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L.A.'s bright lights: - Los Angeles is on the world's cultural itinerary like never before

Downtown L.A. - Snazzy new attractions - along with some remodeled old ones - are breathing life into city's once stagnant urban core.

Mountain Biking in Los Angeles by Nancy Lyon | Travel Reviews from Travel Intelligence - Forget cars. What could look cooler and tougher in L.A. than dodging limos and weaving between stretch-caddies - on a mountain bike!

Elemental L.A.: Culver City - ollywood and Burbank may owe their reputations to studio lore, but Culver City has its own proud pedigree. The so-called Heart of Screenland is where MGM had its heyday under Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, and where child stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Garland went to school on the lot that's now Sony Pictures.

Elemental L.A.: Chinatown and Downtown - Calling Los Angeles one big sprawl belies its true character: It is a multitude of mini metropolises stitched together in a crazy quilt that is by turns glitzy, exotic, and unexpectedly bucolic (who says nobody walks in L.A.?).

Elemental L.A.: Eagle Rock, Glendale, Highland Park - Glendale and Eagle Rock—as simpatico with Middle America as L.A. gets— are being remade by hipsters from Los Feliz and Silver Lake who are packing up their Bauer pottery collections and heading east.

Elemental L.A.: Echo Park, Los Feliz, Silver Lake - Residents of Silver Lake don't like to brag. For instance, they won't tell you that this was the locale of the original Disney Studio, or that Mack Sennett set up shop here and produced classics like the Laurel and Hardy films.

Elemental L.A.: Hollywood - Hollywood's head shops and leather-clad street urchins once upstaged its old-time glamour. Now, thanks to civic-minded celebs, many of its golden-age landmarks have gotten a makeover.

Elemental L.A.: Hollywood Hills, Sunset Strip, West Hollywood - Hollywood Hills/Sunset Strip/West Hollywood: Redecorating, reincarnation, and rock stars

Elemental L.A.: Santa Monica, Venice - Liberal enough to be called the People's Republic of Santa Monica, this coastal community, with its pier cum permanent amusement park, retains an air of affluent Main Street, U.S.A.