What's Happening in LA This Week + Home For The Holidays in December

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Holiday Christmas Show @ The Ice House!

A fantastic evening of entertainment at an affordable price guaranteed!

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

Thursday, December 12

8PM • Loni love HOLIDAY SHOW

8:15PM • LAUGH BOMBS

Friday, December 13

7:45PM • Katherine Blanford, Nicole Aimee Schreiber

8PM • HOLIDAY CHRISTMAS SHOW

10PM • MOB COMICS

Saturday, December 14

7:30PM • Giggle Gaggle

9:30PM • Patrick Warburton

Sunday, December 15

6PM • Bill Bellamy

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Chain’s Sold-Out Trader Vic’s Pop-Up is Coming Back for Another Weekend

If there were a Mount Rushmore of long-gone restaurants of Hollywood’s golden age, Trader Vic’s would undoubtedly be on it, with Chasen’s, Ciro’s, The Brown Derby, and Cocoanut Grove. The restaurant not only played a major role in shaping tiki culture at large — Trader Vic, according to lore, invented the mai tai and crab rangoon — it was also an essential part of the city’s food landscape. Its LA location in the Beverly Hilton, a fixture since 1955, closed in 2007. (A poolside lounge limped along until 2017, but it wasn’t the same.)

Trader Vic’s is returning to LA, with a just-announced 2025 reopening in West Hollywood…

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Slackfest West

Calling all music lovers! Slackfest West is happening this Sunday, December 15th, at the House of Blues Anaheim. This ska and reggae festival features headliners The Slackers, alongside Los Yesterdays, Chris Murray, Very Be Careful, The Steady 45’s, Thee Heart Tones, and Blanco Y Negro.

Limited tickets available – Don’t miss out see you there!

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Joyous Holiday Events In Los Angeles 2024

While Los Angeles might not have all of the fun winter activities that most of the country has to offer, that doesn’t mean it can’t keep up when it comes to celebrating the holiday season. From sweet holiday puppet shows for the wee ones to freaky Xmas-themed productions for the weird ones, the City of Angels has a little something for everyone during the Yuletide season…

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Home For The Holidays in December

A Wonderland Brunch Bash downtown, the tamale festival in Long Beach, and lifesized chocolate penguins cavorting at LA Live.  You don’t have to venture far to make the most of the holidays.

Truly LA, Truly Hard Seltzer’s tasting room in downtown LA, hosts a Winter Wonderland Brunch Bash to celebrate the holiday season.  Indulge in brunch bites, sip on Truly Hard Seltzer’s Brunch Pack flavors and seasonal Truly-infused cocktails, and enjoy holiday music on Saturday, Dec. 14…

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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Bears Rebellious Fruit

It’s a dialectic, pressure in, pressure out: Autocratic societies will almost by definition spawn rebellious responses, and so in a sense you could say that the filmmaking paradigm exemplified by Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof is something the Iranian theocracy has willed into existence for itself, despite explicitly demanding the opposite. Panahi, making lovable and rough-hewn meta-movies while being officially forbidden to do so, has gotten most of the press…