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Altadena Golf Course has you teeing off on a putting green of natural grass that’s been recently upgraded along with the café, cocktail lounge, and shop.

Neighborhood: East Pasadena

Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Do, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Do, Golf, Sports & Recreation

Anti-Gravity Yoga Wings

8000 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90046

323-654-4550

After adjusting the silk hammocks that hang from the ceiling to the heights of her dozen or so waiting students, Saharah Ali issues a final warning…

Website: http://www.crunch.com

Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood

Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction

Arroyo Seco

1055 Lohman Ln., Los Angeles, CA, 91030

323-255-1506

South Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco miniature golf course is not big or elaborate like those theme-parky installations you see from the freeway…

Website: http://www.arroyoseco.com/

Neighborhood: Los Angeles, South Pasadena

Category: Family Fun, Golf, Sports & Recreation

Bailey Canyon Park

451 W. Carter Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91024

Hollywood’s popular Runyon Canyon offers us panoramas, celebrity sightings, and stargazing, but Bailey Canyon Park in Sierra Madre has our pooches scampering across rivulets…

Website: http://www.sierramadrenews.net/bailey.htm

Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Sierra Madre

Category: Arts & Entertainment, Family Fun, Parks & Beaches, Sports & Recreation

Barry’s Bootcamp

1106 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90069

310-360-6262

We rocked out with Yoga Shelter’s Eric Paskel (Kristin Cavallari is an acolyte) and explored the stretch band-tastic Tracy Anderson Method (Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow)…

Website: http://barrysbootcamp.com/

Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood

Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction

Basics of Mindfulness Meditation

1430 Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90404

310-774-3325

Don’t beat yourself up if your mind starts to wander, Allen Weiss tells students in his Basics of Mindfulness Meditation course at InsightLA. There’s never an intimidating moment during the six weeks of secular-based instruction…

Website: http://www.insightla.org

Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation

Beach Yoga with Brad

Marine St., Los Angeles, CA, 90405

310-826-6958

Watching the waves crash during a session of Beach Yoga with Brad, you’ll forget you’re on the busy border between Santa Monica and Venice.

Website: http://www.bradkeimach.com

Neighborhood: Santa Monica

Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Do, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Do, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio

Beachwood Canyon

Between 2872 and 2882 Belden, Los Angeles, CA, 90068

Build granitelike glutes and take in the landscape as you hike the public staircases notched into the city’s hillsides.

Website: http://www.secretstairs-la.com

Neighborhood: West Los Angeles

Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Do, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Do, Family Fun, Sports & Recreation

Becker

Various locations, Los Angeles, CA, 90254

(310) 372-6554

The Becker empire is shrinking a smidge: The Encinitas store recently closed, and the inventory is on sale at a temporary annex next to the Malibu location…

Website: http://beckersurf.com

Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation

Belmont Shore

Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90802

When we’re hanging out by the Granada boat launch in Long Beach, they’re tough to miss: People in wet suits being yanked across the water by enormous half-moon kites

Category: Family Fun, Sports & Recreation

Bicycle John’s Serious Cycling

1038 N. Hollywood Way, Los Angeles, CA, 91505

818-848-8330

With its buying power, SuperGo in Santa Monica is the place to get a good deal on a two-wheeler. We’ve fared well at Helen’s Cycles, too…

Website: http://bicyclejohns.com

Neighborhood: Burbank, Los Angeles

Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation

Bike Improve

10929 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025

310-437-3555

Our bikes wither and die in the garage because we’re too lazy to bring them to a repair shop…

Website: http://www.bike-improve.com/

Neighborhood: Westwood

Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation

Birding Supplies

4337 Woodman Ave, Sherman Oaks

(818) 995-0022

The emphasis at Wild Wings is to bring the birds to you, though the owners also lead periodic walks to avian-rich locales in Los Angeles County. The Sherman Oaks operation stocks backyard feeders and birdhouses that encompass a wide range of species, from woodpeckers to bluebirds to owls. The seed mixes are blended specifically with […]

Website: http://www.wildwingsla.com/

Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2016: Shop, Best of LA: 2016, Best of LA: Shop, Outdoor Furnishings, Outdoor Recreation

Blue Collar Working Dog

1533 Echo Park Ave., Echo Park, CA, 90026

213-977-9042

Blue Collar Working Dog carries all manner of camping and hiking paraphernalia for canines–spot items that ensure pet safety and comfort in the wild

Website: http://www.bluecollarworkingdog.com/

Neighborhood: Echo Park

Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Pets, Best of LA 2014: Shop, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Shop, Family Fun, Outdoor Recreation, Pet Stores

BootCamp4Moms

Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90094

310-463-1003

At BootCamp4Moms, Tami Tyson mixes kickboxing with more playful exercises using squishy, half-sphere Bosu balls…

Website: http://bootcamp4moms.com/

Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Playa Vista

Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction

Briarwood Park

461 Almaden Ct., Los Angeles, CA, 90077

310-840-2186

The general rule for play dates in the 310 and the 818 is that someone has to schlepp from one side of the hill to the other. If people only knew about Briarwood Park…

Website: http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/briarwoodPk.htm

Neighborhood: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

Category: Arts & Entertainment, Family Fun, Parks & Beaches, Sports & Recreation