That’s what this is all about, right? Lekking in LA. This is the place to find out about things going on around town.
PaleyFest 2010
Thursday, March 11 - Sunday, March 14
Experience your own “Larry David moment” with Larry David himself at this year’s PaleyFest!PaleyFest 2010 connects fans with the casts and creators of their favorite TV series as well as the icons who have changed or are changing the face of media. During each PaleyFest [...]
The best date I ever had was here in Los Angeles. I was working at Trader Joe’s and this hot artsy looking guy passed through my checkout line. I only had mere minutes to strike conversation, hook, line and sink him, as I scanned his produce. I asked him how his day was going and [...]
Chickens In Love
Saturday, March 6th
We surely couldn’t call ourselves The LEK and not acknowledge the existence of a party called Chickens In Love!?!?!?These loving chickens are actually a fresh, one-day MINI MUSIC FESTIVAL running all day Saturday at the Echoplex, featuring The Submarines, Summer Darling, The Happy Hollows, The Growlers, and more! Get [...]
Gold Standard
Sunday, February 28
LA Weekly presents the 2nd Annual Gold Standard Food & Wine Event featuring a selection of LA’s best and most eclectic restaurants hand-picked by LA Weekly’s Pulitzer Prize winning food critic: Jonathan Gold.
Jonathan Gold is known by many for his unpredictable taste and appreciation of the many ethnic cuisines represented in [...]
Golden Dragon Parade (Chinese New Years)
Saturday, February 20
The 111th Annual Golden Dragon Parade includes almost two dozen floats, multiple marching bands, sundry edibles, and little kids throwing firecrackers at your feet!Celebrating over one hundred years of tradition, the 111th Annual Golden Dragon Parade returns to usher in the Chinese New Year. With over [...]
Tonight, the Hammer Museum hosts Open Projector Night, an Apollo Theater like evening in which intrepid filmmakers submit their shorts to face the applause or wrath of a rambunctious audience.
On Friday, Soul Sessions transforms the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown into two floors of phat beats and booty shaking goodness to cleanse the mind [...]
Tonight, the gentlemen are invited to an exclusive and edifying lingerie event at Sugar Lilie, where they will be offered buying and styling tips, in a men’s-only atmosphere, that features live lingerie “mannequins” and a Stella Artois bar.
On Friday, it’s a night of dance, celebration and generosity as DJs Mario Cotto (KCRW), Alfred Hawkins (Firecracker), [...]
So they say you find love when you are not looking. I have to admit that is kind of true. Without premeditating it I am always looking for “him.” When I’m hiking I think “he’ll” be hiking too, we’ll pass each other, lock eyes, approach, and embrace with a movie kiss. I honestly believe that [...]
Tonight, MOCA presents an evening with MMIX PEN fellows, who will give readings inspired by the museum’s awesome MOCA’s First Thirty Years collection (admission to MOCA is free on Thursdays after 5pm!).
On Friday, catch the opening of a special one-week exhibition, Ecstatic Moments, which features candid photographs of Mos Def with such artists as Jay [...]
Tonight, Down and Derby takes us back, way back to the 70s for a retro-inspired roller-skating dance party at the Echoplex. Rock your bell-bottoms and bring your skates (or rent them for only $5).
On Friday, directors Kathryn Bigelow (”The Hurt Locker”) and Curtis Hanson (”L.A. Confidential”) will present and discuss a movie that inspired them, [...]
