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The Edison

Once home to downtown L.A.'s first power plant, this cavernous two-story speakeasy still has plenty of buzz (and not just because of the electrical relics and vintage lightbulb chandeliers hanging around the bar). Here, guests lounge on overstuffed leather chaises, sipping single-malt Lowland scotch and waiting for the cutesy aerial acrobat performances that take place every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after 9 p.m.

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From Travel + Leisure , OCT 2008

Playing Alvy Singer in 1977's Annie Hall, Woody Allen famously described Los Angeles as a place whose only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on red....MORE>>

– M. G. Lord The Real Los Angeles

Last updated October 2008