Welcome to the weekend. Enjoy some live music at the Viper room and The Loving Day Concert, or get your kinky on at Erotica LA. Get a true Italian experience at the Italian Festival and Bocce Tournament, watch a movie under the stars at Hollywood Forever, grab a glass or three or four of wine in Bel-Air. Then chow down at the No Cookie Left Behind Bake Sale, Riva Wine Dinner or Taste of the Nation.
Friday, June 12
Fight From Above
Hollywood (9pm)
Local LA darlings and recent featured artists on KROQs Locals Only, Fight From Above’s power rock pop ballads will have you dancing in no time. They put together great melodic riffs in songs like Between The Curves, featuring one of the best cities ever, Los Angeles. The are playing another KROQ Locals Only show at the Viper Room with Saint Motel for their video release party on Friday June 12. Tickets are only $10.
When Love Happens
Canoga Park (8pm)
New Orleans native and fêted jazz vocalist, arranger and composer Sandra Booker is making her eagerly anticipated return to the stage for the When Love Happens: The Loving Day Concert. The concert will take place at the Madrid Theatre, 21622 Sherman Way in Canoga Park. Tickets are $30. More info on the website.
Erotica LA
Los Angeles Convention Center (11am-11pm)
At Erotica LA meet porn stars, check out the latest sex toys, pick up some DVDs, peek in at the Lingerie and Burlesque shows, plus a lot of horny middle aged men. Free seminars like Pole Dancing or Uncovering the O: Female Orgasms. Admission starts at $35 for a one day pass, or $75 for the whole weekend. But is one day really enough?
Saturday, June 13
The 3rd Annual Italian Festival and Bocce Tournament
Hawthorne (8am-7pm)
The 3rd Annual Italian Festival and Bocce Tournament in erbium doped fiberHawthorne features Bocce ball, Italian food and music at Memorial Park, 3901 W. El Segundo Blvd.
Vintage Hollywood Wine Event
Bel-Air (6:30-9pm)
Vintage Hollywood hosts a food and wine tasting event at an exclusive Bel-Air estate, which will help benefit the Children’s Action Network. The evening will feature fine wines from across California as well as wines from Oregon, New Zealand and Argentina. Restaurants including XIV by Michael Mina, Campanile, A.O.C. and Cicada will provide culinary refreshments. In addition, a live and silent auction will take place featuring celebrity auctioneer Jay Leno. Tickets are $200 a person, ouch.
Funny Face at Cinespia
(7:30pm)
Check out an outdoor screening of the Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire classic “Funny Face” at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Get their early, these tend to fill up fast. Bring a blanket and a picnic basket. Admission is $10 and is first come first serve. DJ Rob Sevier is spinning before and after the screening.
Sunday, June 14
Riva Wine Dinner
(5pm)
Featuring wines from Bedford and a 5 course tailored tasting menu including a wine pairing from renowned Chef Jason Travi. Menu items include Burrata Peperonata, Funghi pizza, Angus Flat Iron Steak with polenta fries, and an assortment of fresh desserts. Call Riva Restaurant at 310.451.7482 for reservations.
Taste of the Nation
Culver City (1-4pm)
At Taste of the Nation, Los Angeles’ top chefs, restaurants and winemakers came together to donate their time, talent and their passion to end childhood hunger at Media Park in Culver City. This charity event helps raise money to ensure no kid in Los Angeles grows up hungry. Chances are, neither will you at this event. Admission is $125 per person. Tickets can be purchased here.
No Cookie Left Behind Bake Sale
East Hollywood (2-6pm)
The No Cookie Left Behind Bake Sale is a community event that brings together cupcakes, quiches, and cookies, and the people who love them, to enjoy a summer day at Scoops and raise money towards eradicating childhood hunger in the US. Scoops Gelato is at 712 N Heliotrope Dr. 90029.
Upcoming:
June 18 – Opening June 18 and running through July 5th, the twisted cabaret that is Cirque Berzerk returns to Los Angeles. Cirque Berzerk’s unique flavor of adult psychedelic vaudevillian tomfoolery takes place at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. It’s been called everything from “a circus on acid” to “French burlesque meets Sweeney Todd.” Their big top is bigger and better than ever, specially commissioned and imported from Italy, the new tent is four times larger than before and offers stadium-style seating. This event sold out last time it was in town. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased online.
June 20 – Join Chef Pace Webb for the Taste of Pace Underground Supperclub in Hollywood on Saturday, June 20th at 6:30pm featuring seasonal produce sourced only from SoCal’s best farms. Menu items include Chilled Cucumber Mint Soup, Lamb Lollipops with Cherry Red Wine Reduction, and Spring Squash Cake for dessert. Price is $38 and this event is BYOB. Reservations can be made here.
June 20 – Enjoy 60+ microbrew beers, food samples, chili cookoff, comedy, and a live concert at Pechanga Microbrew Festival in Temecula. Sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, they will also be a silent auction at the event.
June 20 – For centuries artists have painted beautiful images on the boulevards and squares of great cities, using chalk as their medium and the street pavement as their canvas. The Pasadena Chalk Festival continue the legacy of the street painting art form by offering festival visitors an opportunity to shop, dine or see a movie as the artworks come to life. The chalk festival returns to Paseo Colorado Father’s Day Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21, 2009 from 10am – 7pm. The festival is open to the public and free of charge.
June 27 – In the Test Kitchen at Surfas from 1-2pm. Chef Andy Matsuda, Executive Chef and CEO of the Sushi Chef Institute demonstrates the basics of cutting fish for sushi and preparing Nigiri-sushi at home. Meet Chef Andy Matsuda and learn the basics of slicing the fish and assembling this Japanese favorite. Then from 3-4pm Sake Sommelier Yoshi Murakami de-mystifies sake with a side-by-side tasting and non-traditional pairings.
July 17-18 – Lots of wine, food, blues, sea and sun at the California Wine Festival in Santa Barbara. A unique wine tasting experience with hundreds of California’s best red and white wines, live blues music, dozens of top chefs and specialty food purveyors, gourmet appetizers, fresh cut fruits, grilled meats, artisan breads and cheeses and much more.
Thu, Jun 11, 2009
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