Time Out Los Angeles news

We’ve got no shortage of pastrami in Los Angeles—seriously, NYC delis could take a number from Langer’s—but if you’ll have what she’s having, you can only get the When Harry Met Sally-famous pastrami from one place: Katz’s Delicatessen. Fortunately, this weekend Angelenos don’t have to book a flight to enjoy New York’s most famed sliced meats—they just need to visit Santa Monica.  The 131-year old deli known for its piled-high, 30-day–cured pastrami and fake-orgasm–inducing sandwiches is headed to SaMo’s outpost of Belcampo Meat Co. starting this Thursday, which means you won’t have to wait in the deli’s usual wrap-around-the-corner line in the Lower East Side. Of course, you might be waiting in a line down Wilshire, but if you’re hoping to avoid lines completely, you can also order the Katz’s pop-up via Uber Eats. (Look how easy they’re making it for you.) Sadly you won’t find the institution’s full menu—which includes knishes, pickle plates, tongue sandwiches, blinztes and the requisite matzo ball soup—because it’s only popping up with take-home sandwich kits that include the deli’s signature pastrami, slices of rye and, of course, the necessary jar of Katz’s house-made deli mustard. (That sandwich kit will also come with a Belcampo burger, because really, they’re making it easy and wonderful for you.) You can snag these to-go DIY sandwiches with burger for $27 per box, and only from this Thursday to Sunday. Simply heat the pastrami (but don’t toast the bread) when you g

Brendan Collins is one talented chef. The U.K. native’s been the driving force behind some of our favorite British Sunday roasts in the city, not to mention the kitchen lead at the James Beard Award-nominated Waterloo & City, the lauded Birch and, most recently of all, Santa Monica’s Wilshire Restaurant. While all three have shuttered over the years, we’re grateful that the latter is giving us another home to find Collins and his dependable, at-times-decadent cooking. Vegas hospitality vet Michael Greco flipped the Wilshire concept with Collins, renovating the space as well as the menu after a June closure—and thankfully they kept the restaurant’s gorgeous back patio. Fia, their new restaurant, opened its doors yesterday with a lush, plant-dotted space that lives up to its name: Saint Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners. There’s more greenery involved, naturally, not to mention a bocce court and bulb lighting for lounging-away the last few weeks of summer.   Matthew Winter of M. Winter Design retooled the restaurant space, including the patio Photograph: Courtesy Fia/Wonho Frank Lee     Of course, the biggest flip is the food. While Wilshire Restaurant focused on gastropub and California essentials—cheeseburgers, lobster cobb salads, hand-cut fries, beet salads, tuna poke—Fia hones in on European comfort food, providing a lengthier menu that hops the globe across six categories.  The “nibbles” section involves Calabrian tuna atop crispy risotto, plus Italian cro

Everybody is suddenly buying a car wash on a Friday night at a gas station on Alvarado Street. I’m next in line, and the cashier asks the person ahead of me if she knows why “the works” is so popular right now. “It's hard to explain,” she chuckles. “There’s comedy that happens inside your car.” The full explanation probably would’ve sounded even more implausible: That the gas station was unknowingly playing host to Comedians in Cars Getting Washed, a first-time event in which a half-dozen comedians perform four-minute stand-up sets inside of strangers’ cars as, one by one, they go through a single-vehicle car wash in Historic Filipinotown. It was about as bizarre as it sounds, a little less awkward than you’d think, and more fun and memorable than nearly any other comedy show I’ve attended in L.A. It’s the latest gleeful stunt from Kurt Braunohler, best known to local comedy fans as the cohost of Hot Tub at the Virgil every Monday night, but perhaps more widely as the guy responsible for commissioning someone to skywrite “How do I land?” and for leading a tubing adventure down the L.A. River. Braunohler has been putting on stand-up shows in unexpected spots for years, whether inside a box truck in Brooklyn, on a school bus in Portland or, just a few months ago, in a gondola cruising Long Beach’s canals. It was after that show that Braunohler hatched his latest concept. “The car wash idea just came because it’s a pretty L.A. idea,” he says. “And also because if you don't l

Forget building-sized billboards, our new favorite “for your consideration” campaign is bringing a whole bunch cheap—like nearly free—deals to Angelenos all over town, today only. To celebrate its 20 Emmy nominations, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is hosting Maisel Day. The Amazon show is throwing things back to its 1959 setting with 1959 prices all around L.A. That means eye-popping price tags like manicures for $2, pastrami sandwiches for 99 cents, ice cream scoops for a quarter and movie tickets for only 51 cents. You can find the full list of promotions here (make sure to read the fine print in terms of per-person limits and times), but we’ve picked out some of our favorites below. But like we said, all of these deals are only available today, August 15, and subject to availability. $2 manicures at Bellacures Swing by the Santa Monica location and walk-ins will be able to get their nails done for only two bucks until 8pm. 99-cent sandwiches at Art’s Delicatessen The Studio City standby is serving corned beef, pastrami and turkey sandwiches for just under a dollar—and all with a pickle on the side through 8pm. 99-cent pastrami sandwiches at Canter’s If you’re still hungry, the Fairfax icon is reprising its “Maisel” pastrami sandwich until 9pm. 25-cent scoops of ice cream at McConnell’s One of the best spots for ice cream is serving single scoops for only a quarter, available until 10:30pm at its Pacific Palisades and Studio City locations. 51-cent movie tickets at B

The marketing geniuses at Taco Bell unveiled their long-awaited diablo-bolical scheme today, and unlike the brand’s Demolition Man-inspired pop-up or its DTLA catwalk fashion show, The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort sold out in two minutes flat—and manages to combine the whimsical immersion of a trip to Willy Wonka’s factory with all the familiarity of Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel. You haven’t always been the caretaker here, but the second you step beneath the purple, orange, and Baja Blast-blue streamers dangling over the lobby’s entrance, you know you’ve always been a Taco Bell fan. Everything is brightly colored, but in a tasteful millennial-in-Palm Springs sort of way, with bikes parked out front should you decide to cruise the hotel normally known as V Palm Springs Hotel. To the right is a boutique sporting a new line of Taco Bell shades, jewelry and bikinis; to the left and up the stairs, the Freeze Lounge: a slushie-slinging ice cave of a retrofitted hotel room. Taco Bell Hotel in Palm Springs The Taco Bell Hotel is so absurd that we love it. http://bit.ly/33kIgp7 Posted by Time Out Los Angeles on Friday, August 9, 2019   There are DJ sets and live bands blasting from the pool—the Fire! Pool, we should specify; the smaller Mild Pool is much more chill, and next to the morning yoga class, naturally—there are fashionable sets vlogging from hot-sauce pool rafts, and “Bell hops” taking your order while occasionally doling out Taco Bell’s beloved hot sauc

There were antler-topped tables, cups of boozy colonial punch and multiple fire-blasted courses that dove deep into the food of early America—and as it turns out, that was just the beginning. One of the best dinner series to hit Culver City in years wrapped up in May, but if you missed Hatchet Hall’s transportive Fuss & Feathers events, the restaurant’s hearth-powered kitchen is giving us a second chance with another thoughtful, limited-run culinary homage and it kicks off on Thursday night. Much like the predecessor series—and the history of America—the topics that serve as touchstones for the menu aren’t always as easy to swallow as the food. Hatchet Hall chef de cuisine Martin Draluck and chef-owner Brian Dunsmoor know this, but it’s part of their mission statement: Shed light on America’s past, encourage conversation about it, celebrate the unsung heroes. And Hemings & Hercules, the new dinner series, is all about the unsung heroes: James Hemings and Hercules Caesar, chefs enslaved by presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, respectively. “Because they were slaves, they didn’t keep or maintain records as well as other records [from the time],” says Draluck, the chef behind Hemings & Hercules. “But Jefferson is known as having been a foodie—there’s a lot of recipes that he’s credited for—and there’s a Martha Washington cookbook [and] I think we can assume she probably wasn’t cooking a lot of that food, so whoever was in the kitchen at that time should get the c

We don’t mean to talk a big game, but we’re pretty sure that if we came face to face with our own Tethered—Jordan Peele’s dark, underground, mirror-image versions of ourselves—we’d win. We don’t want to test the theory, though, which is why today’s news has us flustered: The writer-director’s cerebral horror film, Us, is coming to life this fall and we’re going to need some scissors, a motorboat, a metal bat and some handcuffs of our own—you know, for safety reasons. Universal Studio’s annual scare fest Halloween Horror Nights just announced an Us maze, adding to a stellar 2019 lineup that already includes haunts inspired by Ghostbusters, Creepshow and Killer Clowns from Outer Space. But while it’s one thing to battle Gozer the Gozerian, it’s entirely another thing to battle your own worst enemy: you. You’ll begin in 1986 at the Santa Cruz boardwalk, à la a young Adelaide Wilson, probably making your way through the fun house where Wilson first met her own Tethered—and then you’ll descend into the subterranean tunnels where doppelgängers and walls of white rabbits await. According to the announcement, the maze will “place guests at the heart of this living nightmare where they quickly realize they are their own worst enemy.” (Tell us something we don’t already know.) What’s more, horror auteur Jordan Peele is completely supportive of the project, which is in the more-than-capable hands of the event’s executive producer, John Murdy. “It’s very exciting to

Shut up and take our money: One of our favorite record stores in L.A. just announced a new location, and this time, it’ll include a bar—not that we need any help loosening the grip on our wallets when we step into one of Permanent Records’ shops.  The Chicago-founded vinyl vendor and record label carved out a space for itself with walls of new and used records (not to mention cassettes, stereo equipment and merch) in its outposts in Echo Park and Highland Park, but for its next trick, the record store is taking over one of Cypress Park’s stalwart music venues, Cafe NELA.  “The current owner, Dave Travis, has owned the venue for the past six-plus years, where he has hosted nearly 1,100 shows,” Permanent Records owner Lance Barresi posted today via the shop’s social media accounts. “Dave has done a great service to the local music community, but the time has come for him to move on, and fortunately he’s chosen us as his successor. As great appreciators of Dave’s work, we’re excited for the opportunity to expand on what he started.” That expansion should all be unveiled on October 1, when the newest outpost is set to open on—of all days—Permanent Records’ 13th anniversary. Permanent already hosts regular DJ nights, plus occasional live acts such as Ty Segall, Kurt Vile and the Melvins; Barresi and the team will continue Cafe NELA’s legacy of live music in the Cypress Park building, and in the process, will also add a full record shop that’ll be open every day of the week wit

This fall, things are getting Creepy—with a capital “C.” Universal Studios Hollywood’s macabre park takeover one-ups the terror with new mazes every year, but this Halloween Horror Nights is reprising one of the eeriest cult-classic films of the 1980s—and the first screenwriting credit of one Stephen King: Creepshow. The campy George Romero-directed anthology featured five gory, gruesome but humorous vignettes tied together through a comic book and the shrouded character of the Creep, and at this year’s Horror Nights, a few of them are coming to life with new scares and storylines. Horror streaming service Shudder is reviving Creepshow with an anthology-style TV series this fall, and to bring the Creep to Halloween Horror Nights, the show’s director and executive producer, Greg Nicotero, teamed up with Horror Nights’ own executive producer and constructor of nightmare mazes, John Murdy. With their powers combined, this year’s event is promising a walkthrough experience with its own five chapters, including three inspired by the original movie’s plots. You can expect “Father’s Day,” which involved a cruel patriarch getting his just-desserts from beyond the grave; “The Crate,” which featured a cursed shipping container with monstrous, ancient cargo; and “They’re Creeping Up On You,” a bug-infested terror tale. New scares include “Gray Matter,” where alcoholic Ritchie Grenadine ingests cheap beer that leads to an alien fungus taking

Gods and monsters pervade the theatrical consciousness this month. Charming animated characters come into lively existence, while an archetypal figure comes to reanimated life. Meantime, history repeats itself, as good and evil battle for our souls, and women battle the men in their lives until they find themselves battling one another. But theater always comes out the winner here. That’s why we bet these five shows, listed in order of closing date, will be worth your theatergoing time and money this month. Shrek the Musical3–D Theatricals at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Aug 9–25 What if a grumpy ogre is really not a monster inside? All our favorite characters from the 2001 animated feature film are onstage in this 2008 Broadway musical, with music by Jeanine Tesori, and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Beautiful ain’t always pretty, but it could be hilarious under David F.M. Vaughn’s direction. And then we’ll have waffles. 12700 Center Court Dr, Cerritos (714-589-2770). Thu at 7:30pm; Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2, 8pm; Sun at 2pm. $45–$85. FrankensteinA Noise Within, Aug 11–Sept 8 As Mary Shelley’s novel does, Nick Dear’s theatrical script shows us a man who tries to play God and ends up creating a monster. But human behavior turns out to be the most monstrous thing here. Michael Michetti helms, so we’re expecting to see creative staging and feel the story’s roiling emotions. This show is not for the kiddies, obvs. 3352 E Foothill Blvd, Pasadena (626-356-31