Arts & Entertainment
“No Name” Club
432 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90036
(323) 651-1583
If you’ve spooned buttery corn risotto while watching Jackson Browne coo sweet nothings or popped salty beads of salmon roe between your molars in time with Twin Shadow’s synthesized drums, then you’ve been to the club that goes by “No Name.”
Neighborhood: West Hollywood
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Eat, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Eat, Music Venues
1886
1250 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91105
Today Brady Weise shakes up cinnamon syrup with pineapple, grapefruit, and cranberry juices.
Neighborhood: Pasadena
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Bars, Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat
64th Annual Pacific Palisades Fourth of July Parade
15777 Bowdoin St., Los Angeles, CA, 90272
The 64th Annual Pacific Palisades Fourth of July Parade, featuring “the Beav”…
Neighborhood: Pacific Palisades
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions
A Club Called Rhonda
3040 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90026
It’s all about dance-floor desegregation, with legendary DJs and about-to-blow-up acts attracting a diverse crowd.
Neighborhood: East Hollywood
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Do, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Do, Dance Clubs
Academy Cinemas
1003 E. Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 91106
626-229-9400
L.A.’s second-run cinemas are predictably seedy: One projects movies on a too-small screen, another’s toilets are consistently broken…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Pasadena
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Cinema
Adamm’s Stained Glass Studio & Art Gallery
1426 4th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
This lively gallery off the 3rd Street Promenade showcases fragile masterpieces of more than 175 glass artists from North America.
Neighborhood: Santa Monica
Category: Art, Arts & Entertainment, Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Shop, Best of LA: 2013
Alibi Room
12236 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90066
310-390-9300
A Korean-Mexican dungeon, this dark funky bar has full menu of delicious fusion dishes like kimchi quesadillas and galbi tacos for soaking up their lemongrass caipirinhas.
Neighborhood: Culver City
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Bars, Fusion/Eclectic/Global, Restaurants
Aloud at Central Library
630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA, 90071
213-228-7025
The place that connects audiences with local authors, journalists, scholars and experts in their field…
Neighborhood: Downtown, Los Angeles
Category: Art, Arts & Entertainment
AMC Loews
1441 3rd Street Promenade, Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-458-1506
For new parents, arranging for a baby-sitter just to catch a flick can seem as complicated as planning a trip abroad…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Santa Monica
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Cinema, Shopping
Americafest 2012
1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 91103
(626) 577-3100
The Rose Bowl, which has dubbed itself “America’s Stadium,” honors the birth of our nation with the all-day extravaganza Americafest 2012…
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions
American Cinematheque
6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90028
323-461-2020
Established in 1981 to celebrate the art of the moving picture, the American Cinematheque presents a range of films from American classics…
Neighborhood: Hollywood, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Cinema
Amoeba Music
6400 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90028
323-245-6400
They’ve just added a goth section at Amoeba Music, giving the best record store in Southern California a brand-new kohl-eyed pout…
Neighborhood: Hollywood, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Music Venues
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90802
562-590-3100
The puffins invariably draw a crowd, as do the psychedelic sea jellies, the Tolkienesque sea dragons, and especially the touching ponds…
Neighborhood: Long Beach, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Museums, Zoos
Armadillo String Quartet
Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90005
“People expect the unexpected from us,” says Steve Scharf, second violinist of the Armadillo String Quartet…
Neighborhood: Downtown, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Performing Arts
Automobile Driving Museum
610 Lairport St., Los Angeles, CA, 90245
310-909-0950
If you want to understand why cars end up in museums in the first place, motor to the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, where docents take guests for a Sunday spin in one of the 130 restored vehicles from the collection.
Neighborhood: El Segundo
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Do, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Do, Museums
Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027
323-667-2000
The Autry National Center offers a look at the American West with ongoing and special exhibitions for all ages…
Neighborhood: Glendale, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Museums, Shopping
Baby Loves Disco
4500 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90027
323-663-8979
Best of LA, October 2008Because so many TV and movie crew members call the San Fernando Valley home, neighborhoods there are expert at playing dead: Front yards feature creatures on hydraulics, intricate light shows, “live” ghouls, scary sound effects, and professional stuntmen. One area i
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Los Feliz
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Dance Clubs, Shopping