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HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2024: Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room on September 18, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

This 71-year-old pole dancer defies expectations — and gravity — in age-obsessed L.A.

Mary Serritella started pole dancing at 57. Fourteen years later she’s inspiring others who are decades her junior.
GRANBURY-TX-SEPTEMBER 9, 2024: Adrienne Martin is photographed in Granbury, Texas on September 9, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

A ‘Locally hated/Dyslexic Hairstylist’ battles the Christian right in a Texas town

Encino, CA, Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - Environmental activist Melanie Winter floats along the LA River in the Sepulveda Basin. She has spent much of her life advocating for reimagining the L.A. River. In the Sepulveda Basin, she hopes to see natural floodplains restored. "How amazing is this! In the middle of L.A.," she exclaimed. "You get a glimpse of what the river was, and what the river could be again." (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

An L.A. River champion offers a vision for reimagining the waterway — and the city’s future

Riverside, CA, Monday, September 9, 2024 - Everett Titterington, a native of Milford, Iowa, who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, is memorialized with a burial at Riverside National Cemetery. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

‘Like freeing a ghost’: A sailor’s strange and wondrous journey back from Pearl Harbor

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OnlyFans, trafficking and drug dealers: How a jaguar cub wound up in a California suburb

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A bear crashed a picnic and swiped at a woman’s leg. Wildlife cops had a decision to make

This armless archer had won many medals. Could he win gold at the Paralympics?

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