Important weather info + resources

MONDAY. 📣 HEAT ADVISORIES 📣 

Happy Monday, LA Curators. It is time to ride and conquer this week, all of which starts with being safe during this record-breaking heat. Below are important interactive tools, resources, and information that will help keep our free-flow LA vibe alive.

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🔥 HOT NEWS…

• 🚿 LA, you’re so hot right now: We love our sunny California vibes, but this week we're feeling the heat like never before. The National Weather Service has sounded the alarm: we're in for a scorching week, with some spots reaching a sizzling 110. Here is what we all need to know:

  • CuratedLA Family, we recommend that you bookmark these items: 

    • 😎 Cool Spots LA App: this interactive map is both desktop, laptop, and mobile friendly. It is continuously updated with a list of hydration systems, cooling centers, parks and recreation locations, pools and splash pads, libraries, city buildings, and other entities.

      • With granted permissions, the app can determine your current location.

    • 🆒 LA County, Adverse Weather: Cooling Centers: another interactive map that is cross-platform friendly. This map contains a list of 164 cooling centers and 14 augmented centers throughout the County of LA.

    • 📜 LA Cooling Center Site List: a PDF of active operational cooling centers throughout the county. Last updated, July 14th 2023. We would recommend saving this in PDF format on your devices, and even printing. Even further, provide copies to those in-need.

    • 🏊️ LA County Pools, Hours and Operations: in PDF format. We would also recommend a strategy similar to the above.

    • ⚡️ FEMA: Power Outage Safety Tips: keep freezers and refrigerators closed, use a generator but only outdoors and away from windows, do not use a gas stove, disconnect appliances and electronics, have alternative plans for medications, batteries for CPAP if needed… 

    • 🔌 Southern California Edison: Power Outages. An updated list, with area map, of current power outages for those with Southern California Edison. 
      

• 📱General heat related tips for the scroll: We know, this information might seem suffocating, but it is important to us as a community outlet to share tips and resources to stay safe during this record-breaking heat:

  • 🥛 Drink plenty of water. Avoid alcohol and caffeine (latter being a personal challenge), as both are dehydrating.

  • 👘 Wear clothing that is loose-fit, light/bright-colored, hat, sunglasses, sunscreen.

  • 💨 Seek shade or air conditioning, helpful resources above.

  • ⛔️ Avoid outdoor activities during the hottest parts of our days, 10:00am - 4:00pm.

  • 👨‍👩‍👦 Check on neighbors, friends, family, (and pets! 🐶 ) that will be vulnerable to this record heat.

  • 🤮 This makes us sick to think about - never leave children, individuals that are vulnerable, or pets in a vehicle, even for a second. Don’t think about it. 

  • 🏥 If you feel sick or faint, call 9-1-1 or go to the nearest emergency room. Heat-related symptoms, and heat strokes, can include: high-body temperature, confusion, rapid pulse, and loss of consciousness.

EATS

• 🚀 In our minds, we’ve gone to South Carolina: A new seafood joint, Queens St., which is an ode to a street within the beautiful French Quarters of Charleston, South Carolina, recently opened in our Eagle Rock area. Queens St. includes the best eats from South Carolina’s Lowcountry with framed recipes from Charleston’s Junior League Cookbook. This South Carolina-themed eatery is the latest project from Last Word Hospitality, whose members include Chef Ari Kolender, a South Carolinian in both childhood and cooking spirit. 

• 🍦 Seven LA ice cream experiences: Break into some new taste bud wonders of creamery during this record-breaking heat. 

• 🥷 Bite into Asian entertainment: Dive into a world of secret menus, and delectable dishes that fuse old + new Asian flavours. And do all of this while you watch ninja entertainers wow you with their skills in martial arts, and more. Coming November 2023, tickets now… 

• 💎 We’ve scored big on Michelin’s 2023 List of Budget-Friendly Eats in California: the list includes: Bee Taqueria (Art District/West Adams), Chifa (Eagle Rock), Jiang Non Spring (San Gabriel), Kazan (Beverly Hills), La Azteca (East LA), and Pasadena’s Luscious Dumplings.

• 🍅 Tomato time: Summer is here and so are the tomatoes at the Ishihara Park Learning Garden. These red beauties are ripe for the picking and bursting with flavor and health benefits.

TODAY’S EVENTS:

• 🪕 HAIM^8pm | 💰️ $96+ |📍The Bellwether | ℹ️ Haim is a band of three sisters who rock out with their guitars, drums, keyboards and vocals. They have a pop sound with influences from R&B, soft rock and indie.  | Find out more…

• 🎸 Rosie Flores, Sam Morrow ^8pm | 💰️ $24.72 |📍Zebulon | ℹ️ Rosie Flores is a rockabilly legend who has been making music since the 1960s. She was born in San Antonio, Texas, but moved to San Diego as a teenager, where she formed her first band, Penelope’s Children.  | More information… 

• 🎤 Dan Levy + Colleagues^8:00pm | 💰️ Standby Line |📍Largo at the Coronet | ℹ️ With Langston Kerman, Natasha Leggero, and John Mulvaney  | Find out more…

• 🎤 Improv Presents: MONDERAYS^9:00pm | 💰️ $20 |📍Hollywood Improv | ℹ️ Improv Presents: MONDERAYS with Deray Davis + more!  | Find out more…

LOCAL

• 🏡 Homes, what do you meme? Two beach houses in Santa Monica have gone meme-viral lately due to the Barbie and Oppenheimer similarities that they have.

• 🎓️ Former MCU campus now UCLA South Bay: the MCU campus that was once on Palos Verdes Peninsula is now UCLA South Bay.

• 👾 A haunted house, Stranger Things-style: Universal Studios in both Orlando and Hollywood are about to get weird.

• ⭐️ Bruce Lee statue unveiled: The Chinese American Museum honors Bruce Lee for his 50th year of remembrance. 

• 🚂 The popular train is back! Descanos Gardens’ popular train, The Enchanted Railroad, is now back. And its electric.

ARTS

• 🪲 Review: BEETLEJUICE at Pantages Theatre: A Broadway Show that does the movie proud.

• 🖼️ West LA comes alive with murals: it is an event called Mural Fest, and it is happening at Plaza at West Edge, West Olympic and South Bundy Drive.

• 👀 First look: IRONBOUND: Broadway World provides us with a first look, in photos, at IRONBOUND of The Broadway Second Stage.

CITY + GOVERNMENT

• 📣 City of Beverly Hills installing warning sirens: to be used (but hopefully not) in situations of: wildfires, terrorism, earthquakes, severe weather.

• 🚌 Buses more efficient without schedules? LA Metro is testing out a six-month pilot program that focuses on both the distance + space between different buses on same line rather than clocking a set time.

BUSINESS

• 🎡 The summer of new businesses in Santa Monica: new brands are set to open up shop in Santa Monica: GoGo Ya with crispy nori sushi tacos and bento bowls, Ms. Clucks Deluxe with Japanese-inspired twists on chicken dumplings, Mr. Roni Cups and their Italian pizza, Xuntos serving Spanish tapas, Restore Hyper-Wellness, and a new Barnes & Noble that opens up in Promenade.

• 📣 Do you have a brand? Run a business? Are you an entrepreneur? Or even have a podcast? We at CuratedLA would love to hear about it! Email us, [email protected]  with a simple pitch of what is going on in your business world. We could easily feature it, free.

REAL ESTATE

• 🏗️ Eight condos get the go-ahead in Venice: These condos would replace three duplexes just south of Venice Boulevard. 

• 🏢 A proposed 150,000sf office building in Hollywood: this mid-rise building is being designed by Hawkins/Brown within the 1000 street-area block on Seward Street. 

EVENT GUIDES:

• 🏖️ Seventy-five things to do in July: Los Angeles happenings are sizzling. Here is a curated guide from Secret Los Angeles of things to do throughout our community for the month of July

• 📚️ Backstage with The Buzz: An overview of this summer at The Hollywood Bowl, The Ford, and Hollyhock House from Larchmont Buzz

• 👧 Eleven ways for parents to summer in L.A.: A very helpful guide for parents, guardians, and mentors alike to take the kids out for a stroll within our community. This guide is from L.A. Parent.

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