Stressed In Los Angeles: 12 Spots To Help You Calm Down

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By Megan Cytron

Charlie Brown called it decades ago: post-modern life has a way of quickly converting good tidings and joy into debilitating stress, a tad too much togetherness, and feral consumerism that invariably leads to the Dantean experience of endlessly circling jam-packed mall parking lots. Even in Lalaland, it's easy to opt out for an escapist afternoon. This list of 11 stress-busting spots has a little bit of everything for angst-y Angelenos--bathhouses, a firing range, strip-mall comfort food, spiritual sanctuaries, a mildly masochistic spa treatment involving branches...

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