What are your plans for New Year’s Eve? Procrastinating, obviously. Well in case you still need last minute plans, here are a couple different options to ring in the New Year in the City of Angels. Family Friendly Grand Park Downtown has a fun afternoon planned, gratis. As soon as the sun goes down, the […]
Break out some cash for charity! Two of my fave bartenders: Matt Wallace of The Famous & Luke Ford of Seven Grand duke it out to get some shake for a couple charities: My Friend’s Place and Krochet Kids. Matt Wallace will be shaking it up for My Friend’s Place and Luke Ford will be pouring […]
I have a new way for you to get wild this summer. Starting on July 11, The LA Zoo is hosting some summer night parties for the 18 and over set. Every Thursday Night in July, there will be food trucks, DJs spinning at the carousel & standup comedy at the petting zoo. Impress a […]
Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock turns THIRTY. Yes. 3-0 — how old does that make you feel? Thankfully, the folks at Fraggle want you to “Dance your cares away” all year long with fun events celebrating all things Fraggle: http://fragglerock30.com/ One of the fun filled celebrations happens to be in our backyard. The Spare Room in […]
A new high holiday is re-born: This year’s Grilled Cheese Invitational falls on April 20, 2013. 4/20 people. Yes. That 420. The stars are aligning once in a millenia for the organized consumption of ooooey gooey grilled cheese and the only organized holiday of the stoner nation. Get down with Snoop Lion and roll a […]
Around St Patrick’s Day, it’s alway so difficult to find a green drink that doesn’t involve putting artificial food coloring into your beer and pretending that that’s perfectly normal. There are plenty of naturally occurring green things in the world, so why is this so difficult? Luck of the Irish for you, I’ve got this […]
Mixology fans, have I got a treat for you. In an old auto-body shop in the divisively self proclaimed NoHo Arts District, lives a bar helmed by Jonny Whitton (Seven Grand & Villains Tavern) and road readied by the Liquid Assests dynamic duo of Marcos Tello and Aidan Demarest. Gourmet Latin cuisine is on the menu, […]
Valentine’s Day: the celebration of overprix-fixe plates, pressure laden plans of romantic bliss, and otherwise available single ladies crying themselves to sleep over re-runs of Sex in the City. So depressing that it kinda makes you want to re-live your last awkward moment of single-hood, the one where you went stag and got drunk in […]
Summertime is the time for rum. That eau de vie distilled from sugar cane hits just the spot on a hot summer day. Perhaps because its origins are from such tropical places, the drinks we make with it also transport us to a sandy beach filled with palm trees or a tranquil hammock asleep with […]
A few East Side Breweries and Taps to entice you into drinking some local beer.