Just down the block from Fix Café, past the elementary school, hidden behind a wild and sometimes grassy knoll (drought depending), is a super secret and extra bitchin' slew of stairs that doubles as a shortcut to the backside of Elysian Park, as well as a highly effective ass workout......
There's this teeny, tiny exercise studio that has these machines that vibrate, like really hard, and a lot. The machines are called PlateFit, and they were designed for Russian astronauts to stay in shape in space, but they're now being used by L.A. fitness fanatics to keep their bodies smokin'......
Ryan Seaman is a maestro when it comes to massage. He's strong, intuitive and likes to dig really (really) deep, bending the laws of space and gravity and physics to reach otherwise inaccessible nooks and crannies in desperate need of touch and release. He's also notably shamanic, which means that......
How rad is the Palatines? The elegant, minimalist, fashion-forward footwear, designed by local lady Jessica Taft Langdon, is super reasonably priced, considering the old-school craftsmanship (they're handmade in L.A.) and the quality of the soft, yummy leathers from which they're made. Sold in a handful of thoughtful, well-curated boutiques throughout......
Muji is like the Japanese Ikea, except for office supplies. And travel gear. And housewares. And clothes. Forget the showrooms, the primary colors or the Swedish meatballs. OK, maybe it's nothing like Ikea. No matter. Muji, now conveniently located in Hollywood, has the world's most bitchin' collection of pens and......
Cannabis is one of nature's most powerful healing plants. Ancient cultures used it for everything from hemorrhoids to hair loss. Our 21st-century medical paradigm is particularly fond of its capacity to treat pain and inflammation, which is what makes Mackenzie Medicinals Topical Face Serum such a phenomenal product. My neighbor......
It's so humbling, adult ballet. As if staring at your Lycra-clad body in a mirror for 90 minutes isn't harrowing enough, there's the actual ballet part. Because ballet is hard — like, really hard — and because you're nowhere near as strong or flexible as the teenage version of yourself,......
Fix Coffee is a godsend: Its coffee, its booze, its menu, its baked goods and the many (many) electrical outlets it provides, along with free Wi-Fi, for us sun-starved writers who set up camp for the entire day while nursing a single cup of yerba maté (More hot water, please?)......
Billing itself as "a nonprofit research collective," this unassuming Eagle Rock dispensary is as classy as they come. Their security team wears gabardine suits, for crissakes. Strictly by appointment only for first-timers, Cornerstone Collective feels way more like a traditional medical office setting than it does a swinging weed club......
Plastic bottled water is out, given that most bottles never decompose and have this nasty habit of finding their way to our oceans, only to float to some Arctic nether region where it's just a matter of time before a litter of baby penguins suffocates, having stuck their heads inside......
