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From Silver Lake and Echo Park to Downtown L.A., this guide is packed with sun-soaked beaches, celebrity-studded restaurants, and more. Includes fresh information on new sights, like Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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best guides.......2007-09-20
great guidebooks. Little hard read at first, but useful all the time. worth read before trip. Not the one that you can just open on scene.
Time Out - the best travel guides!!! :-0.......2006-08-20
While there are heaps of travel book guides on the market, Time Out are better than all others. Lonely Planet are good and DK are good, but this range is a little more in depth and seems to go the extra mile.
After a fun introduction, there are the usual sections you'd expect to find in a guide book; Restaurants and Bars, Hotels, Nightlife, Shopping (my personal favourite) and things Nearby to name a few. I believe their maps are more detailed and layed out really well. There are hours for shops and restaurants and websites too. They include things for people on all kinds of budgets. Another cute idea they have going on is little blue notes on various pages with a point of interest that has been used in a movie or TV show. For example, on page 116 it mentions that the Grand Olympic Auditorium (with its address) was used in Million Dollar Baby. These are just another added bonus that makes this more unique.
I have found these guides useful in the past, and this one is going to come in handy again, because they always update to include new places to stay, eat and shop. These books are so helpful and I think you'll find that too. Check them out, and you may not use other guides again.
Great guides.......2005-09-04
These books are really helpful and useful. Even if you're like me and know your way around Los Angeles like the back of your hand, it still comes in handy. It gives web addresses and phone numbers and more correct information than I've seen in other publications. It also gives you the closest freeways to a particular location. It's a good compact size too. All the Time Out guides I've read are as good as this. They are on a par if not better to Lonely Planet.
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This Time Out guide takes visitors through the boulevards and byways of a world-class city. Informed locals profile the cultural background and how to make the most of it, from San Francisco’s Gold Rush origins to its beatnik and hippie subcultures. Here too are the best ways to enjoy the city’s renowned gay scene, from shops to health clubs; its superb walking-tour opportunities; and the outlying Wine Country with its myriad pleasures. Accommodations from hotels to hostels are detailed in updated entries, along with the city’s stellar cuisine.
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Not the best of Time Out guides, but likely the best for SF.......2003-07-17
First off, I should say that for a visitor to San Francisco, this guide is still your best bet for all around coverage of shopping, bars, and sights. If you are going to get one guide, get this one (just make sure the restaurants still exist before you drop by!).
I really like Time Out guides in general, and have found them indispensable for such places as diverse as Budapest, Las Vegas, and New York. This guide, however, lacks the fun attitude and vast amount of information that these others have. I am clearly biased, being a Bay Area native, but the writers just got on my nerves: the bar section, for example, constantly categorizes places as catering to "pretentious hipsters" or "scenester yuppies", while other places are left for the "cool kids." Critiques such as these seem so pretentious and as grasping to prove some "alternative" credibility. Also, this book is much shorter than Time Out guides for other cities, and they could have written more: places like Mendocino County, the nearby San Mateo County coast, and even Oakland are given scant coverage, and several landmark SF institutions have been left out. There is nothing on San Jose (apart from the airport address) or Silicon Valley, the nearby metropolis that dwarfs SF. So while this guide is great for a visitor, if you are planning to move to SF or are a local trying to learn more, you may want to go with a more in depth guide (Avon Travel's Moon Handbooks, for instance).
Tried and tried good advice, good size for travel.......2002-03-29
A good and straight forward guide to San Francisco from the venerable English publisher. This company should do more guides. I used this when I went to San Francisco and it was indispensable.
Needs revising.......2001-12-30
Out of the three books I recently used to tour the city, this one had the most errors when it came to restaurant listings. The writing was dry and as a guide it lacked personality.
Essential!.......2000-09-25
I found this guidebook perfect for providing the best advice on what to do, what to eat and where to stay on my recent vacation in San Francisco. I would recommend for any twenty- or thirty-something person who wants the inside scoop on the best stuff in the city.
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With 45 million U.S. residents traveling there each year, California is the country's most visited state - and for good reason. The Golden State offers an unparalleled mix of experiences: from two of the U.S.'s most storied (and most contrasting) cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, to national parks and wilderness areas of breathtaking beauty. Here you can experience iconic America, along with some of its finest food and wine, most exhilarating road trips and most self-indulgent sunshine pleasures. Time Out California takes travelers straight to the highlights, bringing a savvy perspective to this fascinating state. Highlights include the state's most scenic drives, with complete details and maps; California's kookiest attractions, from burlesque museums to rock star shrines, a full guide to the state's national parks, complete with suggested hikes, hotels, and dining options; and California's best beaches revealed.
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Excellent!.......2003-05-13
I absolutely loved this book. When we got the book, my husband and 3 children and I were already homesteading and I had started to homeschool my children. Our experiences were slightly different, but at the same time some were very similar. I could relate to their struggles. And I also remember the '70's when they started their adventure. Homesteading and homeschooling is so much more acceptable now! They were pioneers for the rest of us!
Interesting, if rather smug, book.......2001-06-02
I agree 100% with Kenneth Robinson's comments on this book. It is definitely a "good read;" it was almost a page-turner. Many times I was amazed by, and sometimes I greatly admired, the authors' risk-taking, fortitude, and adventurous spirit. Certainly I could understand the importance they placed on family, and the way they valued learning by doing, which is something I believe we in the mainstream society have come to appreciate more over the years. However, I was less than charmed by their bitterness, strangely judgmental and superior outlook toward anyone who was different than them, and economic view of the animal kingdom. (I was also amused that they acted as if they were the first, and only, individuals on the planet to discover cooking from scratch, organic gardening, 4H, farming, etc.: many others do it, some with far less educational advantages, out of necessity, and to these multitudes it simply a natural way of life, not some grandiose philosophy.) I was left wondering why, considering their values and background, they so prized their sons entry into Harvard? And why did they bite their tongues regarding their politics when they wanted to take advantage of a neighbor to get water?
Excellent first-hand account of the evolution of a homeschoo.......2000-06-15
This book is well worth the money, if you want to learn what the Colfax kids really did to become the students that were accepted at Harvard. All the real life learning, hands-on projects that were essential to survival in the CA mountains, and learning to think, improvise and make it work! However, the Colfax's are just as proud of their fourth son, who didn't attend Harvard. Read in conjunction with "Homeschooling for Excellence" you get the whole picture of one way to provide a well-rounded education for your homeschooled kids.
Amusing, Light reading.......2000-04-10
This is not a how-to manual or a Thoreau-like discourse on the philosophy of agrarian self-reliant living. It's an amusing, anecdotal story of their homesteading endeavors.
I found the Colfaxs' perseverance in the face of often great adversity inspiring and admirable. On the other hand, I found their martyr complex extremely tiresome. David Colfax was denied tenure at a couple of colleges allegedly due to their heavy involvement in left-wing causes. I find it perplexing why a man who espouses self-reliance believes that he has a right to tenure--which is welfare for those with a PhD. and a willingness to jump through the hoops.
Still, this is a fine, light read--if you get the book at the library or in the bargain bin. It's certainly not worth paying for a new copy.
Homeschooling may not be a panacea, but it's Paradise to us!.......2000-03-10
When I bought "Hard Times in Paradise" and "Homeschooling For Excellence" in 1988, I was pregnant with my only child. I did not think that a federally controlled, compulsory education was healthy, nor did I think that small children should be removed from their parents' care at such an early age. I was hungry for information that would give me a perspective on what to expect. David and Micki Colfax have done a wonderful job of explaining the hits and misses that comprised the raising of their children outside of the standard educational systems. The long term successes of their sons are enough to inspire any parent. I can't recommend their books enough.
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Time Out Los Angeles 3 (Time Out Los Angeles Guide)
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Good to Have.......2000-04-05
For natives, and non-natives alike this guide is a must have. The restaurant choices are solid and I have made much use of the accommodations information when out of town guests come to visit. It is geared to a somewhat younger crowd, but is FULL of useful information for all. It prevents you from wasting any time looking for places to go and places to eat that aren't worthy. All of their recommedations are on the money.
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The only thing you need to know about Las Vegas is that everything you've heard about it is true. Everything. Sure, you might not choose to believe all of it, and you may not have time to find it all during your stay, but it really is all there: glamour, glory, excess, decadence, style, delusion . . . and maybe, if you play your cards right, fortune. With the help of a team of local writers who live in Sin City year-round, Time Out Las Vegas offers an unparalleled guide to this most absurd, fascinating, and magnificent of cities. Exhaustive casino reviews cover guest rooms, on-site restaurants, shops, floorshows, and gambling, from the cheapest tables to the richest jackpots. A separate chapter covers visceral pleasures like showgirls, strip joints, and swingers' clubs. And when it's time to get away from it all, Time Out Las Vegas also offers mini-guides to the Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and even Los Angeles.
Customer Reviews:
THE most helpful travel guides around :-).......2007-09-03
To me, Time Out guides are the best you can buy. They are better than Lonely Planet and Frommers and anything else on the market. They are very in-depth, colorful, heaps of photos, so informative and often go the extra mile by adding bonus pages on either the history of the city, or the culture or anything of even minimal interest.
This 2007 edition is choc-full of anything you wanted to know for your vacation to Vegas and day trips to other places like Arizona, California and Utah. It even has a mini segment about gambling and lessons on how to play some of the more popular games in the casino. There are listings in the back for hospitals, websites for where to find dentists, list of radio stations, post offices and almost anything you could want to find. It covers where to stay from budget to grand opulence, what to do with or without kids, maps of the Strip and surrounding areas and of course my absolute favourite topics - food and shopping.
By the time you read this guide, you will be a novice of Vegas whether you've already been before or going for the first time. I'm about to go to Vegas for my 12th time and I still find this book of use. I highly highly recommend it and recommed their other guides for other great cities around the world.
Best All-In One Las Vegas Book I Have Found!.......2000-06-19
Great Book! nice size, easy to carry with you when in Las Vegas. The best overview of Las Vegas I have found (I have them all). Lots of detail in this book that are not in the others, even includes a section on outside the Vegas area for day trips (Hover Dam, Area 51, Lake Mead, & many more). Great sections on Accommodations, Restaurants & Buffets, Night Life, Adult Entertainment, Art Culture, Gambling, History, Comps, Weddings, Casinos, & much more. Reads easy like a good magazine, lots of nice color pictures. Detailed maps also included. The only book you will need. I reccomend highly.
Las Vegas - looking beyond the rose-tinted spectacles.......2000-06-12
This book will help the average person planning a Las Vegas experience avoid many of the usual overhype and embrace the real city. It covers the subjects that are usually taboo and is not scared to say if something is third rate. Get the new version June 2000 and go there and be a high roller. But keep the taxi fare home :-)))
Best Las Vegas Guide that I have found..........2000-04-01
This small (easily-packable) guide gives you a good overview of the Las Vegas experience. There is also enough detail to help you plan an exciting trip. Look for the sections on Coffee Shops and supplies for exotic dancers. The authors/editors have done a super job of awakening your curiosity about a place that may seem one-dimensional and ho-hum at first glance. I also enjoyed the information on side trips at the back of the book. Las Vegas is a great destination on its own, but "Time Out" clarifies some happy opportunities for exploring the West in conjuction with a Vegas trip. Maps are also noteworthy for their relevance and easy-to-understand format. I must have looked at and rejected twenty guide books before I found this gem.
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This digital document is an article from San Fernando Valley Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 882 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Detail oriented: On Time Painting Inc. takes the guesswork out of estimating the costs and time it takes to do a job by paying attention to the little things.(Small Business)
Author: Shelly Garcia
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San Fernando Valley Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
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Customer Reviews:
not what i thought.......2005-04-09
i expected to find something useful in estimating a job. but it really says nothing about this. it was ust not anything i was personally looking for.
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on August 22, 1994. The length of the article is 1046 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Federal bill could buoy city's cruise industry; measure offers hope, but time is running out.
Author: Larry M. Edwards
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San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 22, 1994
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v15
Issue: n34
Page: p7(2)
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Fuel folly: California is phasing out the controversial oxygenate MTBE from gasoline supplies. It's about time, cheer boaters.(methyl tertiary butyl ether): An article from: Trailer Boats
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This digital document is an article from Trailer Boats, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1201 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: California has passed a ruling that bans the use of the fuel oxygenate MTBE. Initially considered a pollutant controller in gasoline, it was discovered to have cancerous effects. As the chemical makes up around 11% of one tank of gasoline, Governor Gray Davis has labeled it a health hazard.
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Title: Fuel folly: California is phasing out the controversial oxygenate MTBE from gasoline supplies. It's about time, cheer boaters.(methyl tertiary butyl ether)
Author: Ron Eldridge
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Trailer Boats (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1999
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World History Critical Thinking Workbook
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