LA This Thursday, Hooray!
May 16, 2023 6:51 PM Subscribe
I’m getting to stop in LA from Weds to Fri this week, and my friend-visits are going to be on Weds night and Thurs morning, so I have Thurs day to cavort! Anything fun I should do or check out? Previous faves (from almost 20 years ago, gak) and other details below.
Things that look interesting - I’ve really just looked at museums so far. The Play exhibit at the Getty looks interesting, as do multiple exhibits at LACMA. (The Hammer was amazing last time I went, but nothing on right now is calling my name.)
I have loved wandering through the streets in neighborhoods like Venice Beach and Los Feliz and the Hollywood Hills. I love hikes and parks and botanical gardens and vintage/wild designer clothes and dancing and libraries (maybe the Huntington Library?). My previously-loved LA foods would be dumplings, if the mandu place I loved from a million years ago is still where I remember it on Wilshire, or a French dip at Philippe’s. I will listen to so much KCRW on the road! I also love cool shit I could not have imagined, so these previous loves are intended to be evocative rather than constraining.
I’m staying with my partner at a hotel in Hermosa Beach, and will probably be meeting my friend Thurs morning around Century City or North Hollywood, but those don’t necessarily limit me, as long as I can be back by six pm (famous last words).
Anything I don’t get to this time will be taken as a good reason to go back soon - thank you!
Things that look interesting - I’ve really just looked at museums so far. The Play exhibit at the Getty looks interesting, as do multiple exhibits at LACMA. (The Hammer was amazing last time I went, but nothing on right now is calling my name.)
I have loved wandering through the streets in neighborhoods like Venice Beach and Los Feliz and the Hollywood Hills. I love hikes and parks and botanical gardens and vintage/wild designer clothes and dancing and libraries (maybe the Huntington Library?). My previously-loved LA foods would be dumplings, if the mandu place I loved from a million years ago is still where I remember it on Wilshire, or a French dip at Philippe’s. I will listen to so much KCRW on the road! I also love cool shit I could not have imagined, so these previous loves are intended to be evocative rather than constraining.
I’m staying with my partner at a hotel in Hermosa Beach, and will probably be meeting my friend Thurs morning around Century City or North Hollywood, but those don’t necessarily limit me, as long as I can be back by six pm (famous last words).
Anything I don’t get to this time will be taken as a good reason to go back soon - thank you!
The Huntington Library is a great choice!—though I have to say that the LAPL Central Library's exhibits are an underrated public space, as well. (Bonus: since the Central Library is downtown, if the love for libraries extends to bookstores, you can stop by the Last Bookstore as well! If you end up in North Hollywood and have space for extra stops, incidentally, the Iliad is hands-down my favorite used bookstore in the city.)
posted by the tartare yolk at 7:21 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by the tartare yolk at 7:21 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
Will you have a car? I'd probably just go to the Norton Simon.
posted by kickingtheground at 7:31 PM on May 16, 2023
posted by kickingtheground at 7:31 PM on May 16, 2023
Moving to LA last year after 4 years in Seattle with KEXP, I was pretty disappointed by how much of KCRW's schedule is now non-music, just regular NPR programming. They play music (plus the David Lynch weather report) from 9am to noon on Morning Becomes Eclectic, then no music again until 8pm.
So if you're tuning in and don't feel like listening to Marketplace, also check out 88.5FM KCSN "LAist/The SoCal Sound" and 88.9FM KXLU the charming Gen Z college station of Loyola Marymount. Both maintain a music focus pretty much all day & night. Or if you have an HD radio, you can hear "Eclectic 24" on KCRW's HD-2 station... but I don't have one so I don't really know how to do that. And when I stream Eclectic 24 it seems to repeat the same 4–6 hours of programming for several days at a time.
posted by xueexueg at 10:55 PM on May 16, 2023
So if you're tuning in and don't feel like listening to Marketplace, also check out 88.5FM KCSN "LAist/The SoCal Sound" and 88.9FM KXLU the charming Gen Z college station of Loyola Marymount. Both maintain a music focus pretty much all day & night. Or if you have an HD radio, you can hear "Eclectic 24" on KCRW's HD-2 station... but I don't have one so I don't really know how to do that. And when I stream Eclectic 24 it seems to repeat the same 4–6 hours of programming for several days at a time.
posted by xueexueg at 10:55 PM on May 16, 2023
If you're in Santa Monica, there's a bunch of art galleries at Bergamot Station Arts Center:
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posted by sebastienbailard at 11:09 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
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posted by sebastienbailard at 11:09 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
Bergamont Station is always worth a visit, as is the Huntington. I will recommend the Museum of Jurassic Technology to anybody. Be sure to visit the rooftop garden, if you can. The Veleslavasay Panorama is also a fascinating experience (the website doesn't do it justice) and while you're on that end of town I'd suggest stopping by the La Luz de Jesus Gallery/Wacko store. It's a whole lot of interesting art, books and kitschy gee-gaws under one roof. The Bhagavad-gita Diorama Museum is not far from the Jurassic, and it's an absolute stunner. You don't have to be Hindu (I'm not) to fall in love with that place.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 11:56 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Ursula Hitler at 11:56 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
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