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September 6, 2010

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Art & Culture: Soaring like a gleaming aria, our new Disney Concert Hall is the touchstone for a city in love with music and dance. Our radiant sun is the impetus for painters and photographers who exhibit in galleries all over town. We have the liveliest theater scene this side of the Hudson. And it’s all yours enjoy.

Art & Culture Travel Articles

»	Tour L.A.'s noir crime and transit art scenes December 3, 2007, 12:05 pm LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bus tours that drive past movie stars' homes are a standard tourist attraction in Los Angeles, but if a drive-by glimpse of a gated mansion isn't your thing, here are a couple of other tour options in L.A. — one about art, and one about literature. The Los Angeles County... » View Article
»	Pass on Hollywood and hit these must-sees July 30, 2007, 5:06 pm Art And Galleries Are Sprouting Up All Over The City Talk to anyone about art in Los Angeles and they'll tell you the scene has undergone a resurgence over the past decade. Galleries are popping up downtown (16 have opened in the past year), and are luring talent from New York. So bypass Manhattan... » View Article
»	Art and culture glimmer in inner L.A. July 9, 2007, 3:15 pm On weekends, empty streets help visitors zip from one high-brow venue to another. LOS ANGELES - Strappy high heels were the wrong shoes. So said my feet as I climbed the stairway to a cocktail party at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The party was just the beginning of my foray... » View Article
»	All About Los Angeles June 18, 2007, 3:57 pm L.A. has a lot to offer. The City of Angels is always on-the-go and seemingly driven by glitz and glamour. And if you’re willing to fight the traffic, you’ll find some of the world’s best restaurants, shopping and attractions - from studio tours to museums, from beaches to piers. L.A. is the... » View Article
»	Surprise: Old-time L.A. survives April 30, 2007, 11:02 am Joe Friday's downtown lives on amid urban renewal If you're of a certain age, and of a certain level of cultural immaturity, it's hard not to gaze upon Los Angeles City Hall and have two distinct reactions. The first is to hear the opening notes of the theme from "Dragnet:" dum DA dum dum. The... » View Article
»	Maestro of Los Angeles Philharmonic to Pass the Baton to a Wunderkind April 9, 2007, 11:35 am Esa-Pekka Salonen, the onetime wunderkind from Finland who has led the Los Angeles Philharmonic as music director for 15 seasons, has decided to leave the orchestra when his term ends in 2009. His successor? A wunderkind from Venezuela named Gustavo Dudamel, one of the hottest — and youngest —... » View Article
»	36 Hours - Beverly Hills California March 26, 2007, 3:45 pm If the thought of a visit to the Los Angeles area conjures up images of overpacked theme parks, hackneyed studio tours and traffic, leave the city for Beverly Hills. Slip on your sunglasses — in this land of make-believe, rose-tinted lenses are most popular — and wiggle into your low-riders. Put on... » View Article
»	Arts renaissance in the O.C. March 12, 2007, 4:01 am If you watch "The O.C.," you might think that Orange County, Calif., is a vapid cultural wasteland, an overtanned suburb of surfer dudes, spoiled members of Gen Y and desperate housewives. That's not necessarily inaccurate, unless you consider the small coastal city of Costa Mesa, about 37 miles... » View Article
»	Contemporary Art: At the Getty museum, a show tailor-made for a tinkerer March 5, 2007, 6:44 pm ALTADENA, California: Because greater Los Angeles is the land of cars and of plenty of places to park them, it is also home to untold numbers of garage tinkerers, who practically live in the lairs next to their houses, dreaming, puttering, fixing and fiddling. It is probably safe to say that... » View Article
»	Little Tokyo in L.A. January 20, 2007, 6:21 pm With gardens to stroll, sushi, and shopping, L.A.'s Japantown is the real deal he closest you can come to experiencing Japan without a ride across the Pacific is in Little Tokyo, one of the few remaining Japantowns in the United States. The neighborhood is changing fast as downtown... » View Article
»	Stargazing 101 January 29, 2007, 1:21 pm Go ahead -- gawk! Lucy did it at the Brown Derby over William Holden, and now it's your turn. You're in Du-Par's coffee shop in Studio City and George Clooney is in the next booth, downing a short stack. This may not be the best time to run up and ask for an autograph and a quick pic with the... » View Article
»	36 Hours - Hollywood January 29, 2007, 1:03 pm "Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood, and you'll find the real tinsel underneath," Oscar Levant, that Algonquin wit, once observed. And though the lights do shine brightly for the fabulous here, the back streets of this gritty pocket of Los Angeles hold hidden gems for the everyman. Wander... » View Article