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Dopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior.

LAist immigrant communities correspondent Leslie Berestein Rojas explores why some people of color are drawn to white supremacist ideologies.

View art by Mister Cartoon. Attend Abel Ferrara's "Flyz Concert" and screening of The Addiction. Immerse yourself in Asteroid City. Watch a multisensory retelling of Euripides' tragedy Medea.

Recent attacks by people who professed white nationalist and neo-Nazi sympathies but are not white themselves have raised a question: Why are some people of color drawn to white supremacist ideology? The answer is complicated.

The musical retelling of TV's Transparent at the Mark Taper Forum bills itself as "delightfully queer, unapologetically Jewish, and radically joyful.”

Last year, California created a $500 million program to help prepare students for careers. With the state facing a $31.5 billion budget deficit, lawmakers want to claw back $400 million of the program.

As extra pandemic benefits end, food banks say that they’re becoming long-term supermarkets for Californians facing food insecurity. Several bills to boost CalFresh are before the Legislature, but the state budget deficit may get in the way.

There won't be an opening number, but there are still going to be performances. Also, the Pasadena Playhouse will be honored with the 2023 Regional Theatre Award.

But it may be a challenge to find staff for the new program, which aims to put people suffering from mental illness on a potential path to treatment.

The Justice Department special counsel has unsealed the indictment against the former president. The 37 charges against Trump include obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information.

The state is stepping in to offer some financial protection for people who do prescribed and cultural burns.

Housekeepers, cooks and other workers want affordable health care and raises.