Dani Katz

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Best Supersexy Traction: Sportscience Institute

Walking into Dr. Leroy Perry’s International Sportscience Institute’s ’80s-opulent octagonal waiting room is like entering a time warp. Hanging above the emerald green carpet is a framed photograph of Elizabeth Taylor, circa 1986, dwarfed by puffy sleeves and shoulder pads, autographed with cursive adoration for Perry’s multifaceted chiropractic prowess. Delving......
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Best Compassionate Yogi: Julian Walker

In a town lousy with yoga (and so much of it lousy yoga), how does one pinpoint The Best? What does “Best Yoga” even mean? The whole idea of “best” is anathema to yoga, which means “union,” which obliterates reductive, dualistic differentiations like “best” and “worst.” Aargh! I’ll give it......
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Best Place to Tie the Knot: Marvimon

We’ve all been there: hot Scottish boyfriend needs a green card and you’ve always wanted a European passport; or, your waif-y girlfriend has systemic candida and could suck some serious marrow out of your SAG health insurance. All signs point to happily ever after, so you throw both caution and......
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Best Yogi for All: Bryan Kest's Santa Monica Power Yoga

As the world spins off its axis and bounces recklessly beyond the confines of the Milky Way, Bryan Kest leads his packed-to-the-gills Santa Monica power yoga classes with an endless stream of lyrical, Seussian rhymes loaded with humor and self-effacing sarcasm. Breathe with me best as can be through your......
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Best Colon Liberator: Stephanie Kimura at Clear Way to Health Within

I’ve never enjoyed the physiological logistics of the colon-hydrotherapy experience: the hard plastic tube holding strange space in my stretched, coconut-oil-lubed anus, the flood of water rushing in, up and around my insides, filling, filling, filling until I’m pregnant with fluids and I can’t hold it another second and then,......
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Best Body Trend: Flesh

Nope, it’s not those mangled earlobes that have migrated from Black Rock City’s beloved Playa to the (almost) mainstream streets of Venice Beach. It’s ... FLESH! Round arms, full faces, radiant complexions, happy, glowing, plump feminine figures that celebrate all that is woman and abundance and yes, please; more, please;......
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Best Public Art: Pacific Nexus Gallery

In a town teeming with super-rad public art spray-painted across buildings, stickered onto scaffolding, dangling from power lines and hacked into digital billboards (yay, Skullphone!), who can say where and what “the best” is? I can. There’s a building in Venice on the southwest corner of Brooks and Pacific that......
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Best Boutique (on the Super Ghetto Cheap): Fashion Bank

You’ve got a date to hike Runyon, you hate your wardrobe and you’re broke. Don’t panic. The little shop next to Trader Joe’s on Santa Monica Boulevard at Fuller sells a decent selection of American Apparel seconds, among other various cotton-jersey wares, for a fraction of American Apparel prices. They......