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WIN: The Best of LAWIN: The Best of LA

WIN: The Best of LA

In our annual Best of LA issue, on newsstands now, we give you our picks for everything from rescue pups to cold brews. Now we’re giving you the chance to sample some of them. Each week this month we'll be awarding a prize from one of our winners. Enter now, and then come back to see who won and to view highlights from the entries.

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Naked TruthNaked Truth

Naked Truth

A new documentary explores Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s impact not just on sexual mores but on civil liberties and life as we know it

In 1953, 27-year-old Hugh M. Hefner set out to change America’s relationship with sex. Working from the kitchen of his Chicago apartment, with a $1,000 loan from his mom, the former Esquire copywriter created a magazine... Continue
By Sara Wilson
Illustration by Brian Stauffer

Child's PlayChild's Play

Child's Play

In this excerpt from her new novel, My Hollywood, Mona Simpson gives Westside nannies a voice, and her name is Lola

I take Williamo to the post office, seal the envelope, and send my money home. Four hundred fifty this week. A ticker tape of dollars runs now all the time in my head... Continue
By Mona Simpson
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Watch what happened when our top picks—from Best Use of Bacon to Best Teapots—schmoozed and boozed to the sounds of DJ Richard Blade at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remembers one of the greatest basketball coaches in history
By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (as told to Raymond Obstfeld)
My LA to Z: Susan Feniger
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My LA to Z: Susan Feniger
Award-winning chef and cookbook author Susan Feniger has the world on the tip of her tongue...
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This modern Mediterranean café (Momed—get it?) is not another hummus-and-shawarma slinger...
The Guide
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The Guide
Our picks of can’t-miss cultural events that span music, art, theater, films, readings, festivals, and more
Star Crossed
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Star Crossed
Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise have a lot riding on their summer spy flicks
By Steve Erickson
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Note: This is raw food. Nothing you’re eating has been heated above 118 degrees, nor does it contain any animal products...
A Day at the Beach
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A Day at the Beach
You can sun, sleep, cycle, even build a bonfire—well, in a couple of places anyway—on our magnificent coast
Let's Do Lunch!
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Let's Do Lunch!
Breakfast may be the "most important meal," but lunch is our favorite...
Edited by Lesley Bargar Suter
L.A.’s Best Beaches Playlist
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L.A.’s Best Beaches Playlist
A day at the beach isn’t complete without some great tunes, so we asked Liza Richardson, music supervisor for The Kids Are All Right (out this month), to put together a pitch-perfect set 
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Composer Laura Karpman and librettists M.G. Lord and Shannon Halwes reveal the creative process behind their multimedia opera
Your LA to Z
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The cover of Los Angeles magazine’s first Best of L.A. issue in November 1989 featured Sally Field in a top hat. Inside, along with categories like Best Place to Decorate Southwestern and Best Young Urban Professional Bakery, were entries devoted to the worst of L.A. (the Westside Pavilion parking structure, say, or the Beverly Center cinemas)... Continue
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The former Pizzeria Mozza chef-de-cuisine plans to open a Southeast Asian restaurant in Little Tokyo this fall. ...
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What’s the story behind the Soviet spy tower on top of the Veterans Memorial Building in Culver City? 

No Cold War operatives here. Atop the 122-foot tower at Culver City’s public auditorium are windows to a world that no longer exists...
The Seen
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    We threw our favorite party of the year honoring our "Best of LA" winners under the Moreton Bay fig tree at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel...

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