Category Archives: Silver Lake

The Black & Black: New Beverage Menu At Lamill Coffee Boutique

It’s not often when I visit a place on occasion of a press release – and actually, I had asked Lindsay and H.C. to forward it to me, so Twitter gets the credit for this one. Something has to have really grabbed at me, and in this case it was the Black & Black. This [...]

Dine LA Restaurant Week Launches Sunday

Last week, the food and restauranteur community of Los Angeles gathered at The Hollywood Roosevelt to celebrate the launch of the winter installment of Dine LA – a two-week-long collaborative effort to offer diners three-course lunches and dinners at six specific price points.

$      Deluxe Dining   $16  $26
$$    Deluxe Dining   $22  $34
$$$   Fine Dining       $28  $44

The red carpet was [...]

The Liquid Muse Cocktail Club Does Absinthe: Don’t Believe The Voodoo

I’m always excited when The Liquid Muse cocktail club meets – there’s always fun people to meet and new things to learn. When I heard, though, that the next meeting would be over absinthe, I was especially ecstatic. I knew nothing of absinthe but the tales and lore of the just recently unbanned liquor. Was [...]

Halloween At Down and Derby

Photo credit to Mountainderbygirls.org
Seen Whip-It but still haven’t gotten your fix? Miss the Thriller-choreographed party in Hollywood a few months back? Wanna celebrate Halloween in style but sick of breaking the bank? Look no further – LA’s Best Party on Wheels is going to be Thriller-themed on Halloween and costs only $5 with RSVP.
Complete with a [...]

Pizza and Beer Pairing To Benefit Real Medicine Foundation

What better way to celebrate and benefit a charity like Real Medicine Foundation than to pair pizzas with beer? Real Medicine is a charity which provides humanitarian support to people affected by disaster, post-war, and poverty – and Gev Kazanchyan & Stone Brewing Co. led the charge for their benefit one Sunday afternoon at Citysip, a [...]

Down & Derby at The Echoplex Roller Derby

Oooh, who feels like some disco? And dancing?
I’ve been to The Echoplex many a time for many an awesome show but I can’t say I’ve ever been there in skates. Thursday, that may very well change. Filter Magazine and Whip It (a new derby doll-themed movie from Fox Searchlight) are having a special night of [...]

Cabbin’ it in LA: It’s Text-a-Taxi

Photo credit to elakerfan on Flickr
I’m going to New York next week. Though I’m very much a subway girl while there, there will be a lot of taxis – and at that, ones you can hail. I doubt any of us ever instructed anybody to “hail a cab” as a means of getting around Los [...]

Beer, Barnsdall & Swingers With Silverlake Wine

Photo credit to Flickr 7500
Barnsdall Park and Silverlake Wine have made it a summer tradition to hold weekly wine tastings on Friday nights at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House. An interesting LA Weekly article came out a couple weeks ago reporting on a light tension between hipsters and kid-toutin’ Eastsiders – but it looks [...]

Your L.A. Weekend: Taiko, Korean BBQ, Multeepurpose & Movies

Photo by Miyabiarashi2 on Flickr
All right, let’s do this. Japanese beats and Korean eats, green events and outdoor movies…it was hard to come up with a theme other than, “This is stuff I would be doing if I weren’t playing violin in a wedding tomorrow.” So it’s up to you to enjoy on my behalf. [...]

Barbrix, Beats, LeBowski, Beerfloats and Bigfoot

Bigfoot West
Let me go off-the-cuff for a minute. I love Los Angeles. There is something different to do every day of the week in this city and if you really wanted to, you could go without having to repeat yourself for a few years. You realize these things when you go out of town, y’see. [...]