Hamburgers are truly America’s food. Born from the nation’s obsession with beef coupled with the modern highway system, the humble burger can be high-end or low — grabbed quickly via drive ...

Los Angeles’s Koreatown is without question the mecca of Korean cuisine in America. The meals served in this vibrant neighborhood, full of neon lights and late nights, are so stellar that even ...

The other three are all Airbus A330-300s. The first one is Joyful Dream, which features Hello Kitty, Kiki and Lala, cute Pom Pom Purin, and many other Sanrio Family characters on the aircraft’s ...

But away from the baking and friend-making, Hello Kitty has a very serious business side to her character. Sanrio, the Japanese firm that owns her, has employed some astute strategies to build and ...

Griffith Observatory sits on the south face of Mount Hollywood and overlooks the Los Angeles basin. Its location gives visitors impressive views of the surrounding area, which many rave about.

More Sanrio characters dressed up like Yu-Gi-Oh monsters will appear as merchandise in the Kaiba Corporation Store. Every 2,200 JPY you spend on these items will net you a free postcard.

In the December 2024 calendar, Kiki and Lala appear in a snowy, light-filled design that evokes the magic of Christmas. Sanrio is a Japanese company that designs, produces, and sells products and ...

Steve Lopez is a California native who has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. Lopez is the ...

The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On Recap: Fortune Favors the Bold Everyone’s struggling as our couples switch out of their first trial marriages to test out married life with their original ...

Sanrio says a unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba will have exclusive rights in China to make and sell merchandise of its 26 characters. The deal comes after Sanrio's imp-like rabbit Kuromi featured ...