Los Angeles Travel Professionals Guide 2007 - (Page 18) LA’sRegionsCont. shell, features concerts under the stars throughout the summer. Moviegoers can see the latest films in restored cinemas such as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Disney’s El Capitan and ArcLight Hollywood’s futuristic Cinerama Dome. Emmy Awards. NoHo also has an array of funky cafés, coffee houses, boutiques and 22 live theaters. At more than 4,100 acres, Griffith Park is the nation’s largest municipal park. Straddling the mountains between the Valley and Downtown LA, it offers picnicking, hiking and other outdoor activities. In addition, the park features the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, the Museum of the American West, the Greek Theatre (an amphitheater) and Griffith Observatory (which reopened in November 2006 after an extensive renovation). The Valley is also home to Descanso Gardens in La Cañada and the Donald Tillman Japanese Garden in Van Nuys. The Valley even lays claim to one of the 21 California missions built between 1769 and 1823, Mission San Fernando Rey de España. over an area that stretches from the Wilshire Corridor to Brentwood. The Wilshire Corridor’s claim to fame is Museum Row, with LACMA (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), the Petersen Automotive Museum and the Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits, among others. Sony Pictures Studios and CBS Television City offer celebrity excitement with tours and tickets to TV show tapings. The Grove is the Westside’s most popular shopping attraction with chic shops, trendy restaurants and cinemas surrounding a serene village green, with dancing fountains and a double-decker trolley ride. Next door, LA’s historic Farmers Market delights visitors with quirky gifts, gourmet foods, art work, apparel and outdoor cafés. Brentwood, located west of the 405 Freeway, is home to the spectacular Getty Center, which sits high atop the Santa Monica Mountains, overlooking all of LA. San Fernando Valley LA’s “Valley of the Stars” is a film and television hub, with several studios, including Universal Studios HollywoodSM, Warner Bros. Studios, Walt Disney Studios, ABC, CBS and NBC. Universal Studios HollywoodSM offers a popular theme park and a flashy pedestrian entertainment district next door — Universal CityWalk — that features such lively establishments as the Hard Rock Cafe and Jillian’s Universal. Other studios, such as Warner Bros. Studios and NBC, offer tours and free tickets to TV show tapings. Beyond the studios are several notable entertainment districts with numerous restaurants, bars and nightclubs. The hip NoHo Arts District in North Hollywood is home to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which produces the annual Westside LA’s trendy Westside is a cosmopolitan center that includes several communities spread 18
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