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10 Los Angeles After Dark
L.A. didn 't in vent the w ord hip ,
but it certainly holds the patent on it. The
City of Angels has some of the most cut-
ting-edge clubs and bars in the world and
is the polestar for the best and brightest in
the music scene. E ntertainment of all
types—from Hollywood Bowl picnic per-
formances to cool jazz v enues, r etro chic
bars, and rock-'n'-roll clubs—can be found
in the following pages.
Of course, first y ou need to find out
who's per forming while y ou're in to wn.
Your best bet for curr ent enter tainment
info is the L.A. W eekly (www .laweekly.
com), a free weekly paper available at side-
walk stands, shops, and r estaurants. It has
all the most up-to-date ne ws on what 's
happening in Los Angeles 's playhouses,
cinemas, museums, and live-music venues.
The S unday “Calendar” and Thursday
“Weekend” sections of the Los A ngeles
Times (theguide.latimes.com) ar e also a
good sour ce of information for what 's
going on thr oughout the city . F or mor e
online info on L.A.'s entertainment scene,
see “ Website-Seeing: The B est of L.A.
Online” in chapter 3.
To purchase tickets in advance, first try
buying them dir ectly fr om the v enue to
avoid paying a sur charge. I f that doesn 't
work, log on to Prestige Tickets' website
at www.prestigetickets.com or call & 888/
595-6260. Based in H ollywood for mor e
than 30 y ears (now merged with an East
Coast company), the company specializ es
in selling tickets to spor ting, theater, con-
certs, and other enter tainment ev ents
throughout Los Angeles—at a mar kup, of
course. If all else fails, take out a loan and
call Ticketmaster ( & 800/745-3000;
www.ticketmaster.com), but be ware of
their absurdly high processing fees.
1 THE LIVE MUSIC SCENE
Los Angeles's music scene is extr emely diverse, to say the least, a daunting and dizzying
beast. B ut on any giv en night, finding something to satisfy any musical taste is easy
because this city is at the center of the enter tainment industr y. E very day, countless
national and international acts ar e drawn here. From acoustic rock to jazz-fusion, heavy
metal to Latin funk, and up-and-coming to put-to-pastur e, L.A.'s got it all.
But there's a rub. The big events are easy to find, but by the time you get to town, odds are
the good tickets will be gone. The best advice is to plan ahead. O n the Internet, both Ticket
master (see above) and concert business trade publication Pollstar (www.pollstar.com) have
websites that include tour itineraries of acts that ar e on—or will be going on—the r oad. Just
start your search in advance. For a listing of smaller sho ws closer to the date of y our arrival,
both the L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Times “Calendar” section have websites (see above).
Sometimes tickets may become available at the box office before shows, or when all else fails,
try “negotiating” with some of the locals in fr ont of the venue.
LARGE CONCERT VENUES
Mostly gone ar e the days of the behemoth stadium sho ws, ex cepting, of course, the
occasional U2 or Rolling Stones tour. Still, major national and international acts tend to
be attracted to some of the city 's larger venues.
 
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