Seems like this weekend is full of second anniversaries. And since getting past that first year is usually the toughest in this day and age of short attention spans, I’d say that’s reason enough to celebrate. Check out all these fun things worth woohooing. Friday, November 16 Fridays Off the 405: Free Blood and DJ…
Category Archives: Recreation
This Weekend: On the Stairway to Heaven
What’s heaven? I’m pretty sure it’s all the tamales you can eat, all the hip clothes you can buy and all the beer and wine you can drink. And don’t forget to throw chocolates and Jason Bentley in there as well. Friday, November 9 3rd Annual Los Angeles International Tamale Festival Mmmm, tamales. If you…
Get Crafty: Westside Crocheting and Knitting 101
Flickr Shot by catduck It’s that time of year again, when the chill of autumn is in the air, the days are shorter and the holidays are just around the corner. Just something about it makes me want to knit and/or crochet. And I know, knitting is so 1999 and crocheting is “for little old…
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…
The 24 Hours of LeMons: Endurance Race of POSs
Is it possible to build an endurance racecar for under $500, including its value, parts and labor? Judging from the 80+ participants at the 24 Hours of LeMons, this past weekend in Altamont, California, it is. What am I talking about and why doesn’t it have anything to do with L.A.? Because this event was…
Nobody Reads in L.A.: A Book Club for Nightclubbers
For one night trade PBRs for paperbacks as L.A.’s “original alternative book club,” Nobody Reads in L.A., reconvenes for its fall opener this Wednesday at Casey’s Irish Bar & Grill in downtown. For the next six months the book club will focus on edgy tomes that became edgy movies. No doubt to 1) appeal to…
This Weekend: Dude! Dude? Duuuuude!
This weekend I’ll be busy with a Scary Movie night at my place and then the ’80s Prom at Cooper Studios on Saturday, but here are some things you can put in your weekend calendar. Celebrate dudes, the Dude, derby girls and Dengue Fever! Friday, October 12 Point Break Live! OMG, this is genius and…
This Weekend: Your City Is a Wonderland
Friday, September 28 LF Store’s 3-Day Blowout Sidewalk Sale Help LF Store out by clearing out their remaining 2007 spring and summer fashions so they can make way for the upcoming season. Pleassse? They’ll give you 75-90% off selected merchandise. Think about it, $200 shoes are now $18. And it’s all for a good cause:…
Disneyfied Halloween: Tim Burton's Haunted Mansion
Flickr Shot by Imperpay (detail) If you love all things Halloween, you’ll probably be crazy enough to brave the roving gangs of tourists to hop the doombuggy on Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. It’s been shut down a bit for its Halloweenification but will reopen this Friday decorated a la Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas as…
This Weekend: Wine, Green Beer or Pink Martini?
OK, now it feels like the official end of summer what with the Bowl season and the cemetery screenings ending this weekend. Don’t be sad. Keep the party going and pick your poison from the events below. Friday, September 14 Pink Martini at the Cocoanut Grove/Hollywood Bowl Saturday’s show, the one I’m going to, is…
