Food
I love the heat. Summer is my favorite time of year, because under normal circumstances (read: 60 degree weather) I am bundled up like an eskimo. ‘Tis the season for picnics, bug bites, and romantic rendezvous’ under the stars. As the drive in movie theater fades further into history, a new twist on the idea […]
Tucked up a side street in Glendale, away from the corporate behemoths of downtown Glendale – CPK, Olive Garden, Islands – there is an intimate oasis known as Neat. This is a bar for cocktail-philes made by a bar man himself. The owner stocks the bar with libations that he would like to drink: single […]
Westsiders take note. You don’t have to go all the way Downtown to experience Little Tokyo. This little strip of Sawtelle Blvd is the mini Westsider destination for all things Japanese. You can easily walk the short stretch of Sawtelle Blvd that is chock full of Izakaya & Japanese cuisine ready to broaden your horizons beyond […]
If you missed Unique LA’s Holiday Show, don’t fret. Renegade is this weekend…and it’s FREE. Head over to The Cornfields, aka Los Angeles State Park, and find that unique gift that eluded you last weekend. Yes, Renegade is for all you holiday procrastinators who didn’t take advantage of Black Friday or have only been shopping […]
Looking for that perfect gift for your person of interest who has friggin’ everything? Well, lucky for you, my favorite circus of local hipster-handmades is coming to town! Unique LA is now a huge deal and has morphed into the STATE OF UNIQUE which produces shows in NYC and SF as well as our fine […]
More local. More hip. More California. This is a Pop Up store just in time for the holidays featuring emerging local designers in the LA scene. Here is your chance to discover new fashion and support local designers. Graffiti Beach was formed to showcase new talent in fashion, music and art. They strive to give […]
Yesterday in Culver City was the Indie Arts and Crafts Festival: Patchwork. It is exactly what it sounds like, independent artists and crafters get together to pimp their wares. However, this is not your grandma’s craft fair…not that your grannie’s not cool… but these are hipster crafts with buzzwords like ‘up-cycling’ and ‘sustainable’ in their […]
Dine LA starts today. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to try as many restaurants as LA has to offer in the next two weeks. Lucky for you, the restaurants make it pretty easy for you to accomplish this task. How does it work Well, a bunch of restaurants opt into one […]
Apparently, the new hipster hangout of choice is one of the many nouveaux German Taverns popping up around the City of Angels. Maybe it is the array of beers on tap that draws them. Perhaps it is the delectable selection of wursts. There are several beer halls to choose from: Wurst küche (Downtown and soon […]
The DIY of the past has had a bad rap: half made scarves in your closet, glib sayings on needlepoint that don’t apply to anyone, stuff made out of pipe cleaners and tongue depressors. However with the advent of Etsy and Make magazine, DIY has emerged from it’s monogrammed and crocheted-teddy-bear-pillow cocoon into the 21st […]