Glendale Books, Mags, Music and Video

Great for Gifts

1. Pulp

Neighborhood: Mid-City West

the displays, must be top-notch.  Overall a very pleasurable shopping experience!  My gift looks great!  I'll be back for sure....

2. Ghettogloss

Neighborhood: Silver Lake

I like this little art gallery/gift shop. They also do art rentals, so if you want something interesting to hang on your walls for a couple months, you should look into it.   They have these amazing...

3. Skylight Books

Neighborhood: Griffith Park/Los Feliz

for a gift for each other, he actually ended up buying it for me!). The fiction section introduced me to such awesome reads as Great Apes.  And of course..last...but not least, and maybe highest up...

4. Meltdown Comics &…

Neighborhood: Hollywood

This place is fun. Great selection and there's always new stuff to poke through. I usually go to buy gifts for nerdy friends. Lots of collectibles, toys, independent comics and novels on top...

5. Imix Book Store

Neighborhood: Eagle Rock

have found great gifts for my friends, especially those folks who are very hard to shop for....

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1. Amoeba Music

Neighborhood: Hollywood

I have this condition, see. I walk into any store that carries music and I immediately get a kind of selective amnesia. I forget every band I've ever liked. Every singer that crooned his way into my...

2. Skylight Books

Neighborhood: Griffith Park/Los Feliz

They have an amazing selection of books about philosophy and critical studies, and keep the "US Counterinsurgency Manual" and a book by Glenn "I'm a Xenophobic Douchebag" Beck in the humor section...

3. Videotheque

Simply the finest video store in the LA area period. Amazing selection covering ALL regions of dvds, and they even carry great some great bootleg stuff too. I just wish they had a location...

4. Secret Headquarters

Neighborhood: Silver Lake

An adorable (and well kept) little shop with a fairly nice selection. Not as large as I'd like it to be, but the staff are always friendly and helpful and everything is just so... well organized...

5. Video Hut

Neighborhood: Griffith Park/Los Feliz

This is a video store where you can find the most indie and most exclusive selection in LA.  As part of being artsy and hip in this flamboyant neighborhood, you have to support Indie films and those...

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