👋 OH HEY 👋

Mads here! I was listening to Matt Belloni on my favorite podcast, How Long Gone, and he posed a great question: what is the worst parking experience in LA? Lots, structures, garages, etc 🚙 Cast your vote here:

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Okay, now on to the coolest things to do in LA this week.

🗓️ THINGS TO DO 🗓️

^{The coolest events happening in Los Angeles this week.}

• West Hollywood, Tuesday 1/16 🤝 Friend or Flame is hosting a speed dating party: queer edition!

• Glendale, Tuesday 1/16 🎨 Learn how to draw your self portrait with mobile art school, Hand Follows Eye.

• Long Beach, Tuesday 1/16 🎶 Good Luck Vinyl is putting on this special listening session of the 1993 album “Doggystyle” by Snoop Dogg.

• Historic Filipinotown, Tuesday 1/16 🥡 This Sichuanese supper club from Brooklyn is popping up at Woon!

• Silver Lake, Wednesday 1/17 🎲 Go to this cute af game night with Cuties LA at The Ruby Fruit. Board games! Card games! Coloring books!

• Silver Lake, Thursday 1/18 🤣 Looking to laugh? Go to this comedy show at the Lyric Hyperion.

• Santa Monica, Thursday 1/18 📝 This is really sweet: a goal setting + reimagined resolutions night by Club Rewire at JuneShine.

• DTLA, Friday 1/19 🎥 REUNION is an underground and invite only artist-run space in the Arts District, and they’re putting on this dinner & a movie night on Friday.

• Santa Monica, Friday 1/19 🍕 Boy Blue Pizza will be popping up at Offhand Wine Bar in Santa Monica on Friday!! They’ll also be at El Prado on Sunday.

• Echo Park, Friday 1/19 👩‍💻 Are you sick of WFH? There’s this new community called WorkWELL that meets at local bars in LA during the day (when they’d otherwise be closed) to work together. First one is at Bar Bandini!

• All over, Friday 1/19 🧳 Our friends at BÉIS are taking over all La La Land Cafe locations starting Friday! You can order custom drinks and shop limited edition merch.

• Brentwood, Saturday 1/20 💚 Celebrate Crown Affair’s 4th birthday at goop in the Brentwood Country Mart on Saturday! Expect scalp massages, custom towel embroidery, and the chance to shop the Crown Affair assortment IRL. The first 50 customers will receive a free CA travel set!

• Pacific Palisades, Saturday 1/20 🥾 Wanna hike and meet new girlies? Go to this.

• Echo Park, Saturday 1/20 🎉 Another SUPERFIRE party happening. This time at Short Stop!

• DTLA, Saturday 1/20 🎶 Club 90s is throwing an Ariana Grande warehouse party on Saturday! Yes, and?

• Santa Monica, Saturday 1/20 📝 It’s not too late to create your 2024 vision board!!

• DTLA, Saturday 1/20 📿 Bead & Sip at my fave natty wine bar in downtown, Good Clean Fun. Make custom jewelry, sip on wine, and get flash tattoos.

• Silver Lake, Sunday 1/21 🛍️ Discovery Diary is having another flea market at Cafe Nido on Sunday! It’s a one-stop ‘new year’ shop showcasing over 20 local LA makers, creatives, and curators.

• Echo Park, Sunday 1/21 🧵 This is precious: learn how to sew a pillow at this beginners sewing workshop.

• Griffith Park, Sunday 1/21 🌿 Take an herb walk on Sunday in Bronson Canyon.

• Echo Park, Sunday 1/21 🦪 It’s “The World is Our Oyster: Queer Night” again at Bar Flores on Sunday. Perlitas Oysters will be there!

• DTLA, Sunday 1/21 🎶 It’s the Los Angeles Record Fair! Head to Arrow Lodge Brewing in DTLA on Sunday to shop from 30+ record dealers.

• Beverly Grove, Monday 1/22 🌹 The Bachelor premieres on Monday! Go to this rooftop viewing party. 

If you need a ride to any of the events above, use code CAMBER or click this link to get $10 off your first 2 Alto rides 🚗

📍PLACES TO BE📍

^{New openings, places you should know about, what I’m adding to my starting lineup, etc.}

^{Top Left: Norma (📷 by @normaweho), Top Right: Prima Donna (📷 by @whataprimadonna), Bottom Left: The Arroyo Club (📷 by @thearroyoclubhlp), Bottom Right: Kinrose (📷 by @hungrychar)}

• Norma, West Hollywood 🍽️ Cool spot in West Hollywood opened last week. Custom matches alert!

• Prima Donna, Culver City 🍕 This wood-fired Sicilian restaurant took over the etta space in Culver City. I’m gonna need to try this grilled lobster and prawn spaghetti…

• Jilli, Koreatown 🍷 The Chimmelier team has flipped the Kinn space into Jilli - a modern sool jib that soft opened last week. It’s a Korean bar that focuses on drinking culture - offering great bar bites that pair perfectly with wine/beer/soju.

• The Arroyo Club, Highland Park 🍸 How cute is this new neighborhood bar in Highland Park?

• STAY, Chinatown 🍹 Are you still going Dry January strong? Head over to STAY, a new zero proof cocktail lounge.

• Sunny’s Bookshop, Tarzana 📖 You’re invited to the grand opening of this new bookstore in Tarzana that’s opening on Saturday 1/20 inside Shades of Petals. Flowers & books? Yes please.

• Kinrose, Pasadena 🍦 A creamery with Middle Eastern roots now has a permanent home in Pasadena. Um this honey walnut baklava ice cream? Drooling.

💬 ONE FINAL THING 💬

See ya around,

Mads

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