Welcome to a new week, full of new opportunities to enjoy all the music, film, and other fun things to do in Los Angeles. Off the Menu Presents Wing Fest Monday, July 29 To celebrate National Chicken Wing Day, Off the Menu is hosting a Wing Fest at Mel’s Drive-In on Sunset. Your ticket entitles […]
These Images of L.A. in 1969 Capture a Mythical Moment in History
No other American city was so utterly remade by the 1960s as Los Angeles. Famously cavalier about torpedoing its past to make way for a fuzzily conceived future, L.A. was the perfect conquest for thousands of rampaging baby boomers wresting the cultural agenda through sheer preemption. During its golden rock and roll era of the […]
Pam Nasr’s Clams Casino
You may remember our friend Pam from this post! Well, she’s a multi-talented creative powerhouse who just finished directing a new short film called Clams Casino, which has had incredible success on the U.S. and international film festival circuit. The film focuses on the interwoven lives of four Latina women and explores themes of communication, […]
Take a Tour of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Filming Locations
Our friends at Fandango shared this fun (if not exactly true to life) map of the filming locations from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with the help of location manager Rick Schuler. Now you can lounge, dine, and party from Paramount to Malibu like the stars playing the stars before the film opens […]
In “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Tarantino Recreates the Lost L.A. of His Imagination
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood takes place over the course of three days in 1969. Recalling the director’s breakthrough Pulp Fiction a quarter of a century ago, with its interweaving and linearity-defying plotlines, these three days aren’t sequential by the standards of the calendar or dramatic storytelling. The climactic evening is the […]
The Best Things to Do This Week in L.A.
Welcome to a new week, full of new opportunities to enjoy all the music, film, and other fun things to do in Los Angeles. L.A. Shorts Fest Monday, July 22 Up-and-coming filmmakers often debut with a short, so if you’re the type who wants to know what’s next in cinema, L.A. Shorts Fest is here […]