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Lonely Planet Los Angeles
The best-selling guide to Los Angeles. Lonely Planet's travel guide to Los Angeles is well-informed, and includes budget options, driving tours of Los Angeles, 19 full color neighborhood maps marked with Los Angeles attractions, hotels and multi-faceted nightlife, as well as a guide to Los Angeles festivals and events and excursions to Disneyland, Catalina Island, Santa Barbara and Las Vegas.
Zagatsurvey: Los Angeles/Southern California Restaurants, 2003
Rated by locals and compiled by Los Angeles Dining experts, the Zagatsurvey organizes Los Angeles and Southern California in many satiable ways, from best Margarita to Santa Monica seafood.
Zagatsurvey 2003 Los Angeles Nightlife
By Betsy Andrews
Zagat's guide to Los Angeles nightlife includes reviews and rates Los Angeles' most popular bars, clubs and lounges.
Hidden Southern California 8 Ed: Including Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Palm Springs
by Ray Riegart
One of the best-selling Southern California travel guides, Hidden Southern California works for the Los Angeles visitor (from sightseeing to day trips) and the newly-arrived Los Angeles resident. Includes such little-known (to tourists) gems as the wine country in Temecula valley, quiet beaches and off the beaten path Los Angeles attractions, dining and restaurants.
Moon Metro Los Angeles
The Los Angeles version of Moon Metro's innovative new guide series, which is searchable by location and interest and includes a 15-page street index, color photos and reviews of Los Angeles sights, restaurants, hotels and entertainment written by local Los Angeles authors.
The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book
By William A. Gordon
Virgin Los Angeles Guide and Map
Fodor's 2003 Los Angeles
The Rough Guide Los Angeles 2003
CityTripping Los Angeles: Your Guide to Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping, Culture, Fitness, Hotels
Rommelmann's Los Angeles Bar and Nightlife Guide
Frommer's Los Angeles 2003: With Disneyland & Palm Springs
by Matthew Richard Poole
A catch-all Los Angeles travel guide, Frommer's Los Angeles keeps both alternative and mainstream Los Angeles attractions, hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, and sports in mind, as well as detailed information on Los Angeles' public transportation (an oxymoron, to be sure), beaches and boutiques. Frommer's Los Angeles also includes informative sections on Disneyland and Palm Springs.
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Los Angeles
Los Angeles First Class: The Best of the Best
By Merle Elias
Los Angeles attracts the rich and famous like moths to a flame and Elias' Los Angeles guide outlines only the best Los Angeles hotels, restaurants and nightlife for the rich and perennially stylish.
Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles
Relocating to Los Angeles: Everything you Need to Know before you Move and After you Get There
By David Seidman
All the bare bones information necessary for a move to Los Angeles or Orange County (about an hour apart). Seidman's Los Angeles guide discloses Los Angeles neighborhoods, differences in cost, where to look for a job, how to find a place to live (fast) as well as covering Los Angeles freeways and schools.
Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide
By David Gebhard and Robert Milton
A touring guide (with lots of maps and color photographs) to the diverse architecture of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, separated by regions and emphasizing historic, significant and avant-garde Los Angeles architecture.
LA Bizarro: The Insider's Guide to the Obscure, the Absurd, and the Perverse in Los Angeles
Not for Tourists Guide to LA
A leather-bound Los Angeles guide that feels somewhat Biblical in its authority over the Los Angeles underground, from hip and upcoming Los Angeles neighborhoods to chic restaurants and celebrity-studded nightlife.
Where to Wear Los Angeles
By Jill Fairchild and Gerri Gallagher
A complete, comprehensive and updated guide to Los Angeles shopping, including malls, boutiques, vintage and thrift stores and shopping districts like the ritzy Rodeo and the funky Melrose.
The Working Actors Guide to Los Angeles
A comprehensive guide to acting in Los Angeles that includes an overview of the Los Angeles film and commercial industries, Los Angeles theatre, well as detailed contact information.
The Rich Bastard's Guide to Los Angeles
37 Bike Rides: A Guide to 37 Specially Selected Bicycle Routes in Los Angeles
Head to Toe: The Guide to Beauty Services in Los Angeles 2003
A guide to Los Angeles salons, spas and massages put together by a team of beauty aficionados who visited the best and worst of the Los Angeles beauty industry. Organized by Los Angeles neighborhoods, this Los Angeles guide also includes hidden gems, unbiased reviews, a wide price range and some style tips for men.
The L.A. Musical History Tour: A Guide to the Rock and Roll Landmarks of Los Angeles
Gay and Horny? Los Angeles: A Sexy, Steamy, Downright Sleazy Guide to the City
By Jessica Hundley
A guide to the sexier side of Los Angeles nightlife, which is already sexy as it is. This guide to sex in the City of Angels explores classy strip clubs and red-light districts in Los Angeles, as well as offering a detailed review of alternative and gay nightlife.
Vegetarian Los Angeles: The Essential Guide for the Health-Concious Traveler
By Michele Kort
Los Angeles is known world-wide for its fit and tan populous, many of which go green to keep in shape. Kort's guide to vegetarian Los Angeles dining explores outstanding vegetarian restaurants and dishes all over Los Angeles.
Romantic Days and Nights in Los Angeles: Romantic Diversions in and Around the City
By Stephen Dolainski
From the best places to catch the Disneyland fireworks to horseback riding in the Santa Monica Mountains, this sophisticated Los Angeles guide offers detailed and romantic adventures for both day and night wooing.
Afoot and Afield in Los Angeles
A second edition of one of the most popular guides to Los Angeles hiking and open spaces includes 192 hikes organized by Los Angeles area and detailed maps for getting to the beach or mountain trail head.
Ecstatic Trails: The 52 Best Hikes and Nature Walks In and Around Los Angeles
By Rob Campbell
Los Angeles is a town known for its car culture, but the surrounding coastal desert geography offers and endless variety of trails, vistas and micro-climates. Cambell's guide to Los Angeles outdoors covers easy to difficult hikes (from waterfalls to wild flower walks), any seasonal restrictions, as well as providing detailed maps of los Angeles trails.
National Geographic Los Angeles Map
National Geographic's destination map makes Los Angeles look fairly organized, when in fact it is a sprawling system of many neighborhoods and areas. It's easy to find Los Angeles attractions and main streets on the grid map in this colorful and laminated map-guide to Los Angeles for visitors.
RandMcNally Los Angeles and Vicinity Regional Easyfinder
An excellent Los Angeles and vicinity map for navigating through a labyrinthine Los Angeles freeway system, as well as finding a particular street in any of Los Angeles' many neighborhoods.
Mapeasy's Guidemap to Los Angeles
Tear-proof and water-resistant (not like there's much chance for rain in Los Angeles, anyways), this is a location map and surface-level Los Angeles guide book in one with hand-drawn maps that contain the basic information on Los Angeles hotels, restaurants, museums and attractions.
Tiki Road Trip: A Guide to Tiki Culture in North America
By James Teitelbaum
This book is dedicated to the faded but not forgotten cult of Tiki kitsch and follows the fad that began with an American fascination with the exotic and culminated in a drinking and dining experience known as "Polynesian Pop," complete with its own soundtrack and pop aesthetic. In this guide to the remaining U.S. and international tributes to Tiki, Teitelbaum unearths the source of the Tiki craze and preserves pop culture history by listing and rating the diaspora of Tiki bars, restaurants and sites, providing a glossary of Tiki terms and a list of classic drink recipes. (Review by Shannon Ryan)
James Dean Died Here: The Location of America's Pop Culture Landmarks
By Chris Epting
Prepare to turn a road trip into a journey across the pop culture landscape and finally locate the exact place of events that made it into local newspapers as well as long-term cultural memory. From the already familiar yet suspicious Area 51 to the exact corner where one Hugh Grant propositioned a Hollywood hooker, this unusual United States cultural guide is filled with little known facts and obscure sights, offering an itinerary a map of America's pop culture hot spots. (Review by Shannon Ryan)
