Where to find jazz clubs in Los Angeles

1 month, 3 weeks ago

101 Latino-owned businesses and organizations to experience the best of Latino L.A.

LA Times

Since launching in July 2023, De Los has made a concerted effort to spotlight Latino-owned businesses and organizations in Southern California. Some of our favorite stories are those that delve into how Latinos are carving their own path and creating spaces for their communities — whether it be an account of the inaugural Púchica Fest, which celebrates Central American culture, …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Jazz club Blue Note opens new Los Angeles venue and takes over Hollywood Bowl festival

LA Times

Composer Robert Glasper poses with his Grammy at the awards ceremony in 2023. The acclaimed New York venue Blue Note Jazz Club is going to sweep through L.A.’s music scene in 2025. Additionally, the venue will become the new flagship partner of the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, which will be renamed the Blue Note Jazz Festival. The Napa edition of …

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6 months, 1 week ago

The Música Mexicana revolution shaping Southern California

LA Times

Since launching in July 2023, De Los has extensively covered the emergence of música Mexicana as a global force. According to a report by entertainment data analysis company Luminate, música Mexicana was the biggest reason why Latin music was the fastest-growing genre on streaming services in the first half of 2024. We’ve profiled artists like Fuerza Regida, Danny Lux, Estevie …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Regional Mexican acts contributed millions of dollars at L.A.’s venues post-pandemic

LA Times

During the final night of Grupo Firme’s 2021 stint of seven sold-out shows at what was then called Staples Center, frontman Eduin Caz launched into “En Tu Perra Vida” — “In Your Bitch Life” — by singing its chorus a capella. A Luminate report, released earlier this year, found that regional Mexican music is now the largest Latin subgenre in …

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8 months ago

Jazz (Fest) in America

NPR

Jazz in America toggle caption Mitra I. Arthur; Jonathan Chimene; Newport Jazz / Adam Kissick With summer comes a host of seasonal delights: sunshine, fresh air, taking time to enjoy the finer things in life. Host Christian McBride brings you sets from vocalist Gregory Porter at the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival in 2019, and Gabrielle Cavassa from the Exit Zero …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Can jazz clubs survive in L.A.? The supergroup SML sure hopes so

LA Times

The debut album from the L.A. jazz supergroup SML is a thrilling elegy for a dead nightclub. “It’s super important to have that gathering place with a sense of stability to have a creative music community,” said Jeff Parker, a guitarist and jazz professor at the California Institute of the Arts. But I do wonder if people are priced out …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Chamber music turns old landmarks into vibrant venues in Sierra Madre and South L.A.

LA Times

Andrew McIntosh, left, Ian Pritchard and Joshua Rubin play in the Tesserae Baroque ensemble performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Trio as part of “Bowling, Animals, and the Ocean” at Sierra Madre Playhouse on Sunday. At the Doheny Mansion — the 1899 French Gothic, Moorish, California mission mishmash home of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny in L.A.’s University Park neighborhood — the …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: How L.A.’s Chinatown helped reinvent Southern California

LA Times

For almost 150 years, Los Angeles has been an idea as much as a place. Chinatown featured restaurants, curio shops, two Chinese temples and a Chinese theater; on Los Angeles Street, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Assn. During this decade, the Los Angeles Times mentioned Chinatown more than 1,100 times — compared with just 200 mentions of Little Tokyo, even though …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles: A new home for young talent pursuing a career in music

LA Times

A member of the newly formed Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles performs in the group’s inaugural concert on April 28. The musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles stand for the crowd at their inaugural concert held April 28 at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Parnther — a busy bassoon player in L.A.’s recording studios, a traveling conductor …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: L.A.’s ultimate heartbreak industry isn’t Hollywood. It’s local journalism

LA Times

Whenever I think of the perilous state of local news, I think of Delicious Pizza in West Adams. This follows the shuttering of one of California’s oldest continuously operating newspapers, the Santa Barbara News-Press, last year. But these conditions existed before photos appeared in newspapers, and will persist long after whatever Elon Musk inserts in our brains so we can’t …

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1 year, 2 months ago

This L.A. restaurant is leading the evolution in nonalcoholic beverages

LA Times

Even before the first shivery nip, the sight of the Melona Colada cocktail served at Kato in August eased the high fever of summer. Kato lead bartender Han Suk Cho and bar director Austin Hennelly go deep to create drinks that pair with chef Jon Yao’s tasting menu. Behind the bar, crafting cocktails, Hennelly and Cho are like Shakespearean actors …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How to spend a day in West Hollywood, LA’s high-energy playground

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Sunrise over West Hollywood Do Rock Sunset Strip Fast-walking and fast-talking, local Jon D’Amico is the …

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1 year, 7 months ago

What can friendship teach you about the experiences of jazz in New York and L.A.?

LA Times

This story is part of “Discourse,” a fresh look at the dire state of the bicoastal conversation — free from corniness and cliches. Check out the whole issue — the “New York” issue, if you’re reading between the lines — here. We’re asked, what are the different experiences of jazz on each coast, in New York, in Los Angeles? “Haitian …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How New York’s jazz scene is getting more accessible

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Items currently on display include Armstrong’s FBI file, the passport used for his first UK tour, a brick from the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Who needs Soho House? This Italian social club hidden in L.A. is an absolute delight

LA Times

Lauren Veca was worried about the meatballs. “You’re having performance anxiety because of these meatballs,” said the club’s president, Nicole Infante, 48, a mother of two who never sits still. “We’re healing our inner child at the Garibaldina.” Housed in a low-slung brick building next to the Superior grocery store in Highland Park, the Garibaldina Society is the oldest Italian …

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2 years, 5 months ago

A beloved Hollywood dive is reborn — with $3 beer and classic cocktails

LA Times

The Hollywood bar formerly known as Powerhouse is now Power House Bar, reopened by new management that hopes to bring the haunt close to its dive-bar roots. Power House Bar is open from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily, with happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 1714 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, 463-9438, powerhousehollywood.com Chef Diego Argoti kicked off …

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2 years, 8 months ago

7 best bets for your L.A. weekend: ‘Valkyries’ at the Bowl, a hip-hop musical and more

LA Times

Gustavo Dudamel conducting Wagner, the musical “Freestyle Love Supreme” and Pacific Northwest Ballet make our list of culture picks this weekend. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ They’re making it up as they go along as this mash-up of hip-hop, theater and improv comedy co-created by “Hamilton’s” Lin-Manuel Miranda arrives in SoCal as part of a national tour. 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Eat like a local — have a California roll, a French dip and a Moscow mule, all invented in L.A.

LA Times

“Eat in the Hat” says the sign atop the Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard, on this vintage postcard from Patt Morrison’s collection. The Tail o’ the Pup hotdog stand, another “programmatic” building that opened in 1946 and closed in 2005, is coming back soon — this time to West Hollywood — after a long spell in storage. The Times’ 1960 …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Six picks for your L.A. weekend: ‘Our Town,’ a timely opera, salsa music and more

LA Times

“Our Town” with Evan Lugo and Grace Morrison, the opera “I Can’t Breathe,” singer Ricardo Lemvo and the musical “Newsies” make our list of picks this weekend. 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday; other dates through June 4. scr.org ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Pacific Opera Project stages the West Coast Premiere of composer Leslie Burrs and librettist …

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2 years, 11 months ago

A Ukrainian jazz club provides joy in Odesa despite the invasion

NPR

A Ukrainian jazz club provides joy in Odesa despite the invasion In Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine, one jazz club has continued to host performances despite the Russian invasion, providing a haven for joy and creativity. TIM MAK, BYLINE: The first time I was in Odesa about a month ago, I heard a rumor about a jazz club. …

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3 years ago

Barbara Morrison, jazz and blues legend who left a lasting imprint on L.A., dies

LA Times

Barbara Morrison, one of Los Angeles’ top jazz vocalists, called singing good therapy. I found something I like, that I never get tired of.” A jazz and blues legend who left a lasting imprint in L.A., Morrison died Wednesday at 72. After she moved to Los Angeles in 1971 at age 21, steady work with blues great Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Nine best bets for your weekend: Chinese New Year plus dance, jazz, classical and more

LA Times

The Huntington’s Chinese New Year Festival takes place this Saturday and Sunday. A Chinese New Year celebration in Pasadena, dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in Long Beach and pianist Yefim Bronfman in DTLA lead our shortlist of cultural offerings this weekend. Chinese New Year Festival Ring in the Year of the Tiger with the Huntington’s family-friendly event featuring lion …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Jazz Night in America: On the List

NPR

Jazz Night in America: On the List Updated monthly Enlarge this image Amna Ijaz/NPR Amna Ijaz/NPR Jazz Night in America is a radio and video documentary series that goes deep on stories across the jazz diaspora. On the List shakes loose our staff's favorite new releases every month — from traditional tunes to avant-garde adventures to electronic experiments, we'll keep …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Bob Ringwald, jazz ambassador and actor's father, dies at 80

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Robert Ringwald, the pianist …

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3 years, 9 months ago

As country music faces a racial reckoning, a new question: Where are the Latino artists?

LA Times

Mexican American country singer Leah Turner says that one former manager used to call her “Taco.” Growing up in El Paso, Texas, country singer-songwriter Valerie Ponzio watched her hometown change. “It’s not what people think of it as.” What hasn’t changed about El Paso over the past several decades is how it — and Latino culture more broadly — has …

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3 years, 11 months ago

L.A. club owners confront fresh new hell: a crashed government website and puzzling reopening rules

LA Times

Bassist Denny Croy walks down a hallway of photographs of entertainers who have performed at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. “I was joking a couple of days later that it felt like a horror film where everyone’s running to the door, getting picked off one by one,” said Kora Peterson, the concert director at the independent folk venue McCabe’s …

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4 years, 6 months ago

A Beginner's Guide To Jazz

ABC

With voting underway right now for the Jazz 100, we've prepared this handy guide if you're just dipping your toes into the world of jazz for the very first time. Early New Orleans-based jazz musicians like Morton and King Oliver stood out with their unique blend of syncopated melodies and blues-tinged harmony - all the while 'making things up' and …

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4 years, 8 months ago

At SoCal’s drive-in concerts, fans, artists and promoters make the best of a live-music apocalypse

LA Times

The Concerts in Your Car series at the Ventura County Fairgrounds featured Fishbone and Ozomatli on July 18. At the show, one of the region’s first drive-in concerts bringing live music back during the COVID-19 pandemic, cars encircled the main stage, plonked in the middle of the outdoor venue’s vast seaside parking lot. “But there will be creative adaptations.” Fishbone’s …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Newport Folk And Jazz Festivals Canceled Due To Coronavirus

NPR

Newport Folk And Jazz Festivals Canceled Due To Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images On Wednesday, two storied, sibling American music festivals — the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival — announced that they are being canceled for 2020, due to coronavirus concerns. In a set of nearly …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Drink up, L.A. Stay up all night at some of our favorite places to drink

LA Times

Flamboyant cocktails and old-school cool Hollywood bars. 828 Traction Ave., Los Angeles, 519-5887, artsdistrictbrewing.com Bar Caló Jammed into a crowded Echo Park strip mall, Bar Caló is a dark, velvet-trimmed cocktail lounge that aims straight at the hearts of tequila and mezcal lovers. At Everson Royce Bar, or ERB, you can feel time crunching to a halt every evening on …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Jazz by the bay

Deccan Chronicle

One year ago, when New York-based jazz musician Camille Thurman made a bucket list of the places she wants to perform and travel, she didn’t think that she would cross India off that list so soon. She and the rest of the band — pianist Keith Brown, bassist Devin Starks, and drummer Darrell Green of Darrell Green Trio — began …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Planning solo travelling? Eat, rejuvenate, and relax in California

India TV News

California’s scenic beauty, world-class dining, and welcoming spirit make the Golden State a terrific destination if you are traveling solo, coming with a bunch of friends, coming for a family holiday, or if you’re looking for things to do alone. San Francisco’s busy kitchens make use of Northern California’s abundant fruits, vegetables, seafood, and livestock to create fresh, authentic meals …

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5 years, 9 months ago

For race-specific theater companies, the fight for diversity onstage is far from over

LA Times

In 1965, nine Asian Americans working in theater were tired of being relegated to roles like villain or cab driver and fed up with the regular indignity of white actors playing Asian roles. “There’s layers of conversation of what diversity really means in a cultural arts landscape,” said Kamilah Forbes, executive producer at the Apollo. Latino Theater Company also operates …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Podcast roundup: Our picks for the week, from The Last Laugh to Tides of History and The Jazz Session

Firstpost

Our lowdown on the best episodes from a selection of podcasts that deserve a listen this week. *** — The Last Laugh: A Daily Beast Podcast Jena Friedman Confronts Reality About the podcast: Every week, The Daily Beast’s Matt Wilstein interviews some of the biggest names in comedy — as well as the new voices crashing the party — about …

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6 years, 8 months ago

The GroundUP Music Festival Brings Even More Heat to Miami

NPR

The GroundUP Music Festival Brings Even More Heat to Miami Enlarge this image Stella K./WBGO Stella K./WBGO The first "destination" jazz festival took place in Newport, R.I., in 1954 — multiple days, one stage and gorgeous scenery. After years of performing at festivals around the world, the 34-year-old bassist founded the GroundUP Music Festival in order to bring musicians and …

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6 years, 9 months ago

Sam First is now the city’s best airport-adjacent jazz club

LA Times

Few iconic locations appear as proud of their bureaucratic acronym as the Los Angeles International Airport. Less than 100 yards in front of that trio of letters, some of the swingingest jazz trios in Southern California have been setting up shop since late last year at Sam First, a sleek new club with an emphasis on potent cocktails and the …

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6 years, 10 months ago

Have millennials killed the Club 18-30 holiday?

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Thomas Cook’s 2018 annual holiday report, published last month, stated that millennial’s obsession with capturing the perfect selfie was a …

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6 years, 11 months ago

International Jazz Day: Be part of this seven-hour celebration of jazz in town

Hindustan Times

Iconic American bassist Ray Brown once said, “Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.” And well, if you’re one of those who agree with Brown, an upcoming celebration in town is just for you. On the occasion of International Jazz Day, The Piano Man Jazz Club in partnership with the UNESCO and United Nations Development …

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7 years ago

Capital City Jazz Fest bids farewell, but plenty of jazz remains

Associated Press

After 30 years, Capital City Jazz Fest will have its last standing ovation. The Madison Jazz Society this spring will host its 30th – and final – weekend-long festival, a gathering of jazz fans April 27-April 29 at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Fitchburg. A few highlights: InDIGenous Jazz Series: Jazz at Madison Public Library’s Central branch, 201 W. Mifflin …

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7 years ago

'Waitress,' 'Mormon' and, yes, 'Hamilton' lead the Broadway hits coming to L.A.

LA Times

All hail the return of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton,” just one of the Broadway musical tours that will be up on Southern California stages in the coming months. 556-2787. www.scfta.org April 4-22 and April 24-May 5 “Love Never Dies” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to his beloved romantic musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” Hollywood Pantages, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. 556-2787. www.scfta.org …

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8 years, 1 month ago

Best music venues in London: Where to catch live bands with the locals

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Catch a film, then stick around for musical acts ranging from Nessi Gomes, a singer-songwriter who blends traditional Portuguese Fado …

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8 years, 2 months ago

Where music meets art: Café Tacvba and Santa Cecilia join L.A. Phil to kick off PST LA/LA

LA Times

When Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the Getty-funded exhibition series devoted to Latino and Latin American art, kicks off this fall, it will be with a bang. This concert, set to take place Sept. 17 at the Hollywood Bowl, will be followed by other Latino and Latin American musical performances — including a 10-day festival, CDMX, dedicated to the Mexico City …

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8 years, 5 months ago

To turn L.A. into an aspirational dreamland, the ‘La La Land’ crew shut down a busy freeway — twice

LA Times

“La La Land,” a musical about two beautiful young people falling for each other in Los Angeles, was always meant to be a love letter to the city. “It’s not ‘Training Day,’” joked David Wasco, the film’s production designer, who’s worked on grittier L.A. films “Collateral” and “Pulp Fiction.” “There’s a sweetness to it — kind of a heightened, dreamy …

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8 years, 6 months ago

Newport Beach: Leave LA behind and flee to the real OC

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy For my generation – let’s call it “old millennial” – Newport Beach will forever be synonymous …

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9 years, 10 months ago

The top 30 Southern California concert spots

LA Times

Times Pop Music Critic It's one of live music's great questions: Where is the best place to see a concert? 448 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 284-5727 Orpheum Opened: 1926 Capacity: 2,000 Operator: Independent Summer highlights : Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band, "American Idol" Live, Primus. 1623 1/2 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 461-2040 El …

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9 years, 10 months ago

Chicago among the acts large and small as Jazz Fest plays on

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Another eclectic mix musical acts — old and new, large and small and from a variety of genres — continues as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival rolls into its final weekend. The sounds of the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival start wafting across the vast infield of the Fair Grounds race track along …

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9 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: In L.A., thirsting for a decent bar culture

LA Times

Munich has beer halls. Like so much else in this city, it’s diffuse, fragmented and characterized by extremes: There are achingly cool lounges like the Standard downtown, raucous destination bars like Saddle Ranch on the Sunset Strip, and windowless dive bars that often seem anything but inviting. Many Los Angeles residents have no place within walking distance to share a …

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10 years, 1 month ago

Downtown Los Angeles travel trips: Where to go and what to see in 48 hours

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The FlyAway bus runs from LAX to Downtown’s Union Station every half hour and takes around 35 minutes, and costs …

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10 years, 1 month ago

Downtown Los Angeles travel trips: Where to go and what to see in 48 hours

The Independent

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