Best experimental Puppet theater  Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson founded in 2004, experimental puppety scene. Frankenstein (Mortal Toys),, a multimedia presentation with the live soundtrack,two dimensional puppets, original scenary,short films and half of dosen performances  China town, 504 Chung King Court  automata-LA.org


Best new blue-chip weho gallery near orthodox  Jewish mortuary in West Hollywood, commissionary artist Ellsworth Kelly to create significant fasade. Artista KenPrice, Charles Ray, Nan Goldin, ,Robert Gober, jasper Johns.  1062 Orange grove, matthewmarks.com/los-angeles





Best Ocean view hike  Portuguese bend nature reserve   29800 Crenshaw blvd, Palos Verdes Peninsula  pvplc.orgThis how California looked 100 ago: unspoiled, rolling hills of coastal scrub. The mein trail (Burma road trail  2 miles up the hill. The Ladera Linda Community Center 32201 Forrestal dr.





Street art  5111 w. pico blvd   33third.com


Pub 2329 Fair Oaks Av, Altadena.


Best Blues Club 1949,Harvelle’s Santa Monica 1931 opened since Great Depresssion..Artists Guitar Shorty, traditionalist Dennis Jones,Jimmy Z.,Arthur Adams,Rod Piazza, John Lee Hooker Jr.,R&B, soul,jazz and pop, Magnolia Memoir, Tasha Taylor, the Delgado Brothers,Café R&B, Toledo Show,Harlow Gold, 1432 fourth st. Santa Monica   harvelles.com








Best Jazz club Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E.S. Onizuka st, ste 301Llittle Tokio, bluewhilemusic.com  John Daversa, Dwight Trible,


Best Latin Alternative Band La Santa Sesilia  the multicultural mix of LA, Grammy nominated, from Boyle Hights


Juilliard dance  julliard.edu/dance


Best winw program  Bar covell 4628 hollywood blvd, Los Feliz  barcovell.com


55 Degree wine 311 Glendale blvd Atwater village 55degreewine.com


Best Opera with alcogol, students and professionals sing opera once a month in a bar,room5 Lounge on La Brea  Opera on Tap 143 La Brea, 2d floor operaontap.org


Best afternoon house paRTY  JAZZ AT THE FRAME  Duke Ellington, Wycliffe Gordon, John Coltrane. Once a month,the living room of Betty Hoover’s Hollywood Hills  1821 Sunset Plaza dr  aframejazz.com


Highbrow public art triple a murals on the side of Francois Ghebaly gallery on La Cienega, where La Cienega meets Venice 2600 s La Cienega blvd ghebaly.com/triplea


Downtown art walk  downtownartwalk.org


Housekeeping www.alittlebitdirty.com


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Best Secret artLibrary of artist Noah Davis, Ana Mendieta,, MarkRothko, Karon Devis-Inner City Avant Garde  3508 w washington blvd  innercityavantgarde.com


Best LA murals  Figueroa-61 st: in Higland park the Aztec calindar stoneQuetzalcoatl’s acid-green plumage Mural Conservancy in LA  muralconservancy.org  tour 155 w.Washington blvd


Best historic Controversial Mural  at Olivera st by legendary Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siquieros  "tropical America”  125 Paseo de La plaza dt americatropical.org


Best Comedy Show Below Sea Level "Venice underground Comedy Show” at the townhouse. While the gritty, funky Venice Boardwalkis just yards away and the scruffyaura of counter-culture icons Jim Morrison to Perry Farrell. Scene on the 6th floor., Bronston Jones.After show – burlesque. 52 Windward av. Venica.facebook.com/VeniceUground


Roguemachinetheatre.com  5041 W.Pico


Huntington Library


Best free comedy night at a bar "Josh and Josh show” at bar lubitsch Josh Haness and Josh Weinstein moved from N.Y. to LA in 2008  at 8 p.m. every Thursday 7702 Santa Monica blvd.


Best dance Series Gloria Kaufman Dance and the music Center  135 N Grand av.musiccenter.org/about/Our-programs/Glorya-Kaufman-Dance/


Best Culinary cocteils  8360Melrose av.


Best Culver City Happy Hour  10899 Venice blvd oldfieldliquorrroom.com


Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park  where Simi Hills merge with the Santa Susana Mountains: rolling meadows, deep canyons, and  rocky outcroppings  as spagetty Western, coyotes, hawks,foxes, tarantulas, snakes  From Chatsworth  10200 block of Larwin Av.  Parks.ca.gov


Topanga Canyon state park oak tree


Magic castle  7001 Franclin av  nani wilson


Golden eagle mountain trail, 16 miles, oak dotten mountains, Manzanita covered hills, Pyramid Lake, Quail Lake, Antelope Valley in Angeles National Forest on Old Rige Route. Bakersfield

 

www.centralcoastbioneers.org   Central Coast Bioneers annual pre-conference in western Kern County. Wind Wolves non-profit preserve. Mountains, grassland and desert converge. Between a Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. Tule elk, California condor,golden eagles,San Emigdio Canyon,Native American rock art site. The Windland Conservancy

 

Best day trip. Take back hw 23, 126, and 150, trough orange grove, a sandstone canyons and  historic Santa Paula to Ojai, whose circa 1917 Spanish Colonial Downtown. The world class Ojai Music Festival in 1970th wave of hippies put a modern twist on this  bucolic valley paradise.





Best strange history hike


In the early 1930th LA was home to a secret Nazi compound, Murphy Ranch, which plotted world domination from the peaceful  brushlands of what is now Rustic Canyon. One story goes that a wealthy Pasadena thumbtack heiress and her equally gullible husband were manipulated into believing that the  US soon would fall into anarchy and destruction at the hands of the Germans. Rather than  be a part of the losing term, the caple took the advise of  a suspicious  man knowing as Herr Schmidt and invested money building a higgen enclave  to assist the  the dastardly Nazis. The structure. Now in ruins, is covered in Graffity, hunkers deep down in the canyon 4 mi.FBI rained this mysterious lair in 1941. Rustic Canyon, Sullivan Radge Fire Road, Pacific Palisades.





www.laopendoop.org LA Open Door Presbyterian chirch, 1925   Wilshire blvd,  3119 w.6th st/shatto