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Los Angeles. The City of Angels. Even if you’ve never set foot here in person, chances are you’ve been here in your imagination - or in someone else's via film and television. It’s Hollywood! But it’s also so, so much more. From the beach to the mountains, gritty on the rise Downtown to iconically posh Beverly Hills we’ve got you covered. In this primer we’ll show you how to find the Los Angeles of your own dreams.

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Cerca Audio Guides are our modern take on a guide book. Imagine a podcast where each episode delivers insight and stories about somewhere in the world: everything from food to music, history, architecture, sports, fashion and more. Listen passively in the flow of your daily life, while immersing yourself in the sounds and feel of a new and extraordinary place.

New episodes will be released all the time, soon there will be a Guide for anywhere you want to go.

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Los Angeles has long been home to the glamorous Hollywood lunch - and we’ll tell you about these old Hollywood standards - but these days the most exciting food in LA is also really, really good food. In a city that is constantly coming up with what’s new and trendy it’s no surprise that the food has followed. We’re going to explore what’s “new” in new California cuisine, from the fusion that created Korean BBQ tacos, to how to do sushi, to where the hottest chefs go shopping for produce.

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For this episode’s full show notes, download the free CERCA app, available for iOS. Get maps, photos, and info on the places mentioned. Plus, ad-free listening, bonus content, and early access to other episodes in this guide.

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Like the people who populate this city - the crimes that happen here seem fit for the big screen. In a place full of cameras, paparazzi, and superstars - it makes sense. If you take a survey of the most infamous and well-known crimes and trials of the century - the ones seared into your memory like that nondescript condo entrance - a considerable handful of them are a product of the City of Angels.

In Part One, we’ll dive back into LA before television, to a murder that changed the city - the murder of the Black Dahlia. Then we’ll jump forward to the far-out 60s to when a very different kind of story took what LA was and turned it upside down - the murders of Charles Manson and the Manson Family.

~This Cerca Guide was written by Dominique Ferrari and voiced by J.J. Duncan.

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