Valencia Street Muscle

2009 | Best Gym

Maybe you like big corporate chain gyms. They have their perks. Theanonymity, the way they jerk you around with the prices and contractsand ask, "How much weight do you want to lose?" Oops, getting bitter... let's focus on the positive. For those of us not into big corporategyms, there is Valencia Street Muscle, which plays a lot ofSleater-Kinney over the sound system, and every time we go in there, wesee the authors of books we've read. (Local authors of smart and poeticbooks, that... More »