Best of LA 2006

Best Anachronistic Bird Watching

By DIANA WAGMAN

The Bird Man of Elysian Park

Best Way to Spy on the Old Neighborhood (As Long as You’ve Got a Wad of Cash)

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Best Apartment Views at 40 mph

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Best Whimsical Public Aerospace Art

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Meet You at the Cemetery Gates

By FALLING JAMES

Best places to hang your hat — forever

Prospecting for Beauty

By STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS

Treasure map to the best park bench in Southern California

Booty Call

By GENDY ALIMURUNG AND LINDA IMMEDIATO

The Divining Hour

By ELLA TAYLOR

Best psychic portal into the murky future

And I Said, ''What About Breakfast at Tiffany's?''

By GENDY ALIMURUNG

Best windows to soothe your inner Holly Golightly

Best Human Skulls and Taxidermy Animal Bones

By DAVID COTNER

Best Offshore Romantic Getaway

By BRENNA SANCHEZ

Walk the Plank

By DANI KATZ

Best place to catch a cold, a disease and a ride

Best City Staircase to Heaven

By DAVID ZAHNISER

The Phantom Jasmine

By JADE CHANG

Best nighttime scents

Best Purple Haze

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Best Carpool-Tunnel Syndrome

By DAVID COTNER

Best Place to Find a Dead Clown

By DIANA WAGMAN

Best Scanty Panties

By DAVID COTNER

Best Space Lost in Time

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

Best Parking Lot for Hollywood Hydes

By PAUL ROGERS

Best Spots You’re Sure Not to Get Shot by Mark the ­Cobrasnake

By DEREK THOMAS

Best Place to Pine for the Ol’ Dirty Hollywood

By ­DANI KATZ

Best Honorable Engine Men (and Woman)

By TOM CHRISTIE

Getting Crotchety

By DANI KATZ

Best places to see exploited youth

Best Lost East L.A. Cinema Gems

By BEN QUIÑONES

From Russia With Love

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

Best auto bodywork for the bourgeoisie and proletariat

Best Dispatches From Captain's Quarters

By MELISSA LO

Best Words Carved in Stone

By DAVID ZAHNISER

R.I.P. Pirate Radio

By HADLEY TOMICKI

Rockin’ in the Free World

By Falling James

Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

The Last Days of Debauchery

By Hadley Tomicki

Best pirate reenactments

The City I Found

By STEVEN MIKULAN

Best remnants of hardboiled L.A.

Up Deep Creek Without a Paddle

By JOSHUAH BEARMAN

Best naked escape

Underground Booze

By Lina Lecaro

Best hidden bars

Best Portal to the Midwest

By CRAIG GAINES

Best Way to Gain Water Confidence

By CINDY DORN

Best Landlocked Treasure Island

By JOHN PATTERSON

A Modest Paradise

By RONNA ALBERT

Best reincarnated park

Best Place to Pet a Shark

By BRENNA SANCHEZ

Best Mask Since the Masque

By FALLING JAMES

Best Place to Party Like a Pirate

By BEN QUIÑONES

Best Rock & Roll by the Hour

By PAUL ROGERS

Best Yo-Ho-Ho’s

By DAVID COTNER

Extreme Campers

By ANDREA PESCE

Best place for your inner child to do backflips

Best Spot Online to Meet a Pushmi-Pullyu

By JUDITH LEWIS

Don't Sell the Soul

By GREG BURK AND BRICK WAHL

The best of Leimert Park

When Pac-Man Was God

By BRYAN GARDINER

Best art bits & bytes

Best Safe Haven for Injured Critters

By PANDORA YOUNG

Bookworm Sanctuaries

By David Zahniser

Best local libraries

Best Place to Die on a Very Short Hike

By JUDITH LEWIS

Best Theater Featuring a Chorus of Frogs

By BRENNA SANCHEZ

Best Armchair Travel for the Vacation Impaired

By GENDY ALIMURUNG

Best Seaside Passages This Side of Paradise

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

The Cardboard Scalawag's Guide to Pirate's Cove

By DAVE SHULMAN

Best nudie masquerade

Best Converted Strip Club

By LINA LECARO

Happy Trails

By HATS MCCALISTER

Best oasis under your nose

But, Where Has the Rum Gone?

By NICOLE CAMPOS

Best brain-numbing tiki drinks

Best Sweet-Tooth Fix

By JAHMIN ASSA

Dangerous Denizens of the Deep

By JONATHAN GOLD

Best last meals from Davy Jones’ locker

Steak Me Out for the Ball Game

By JOHN ALBERT

Best beggars’ banquet at Dodger Stadium

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast

By JOE DONNELLY

Best place to make the morning last

Best Way to Reap What Others Sow

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

Best Place to Get Drunk ­After ­Chewing Out the Planning ­Commission

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Hey, OJ!

By CHRISTINE PELISEK

Best way to squeeze the juice out of corporate America

Best Nonembarrassing ­Peanut-Butter Crazies

By JOSHUAH BEARMAN

Best News-Hound Hangout Turned Buccaneer Bar

By HADLEY TOMICKI

Best Corporate ­Coffee Break

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Best Thai Pancakes for Vegans

By FALLING JAMES

Best Gelato Snafu, a.k.a. the Neo-Neapolitan

By JOSHUAH BEARMAN

My Dinner With Pirates

By KATE SULLIVAN

Best evening of singing, dancing and fake fighting

The Giant Doughnuts of Los Angeles

By DAVID COTNER

Best-Underappreciated Comic Shops

By TIM HEIDERICH

Back to Old School

By JOSHUAH BEARMAN

Best place to geek out on Atari Lynx, Nintendo Classic 64, and the ­Japanese version of DS Smash Brothers with the Naruto and ­Dragonball Z characters

Best Smoky Tinder Box

By LOVELL ESTELL III

Best Place to Get Nailed (Safely)

By LINA LECARO

Best Place for Pre-Baby Bliss

By LINA LECARO

Best Shop to Get Bratty In

By LINA LECARO

Bicycle Built by You

By RYAN VAILLANCOURT

Best bike shop that’s not a bike shop

Best Boots Remade for ­Walking

By NORA ZELEVANSKY

Best Chinatown Crap

By DANI KATZ

Waxing Poetic

By DANI KATZ

Best Brazilian this side of Giselle

Best $10 Bootylicious Dresses

By COURTNEY FITZGERALD

Rent a War

By RENA KOSNETT

Best place to get props

Best Place to Find an Opium Bed

By CINDY DORN

Best Source for 1923 Phone Directories

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Splitting Hairs

By TOM CHRISTIE

Best Eastside locks for Westsiders

Best Cute Meet for Frenchies

By BRENNA SANCHEZ

Best Place to Bang Your Head

By GAVIN WILLIAMSON

Hidden Yoga

By JUDITH LEWIS

Best savasanas off the beaten track

Best Place to Get All High Fidelity

By GAVIN WILLIAMSON

Best Thinking Outside the Box

By JUDITH LEWIS

Best Mall for (Actual) Rats

By GENDY ALIMURUNG

Best Place to Find Batty Knickers

By STEFFIE NELSON

Best Place to Get Strung Up

By JOHN CURRY

Best Garden Anti-Gnomes

By MELISSA LO

Best Life-Size Monument to Captain Morgan

By DAVID COTNER

Best Soap Star

By LIBBY MOLYNEAUX

Best Place to Get Your Rocks Off

By GAVIN WILLIAMSON

Best Downtown News

By DANIEL HERNANDEZ

Best Dig Site for Civic Sleuths & History Nerds

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Best Post Cards From the Lake’s Edge

By DAVID ZAHNISER

Best Pirated-Loot Spots

By BEN QUIÑONES

Best Way to Reclaim the Airwaves

By BEN QUIÑONES

Best Sunken Lair For Techno-Geeks

By HADLEY TOMICKI

Best Monsters in the Tar Pits

By PETER FLETCHER

The Rise of the House of Bunny

By BRYAN GARDINER

Best rabbit paraphernalia

Best Fiddler’s Friend

By ALAN RICH

What Lies Beneath

By GENDY ALIMURUNG

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Best Underwater Treasure

By ELIZABETH ARNOLD

Best Secret Trendy Bargain Bin

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

Best ''Make It Up to You'' Gift Shop

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

Best Bullet Lipstick

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting

By GENDY ALIMURUNG

Zen Kern's cougar class: life-coaching an evolving dating paradigm

Lust in L.A.: Hot, Sticky & Bothered

By Dani Katz

Wondering why guys don't make the first move anymore, and notes on the pains and pleasures of threesomes

Stick Figures: Cumin-Dusted Xinjiang Barbecue, at San Gabriel's 818

By Jonathan Gold

Northern China's favorite snack food

Dim Sum When the Sun Goes Down

By Jonathan Gold

In the night kitchen

Confessions of an Aspiring Kept Man: Is That a Cucumber in Your Shopping Cart?

By MATTHEW FLEISCHER

It's not easy trying to be cougar bait

Addiction: Buying the Cure at Passages Malibu (62)

By MARK GROUBERT
Wed, Jun 25, 6:00 pm

At upscale "rehab," all you need is faith. And $67,000 a month

Going Undercover at Impact House (46)

By MARK GROUBERT
Wed, Jun 25, 5:59 pm

Hardcore recovery

Death of Raven, a Hollywood Beauty (40)

By CHRISTINE PELISEK
Wed, Jun 18, 6:00 pm

The city's noir streets made her the star of her own tragedy, then took it all away.

Lust in L.A.: Hot, Sticky & Bothered (23)

By Dani Katz
Wed, Jul 2, 5:00 pm

Wondering why guys don't make the first move anymore, and notes on the pains and pleasures of threesomes

Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting (14)

By GENDY ALIMURUNG
Wed, Jul 2, 1:22 pm

Zen Kern's cougar class: life-coaching an evolving dating paradigm

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