City Guides & Travel
Like a West African bantaba — a spiritual gathering place for the community — leafy Leimert Plaza Park is the anchor to Leimert Park Village, a center of L.A.’s African American art and culture. Sunday African drum circles, impromptu domino games and...
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At the corner of Normandie Avenue and Pico Boulevard, a large mural on the side of a public storage building offers a poignant message: “We are each of us angels with one wing. We can only fly embracing each other.” Such is the essence of the...
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Tucked into the tree-lined flats of Studio City, Tujunga Village is a foil to the neighborhood’s main commercial artery, Ventura Boulevard. Occupying the stretch of Tujunga Avenue between Woodbridge and Moorpark streets, Tujunga Village is a throwback to...
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With historic buildings, an arts district and a lively street scene reflecting its thriving Latino population, Santa Ana has grown into the slogan it adopted in 2006: “Downtown Orange County.” It’s come a long way since the ’80s, when the civic...
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Since its designation as a theater and arts district in 1992, North Hollywood, a.k.a. NoHo, has been the unofficial center of live performance in Los Angeles. Like its New York counterpart SoHo, the urban village bisected by Magnolia and Lankershim boulevards was...
