Taste the Nation: No Kid Hungry Food Fest is Happening this Sunday!

Slapfish’s Clobster Rolls at Taste of the Nation. (Photo by Elise Thompson)

June 11, 2023, from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Taste of the Nation No Kid Hungry brings its 32nd premium food event to Media Park in Culver City. The strolling event features unlimited tastes, sips and desserts from dozens of the best chefs and mixologists in Los Angeles.

Some of our favorite participating restaurants include Angelini Osteria, the definitive LA Italian trattoria from Chef Gino Angelini, B Sweet, with Filipino desserts from Chef Barb Batiste (here’s hoping for an ube dessert!), Chef Wes Avila’s Guerrilla Tacos,  Jitlada, with Chef Jazz Singsanong, the most charming chef serving the hottest Thai food in LA, the award-winning Kali, Maple Block Meat Co., Chef Michael Reed and Kwini Reed’s DTLA brunch spot, Poppy + Rose, plus Chefs and Hot Tamales Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken with their newest restaurant, SOCALO. It’s practically a Top Chef women’s reunion with Chef Shirley Chung’s Ms. Chi Cafe, Chef Stephanie Izard’s super buzzy Girl and the Goat, and even season 14 Top Chef winner Brooke Williamson’s Playa Provisions.

One-hundred-percent of proceeds support the No Kid Hungry campaign’s work to end childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children have access to the nutritious meals they need, every day. Tickets for Los Angeles’ Taste of the Nation are $115 for adult General Admission; $35 for kids ages 4 to 16; and kids 3 and under are free. Rain or shine.

Get your tickets now!

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NELAFEST At The Offbeat Lounge Is Already Happening – Don’t Miss It

Friends and relatives of the beloved Cafe Nela have a weekend of fun ahead of them, as a number of acts from that scene take over the Offbeat Lounge in Highland Park. It promises to be an intimate, yet expansive, event with a huge variety of quality local music to be heard. There’s a spacious patio to which one can retire in between sets, for a breath of fresh air.

 

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High Desert Cool Spot ‘The Station’ Becomes Cheesier in the Tastiest of Ways

The Cheez-It® Stop at The Station in Joshua Tree, California, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Photo by Monique A. LeBleu.

On 29 Palms Highway, which cuts straight up through the high desert to Joshua Tree, sits a stunning and popular local landmark that has now, albeit briefly, been transformed into a retro “Cheez-It Stop” this week.

Open only until Sunday, June 11, 2023, The Cheez-It Stop resides at The Station of Joshua Tree—a renovated 1949 Richfield Art Deco Streamline Moderne gas station owned by Glen Steigelman and Steve Halterman.

Decked out and “absurdly Cheez-It-ified” for a spring destination and oasis for local and traveling Cheez-It fans and photo opportunists alike, you can fill- er-up at the first ever “Cheez-It Pump” next to statue Big Josh, buy a variety of hard-to-find Cheez-It flavors, and load up on super “cheezy” merchandise such Cheez-It brand howling wolf T-shirts, socks, postcards, sunglasses, stickers, shoes, coolers, shot glasses, or way-too-cool just for the beach Cheez-It island-style shirts. Altogether, an Instragrammer’s paradise. Continue reading

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Celebrate 15 Years of Dyke Day LA in the Park this Saturday!

Year 15 and this event keeps getting bigger and better! Thanks to dedicated volunteers who year after year have worked to hard to build this event for queer women in LA to picnic and party together. It is now a tradition to look forward to every pride season. Bring your own picnic, hang with tons of queer women and their friends! DJs will be happening, as will a (leashed) puppy parade. Performances, dance tent, games, cruising, merch, food trucks and so much more! BBQ pits on hand but no booze allowed.  See social media pages for more details, links are below.

Saturday, June 10: Dyke Day LA in the Park, Sycamore Grove Park, 4702 No. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles (Highland Park), 90042; 12p-6p; take notice of special parking instructions: “The park’s lot (entrance on Ave 49 at the corner of Figueroa) is reserved for folks w/ disability needs. Carpool, public transit, and rideshare are HIGHLY encouraged. There will be a designated rideshare pick up and drop off spot on Figueroa.”

Dyke Day LA Instagram Page

Dyke Day LA Facebook page

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The AbilityFirst Food & Wine Festival Returns to Pasadena on June 11

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the AbilityFirst Food & Wine Festival

Savor, sip, and enjoy staggering views on the grounds of a historic Pasadena Arts and Crafts home when the AbilityFirst Food & Wine Festival returns to the Laurabelle A. Robinson House on June 11.

The home was designed by the illustrious architectural team of Greene & Greene, renowned for creating Pasadena’s landmark Gamble House. Overlooking the Arroyo Seco, the Robinson house boasts impressive views of the Colorado Street Bridge and the San Gabriel Mountains.

Participating restaurants and caterers include Alexander’s Steakhouse, Bone Kettle, Casa Cordoba, Chefelle – A Personal Chef & Catering Service, El Cholo Café, Gale’s Restaurant, Kensington Caterers, Pez Cantina, Porto’s Bakery, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Tam O’Shanter, The George, We Olive, and many more.

Indulge in cocktails and spirit tastings from 1886 at The Raymond, Dulce Vida Tequila, Empress 1908 Gin, Gerlach’s, Golden Road Brewing, Knox & Dobson, Krafted Spirits, San Gabriel’s Ogopogo Brewing, and Pasmosa Sangria along with specially curated wines and Pasquini Coffee Co.

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watt’s picture of the week – monday, june 5, 2023

this sign on warehouse one in my pedro town used to really trip me out and when I was more younger…

used to?

photo by mike watt

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Break-A-Way TONIGHT with DJ JD Samson!

DJ JD Samson of Le Tigre, MEN and Crickets spins tonight! With Senior (Junior Senior) and Rudy Bleu (La Polla Loca)

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Nervous Gender Reloaded This Friday!

Nervous Gender Reloaded, an off-shoot of the original legendary Nervous Gender LA  punk synth band, plays this Friday night in Tarzana, with The Robot Uprising and Suburban John.  If you are weird, you are welcome there! But no creeps!

Friday, June 2: Nervous Gender Reloaded at the Corbin Bowl, 19616 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, CA 91335, 8:00p, all ages, free parking.

Nervous Gender Reloaded at the Corbin Bowl

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“I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear” Book Launch this Thursday!!!

Stories Bookstore and The Wrinkle Room host the book launch of “I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear” this Thursday, June 1. The long anticipated and just released explicit diaries of our homegrown punk, queer, drag diva, Glue-front person and performance artist Sean DeLear, have been published this month by Semiotext(e), six years after they passed away much too young. The launch will include a panel discussion about Sean and the book. Through this book, Sean lives!

Thursday, June 1: “I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear” book launch, Stories Bookstore, 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Echo Park); 7:00p, street parking or public parking lot behind the store.

Stories Bookstore Sean DeLear book launch

Sean DeLear Instagram Fan Page

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watt’s picture of the week – monday, may 29, 2023

memorial day in pedro!

photo by mike watt

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