Friday
Hell's bells, Trudy! Mad Men is ending! But rather than drowning your sorrow in an Old Fashioned, celebrate the end of the series with a special "best of" screening at LACMA. Show up Friday evening for two essential episodes, followed by a discussion with Matthew Weiner and Don Draper himself Jon Hamm. Advance tickets are sold out, but a limited number will be available at LACMA’s ticket office, located in the Hammer Building, starting at 11am.
You can try to resist, try to hide from the Nuart, but you know that you can't fight this midnight screening of Coyote Ugly. Packed with lots of '90s musical numbers, over-the-top sass, and fancy bar tricks, this story of a crew of badass bartenders is basically the gift that keeps on giving—catchy Leann Rimes song included.
Saturday
Fly your bookworm flag high Saturday afternoon at the Grand Park Downtown Bookfest. Add your own five-line poem to a crowd-sourced installation before lending a brushstroke to a giant piece of sheet music—all while balancing a local pop-up bookshop, food and tunes at this all-day literary fest.
Find your inner ohm, just in time for tonight's Earth Hour, at this free outdoor yoga class under the Fairmont Miramar hotel's historic fig tree at night. Exhale Mind Body Spa will host the 60-minute flow yoga class in candlelight to celebrate the earth and the start of spring.
If you're looking for a funnier evening—laughing at farts during yoga doesn't count—head downtown for a night with the Plastics. Catch a drive-in screening of one of—maybe the—best teen movies as Electric Dusk Drive-in shows Mean Girls tonight. Make sure to get your tickets ahead of time, otherwise, well, you can't sit with us.
Sunday
Day drinking, literature and humanitarian work—what more could you hope to accomplish on a Sunday? Do all three at HOT DISH brunch, a boozy benefit for children's writing nonprofit 826LA. For $10 at the door of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, you'll enjoy mimosas galore, a full breakfast spread and a few midday readings.
We know spring has just sprung, but it's already feeling like pool weather to us. Venture down to DTLA's Hotel Figueroa for Connected Fest, a poolside fashion pop-up. The bargain lover's utopia brings together brands like Wildfox, Again and Awakn for high-end shopping at a fraction of the price—all accomplished with a mimosa in hand.
Close out your weekend—or fill up the entire two days—with a trip to Orange County for Burgerama. The annual music fest has nothing to do with hamburgers but everything to do with OC label Burger Records. Though it has flown under our radar in the past, the fest, held at the Observatory, really upped its game this year: Ty Segall, Black Lips, Ariel Pink, Thee Oh Sees and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony headline Sunday—head out the day before to see Weezer, Fidlar and Gang of Four.