But over the weekend, artist-provocateur Stuart Semple decided to widen the pool by synthesizing olo into an acrylic paint color he named Yolo. Ironically, Yolo is a color you cannot see—at ...

There are two kinds of Angelenos: Those who’ve heard of Aimee Semple McPherson and those who should. She was a showperson, a radio star, a publisher and writer, a beloved figure and a celebrity ...

At 40, Nisa Unnirajan from Thiruvananthapuram defied age, disability, and daily challenges to clear the 2024 UPSC exam in her seventh attempt. A mother of two, full-time employee, and hearing ...

Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of ...

SISTER, SINNER: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, by Claire Hoffman Laced with romance, tragedy, courtroom drama and an alleged kidnapping, the story of ...

Among L.A.’s self-realized religious innovators, Aimee Semple McPherson stands out. She is arguably our city’s founding godmother of reinvention. When she arrived in Los Angeles on Dec. 21 ...

Now, Semple has released YOLO — the Y, he said, is for you, the artist. “I’ve managed to take my learnings about refractions, reflections, different wavelengths of pigments, how they ...

In the early 20th century, genuine celebrity was rare, which is what makes Claire Hoffman’s telling of the story of Aimee Semple McPherson so compelling. In “Sister, Sinner,” Ms. Hoffman ...

One of the newest releases of West Indian fiction published in the UK by Peepal Tree Press, “Kipling Plass” by Guyanese prize winning poet Berkley Semple, may be regarded as falling into that ...

Before the Hillsong scandal, before the prayer apps fronted by A-listers, there was Aimee Semple McPherson. The evangelist was a one-of-one figure for her time—a harbinger of what was to come in ...

Mohan Balachandran, a former senior managing director at Texas Teacher Retirement System, has joined NISA Investment Advisors to lead its new quantitative equity strategy. Balachandran ...