Let's Get Bunkered In

JANUARY 22ND, 2024

CURATEDLA: GOOD LA VIBES

🚀 Trending:

• 📈 Reddit: An IPO from Reddit could come this March.

• 🍗 Popeyes: Free wings if the Baltimore Ravens win the Super Bowl.

• 📺️ Watch: A short film about Richard Simmons ft. Pauly Shore.

📰 L.A. Headlines:

• 📈 First Home: California relaunches Dream for All Campaign with $250m of assistance.

• 🚨Evacuation Warning: Mudslides prompted an evacuation warning last night for Topanga Canyon. The warning remains in effect until 6:00pm tomorrow evening. Topanga Canyon nestles in the Santa Monica Mountains and is the triangle-middle of Malibu, Calabasas + Santa Monica.

• 🧭 Los Angeles Emergency Map: Weather alerts and other information are updated in real-time with this emergency map, worthy of a bookmark.

• 📡 Radar: Interactive Weather Radar from L.A.’s National Weather Service.

EATS

• 🍔 100 Years: Celebrate the Cheeseburger’s Centennial Anniversary with food + drink specials, all throughout this week in Pasadena.

• 😋 Comfort Food: Thirteen Los Angeles comfort dishes to surfeit on when it is raining, leaving us with bunkered-in like feelings.

• 📺️ Comfort Diners: Why the foodies at Food & Drink love TV bars and diners, such as our own Mel’s Diner.

• 🍪 Rainy Day Recipe: Take a rainy day and turn it into a treat yo’ self day with this cookie recipe for brown butter chocolate chip cookies.

• 🍶 Wilshire: jilli just opened on W 6th Street. This Korean eat provides a comfortable vibe to drink and is a spinoff off of Chimmelier, which specializes in Korean fried chicken and K-Street food.

• 🥯 Santa Monica: Modern Bread & Bagel has been toasting up recently with their new location on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. This yum-fun of an eat might be perfect for today.

EVENTS

• 🎤 2:00pm: Open Mic Fourth Wall Comedy Cafe

• 📚️ 3:00pm: Book Club Comedy Show The Crow

• 🤖 5:00pm: AI for Marketers DTLA

• 🖨️ 6:00pm: Risograph Printing 101 Heavy Manners Library

• 🎤 7:00pm: Potluck Pop-Ins with huge surprise guests The Comedy Store

• 👻 7:00pm: Harold Night: Rumors & Ghosts UCB Theatre

• 🌐 7:00pm: Meta Monday Famecast Creator Brand Accelerator

• 🎤 7:30pm: Move Up Mondays Flappers Burbank

• 🎤 7:45pm: Kevin Nealon The Laugh Factory

• 🎤 8:00pm: Shimmy Shimmy Ya The Comedy Store

• 🙈 8:00pm: Secret Headliner Show The Comedy Store

• 🎤 8:00pm: Keon Poole Flappers Burbank

• 💋 8:30pm: Harold Night: XOXO & Lohan UCB Theatre

• 👋 10:00pm: Lloyd Night: Hi Baby Gorgeous! + Sorry, I’m In London UCB Theatre

• 🎤 10:00pm: Improv Jam Westside Comedy Theatre

More events for today | Tuesday events | Live updating on both

ACTIVITIES

• 💭 Family Recap: Twenty-seven things to do in L.A. that are indoors.

• 📚️ L.A. Public Libraries: Ten inspiring L.A. Public Libraries that have free AC and are inspiring comfy spots to get work done.

• 🖼️ L.A. Museums: An updated list of exhibits and showcases that can be found throughout our museums in Los Angeles.

• ☕️ Best Coffee Shops: Some of the best coffee shops that we have available to us in Los Angeles.

• 🍿 Movie Theater Listings: A grid view of movie listings for Los Angeles.

• 📺️ Streaming: The best things to stream for the month of January 2024.

COMMUNITY

• ⛵️ Malibu: A City Council Meeting will take place tonight at 6:30pm for Malibu. One of tonight’s agenda items includes a safety review for Pacific Coast Highway. We can attend either in-person, or virtually via Zoom.

• 🎓️ Elon University: Brad Lemack has been named Director of Elon University, Los Angeles. Lemack has a tenured career in both entertainment and public relations. Lemack’s role starts today.

• 🗽 Promotional Stunt: A giant statute off of the Malibu Coast turned out to be a promotional stunt, curating an unexpected spectacle.

DEVELOPMENT

• 🏫 Boyle Heights: A nineteen unit affordable complex, complete with a Chicano museum, has been proposed in Boyle Heights.

• 📽️ Culver City: Sony Pictures dedicates a new music building to Composer John Williams on Sony’s Culver City Lot. Williams is the most nominated individual in Academy history.

BUSINESS

• 🕹️ Gaming Career: Video Game industry experts are bullish about growing job opportunities within Los Angeles. Here is the inside scoop on how we can breakout into the video game industry.

• 💼 Make It Rain: Why not use today’s rainy today to explore ways to make it rain financially? Our CuratedLA Job Board will be updated throughout today and tomorrow.

• 🚘️ Waymo: Alphabet has applied for regulations with the California Public Utilities Commission to expand Waymo’s driverless service in Los Angeles.

ENTERTAINMENT

• 👻 Authoring: Hollywood Ghostwriters tell all, including their names.

• 🍿 Weekend Box Office: Mean Girls and The Beekeeper repeat atop identical top-five, I.S.S. starts in seventh place.

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Donald Glover stars in a remake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, streaming on Amazon Prime February 2nd. Preview via Reuters.

• 🐭 Chuck E. Cheese: SoCal’s CEC Entertainment is developing a game show for their brand, Chuck E. Cheese. And it is a bit like Squid Games.

• 📺️ Monday Listings: A master list of new episodes on both TV + Streaming tonight from The Futon Critic.

SPORTS

• ⚾️ Angels: The Los Angeles Angels have made their first big move during the offseason, signing breakout reliever Robert Stephenson to a three-year deal.

• 🏈 Chargers: The Los Angeles Chargers bring in Dan Quinn and Jeff King for Head Coach, General Manager openings.

• ⚽️ Preseason: The Los Angeles Football Club kicked off their preseason schedule yesterday at the LAFC Performance Center. The upcoming season marks LAFC’s seventh season with Major League Soccer.

STAY DRY TODAY, L.A!