Time Out Los Angeles - 5th Edition (Time Out Guides)

by Time Out Guides Ltd (Author)

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  2006

  $3.24

  The capital of the West Coast, a sprawling desert megalopolis that's home to more stars than the sky at night, Los Angeles continues to enthral all those who visit it. The sun-soaked beaches, celebrity-studded restaurants and general Hollywood glitz continue to draw tourists, of course. But the colonisation of neighbourhoods such as Silver Lake and Echo Park, and the ongoing revival of Downtown LA (including the recent opening of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall), have both lent fresh impetus to this immense, unknowable city, perhaps the most fascinating in the US.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $16.56

  California may be in turmoil, but to visit Los Angeles, you wouldn't really know it. For the most part, life here is lived much as it has been since time immemorial: decadently, stylishly and glitzily, all under bliss-inducing, cloudless skies. Classic Los Angeles is there if you want it, of course, whether at the 40-year-old, star-studded Beverly Hills restaurant Dan Tana's or on the ever-fruity Venice Beach. But that's not to suggest LA is standing still; far from it. The new Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, is testament to the ongoing regeneration of Downtown; the city's restaurants are better and more varied than ever before, with more opening all the time; and the regeneration of Hollywood, especially the Hollywood & Highland complex in which sits the Kodak Theatre, the new home of the Academy Awards, is paying dividends in terms of increased visitor numbers. Time Out Los Angeles takes you to all these venues and thousands more besides, over 320 full-colour pages.