An Afternoon Around Melrose Hill

Founded in 2014 in Los Angeles’ Lower Arts District, by Anthony Cran and Naomi deLuce Wilding, Wilding Cran Gallery represents international contemporary artists working in various mediums. The gallery supports local and universal social causes through arts education programming and philanthropic partnerships. In 2025 Wilding Cran moved to its new Melrose Hill location.

Works by the gallery’s artists are featured in numerous public collections, including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Hammer Museum, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX;  Pérez Art Musem, FL; The Rubell Family Collection, FL, DC; The National Gallery of Art Canada; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria, and others.

David Zwirner is a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, and currently represents more than seventy artists and estates. The gallery has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. Active in both the primary and secondary markets, David Zwirner has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists.

“Kuya Lord’s Filipino feast is food of power, finesse and delight” —Bill Addison, LA Times

Kuya Lord is an elevated fast casual restaurant concept by Chef Lord Maynard Llera, featuring regional Filipino dishes that he grew up eating in Lucena City, Quezon Province, Philippines. While the food hearkens back to his childhood, Chef Maynard applies his classical techniques in enhancing and reinventing traditional Filipino dishes.

The monicker Kuya Lord comes from the Tagalog word for “older brother,” combined with the chef’s name, "Lord Maynard." The first Kuya Lord was a pop-up that Chef Llera and his wife opened in their La Cañada garage during the pandemic. There they developed such a substantial following that they chose the same name for their new permanent location in LA's Koreatown.

A few seats for sit-down dining are available, but mostly the restaurant accepts take-out and advance-order catering. Kuya Lord does not have a phone. Please message them on Instagram.

Farm-to-table Italian food, with all-natural ingredients, made in-house daily.

”In the vein of a traditional Italian osteria as a casual, local gathering place for food, friends, and wine, our menu reflects a less complicated classic grassroots approach to Italian country food inspired by our backyard here in southern California. Our core belief: great food need not be elaborate or overwrought, but rather fresh, uncomplicated, and well-executed in order to get out of the way of the ingredients and find the joy in their innate flavors and qualities. The joy of eating seasonally, simply, and well among good company is one shared by all at Osteria La Buca. It is with this simple thought in mind that we invite you to join us to celebrate and have a seat at our table.”

Located right next door to the Hollywood Historic Hotel, Sweet Corner offers the perfect treat for those visiting Los Angeles as well as for friends and neighbors. Give your LA morning a sweet start with one of the neighborhood's newest bakeries. Sit out front and watch the world go by—or if you don't have time to linger, just order in.

Sweet Corner proudly serves La Colombe coffee, as well as desserts, cakes, and other breakfast items.

Established in 2015, Rele Gallery was founded to act as a critical interface between the African and international art worlds. Representing and exhibiting a fine selection of emerging and established artists working in Africa and the diaspora across different media, the gallery is focused on promoting a greater appreciation, followership, and engagement of art from Africa, with a vision to make it more accessible to both a local and global audience.

Established in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan, Southern Guild represents contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. Based in Cape Town and Los Angeles, the gallery’s programme furthers the continent’s contribution to global art movements. Southern Guild’s artists explore the preservation of culture, spirituality, identity, ancestral knowledge, and ecology within our current landscape.

In the true spirit of a guild, the gallery was founded on the principles of community and collaboration, and grew out of a desire to provoke new work, facilitate alliances between differing disciplines, and articulate what it means to be human. Having pioneered the collectible design category on the continent, the gallery showcases excellence across both functional and contemporary art. Southern Guild partners meaningfully with artists through artwork production and exhibition-making to foster their careers and propel their capacity for creative evolution. The gallery nurtures new talent through educational projects, talks, mentorship initiatives, and its own GUILD Residency, an international studio programme for artists seeking to engage with the local context.

Southern Guild is invested in the growth of the African creative ecosystem, cultivating an ethos of cultural exchange and interconnectedness through its robust international fair and biennale programme, and by partnering with curators, institutions, and museums to realise distinctive interdisciplinary projects.

Works by Southern Guild artists have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum, Mint Museum, Harn Museum, Denver Art Museum, Vitra Museum, Design Museum Gent and National Gallery of Victoria. Gallery artists have also exhibited at institutions including Centre Pompidou, Brooklyn Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+), Seoul Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and African American Museum of Dallas.

An all-day café and eatery. Enjoy our seasonal menu featuring breakfast and lunch delights, along with fresh coffee, tea, and delicious pastries. 

Family-owned Mexican eatery offering Oaxacan dishes, including namesake tlayudas, in cozy surroundings.

”We serve home-style cooking inspired by Oaxacan cuisine. Our ingredients are fresh and cooked to order. Feel free to visit our restaurant or order online. We would love to share with you our cuisine and provide the best experience from southern Mexico.”

Since 2002, Hollywood Forever has teamed up with the film organization Cinespia to produce outdoor classic film screenings each summer (May through September). Thousands of people gather on Fairbanks Lawn after sunset to watch classic Hollywood movies projected onto the side of a mausoleum. Attendees bring picnic baskets along with blankets and chairs to enjoy a truly unique evening. Outdoor screenings also feature pre-show DJs, themed photo booths, and sometimes a visit by the film’s stars, directors, or filmmakers.

As the longest operating and only remaining major studio in Hollywood, Paramount Pictures has been on the ground floor of every major development in filmfrom the advent of motion pictures, to the emergence of television, through the digital revolution. During our 100-year history, we have served as the production site for thousands of notable movies and TV shows.