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There is a Los Angeles beyond the glossy image. The metropolis steeped in bohemian neighborhoods, great architecture, lovely parks, odd cultural experiences and has an arts scene and a music scene that few other cities can match. You just have to find the right.
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Edgecliffe House - also called Lodging 323 - Silver Lake is ideal if you want to follow this destination guide, but it can be hard to snag one of the four apartments hostess food or individual house on time. The price is reasonable for the high standard and location, with a wonderful view of the city, including Griffith Park and that white, famous, big letter sign that all insist on showing up everywhere. www.houseinsilverlake.com
Olive Motel. About The Edgecliffe House is too expensive but you still want to stay in Silver Lake, the Olive Motel function instead. One should be prepared hostess food for a relatively low standard and that many of the guests are a bit odd, but the motel has a small charming Charles Bukowski-character and has gained a cult status in the area. 2751 Sunset Blvd, tel. +1-213-413-0300).
Alexandria Hotel. It could be made a documentary hostess food about the Alexandria Hotel, the stout, hostess food story-rich hostess food eight-storey building from 1906 located in downtown. Formerly a hotel to Hollywood legends like Clark Gable and Greta Garbo and today a remarkable all-in-one complex, inrymmandes hotels, rental levels, the trashy charming lounguebaren The Down and Out, an innovative restaurant, The Gorbals and Theatre Company, Company of Angels. Experience Rich enough for a weekend. 501 South Spring Street, www.thealexandria.net hostess food
Budget. For the socially utsvultne budget traveler hostel is a suitable choice. For LA's better variants hear StayOnBeverly, (4619 Beverly Blvd, www.stayonbeverly.com) in Koreatown, and Orbit (7950 Sunset Blvd, www.orbithotel.com) and Banana Bungalow (603 Fairfax Avenue, www.bananabungalowus.com ) in West Hollywood. The latter two offer free breakfast every day and dinner on certain evenings of the week, as well as free wifi.
Silver Lake. Start with a drive through the neighborhoods that make up the opposite of the pompous luxury Beverly Hills. East of Highway 101, Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Echo Park - three bohemian ones who have gone from working-class neighborhoods to become Los Angeles musician's densest neighborhoods. The streets breathe indie history. Stop at 4334 Sunset Blvd to see the mural that pays tribute hostess food to the deceased local singer / songwriter Elliott Smith. hostess food
Sunset Junction. Park at Sunset hostess food Junction, to walking mix with the fashion hostess food conscious, scrawny locals. Drink a cup of organic chai latte among art students in the cozy Casbah Cafe (3900 Sunset Blvd.), Buy a new pair of graphic novels on comic shop Secret Headquarters (3817 Sunset Blvd) and pick up a home-burned CD-R with a new Silver hostess food Lake band of kreddiga Vacation Vinyl (3815 Sunset Blvd).
Parker. Despite the extreme car traffic, the abundance of asphalt and the seemingly countless number of car parks and industrial premises, Los Angeles is also a lush park city. Griffith Park (4730 Crystal hostess food Springs Dr.) Is located east of the Santa Monica hostess food Mountains and is one of Los Angeles's own Central Park. In Los Feliz is one finds Barnsdall Art Park (4800 Hollywood Blvd, www.barnsdallartpark.com), hostess food which in addition to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhockhuset also has several arts centers and art galleries. Echo Park's own park with downtown in the background, is also a convivial lung among exhaust.
Compton. To fully take advantage of the "real" Los Angeles should visit the city perhaps most notorious underclass suburb Compton, which is adjacent to Highway 91 in the South Central. Hip Hop Fans have many references to tick off here, from NWA's debut album, to scenes from the movie Boyz n the Hood. Compton today is not nearly as dangerous as before, and as long as one makes their visit around noon and stays in the car, you can feel calm.
Sweaty Sundays. Start your Sunday with dancing off your tiredness from the night before on hipsterdansgympan Sweaty Sundays, led by the avant-garde choreographer Ryan Heffington. Starts at. 12 at the dance studio The Sweat Spot, www.thesweatspotla.com, in Silver Lake.
Museum of Jurassic Technology. Los Angeles is full of strange cultural experiences. One of the very coolest contained within it from the street hostess food seen unspectacular Museum of Jurassic Technology, on the outskirts of Culver hostess food City. On the inside, you are met by a bizarre and suggestive world