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Los Angeles holidays

October 2017

  • A graffitied railway bridge in Los Angeles.

    Why I love …
    ‘Los Angeles is the globe in a small space’: author Ryan Gattis

    LA is the most diverse city in the US, says the thriller writer. And with regeneration, areas like Downtown are fizzing with cultural mashups and food fusions

September 2017

  • The LA River has been used in dozens of movies, including Grease.

    On the radar
    The LA River, a favourite Hollywood backdrop, cleans up its act

    A plan to beautify a stretch of river made famous by dozens of movies is the springboard for an upsurge of bars, cafes and music venues in Los Angeles’ Elysian Valley, also called Frogtown

July 2017

  • Hiking trails at Pfeiffer Big Sur state park, California

    On the radar
    Big Sur, California’s most scenic coast, reopens – to hikers only

    The picturesque highway from San Francisco to LA was battered by floods last winter, but an emergency walking route for residents is now a tempting trail for hikers too

June 2017

  • Supermoon moonrise over Los Angeles.

    From our correspondent
    10 top tips from our Los Angeles correspondent

    Stars in the sky and on the silver screen, trips to the beach and a cemetery, plus a stroll with a local actor who calls himself ‘the people walker’ … LA delivers the goods for our west coast writer

May 2017

  • Art dealer Mike Van Eaton stands next to a hand-drawn map from 1953 that shows Walt Disney’s original ideas for Disneyland

    How Disneyland was born: 1953 sketch of Walt's wonderland up for auction

    Walt Disney and Herb Ryman’s original artwork for the Disneyland theme park in California – created over one weekend – may fetch up to $1m when auctioned in June

March 2017

  • A man carries a surfboard along Manhattan Beach, California, above him, on a pier, people promenade as the sun sets.

    Instagram snapshots
    Sun, surf and solitude: a quiet side of LA – in pictures

    More often associated with jammed freeways and crowded beaches, Darin Tang’s Los Angeles images capture moments of calm away from the masses

February 2017

  • Tourists walking on footpath by beach during sunset. High angle view of Venice beach during sunset.

    Holiday guides
    Los Angeles city guide: what to see, plus the best bars, hotels and restaurants

    All eyes are on LA ahead of the Oscars, and the city has more to offer visitors than ever: new bars and attractions in regenerated districts, better transport options, plus views and beaches galore
  • San Clemente pier and beach

    Readers' travel tips
    The best of Los Angeles: readers’ travel tips

    A Pacific coast cycle to Malibu, unspoilt Catalina island and a visit to an 18th-century Spanish mission belie the view of LA being all about movie studios and freeway traffic
  • Stephanie Theobald gets ready to ‘board’ the Tesla Model X for the drive to Vegas.

    Eco road trip: Los Angeles to Las Vegas by Tesla

    A teenager has launched a green car service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, using Tesla electric vehicles. Stephanie Theobald gets a lift and finds the conversation as fascinating as the technology

January 2017

  • The opening sequence of La La Land, with downtown in the background.

    La La Land locations: 10 of the best to visit in Los Angeles

    Shot in more than 40 locations in LA, the musical La La Land is ‘a love letter to the city’, according to its producer. To coincide with the UK release, we asked a local writer to pick some of the film’s iconic settings

December 2016

  • Making a pot on potter's wheel

    On the radar
    Putting Airbnb’s new hosted ‘experience’ to the test

    The global rental giant is rolling out tours and learning experiences run by ‘micro entrepreneurs’ in 12 cities worldwide. How will our writer fare on a hippy pottery course in Los Angeles?

November 2016

  • Airbnb Chief Executive Brian Chesky

    'Whole trip' service makes Airbnb bigger than ever, but many want tougher rules

    Airbnb is taking on the tourism industry with an ambitious expansion and a star-studded launch – but it comes at a delicate time for the company

July 2016

  • A book tunnel at The Last Bookstore, LA.

    A great little place I know
    The Last Bookstore: a literary treasure trove in downtown LA

    The biggest (and loveliest) new and secondhand bookshop in California is on a mission: to ‘keep the paper and ink book business alive’

May 2016

  • A train heading to Santa Monica from LA on the extended Expo Line.

    On the radar
    Los Angeles’ new rail extension makes its way to the beach

  • Michael Traynor as Nicholas and Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead

    The Walking Dead 'come to life' at Universal Studios Hollywood

April 2016

  • The Last Bookstore

    Interview with a bookstore by Literary Hub
    Interview with a Bookstore: The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles

    Which books would you like to find in the last bookstore on a post-apocalyptic earth? This was the premise behind the birth of The Last Bookstore in California

January 2016

  • LA hamburger stand

    Resilient cities
    The disappearing roadside hamburger stands of downtown Los Angeles

    Los Angeles’ fast-food stands are an iconic part of California’s tradition of car-oriented architecture. But as the city rapidly transforms, the hamburger stands are being erased from the urban landscape

September 2015

  • I took these photos on 2 August 2015 in Santa Monica. It was sunny and warm and summer, which means the streets downtown were jam-packed. I found a diverse range of people biking in the marked bike lanes on the road as well as on sidewalks: young and old. White and Black and Asian and Hispanic. Tourists and locals. And they were riding for divergent reasons- to exercise, for fun, to beat the traffic, to work, etc. While people sat in traffic only a few blocks (and yet still a half hour away, at least) from the beach, people on their bikes glided by. Willo leads the race

    Cycling the city
    Ride, hustle, kill, repeat: the underground cycle gangs of Los Angeles

    Rory Carroll meets the bicycle tribes – from the Kushtown Society to the Ovarian Psycos – who claim LA’s streets after dark. There are races and mass rides most nights, some blessed by city authorities, others wild and illegal

August 2015

  • Ave Pildas – Hollywood Boulevard. Power to the People, 1974.

    Where the streets are paved with stars: Hollywood Boulevard in the 70s – in pictures

    The transvestites are ecstatic, the grannies are stony-faced, and KKK costumes are all the rage. Behold the funky (and ever so slightly seedy) Hollywood characters who strutted down the Walk of Fame in days gone by

July 2015

  • saxophonist … Kamasi Washington

    LA jazz: how Kamasi Washington and Thundercat are breathing new life into the west coast scene

    Via collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus, the jazz fusion figureheads are making LA the focal point of a jazz renaissance
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