Los Angeles, USA
Events in Los Angeles
* Cemetery Screenings, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, CA, 90038. Saturdays, 7pm, May-September. During the summer in Los Angeles, the Cinespia film society holds movie showings once a week, on Saturdays, within the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The featured films are typically (but not always) older cult classics or horror films, such as The Shining, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, and The Warriors. While there is no official admission fee, visitors are asked to make a $10 donation upon entrance. The showing is outdoors on one of the large lawns, as the film is projected onto a massive wall, and DJs spin music until it becomes dark enough to play the movie. Bring a lawn chair, a picnic basket, and a bottle of wine, if you so desire, and enjoy a one of a kind experience. $10 donation at the door.
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Public Universities
* University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
* California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)
* California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
* California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH)
* California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
Private Universities and Colleges
* California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
* University of Southern California (USC)
* Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
* Pepperdine University
* Occidental College (Oxy)
* Mount St. Mary’s College
Shopping
Los Angeles has a well-known, diverse and unique shopping traditions and destinations. Strip malls and shopping malls will dominate your shopping trip as they are nearly inescapable in many of your destinations. For example, the Hollywood & Highland mall is a popular meeting point for those gazing at the Walk of Fame and Mann’s Chinese Theater. Other malls you may bump into are the Grove (next to the Farmer’s Market) and the Beverly Center, which is quite unlike other shopping malls as it is multilevel with a nice view of Los Angeles from its food court patio.
Lacking any significant public square, Los Angeles funnels its commercial life onto its streets. Among the most popular street is Larchmont Blvd. which caters to the wealthy elite of Hancock Park with one-of-a-kind boutiques. Melrose Avenue, especially in the West Hollywood portion, one-ups Larchmont Blvd. with celebrity presence.
Broadway in Downtown will take you out of the comforts of overly manicured shopping centers and drop you onto its chaos. With merchandise geared towards the city’s millions of Latinos, twenty dollars would probably get you a new wardrobe. Broadway once was the city’s premier boulevard and looking up above the gritty flea markets and you would see the opulent theaters that defined luxury in early 20th-century Los Angeles.
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