What's Happening in LA This Week + Where's the Paulaner Sunset Van?

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Sake in the Park

Calling all foodies and sake lovers! Don’t miss “Sake in the Park”, an all-you-can-eat-and-drink summer night sake festival with unlimited samples of over 50 premium Japanese sakes and shōchūs, and unlimited bites from over 20 LA restaurants.

Proceeds support Little Tokyo Service Center’s affordable housing, social services and more. “Sake in the Park” is on Friday, July 26th at 7PM in Downtown LA’s Grand Park.

Get your tickets now at SakeinthePark.com.

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There Goes Heidi, The Paulaner Spezi Van, Plus An Arby’s Update - Here’s What’s Popping Up

Joining the ranks of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and the Red Bull Mini Cooper, the Paulaner Sunset Spezi van has been spotted all over LA county recently introducing the classic German soft drink to a new legion of fans.

The groovy soft drink, which combines cola with orange juice and has been a mainstay in German-speaking countries since the early 1970s, is produced in Munich by the historic Paulaner brewery…

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This Week’s Shows at The Ice House

The Legendary Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena features the best in comedy with shows every weekend. A fantastic evening of entertainment at an affordable price guaranteed!

🍻Happy Hours: 6:30pm – 7:30pm & 10pm – close (bar & patio only)

🍹All cocktails, wine & select food items $5 off and beer at $8

Thursday, July 11

7:30PM & 9:30PM • Ben Morrison ‘45 Special
9PM • The $5 Show: J. Larson, Chad Kroeger, Adam Ferrara

Friday, July 12

7PM & 9PM • Bret Ernst
8PM • Brian Monarch and Special Guests
10PM • Big Bad Bo Hawkins Comedy Show

Saturday, July 13

5PM • Deez Nuts
7:30PM • Iliza Shlesinger
7:30PM • Renegade Comedy
9:30PM • Sean Porter and friends

Sunday, July 14

7PM • The Kristi McHugh Laff Show
7:30PM • Jack Assadourian Jr, Mario Adrion, Chris Estrada

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The Family in ‘Family Portrait’ Gets Lost in the Mysteries of Movie-Time

Movies tend to maximalize everything — spectacle, exposition, emoting, violence — so you might be startled by the lick-the-battery charge of a film like Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait, which carves out a wholly liminal semi-narrative experience.

It’s there in the first shot: We’re on the sunny lawn of a vacation home as a busy clan of adults and kids attempts to get organized for a family Christmas photo and fails, like kittens trying to herd themselves. It’s all 100% natural and convincing and chaotic, and Kerr’s camera surveys steadily, with the hold-your-breath confidence of Lucrecia Martel or the Dardenne brothers, letting whatever or whoever falls out of frame stay there. No one family member is made central to us, and the soundtrack rumbles with subterranean menace.

Talk about leaning in — Kerr’s pocket-size debut points a silent j’accuse at most contemporary filmmakers, who commonly believe we need omniscience and emphasis in every movie meal...

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Pop Cultured with Jimmy Pardo

It’s a comedy show. It’s a game show. And it’s hosted by popular podcaster Jimmy Pardo. Featuring LA’s best comedians.

Pop Cultured with Jimmy Pardo is a panel-style game show hosted by comedian/podcaster Jimmy Pardo, featuring three comedians who must answer a series of ridiculous questions based on our love of pop culture. If you love @ftermidnight, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Match Game, you’ll love this. Previous guests include Paul F. Tompkins, Dana Gould, Jodie Sweetin, Scott Aukerman, Atsuko Okatsuka, Irene Tu, Ahmed Bharoocha, Martha Kelly, Andy Daly, Todd Glass and more!

Guest lineup for 7/13: Andy Daly, Dana Gould, Alyssa Sabo.

This is an 18+ show.

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Painter Enrique Martínez Celaya and the Hero’s Journey

To draw a child well you have to do it with love — even, or especially, when the child is wise beyond their years, or has witnessed trauma, or has an attitude problem, or is your gentle but inscrutable granddaughter sitting still so you can practice your technique. Even, or especially, when that child is yourself. 

Like the plot of a novel about where art comes from, when Enrique Martínez Celaya was six and half years old, still living in Cuba where he was born and where his family would soon leave to join the father who had traveled ahead to Spain, his mother gave him a notebook. The picture on the cover was Spanish master Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of a Little Girl (ca. 1638–42). On its pages, the young Cuban boy with a proclivity for art drew pictures and wrote letters to his absent father...