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Dolby Theatre
THEATER
dent $17/12; 10:30am-4pm)
The Academy Awards are handed out at the Dolby Theatre, which has also hosted the
American Idol
finale, the ESPY awards, the Miss USA pageant and a recent Neil Young
residency. On the tour you get to sniff around the auditorium, admire a VIP room and see
Oscar up close.
Los Feliz & Griffith Park
Twenty years ago, when Swingers mania tore through LA like a proto-hipster storm, Los
Feliz, (mis-) pronounced Fee-lez by the hordes, emerged as LA's next great neighborhood,
not least because of the wonderful Griffith Park. A gift to the city in 1896 by mining
mogul Griffith J Griffith, and five times the size of New York's Central Park,
Griffith Park
is one of the country's largest urban green spaces. There you'll find a major outdoor theat-
er, the city zoo, two museums, golf courses, playgrounds, 53 miles of
hiking trails
, Bat-
GOOGLE MAP
; 213-473-0800;
www.griffithobservatory.org
;
2800 E Observatory Rd; admission
free, planetarium shows adult/child $7/3;
noon-10pm Tue-Fri, from 10am Sat & Sun;
)
, a
first-class planetarium and wonderful Instagram photo-op. Don't miss it.
