Cover photo by Ben Ritter and John McSwain
illustrations by Becca Kacanda and BALD EAGLES
photos by Yudi Echevarria
 EATING IN LOS ANGELES
You can go ahead and disagree with us when we say that the LA food scene has always been sort of grim. (Shut up, transplants-after you find yourself eating Mexican for 17 years you'll stop yammering about how coooool those burrito stands are.) Until recently, ...READ MORE |
  EASTSIDE
There's old money in Los Feliz, and art school kids and Hispanics everywhere else. Plus some industry people are in Glendale, since it's close to Burbank....READ MORE |
 DOWNTOWN AND MID-CITY
You got your crack alleys and tent cities, as well as wannabe artists in lofts and longtime Chinatown and Little Tokyo residents. It's supposedly getting cooler-but people have been saying that for years. Santee Alley is like NYC's Canal Street. There are desi...READ MORE |
 PLACES TO GO WHEN SOMEONE ELSE IS PAYING
If you have an expense account or work in "The Industry" or are just an LA gold digger, then you've probably been to a lot of these places already. If not, here's a list of places to suggest to your boss on Administrative Assistant Appreciation Day. Try and lo...READ MORE |
 PLACES TO GO WHEN YOU WANT TO GET ALL HISTORICAL
These places may or may not have good food. That's not the point, even though this is a guide to eating. The point is that they are super-historical and often have the waitstaff to match (as in the curmudgeonly 90-year-old "waitresses" at Canter's Deli). If yo...READ MORE |
 HOLLYWOOD
West Hollywood is still primarily boystown last time we checked, and rich. Hollywood proper is old Hasidic families in the Fairfax District who hate the youngsters who've moved in. Everyone hates the Hills-type kids and guys who wear Ed Hardy and spray ...READ MORE |
 PLACES TO GO LATE AT NIGHT
LA is not a late-night city, what with the 2 AM closing time, the 1:30 AM last call, and lazy bartenders who sometimes even set the bar clocks fast so they can call it at like 1:10. But for you, the champagne and cocaine don’t stop flowing until 5 AM, and when...READ MORE |
 WESTSIDE
Beverly Hills is Armenians with lots of plastic surgery driving Daddy's BMW or Mercedes. West LA is UCLA kids living off Daddy's money, frat boys, and sorority girls. Brentwood is very Nicole Brown Simpson-esque, while Santa Monica and Venice are full of rich ...READ MORE |
 THE VALLEY
It's porn central and Burbank's the movie-studio hub. There are definitely unsafe parts of the Valley, e.g., Van Nuys. I think Bob Hope called it "Cleveland with palm trees," which pretty much describes a lot of LA....READ MORE |
 SOUTH CENTRAL
Whites are the minority here; it's mostly a black and Hispanic population, except USC-a lot of rich white kids there. Be careful which alley you accidentally drive down. There are lots of couches on front porches and bars on windows....READ MORE |
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