With its Disney Concert Hall like architecture, Crystals, the luxury shopping center inside CityCenter, was conceptualized and designed by the powerhouse duo of the renowned architects Daniel Libeskind, and David Rockwell. Crystals is a high end shopping experience. With over 500,000 square feet of space, there are plenty of stores and eateries to choose from. The stores [...]

Established as a city park in 1892, Echo Park, a thirty-three acre municipal lake, used to be a reservoir. In fact, Echo Lake was originally part of the Los Angeles Water system. It’s hard to imagine a time when the city diverted the water from the Los Angeles River into man-made reservoirs, but originally, Echo [...]

If Vegas is representative about anything, it’s about taking care of the customer with luxury, style, and panache. For the owners, management, and staff there, it’s a daily occurrence at such illustrious and luxurious hotels including Caesars’ Palace, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, Bellagio, the Wynn’ Encore and Tower Suites, and Mirage, just to name a few. The [...]

It’s that time again to clear your desk, declutter your life a little, and remove all excess noise and distractions to take a look at some interesting activities we’ve assembled for you.  In case you weren’t paying attention to the weather, it appears that rain is heading our way.  There’s no question we’ve had a [...]

Even though Travelin’ Local’s mission tagline is "From Los Angeles to San Diego and everything in between," many people would only include SoCal in that analysis. In that, they would be wrong. Also included would be Las Vegas. Yes, Vegas, baby, Vegas! For millions of Southern Californians, Vegas is considered part of our Backyard. For each generation, including the [...]

Did you know that Los Angeles used to have the “Largest Trolley System in the World?” With a fleet of over 900 electric trolley cars, covering over 1,100 miles of track, Los Angeles was the leader in streetcar transport and tracks. Alas, it died a slow death when the last streetcar was put into “cold storage” in [...]

You know the drill by now, get your cup of coffee, tea, or beverage by your side, turn off any distracting television, radio, computer, or other thing that will interfere with reading Travelin’ Local’s best of the Web’s articles, blog posts, and news to see what’s happening in LA this weekend. This week I received [...]

This is a guest post by Mike Cliffe-Jones. who publishes his influential blog over at Mike’s Life. Mike’s is passionate and dedicated to help other bloggers and social media professionals how to best achieve the results they’re after, what blogging is all about, and is committed to helping them be successful in every sense [...]

People who visit LA often want to know where the best places of city are. For some, they wish to find a place to mellow out and relax. For others, they actively want to know all of our town’s dirty little secrets–and seek to discover our city’s macabre history of mystery, crime, and deadly moments [...]

Built in 1921, The State Theatre was formally part of the Loews Theatre group. Founded by Marcus Loew in 1904, the chain was the largest movie theatre group until 2006. To provide films for his Theatres, Loew founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM).  I found it very interesting that in this case, the Theatre created the film [...]

O.K,, by now, Travelin’ Local’s loyal readers know the drill. Today’s the day that we bring you some of the best of LA out there. From that vast place, otherwise known as the “Blogosphere.” For our newest readership, our goal is to save you time from having to scour the Internet for cool stories, [...]

Opening on October 12, 1927, the Tower Theatre was the first downtown theatre to be wired for sound. Using a French inspired theme in the interior, architect S. Charles Lee combined Spanish, Moorish, and Romanesque styles on the exterior. Considering the long and narrow lot on which the theatre was built, it’s amazing how detailed [...]

For today’s Sit Back Saturday ongoing series, we try to bring you this past week’s stories that we found interesting. Los Angeles based writers, bloggers, and websites–daily, and weekly–create content that’s irrelevant, timeless, unique, and contains information not usually included in your daily newspapers. For want of a better description, it’s a weekly [...]

Los Angeles is a city chock full of surprises and hidden treasures, but residents here don’t often associate it with a romantic getaway. But that’s a myth which no longer applies. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner on February 14, why not spend a romantic weekend away from the hustle and bustle of life here [...]

Where in the world would you be able to find a picture of Miss Piggy gracing the wall of a Lady’s restroom, if you had to try? If you haven’t guessed by now, that particularly unique place would be here in Los Angeles–at the Jim Henson Studios. Getting the inside scoop on PBS’s Wilson & [...]

As the oldest remaining Orpheum theatre in the US, the Palace Theatre, located at 630 S. Broadway Ave. in downtown Los Angeles, was built in 1911. Genesis of the Orpheum Theaters The Orpheum Circuit was a group of theatres spread across the country to host most types of amusement that was then in vogue—including Vaudeville, silent [...]

Because it’s raining and wet today, why don’t you kick back, get your laptop out, and relax with some great CA reads from this past week. With a mixture of bikes, events, and art, this week’s Travelin’ Local’s Sit Back Saturday, will keep you delighted, informed, hip, and up-to-speed on some of the latest comings and [...]

Back in the day, when I started the 7th grade, the first assignment that my geography teacher requested from the class, was to write down all of the US State’s 50 capitals. I was the only student in the class to successfully complete the teacher’s assignment solely due to an Atlas game that my siblings and [...]