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After a concert or basketball game at the Staples Center, enjoy drinks by the pool at Hotel Figueroa, a Moroccan-themed hotel dating back to the 1920s. (Hotel Figueroa / May 24, 2012) |
For locals, Venice Beach is often lost in a haze of cliches. Weight-lifting/chain-saw juggling/multiple piercing cliches. Plus, parking on a summer weekend can be miserable. Why bother? Unless….you take an afternoon, or, even better, an early morning, on a week day and abandon the beach for a stroll on the neighborhood canals. Admire the pedestrian bridges and modern architecture that is interspersed amid decades-old bungalows. Imagine what life was like as Angelenos strolled the same paths 100 years ago.
Cost: Free
—A.S.
Categories: Fitness, kids
Flower shopping
Brighten up your home or workplace and shop for a bouquet (or three) at the Flower District in Downtown Los Angeles. Wander the rows of colorful flowers and find great bargains for your lonely vases.
Cost: Price of flowers
Contact info: Downtown Los Angeles around 8th and Maple streets. http://www.laflowerexchange.com/index.html
Categories: Shopping, Home & Garden
—D.D.
Gamble House tour
Try a new lunch location and bring a bagged lunch to the terrace of Pasadena's Gamble House. Tuesdays at 12:15 and 12:45 p.m., docents lead a 20-minute tour of the historic house and its grounds.
Cost: $5
Dates: Tuesdays, ongoing
Contact Info: Gamble House, 4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena; http://www.gamblehouse.org/tours/brownbag.html
Categories: Home & Garden
—D.D.
Explore the UCLA Sculpture Garden
There are UCLA graduates who decided to attend the Westwood campus solely because of the campus sculpture garden (formerly known as the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden). Check out the Noguchi, the Calder, the Lipchitz and the Rodin. Then take off your shoes and stretch out on the grass and abandon every worry in the world.
Cost: free, but $1 to $11 for self-service parking
Cost: Free
—A.S.
Categories: Fitness, kids
Flower shopping
Brighten up your home or workplace and shop for a bouquet (or three) at the Flower District in Downtown Los Angeles. Wander the rows of colorful flowers and find great bargains for your lonely vases.
Cost: Price of flowers
Contact info: Downtown Los Angeles around 8th and Maple streets. http://www.laflowerexchange.com/index.html
Categories: Shopping, Home & Garden
—D.D.
Gamble House tour
Try a new lunch location and bring a bagged lunch to the terrace of Pasadena's Gamble House. Tuesdays at 12:15 and 12:45 p.m., docents lead a 20-minute tour of the historic house and its grounds.
Cost: $5
Dates: Tuesdays, ongoing
Contact Info: Gamble House, 4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena; http://www.gamblehouse.org/tours/brownbag.html
Categories: Home & Garden
—D.D.
Explore the UCLA Sculpture Garden
There are UCLA graduates who decided to attend the Westwood campus solely because of the campus sculpture garden (formerly known as the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden). Check out the Noguchi, the Calder, the Lipchitz and the Rodin. Then take off your shoes and stretch out on the grass and abandon every worry in the world.
Cost: free, but $1 to $11 for self-service parking
