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10 votes
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Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
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Unique things to do in Las Vegas? (and Los Angeles)
My parents live in Los Angeles so I'm there often, but I feel like I've always done the big things that everyone's done (Hollywood Sign, Disneyland/Universal, Sunset Blvd (not worth it imo)) and...
My parents live in Los Angeles so I'm there often, but I feel like I've always done the big things that everyone's done (Hollywood Sign, Disneyland/Universal, Sunset Blvd (not worth it imo)) and eaten the popular foods (Leo's Tacos, Din Tai Fung, etc) so I'm wondering what other things I can do the next time I'm out there! I'm going out there for a bachelor party with a couple of friends in May, if that helps :)
A similar thing with Vegas, we'll be stopping by there for a couple of days after LA, and I know of all the popular things to do, mainly some gambling, buffets and shows, but is there anything outside of that that are considered -must do's- that we could check out?
22 votes -
Trolls targeted TikTok librarian Mychal Threets. Now he’s quitting to rediscover his library joy.
31 votes -
How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture
3 votes -
350,000 Californians are now on the FAIR Plan, the last resort for fire insurance. Now what?
36 votes -
The problem with California Prop 1
8 votes -
Waymo can now charge for robotaxi rides in LA and on San Francisco freeways
20 votes -
Shell to permanently close all of its hydrogen refuelling stations for cars in California
37 votes -
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses: it’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
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‘Burning Man for rednecks’: inside King of the Hammers, the gnarliest off-road race of the year
10 votes -
Kenji's Vietnamese garlic noodles... with twenty cloves of garlic
41 votes -
‘We’ve lost the art of city building’: can the planner behind a tech-funded metropolis win over the skeptics?
25 votes -
Squishmallows vs. Build-A-Bear, the cutest legal scuffle ever, is heating up
22 votes -
Berkeley's upzoning would be among America's largest
20 votes -
Air Force OKs autonomous cargo flights across California after successful test
20 votes -
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
22 votes -
Waymo driverless car set on fire, destroyed by San Francisco crowd
43 votes -
The relative share of Americans living in the West of the US has declined
21 votes -
Attempts to plant new Joshua Trees after destructive fires assisted by load carrying camels
16 votes -
The Memories - Higher (2011)
5 votes -
How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California?
15 votes -
Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
5 votes -
How did this climber get away with so much for so long?
19 votes -
underscores - Locals (Girls Like Us) [with gabby start] (2023)
5 votes -
Palm Springs capped Airbnb rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall.
49 votes -
In-N-Out to close first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies
29 votes -
The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
23 votes -
Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
27 votes -
Green Day - Bobby Sox (2024)
12 votes -
A cheap week in LA/SB
I work remotely for a US tech start-up, and my work is flying me out for our company kickoff in Santa Barbara at the end of February. Because I want to spend as little time in Berlin February...
I work remotely for a US tech start-up, and my work is flying me out for our company kickoff in Santa Barbara at the end of February. Because I want to spend as little time in Berlin February weather as possible and I want to meet up with some local(-ish) relatives, I'm flying in a week earlier than necessary. As a result, however, I'm going to have some free time to fill.
The biggest thing is that I'm going to have to find and pay for my own lodging while I'm there until the work event starts and I can check into the hotel my company booked. So if anyone has any personal experience with some cheap-but-not-sketchy lodging options in LA or Santa Barbara, I especially welcome that. I'm flying into LAX so I'm able to stay there before going down to Santa Barbara for the actual work event if it's cheaper or there's more to do there (which I kinda assume is the case on both counts, idk).
I've heard LA is generally pretty expensive. I'm not a huge party animal by any means, but I figure I should do more when I'm there than sitting in my hotel reading (especially if I want to kick the jetlag before all the work stuff starts). So I'd also love any recommendations for cheap but interesting stuff to do while I'm there. My cursory Google searches have turned up a bunch of Hollywood tourist type stuff and recommendations for outdoorsy activities like hiking, neither of which is my speed. But surely there's gotta be some interesting stuff for a nerdy introvert to check out!
I'm also a very food-motivated traveler, so any particular restaurant recommendations for while I'm there are very welcome -- especially stuff that's hard for me to find in Germany. Latin American food is especially high on my list ofc, and I'm also on the lookout for good wing places, since I know both of those things are very hard to find at home in Berlin. But I also welcome other recommendations, especially stuff that isn't gonna come up in a quick google search. Or authentic Chinese food (even though I'm not going to SF, I learned how to say 洛杉矶 in Chinese class back in the day so LA's gotta have at least somthing 😅). I'm also a coffee person, so I'd love to know about any particular standout local coffee shops (even though I'm sure there's way more than I could try in even a month in a city the size of LA).
11 votes -
Citing safety, dozens of Jewish families are leaving Oakland public schools
37 votes -
High prices at Monterey County hospitals drive away many insured Californians
16 votes -
Green Day - One Eyed Bastard (2024)
6 votes -
What if American farmers had to pay for water?
41 votes -
Is the Las Vegas sphere worth it?
14 votes -
Port of Long Beach, CA has $1.57 billion to expand freight access and get trucks off the road
10 votes -
Why the government drops flies on California
10 votes -
Nickelodeon Studios | Abandoned
16 votes -
California gas tax revenue will drop by $6 billion, threatening roads
27 votes -
Ginger Root - Loneliness (2022)
11 votes -
Green Day - Dilemma (2023)
4 votes -
Las Vegas-S. California high-speed rail gets $3 billion federal grant
28 votes -
Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
16 votes -
Is Los Angeles’ transit Olympics-ready?
13 votes -
We went to Wasteland Weekend, a post-apocalypse themed LARP festival
13 votes -
Solar power to the people: California program brings clean energy to Oakland
11 votes -
San Francisco street inspectors beg city for help to deal with armed stolen-goods dealers
9 votes -
Under strained circumstances, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping scheduled to talk trade
11 votes -
The world’s largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
36 votes