On a recent Monday morning, as most fifth graders were studying math and English, a group of 10- and 11-year-olds at Knox Elementary School in South L.A. were learning something else: how to train and ...

For one more night, the papaya bar still beckons at the Conga Room in downtown L.A. The yellow sculptural design from Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo — meant to resemble the tropical fruit split ...