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Born to be Riled | AA Gill | United States, California, Los Angeles

Restaurants will let you smoke if they can, and they just love it if you do: it adds a rakish, bohemian, devil-may-care atmosphere that the locals are too fearfully self-obsessed to provide

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How to Survive an LA hotel | Jim Keeble | United States, California, Los Angeles

I’m having breakfast in the small lobby bar of the Chateau Marmont. At a table barely five feet away is Gwyneth Paltrow. We are the only diners here. I’m a nervous wreck…

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Mountain Biking in Los Angeles | Nancy Lyon | United States, California, Los Angeles

Forget cars. What could look cooler and tougher in L.A. than dodging limos and weaving between stretch-caddies - on a mountain bike!

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Route 66 by Harley-Davidson | James Henderson | United States, California, Los Angeles

As I stood filling the bike one day, the petrol station was overtaken by a deep, gutteral roar. Ten bikes, all of them Harleys, pulled into the forecourt. A rider saw the Softail and came over

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The Ghosts of Catalina Island | Julie Miller | United States, California, Los Angeles

Catalina feels trapped in time, a vestige of a once glorious past. And as the chilling Pacific fog rolls in, it’s easy to understand why so many believe the island is the haunt of entities other than tourists

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Urban Development | Rory Spowers | United States, California, Los Angeles

The city is full of contradictions. Often regarded as the pinnacle of the American dream, the apotheosis of consumerism and material extravagance, it is seen as the essence of anti-nature

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