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Go ride a stagecoach!

Los Encinos State Historic Park

On Sunday, October 19th, Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino will host a unique living history event. It will be "Stagecoach Day", which celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the start of scheduled stagecoach service in California.

This program will feature an actual stagecoach with horses, [...]

I need a kid for this

From the Pacific Asia Museum: 

Sunday September 28, 11:00am-5:00pm Free Family Day – [...]

Los Angeles Korean Festival

Four days of Korean madness…

The 35th Annual Los Angeles Korean Festival…

September 25 – 28, 2008

with a Korean traditional marketplace, tea ceremony, parade, wrestling demo and

A SENIOR CITIZENS FOLK SONG CONTEST!

www.lakoreanfestival.com 

Party with Barack on 8-28-08

Lotsa free parties are happening Thursday night (8-28-08) to celebrate Barack’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination.  Just plug in your zip code here and you’ll get a listing. Many people are opening up their homes to strangers for the event. This is all part of the community building Barack is pushing for. Locally, there’s going [...]

Do you like Watermelons?

I love watermelons and find it really funny that there is a 3-day festival dedicated to them in Tujunga – Sunland, starting August 8th.

Info here:  Watermelon Festival

and from Yelp: 

Featuring Free Watermelon for all, a Watermelon carving display, a Watermelon eating contest with exciting prizes, and a Watermelon seed spitting contest!  Can you break the world [...]

Clean up your act

This Sunday, July, 20, the City of South Pasadena will be sponsoring their 2nd Annual Clean-Air Car Show and Film Festival.   Here’s your chance to learn about environmentally friendly cars that are currently on the market and in development; over 30 cars will be there (sans pushy car sales people I hope).  The City will [...]

If the Victorian Era’s your thing…

This sounds interesting and it’s in a little town called Fawnskin near Big Bear.  It’s the Fawnskin Victorian Festival on July 5th and 6th.  From their website http://www.fawnskinvictorian.com/:

July 5th and 6th, 2008

The Big Bear Valley Renaissance Society, Inc. is delighted to announce our first Victorian Festival on July 5th and 6th, 2008, at our permanent [...]

Wrightwood Staycation

Try heading up into the San Gabriel mountains and enjoying Wrightwood in the off-season.  You’ll see lots of trees and nice town folk; however, it could still be hot up there.  Check the weather report.  Wrightwood has its charms and surprisingly a lot of free summer programming. It’s about a one hour drive from L.A.  [...]

UnHip Chicago Works Out

 

I wish I lived in Chicago so that I could go to the free Saturday Millenium Park Workouts, June 7 to September 27.  The schedule sounds so fun:  Yoga – 8 am, Pilates – 9 am, Dance – 10 am, Tai Chi -7 am, and Kids and Family workouts at 11 am.  Just click this [...]

Levitt kicks off its free summer concert series

with Jazz Fest Weekend, June 21 – 22.  You can’t go the summer without stopping by the Levitt at least once, where you can picnic, boogie, and listen to great music.  It’s a free concert season five nights a week in Pasadena, with over 50 concerts planned.  Wednesday is Children’s Night, Thursday is American Music, [...]