Photo from Curbed LA Eastsiders get all the cool stuff. Case in point, the biggest Whole Foods store west of the Rockies at 76,770 square feet of organic food goodness. This Wednesday the chain’s flagship store will open up in Pasadena. Essentially a foodie’s (and my) heaven, the emporium will have an in-house fresh jam…
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Griffith Observatory Finally Reopens Its Parking Lot
Today the parking ban at Griffith Observatory was lifted! Yay for a return to impromptu star gazing and city light viewing! The ban was lifted after a 60% drop in visitors since the observatory’s reopening last November. Along with the return to the tradition of free parking and park entry comes the long unmoving lines…
Lucha VaVoom: Ow! My Head! My Eyes! My Ears!
Last night was quite possibly the craziest L.A. experience I’ve ever had in the 15 or so years that I’ve lived here: Lucha VaVoom‘s Halloween/Day of the Dead show at the Mayan Theatre. Midget wrestlers, fighting chickens and burlesque — how could I stay away? The show was sold-out so not many could either as…
Spending Halloween with Metromix and UrbanDaddy
I was a bit overly ambitious with my Halloween plans last night. The agenda was to start off at Metromix’s party at the Standard, drop by Seven Grand for a Halloween cocktail, head over to the Blue Goose Lounge for the Yelpoween party and then cap off the night at the Absolut 100/UrbanDaddy party at…
Whirlwind Tour of Myers' Empire: Boule Atelier, Sona and Comme Ca
Nancy of Living LArge and I had a plan of attack. We’d meet up at Boule Atelier at 6:30 before they closed at 7, get some treats, then head over to Sona for cocktails and then to Comme Ca for cocktails and maybe food. It was to be a Myers’ Empire tour, if you will,…
Seven Grand's Very Special Halloween Cocktail List
Image courtesy of www.swilliamshaw.com Last night at the Hennessy event, I was chatting with Aidan, general manager of Seven Grand, about the bar’s Halloween plans this Wednesday. He said that although they don’t have anything official planned, especially since they just had a crazy huge Halloween party last Saturday, they will have a retro-inspired Halloween…
Hennessy's Art of Mixing Academy at the Roosevelt
A room full of some of the best bartenders in L.A. (and even the nation)….and me. It was my secret little heaven. My boys from Seven Grand were there, too, of course — Aidan, Patrick and Damian. It was so cool to hang out with those guys on the other side of the bar for…
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: Halloween Screenings
What I love most about Halloween isn’t the parties, bags of candy or the costumes, but rather all the scary movies they show on TV. Just this weekend I got to watch The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, The Omen and Children of the Corn all on TV. I was in Halloween heaven. Nothing makes…
Steal a Base, Steal a Taco: Free Tacos for America
If you like baseball and Taco Bell, you probably already heard about this but for those who don’t care for junk food or know that there are 9 innings in a baseball game…9, right?…then you definitely won’t care about this. However, for those into freebies… When I was casually watching the World Series during Cabo…
Ooh, Scary: Halloween Guides, Parties & More Parties
Sorry, folks. Still trying to get my costumes together for this damned holiday. That’s right, plural, costumes. So that means no tailor-made weekend guide for you. But for your convenience, here’s a list of Halloween guides from prominent sources all in one place as well as L.A. guides’ parties and some bars’ Halloween costume contests….
