City Guides & Travel
In Los Angeles, the frenzied competition of the pre-recession real estate boom has returned. To get a toehold in this hot market, especially in the city’s most desirable areas, you really need a real estate professional to increase your chances of landing your dream...
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If the mystique of Hollywood’s more brilliant past captures your fancy, or if you’ve got a hankering for Hollywood history, this itinerary will steep you in nostalgia. It may be hard to remember a time before round-the-clock TMZ and Perez. What with...
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In the shadow of Los Angeles City College, the intersection of Heliotrope Drive and Melrose Avenue boasts a collegiate, counterculture vibe, complete with avid bicycle activists, a smoke shop, tattoo parlor and a splash of colorful, graffiti-style murals. Yet this...
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A city of dualities, La Cañada Flintridge is home to both NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the pastoral Descanso Gardens, boasting pristine natural beauty yet also at the cutting edge of technology. It’s nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel...
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In Old Towne Orange — a mile-square district established during the citrus boom of the late 19th century — reverence for the past is part of daily business. At the center is Plaza Square, where cars whip around the Victorian-era fountain and garden in a...
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Handmade tamales and mariachi tunes await. When the new Metro Gold Line extension rumbles into Boyle Heights this summer, it will bring visitors from all over the city to a neighborhood that has long been a threshold for newcomers. Named for Irish immigrant Andrew...
