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OCTOBER 23RD 2023

HEADLINES

WEST COAST BALLET’S DRACULA 2023 🧛 Get ready for a thrilling and mesmerizing night of ballet at the El Segundo Performing Arts Center.

Don't miss this chance to witness the power and grace of ballet combined with the timeless tale of the infamous Count. Join the spooky cast in the lobby after the show at our photo station and get those Halloween pics on the gram!

COSTUMES WELCOME (no full face masks please). A lot of cool costumes last year! This event has manned security. See you there and thank you for supporting the arts and local dancers!

*Show is about 75 minutes in length and is suitable for ages 7 and up. Parents use your best judgment as some kids get scared more easily than others. Dark and spooky scenes are included. You may exit if needed. There are children in the show.

Video previews and cast info can be seen at westcoastballet.org and @west.coast.ballet and @balletfreak on Instagram.

GOOD VIBES 🚀 

NEWSLETTER CURATED BY WYATT’S MIND

LOCAL

EATS 😋 

CREATIVE COMFORTS 🍺 Creature Comforts, a brewery from my once stomping grounds of Athens, Georgia (Univ. of Georgia), is setting up shop in DTLA. And though I am sober, they do have one of my favorite beers in that of Tropicalia. So, enjoy some Tropicalia for me this Saturday over college football at Creature Comforts’ grand opening in DTLA.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY 🍞 A neat bakery, Friends and Family, caught my eye when I was scrolling through Instagram this weekend. I have not been there yet, but I am so onboard with what they are doing.

TELEFERIC BARCELONA 🇪🇸 The Pacific Coast Highway Shopping Center will soon be home to Teleferic Barcelona, a well-known Spanish restaurant. The new Spanish grub will take over what was Hungry Angelina’s.

COMING SOON. MAYBE…?💭 
ABC licenses recently issued ⬇️ 

Twisted Oak Tavern | 30105 Aguora Road, Aguora Hills | 10/17/2023
Gravitas | 433 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills | 10/17/2023
Fresh Pita | 4315 Sepulveda, Culver City | 10/13/2023
Standing’s Butchery | 202 Main Street, Venice | 10/12/2023
La La Cabana | 21337 Pacific Coast Highway | 10/11/2023
Bar Next Door | 9159 W Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood | 10/11/2023
Oceans | 8163 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood | 10/06/2023
The Emporium | 561 1st Street, Brentwood | 10/04/2023
Pho NoHo | 5077 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood | 10/04/2023
Gold Rail | 1114 N Pacific Avenue, Glendale | 10/04/2023
Uovo | 12833 Ventura Blvd, Studio City | 10/03/2023

TOP TWENTY-FIVE 😋 The best twenty-five places to eat in LA right now, according to The New York Times.

DEVELOPMENT 🚀 

HOLLYWOOD 🏘️ Five homes, located a short breath away from Sunset, are taking shape.

BARNES AND NOBLE 📚️ The bookstore giant is providing signs of both new and reinvented growth for 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica.

METRO RIDES UP 🚇️ Ridership for the Metro is up ten percent, this time in comparison to last year.

ORANGE AVENUE PROTECTIONS 🚴‍♂️ Long Beach City Council approved $566,000 of planning projects to enhance security on Orange Avenue for pedestrians, bicyclists, wheelchair and scooter riders.

CHINATOWN PILOT PROJECT🗼A site has been acquired in Chinatown at 832 Cleveland Street for a shared housing development.

COMMUNITY 👋 

SMARTPHONE SKILLS📱 Manhattan Beach’s Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a smartphone class that will teach attendees how to use their iPhone and Galaxy cameras. This Thursday’s class will be taught by five-year-olds (← that might be misinformation).

JUST GOOD 🤙 

HELLO SUNSHINE ☀️ This Reese Witherspoon curation had it’s inaugural experience over the weekend, photos + recap.

TEACHERS OF THE YEAR 🍎 Three of California’s five best educators are local. Congratulations to Casey Cuny (William S. Hart High School), Andrew Lewis (Valencia High School), and Hannah Rodriguez (Beardslee Dual Language Immersion Academy).

EVENTS

TODAY 🎈 

🏊‍♀️ 7:00am | Best Morning Ever | Venice Lifeguard Tower 19
🎸 7:00pm | Tom Odell | The Wiltern
🎸 7:00pm | Meiko | The Hotel Cafe
💃 8:00pm | SZA | Cyrpto.com Arena
🎛️ 8:00pm | NoCap | Belasco Theater
💯 7:00pm | Alice Cooper | Vina Robles Amphitheatre
🎸 7:00pm | Inner Wave | The Roxy Theatre
🤘 7:00pm | Mest, Bowling For Soup, Authority Zero | House of Blues - Anaheim
🎤 9:00pm | Monderays: Deray Davis & More | Hollywood Improv
🎸 8:00pm | Lo Moon Residency | Zebulon Cafe
🎛️ 7:00pm | DB. Boutabag | The Echo
🥁 8:00pm | Sofar Sounds - West Hollywood | Secret Location
🎤 8:00pm | Ziwe | Largo at the Coronet
🤡 7:00pm | Bite Nite featuring: Lily Forte, Elle Winter, Andi + Neriah | The Troubadour
🎸 7:00pm | Marem Ladson, Micah Preite | Genghis Cohen

CULTURE

SPORTS 🏈 

THE LA BOWL 🏆️ Rob Gronkowski is replacing Jimmy Kimmel as the host of The LA Bowl, a December matchup of the sixth seed PAC-12 team and top seeded Mountain West.

RUMORS 🧢 Dodgers expected to relieve three injured players this offseason: Blake Treinen, Daniel Hudson, and Alex Reyes.

ENTERTAINMENT 🎬️ 

GWEN STEFANI ⭐️ Received Hollywood’s 2,764th Star on the Walk of Fame this past weekend.

PETER THIEL 🕵️ Our local FBI here in LA had a secret informant who was none other than PayPal Co-Founder, Peter Thiel. And for those interested, here is how to become an FBI Informant. Those accepted into the program will join some known celebrity footsteps from the past.

A GOOD VIBE WEEK STARTS NOW

PUSH NOTIFICATION 📌 SUNSREEN 😎 I applied sunscreen every day during the winter when I lived in Manhattan, hoping it would improve my mood. And it did. And here’s to hoping this could help someone else as it gets LA-cold soon.