![]() ![]() If you’re making it a museum day, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is next door. For an additional $15, you can hear your name announced onstage in the museum’s “Oscars Experience.” Admission (by timed reservation) is $25 for adults. department store and includes a domed theater designed by Renzo Piano. The six-level museum occupies a former May Co. Really, nobody does self-promotion like the motion picture academy. There’s no better place to explore the backstage art, craft and personalities behind the movies we love best (and some we might hate). These are just the beginning of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which opened in September on Wilshire Boulevard’s museum row. Danai Gurira’s Okoye costume from “Black Panther” (2018). Celebrity spotters, take note.ĭorothy’s slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939). Word has it that grandmaster Maurice Ashley dined there too. There’s even a nod to Deep Blue, the first computer to win a match against a world chess champion - just peek at the seafood section. Upon checking in, you can ask the host for a wooden chess board and play a game over a cocktail (all from-scratch juices and syrups) and a bite. On a typical afternoon, jazz music filters from the large outdoor patio to the moody horseshoe bar. “I want to bring the chess culture back,” Agakhanyan says. But eventually, officials came around after seeing his blueprints. Owner Aro Agakhanyan tells me that at first, the city of Glendale refused to let him name the lounge after the failed city park. “They honor what used to be here - down to the knobs from where we pour our drafts,” says Angelica Brenes, one of the managers. But while the park was a barren alleyway with concrete chess tables, the lounge welcomes visitors with cushioned seats, polished wooden chess boards and a menu of food and drinks to keep you around.įrom the wall of fame of 50 grandmasters to the glassy chandelier dripping chess pieces to the chess beer taps, every inch of this space builds off the spirit of the former alleyway. Best to make a reservation and bring cash or a debit card.Ĭhess Park Lounge sits on top of what used to be Glendale’s Chess Park. It’s the kind of place where both the seasoned social smoker and the novice cannathusiast will feel at ease. The Artist Tree also has a consumption lounge at 8625 Santa Monica Blvd., second and third floors, in West Hollywood. In addition to a wide range of flower (budtenders say CBX’s Cereal Milk is popular), edibles and vape cartridges, there’s a shelf full of live plants (from Clone Guy Industries) ready to put down roots in the forever home of aspiring green thumbs. Upstairs is a much larger, loft-like space with equal amounts of mind-bending art on the walls and mind-altering substances on the shelves. Inside, what appears to be a postage stamp-size shop is actually just the cash wrap with a couple of touchscreens for online ordering (and a security guard who may have a dog biscuit to treat your four-legged friend). Even on a bustling stretch of Western Avenue, it’d be hard to overlook the Koreatown outpost of this art gallery-meets-pot shop concept thanks to artist Matty Mo’s eye-catching geometric mural that covers the entire façade. One of the very earliest to open was the Artist Tree. The Times embarked on a quest to visit - and catalog - all of them. The first of L.A.’s social equity dispensaries - legal weed shops whose majority owners were unduly affected by the war on drugs - started opening around the city in 2021. Tickets $25 for adults and children 3 and up, advance reservations required. At the end of the regular shows (don’t tell the kids), there’s surprise ice cream. One Saturday per month, there’s a Sabados Animados cartoon morning. Weekend shows typically begin with jaunty organ intro music, followed by about an hourlong presentation that features 100 or more marionettes, which waltz madly, sing operatically, bat eyelashes and operate right at a kid’s eye level. The venue holds fewer than 100 people, and most kids sit “criss-cross applesauce” style on the carpet in front. Since Baker’s death in 2014 at age 90, the troupe has moved to a splendid (and very red) space on York Avenue at the border of Highland Park and Eagle Rock. Legions of pint-size Angelenos passed through, many of whom are now grandparents. If you don’t, it’s still a treat to take a seat in the Bob Baker Marionette Theater and submit to the utterly analog charm of puppets on strings.īob Baker founded the theater in 1963 with partner Alton Wood, created thousands of marionettes and ran the outfit for decades in a rustic cinderblock-walled space near the edge of downtown Los Angeles. ![]()
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