This weekend is gonna rawk! Not just because of the LA Street Food Fest Summer Tasting Event, which hopefully you’ve gotten your tickets for, but because there’s so much to do. Take your pick or do ’em all. Thursday, July 22 Villains Grand Opening Thrillist calls this new bar a “steampunk-themed cocktail bar” and it…
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Win VIP Tickets to LA Street Food Fest Summer Tasting Event
*****CONTEST IS CLOSED***** With only four days until the LA Street Food Fest at the Rose Bowl, I’m sure you’ve heard all about it by now. That you get to eat food from over 60 LA food trucks, enjoy live music at an outdoor concert, partake of an ice cream social, shop the Unique LA…
Arriba Ice Cream: Rosa Mexicano's Festival de Helados
As a fan of ice cream and a huuuge fan of Scoops, there’s not much more you can surprise me with in terms of how my favorite frozen treat is served or the flavors it’s offered in. I’ve had it in beer, fried, nitrogenated and foie gras flavored. So, yes, when I was invited to…
This Weekend: Ilegal Mescal Happy Hour, Drunk Talk, Manila Tasting
Idiots with Zoe Saldana & Kate Bosworth from Zoe Saldana Finally! This weather feels like summer and we can play outside again. Many fun outdoor events this weekend. And some still fun even though they’re indoors. Thursday, July 15 Chartreuse and Ilegal Mezcal Cocktail Night Mmmezcal, just makes my mouth water. Fortunately, Chartreuse and Ilegal…
Food & Wine's Taste of Beverly Hills on Sale Today
Goodness, there are so many awesome food festivals it can be difficult to pick which ones to go to but when one boasts pop-up king Chef Ludo Lefebrvre, Animal guys Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo and Top Chef Michael Voltaggio that’s definitely on the must-do list. I mean, come on! The inaugural Taste of Beverly…
Blogger Prom 2010: Hollywood Confidential at Yamashiro
Ever wanted to have a fancy night out on the town, I’m talking being decked out in glamorous duds with your ‘do perfectly coiffed? Well on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, a select group of bloggers will get the chance to do just that. Today the Blogger Prom Committee, of which I am a member, announced…
5 Tips on How To Create Your Roller Derby Name
Remember that game you played as a teenager where you take the name of your first pet and the name of the first street you lived on to create your stripper/drag queen name? (Mine is Cuddles Hayes.) Well after I rented Whip It, that Drew Barrymore-directed movie about a roller derby team, I totally wanted…
Pinky Vodka Cocktail Contest: 28 Cocktails, 4 Judges, 1 Sexy Winner
I’ve had many, many cocktails in my life but never 28 cocktails in one sitting. But when I was invited to judge the Pinky Vodka Cocktail Competition at Nic’s Martini Lounge in Beverly Hills, that’s just what I had to do. Well someone had to pick the “next great mixologist to create a fresh cocktail…
This Weekend: Brazilian Dance Lessons, East LA Meets Napa, Hollywood Wine Tasting
Besides that awesome Radio Room contest I have going on right now, here are some cool things going on in the upcoming days. Hopefully this Christmas-in-July weather will go away SOON so we can enjoy our weekend! Thursday, July 8 2010 Cupcake Showdown at Downtown LA Artwalk This cupcake contest hosted by all-girl band Nylon…
*****CONTEST CLOSED***** Next week’s Radio Room at the Edison Downtown will bring a little bit of Gotham to Los Angeles as Manhattan bar Ward III — an upscale drinking hole known for quality, experimental cocktails — will be featured. The owner and bartenders of Ward III — Michael Neff, Kenneth McCoy and Abdul Tabini —…
