First up, the L.A. Times previews this weekend's Chinatown Food Festival. Organizers promise more authentic fare than the Americanized versions you typical expect downtown:
A taste of that rich culture will be on display this weekend, when dozens of restaurants from the historic community — whose inception 66 years ago was partly inspired by the demand for Chinese food — will showcase their gastronomic delights in an outdoor lot next to the Chinatown Gold Line station. Restaurateur Tommy Tang and other accomplished chefs will give cooking demonstrations.
Aside from attracting tourists, organizers are hoping that Chinese residents from the San Gabriel Valley, including Monterey Park and Walnut, will rediscover the neighborhood.
To do so, they have to show that non-Chinese visitors are willing to be adventurous and try more exotic dishes. Chinese traditionally hold an aversion to the Americanized cousin of their cuisine, organizers say.
Meanwhile, in our new 'hood, we'll probably step outdoors and meet the neighbors at this Sunday's "Summer A'Faire" in Glendale's Adams Hill area. Not sure what to expect, but we'll report back.
And more immediately, LACMA will throw what seems to now be an annual free overnight "Tiki 'till Dawn" art party tomorrow night.
LACMA's "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s" and "Inventing Race: Casta Paintings and 18th Century Mexico," and all of its exhibits, are free after 5 p.m.... but expect long lines. And by long lines, I mean looooong lines. We attended LACMA's last all-night soiree last September (and wrote about it here). Once you got in, it was great. But the hard part? Getting in. (Of course, last time out, there was heavy demand to see the "Modigliani & the Artists of the Montparnasse" exhibit for free.)
This time out, LACMA suggests you RSVP via its web site beforehand, and avoid the lines. "Tiki Till Dawn" goes till 7 a.m.
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