Contents QuickStart Guide Welcome to Los Angeles Top Sights Local Life Day Planner Need to Know Los Angeles Neighborhoods Explore Hollywood Griffith Park, Silver Lake & Los Feliz Cruising Echo Park West Hollywood & Beverly Hills Getty Center Miracle Mile & Mid-City Gallery Hopping in Culver City Santa Monica Malibu Venice Manhattan Beach, Beyond the Sand Downtown Exposition Park Pasadena Burbank & Universal City Disneyland & Disney California Adventure Best The Best of Los Angeles The Venice Stroll The Downtown Hustle Food Drinking Live Music Gay & Lesbian Los Angeles Shopping Kids Outdoor Adventure Beaches Celebrity-Spotting Museums Tours Survival Guide Survival Guide Before You Go Arriving in Los Angeles Getting Around Essential Information Behind the Scenes Our Writer Welcome to Los Angeles LA runs deeper than her blonde beaches and celebrified hills would have you believe. She’s a beacon for small-town dreamers, an open-minded angel best defined by simple, life- affirming moments – a cracked-ice, Jazz Age cocktail on Beverly Blvd, or a hike high into the Hollywood Hills sagebrush. And her night music. There is always night music. Amoeba Music store, Hollywood JAMES KIRKIKIS/GETTY IMAGES © Los 1 Angeles Top Sights Hollywood Boulevard & the Walk of Fame In LA stars are more visible on-screen, in high-end restaurants and embedded in this speckled sidewalk than they are in the hazy night sky. Click here