LA Beyond Hollywood: Local’s Delight

Sure, Venice Beach, Hollywood and Downtown should not be missed, but Los Angeles' lesser-known neighborhoods offers a wide spectrum of entertainment and mind-boggling delights. In this extract we let our readers take an insight into the brand new Los Angeles travel guide that will definitely urge the tourists to head to Echo Park and Culver City. However, if your travel itinerary is already planned and confirmed, book your flights with JetBlue domestic flight to avail lucrative offers.

Echo Park: If you adore the edgy urban art, music and culture, you’ll simply get magnetized to Echo Park, adorned with a stun ning fountain lake featured in Polanski’s Chinatown. Well, the artists and hipsters are mostly bustling here, however the bakeries and seafood have just got introduced. Here are some star attractions...
1. I Am 8 Bit: Echo Park’s most eccentric art space, I Am 8 Bit proffers marvelous art shows at its enormous 4500-sq-ft gallery in the center of Echo Park.
2. Night Music: The park also features an eclectic alchemy of sounds that pack the Echo. Indie bands like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is the most prominent one, while it also exhibits club nights in the larger Echoplex Theater.
3. Kind Kreme: This places serves a heaping portion of organic vegan food crafted with love and talent. Menu is the second-best thing here, as it is creatively composed. The most amazing thing is Kind Kreme’s mouth-watering deserts including raw vegan ice cream, plus shakes & smoothies.
4. Dodger Stadium: Constructed in 1962, Dodger Stadium boasts of regular behind-the-scenes tours through the Dugout Club, the press box, the Dodger dugout, the field and the Tommy Lasorda Training Center.
Culver City: Culver City transformed itself from plain semi-suburban studio-town into a beautiful yet unpretentious destination for lover of food, art and culture. Then the 2008 recession happened, but the roots of liveliness stayed, and it came back with even more pleasing and entertaining surroundings. Check out some of Culver City's hottest things to see, do and eat.
1. Public Art: The Helms complex projects the stardom of Culver City’s significant art scene, which runs east along Washington to La Cienega and up one block to Venice Blvd.
2. Something Strange: LA’s most weird yet intriguing exhibition space, the Museum of Jurassic Technology which has nothing to do with dinosaurs or technology. Instead, yone can find mind-boggling displays about Cameroonian stink ants and microscopic pope sculpture.
3. Akasha & Ford’s Filling Station: the kitchen at Akasha combines all-natural ingredients into a tasty small plates of bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with chorizo, and the zinfandel-braised short rib. While Ben Ford offers perfection in food such as Flatbreads are toasted admirably, the vegetarian polenta cake is a symphony of textures and flavors and the fish and chips have a mind-numbing tanginess.
4. Kirk Douglas Theatre: An old movie house transformed into a 300-seat Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2004. Since its opening it has become an integral part of Culver City for growing number of arts scene and interesting plays by local artists.