OK, I’ll give it to them, those USC kids are lucky. USC Hospitality’s Lab Gastropub that opened up near the campus is wayy too cool a beer bar for a college town. In Westwood, we got BrewCo. Wut up with that? At the Lab, you’ve got a cross between high school science class setup and…
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This Weekend: $1 Luckyfish Dishes, Kogi BBQ Cooking Demo, Wine Fest
Yay! Spring equinox is here! How will you celebrate? Balance eggs on end? $1 dishes at Luckyfish? A Kogi BBQ cooking demonstration? Pagan dance in the forest? Thursday, March 19 $1 Dishes and Drinks at Luckyfish’s 1-Year Anniversary In celebration of its one-year anniversary, Luckyfish, conveyor belt sushi restaurant, is charging one dollar for every…
X Bar's Astrology Cocktails: Hey, Baby, What's Your Sign?
What better way for a Los Angeles bar to celebrate our city than with astrology cocktails? Yup, X Bar in Century City, has perhaps the funnest theme cocktail menu idea I’ve seen in a long time. And seriously, couldn’t we all use some fun nowadays? X Bar created 12 cocktails ($12 each) to represent the…
Cocktail Marathon: Food Marathon and Caroline on Crack Blog Mashup
Blogger Food Marathon had an excellent idea for a blog post series: Do a mash-up of his blog and another food blog, meaning go on a food marathon of, I guess, that featured blogger’s favorite places and write about it. In any case, since my deal is cocktails naturally we’d do a bar marathon of…
Renee Vintage Designs: Affordable Vintage Jewelry
While shopping the marketplace section of the Pamper Me Fabulous spa event a couple of weeks ago, I was drawn to this table of shiny rings. Baubles, bling and bijoux, Renee Vintage Designs’ beautiful vintage rings reminded me of the gorgeous costume jewelry that my mom used to sell for Celebrity Jewelry when she was…
4th Street Vine in Long Beach: $10 Wine Tasting
“Went to a really cool wine & beer place 2nite. We should go,” was all my bf texted me. He’s more frugal with his praise of restaurants and bars than I am so when he said that I knew it must be something special. 4th Street Vine in Long Beach, yes the LBC, is actually…
Pond Skipping on the Cheap: $598 R/T LA to Oz
Flickr Shot by aussiegall The TravelZoo newsdesk just published this special from Qantas Airlines where you can book a flight to Australia — Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Auckland, New Zealand — for only $598 roundtrip! That’s 60% off its usual price. And with the U.S. dollar holding its strength against the Oz/NZ dollar, this is…
Pamper Me Fabulous: A Shinier, Enlightened Me
Who knew that downtown spa event Pamper Me Fabulous last week could be so chock-full of valuable information. Well, at least for me it was. Before you dismiss this spa event as merely a place where women go to pamper themselves at the various local high-end salons here, know that you can take away so…
New Happy Hour: Copa d'Oro's $5 Classic Cocktails
Yay! My new favorite bar, Copa d’Oro in Santa Monica, has kicked off its new happy hour featuring a “happy depression menu.” So now you can enjoy some of their fabulous market-fresh cocktails for only $5! And we’re not talking the sort of drinks you usually find at happy hours around the city. No apple…
Barbarella Bar: Drinking Like It's 1999
I heard all this hype about Silver Lake’s new bar Barbarella Bar. Who didn’t write about it? Well, besides me? So when I got an invite to “experience Silver Lake’s newest neighborhood hang,” I naturally rsvp’d. Plus the promise of free specialty martinis, 24 beers on tap and food helped a bit. When I got…
