An Eventful Weekend For L.A.

JANUARY 19TH, 2024

CURATEDLA: GOOD LA VIBES

🚀 Trending:

• 🍔 Burger Deals: Pasadena eats are offering deals for 100 years of burgers

• 🎞️ Sundance: The Sundance Film Festival started yesterday, thru 28th

• 🥳 CuratedLA Turned One This Week: Given our Monday, Wednesday, Friday publishes, I originally planned to run additional newsletters this week on both Tuesday and Thursday in celebration of our one year together. But I pivoted to curating a master event calendar for each day. Moving forward, each day will have a master, with this Saturday and Sunday linked as buttons. These buttons can be found in today’s events section. The master for Friday (today) took a whole day to create. But now that I have the template, events for this Saturday and Sunday will be updated live. Be sure to bookmark these two dates! Updates will happen instantly. Days for next week will be completed and linked on Monday. I am thankful for all of you - Wyatt

EATS

• 🥩 Beverly Hills: Legendary Manhattan restaurant Cipriani is now open in Beverly Hills. This celebrity hotspot serves lunch + dinner daily on N. Camden Drive.

• ❤️ Carson: Sweet Valentine Bakery will have their grand opening this Saturday. We are invited to celebrate with raffles and giveaways.

• 🌮 Union Station: The West Coast Taco + Beer Festival takes place this Saturday at Union Station. Tickets include unlimited taco tastings, unlimited beverages, entertainment with a DJ + boutique vendors!

• 🇲🇽 MXO: A new Mexican eat, MXO, is set to open Spring 2024 in West Hollywood. This eatery is led by acclaimed chef Wes Avila and restaurateur Giancarlo Pagani with hospitality group SBE.

• 🍕 Boy Blue Pizza: A pop-up from Boy Blue Pizza will take place today in Santa Monica at Offhand Wine Bar.

• 🛑 Glendale: A one-night speakeasy, Rated R Speakeasy, will secretly serve customers til midnight on January 27th in Glendale. The speakeasy will be found on this night at Glendale’s Nocturne Theatre, which plays host to Haunted Soirée.

EVENTS

TODAY

• 🐛 10:00am: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Holiday Show (Last Weekend) El Portal Theater

• 🐶 6:00pm: Paw Patrol Live! “Heroes Unite” Peacock Theater

• 🎤 7:00pm: Brand New Material w/ Kevin Hart Pasadena Civic Auditorium

• 🎵 7:00pm: Juvenile The Bellwether

• 🪕 7:00pm: Moe. Teragram Ballroom

• 🍩 7:00pm: The Simpsons Movie Fan Event El Capitan Theatre

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

• 🎤 8:00pm: Tiffany Haddish Yaamava' Theater

• 🦖 8:00pm: Dinosaur Improv w/ Paul Scheer, Owen Burke, Chad Carter, Rob Huebel, Lisa Gilroy, Phil Jackson, Jason Mantzoukas, Seth Morris, & Carl Tart Largo at the Coronet

• 🎭️ 8:00pm: Jesus Christ Superstar Cerritos Center

•  📆 WEEKLY: Things to do throughout the San Fernando Valley today - this upcoming week.

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

ACTIVITIES

• 🧘 Downward Dog: The Tenth Annual Yoga Expo is a two-day showcase of everything Yoga LA! The expo starts today at the Pasadena Convention Center.

• 🪕 Django à Gogo: This weekend is the second edition of Django à Gogo Los Angeles, a music festival dedicated to the art of the greatest guitar master who ever lived: Django Reinhardt. 

• 🎸 OMD Tickets: The general public can purchase tickets to OMD, a pop duo that is set to perform at the Greek Theatre. Tickets go on sale here shortly at 10:00am.

• 🔮 Bingo! Tickets for a Bingo Fundraiser to benefit various foundations throughout the La Cresenta Communities are now on-sale. The games themselves will be played next Saturday, January 27th.

• 🛁 Natural Hot Springs: Six gorgeous natural hot springs to discover near Los Angeles. Wake up and brave the cold!

COMMUNITY

• 🎂 Birthday Parties: For those celebrating a birthday like CuratedLA, here are ten unique + cool ideas to celebrate birthdays in L.A.

• 🧑‍🎓 Something New: Want to learning something new? The team over at TimeOut: LA put their noggins into high gear with LACC affordable classes that we can all take advantage of.

• ⛪️ More Education: La Cańada Presbyterian Church’s Parent ED has announced an educational gala on their theme of parental education. The event will take place on Saturday, March 2nd.

• 🦪 Warning for Raw Oysters: The State of California has issued a warning to those that eat raw oysters as Los Angeles County has been linked to illness that come from these sea treats.

DEVELOPMENT

• 🏢 Hollywood:Thirty-five story affordable housing complex is in the works on Fernwood Ave. in Hollywood near Sunset + Western.

• 🎞️ El Segundo: Cinema West is moving into the Arclight Theatres, which has been closed since the pandemic. The 65,000 square foot theatre will serve eats up with Beach Cities Pizza, a wood-fired pizza eat with craft beer and other items.

• 🏡 Cypress Park: New transitional housing starts to take shape in Cypress Park. Housing is located near the Riverside Roundabout.

BUSINESS

• 📚️ Bookkeeper Retirement: Pasadena’s Vroman’s Bookstore, a known nose-dive brand to readers throughout Los Angeles, is now for sale as their owner, Joel Sheldon, announced his retirement.

• 🔌 Tesla: A new update from Urbanize LA on the Tesla diner and drive-in theater that is currently being developed in Hollywood.

• 🎓️ UCLA: Los Angeles is not only home to UCLA, but is home to many video game companies. And in mixing the two, Los Angeles is on the forefront of the video gaming industry, with studies being taught at UCLA.

ENTERTAINMENT

• 🦚 Peacock: NBC’s Peacock is set to release new season premieres of One Chicago + Law & Order. The team from NBC has also announced Oppenheimer will stream exclusively on Peacock.

• Pokémon Go! The Rose Bowl will welcome over 30,000 Pokémon Trainers on Saturday and Sunday, February 17th and 18th.

SPORTS

• 🏀 Lakers Lineup: The Los Angeles Lakers are reaching a new offensive ceiling with their new (old) starting lineup and rotation.

• ⚽️ Korean Star: Angel City FC announced yesterday that the club has signed Casey Phair, a star from South Korea’s Women’s National Team. Phair signed a contract with Angel City FC until the 2026 season.

HAVE A GREAT WKND, L.A!