MLK Day in L.A.

JANUARY 15TH, 2024

CURATEDLA: GOOD LA VIBES

🎉 Happy MLK Day, L.A!

🚀 Trending:

📰 L.A. Headlines:

• ⚽️ 2026 FIFA World Cup: Los Angeles has been officially confirmed as a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after months of uncertainty.

• 🏆️ Printable Ballot: Put yourself in a betting pool amongst friends with a printable ballot for tonight’s Emmy’s (ignore ‘2023’ text).

EATS

• 🤖 Video: AI-powered fast food restaurant to open in Los Angeles.

• 🎉 Fun Eats: The sixteen most fun dinner spots in Los Angeles.

• ❤️ Valentine’s Day: The most romantic dinners for Valentine’s Day.

• 🥘 Indian Food: With recent openings, Indian Restaurants in Los Angeles are having a much needed moment.

• 🥃 Chinatown: Stay Zero Proof, a cocktail lounge in Chinatown, opened on Friday night. And it doesn’t even serve alcohol.

• 👩‍🍳 Chef Partnership: Los Angeles’ longest and most successful chef partnership returns with a new restaurant opening in Palm Springs, Alice B.

• 🧇 Skillets Grill: Pasadena (mid-February), South Central L.A. (mid-March), and Encino (April) will each enjoy new openings of Skillets Grill, a family-friendly concept set to serve chicken + waffles, omelets, gourmet burgers and more.

EVENTS

• 🐴 12:30pm: Live Racing Santa Anita Park

• 🎙️ 7:30pm: Avraham Fried & Yaakov Shwekey Saban Theatre

• 🎤 7:00pm: Harold Night: Gag & Bitchin’ UCB Theatre

• 🏀 7:30pm: Thunder vs. Lakers Crypto.com Arena

• 🎸 8:00pm: Mary Lattimore Residency Zebulon Cafe

• 🎤 8:00pm: Avery Pearson, Marc Maron, Bobby Lee, Iliza Shlesinger, Beth Stelling, and more! The Comedy Store

• 🎤 8:30pm: Harold Night: Keanu & Headbutt UCB Theatre

• 🎤 9:00pm: Monderays with Deray Davis Hollywood Improv

• 🎤 10:30pm: The Ding Dong Show with Don Barris The Comedy Store 💸 

• 💯 Master: Things to do in the San Fernando Valley

• 🎞️ Calendar: This Week’s Los Angeles Film Calendar

• 🎬️ Calendar: This Week’s Industry Master Calendar

ACTIVITIES

• 🏞️ National Parks: In honor of MLK Day, the National Park Service is offering free entrance to all of their parks. Our Golden State has thirty-four parks that we can explore for free today.

• 🦘 Animal Tracks: An immersive, exotic animal sanctuary that gives us all a chance to meet animals up close and personal, all from a local reputable organization.

• 🎛️ Hollywood: Explore the roots of hip-hop at the newly opened Hip Hop Til Infinity Exhibit, located on Sunset in Hollywood. 

• 🎨 Indoor Plays: Twenty-seven free things to do on cold and rainy days.

COMMUNITY

• 🛣️ Future Streets: The future of L.A. streets is on the March ballot.

• 🚀 Exposition Park: The Endeavor will be moved, lifted and attached to Exposition Park’s California Science Center, all later this month.

• 🏫 Beverly Hills: New sites recognized in Beverly Hills for their historical significance.

• 👮‍♂️ Retirement: LAPD Chief Michel Moore announced Friday that he is retiring to spend more time with family. Moore served as Chief since 2018 and will stay with the LAPD in a consultant role. Chief Moore, CuratedLA thanks you and your family for your service.

BUSINESS

• 🦨 Skunk Works: NASA unveils its revolutionary X-59 Quesst: Quiet Supersonic Jet, made in Palmdale at Lockheed’s Skunk Works.

• 🧑‍💼 Small Biz: Our Small Business Administration has been announced. Mayor Karen Bass announced the seven member team that will serve local small businesses.

• 🍕🤟 pi00ala: A pizza eatery, pi00ala, owned by a family that is deaf recently opened in our community. This ghost kitchen eat is offering jobs for our L.A. Deaf Community.

• 💼 Job Boards: The start of a new year might mean the start of a new career. Nonprofit, government organization and social impact jobs can be found with LA2050’s Job Board. And we have added more jobs to the CuratedLA Job Board. Best of luck to all those looking!

• 🎬️ North Hollywood: A production company has opened Happy Place, a creative studio in North Hollywood.

ENTERTAINMENT

• ⭐️ Critics Choice Winners: Oppenheimer, Barbie, The Bear, Paul Giamatti, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr., amongst others, score at last night’s Critics Choice Awards.

• 👨‍💻 Greg Daniels: The Office’s Greg Daniels is opening a development room to explore a new series idea based on The Office.

• 👯‍♀️ Weekend Box Office: Mean Girls’s queen bees beat the beekeeper during the holiday weekend.

SPORTS

• 💼 Jim Harbaugh: Michigan Head Coach Jim Harbaugh is set to meet with the Los Angeles Chargers regarding coaching vacancy.

• 🧢 Dodgers: The L.A. Dodgers have finalized a $23.5 million-dollar deal with Outfielder Teoscar Hernández and hire Raúl Ibańez.

• 💯 Best Moments: Top-ten Los Angeles sports moments of 2023.

SEE YOU TMRW, L.A!