s TV character you’re most like. We’ve got a super-practical guide to the most likely thing you’d enjoy on Melrose Avenue based on your latest and greatest Netflix binge.

Melrose Avenue is world-renowned for many things, including its trendsetting fashion boutiques, critically-acclaimed restaurants, and the best indie owned and operated shops. It’s also known for its incredible art; the whole street is a gallery!

On Saturday, June 24, Melrose Avenue cute culture shop JapanLA launched the ONLY Studio Ghibli pop-up shop in the U.S.

This isn’t a post about politics. This is a post that celebrates what Melrose Avenue has at its core and continues to support as a world-renowned destination: freedom. The freedom to create and commune and to shop and eat and drink and enjoy who you are with people who appreciate it.

Head over to Melrose Avenue and enjoy the day with the many French owned, operated, and focused businesses. Wine, cheese, frites, and maybe some Parisian punk will make this Bastille Day très spectaculaire!

Since high school, Holly Holton has been all about improving her life through activity and nutrition. Her formal education and years of diverse experience have shaped her progressive fitness philosophy as well as her dedication to supporting women in their health journeys.

“Vintage cars and bikes. If we’re having a conversation and I hear the sound of a custom motor – I can’t help it. I’ll get stuck on that.” Yaniv Evan, creator-in-chief of Powerplant Motorcycle Co., starts his story with its through line: he is obsessed with old bikes.

August in Los Angeles means it’s going to get hotter before it gets, well, less hot. When the temps hover in the 90s in Hollywood, Angelenos go into survival mode. And by that we mean finding the coldest, most refreshing drinks around and a comfortable place to drink many of them. We have five of the best places to chill out, with drink recommendations, on Melrose Avenue.

Spider-Man sits outside one of the oldest and most celebrated comic book stores in Los Angeles, located on Melrose Avenue. Ryan Leibowitz and his family have owned and operated it for nearly 40 years. I got to play Lois Lane recently and spoke with Ryan about Golden Apple.

In the 20+ years that Robin Antin’s work has been in pop consciousness, she’s never had her own dance space. For Kenny Wormald, acting and teaching around the world were his focus. Yet the two long-time friends, in a moment of creative synergy, decided to partner on a studio that came to life on Melrose just a few months later.

Charles Nwokolo was born in Nigeria in the 1960s, the oldest of nine children. Dick Tiger, the relentlessly determined world boxing champion was his uncle, not by blood, but by tribal tradition.