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This sounds like wacky fun

On Saturday, Beverly Hills hosts a "public art party" to celebrate the work of Yayoi Kusama.  I’ve experienced a Kusama installation before at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.  It was cool and wacky.  This event’s free and the Paley Center for Media will be free as well that day as part of the festivities.

http://www.publicartparty.com/ [...]

Renegade Craft Fair – July 11-12

This sounds great!

http://www.renegadecraft.com/los-angeles?site=la

And it’s free!

Learn how to make a linoelum block print and other arts/crafts for free!  There will be bands too.  And it all takes place on the penthouse level of California Market Center with 360-degree views of downtown L.A.

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We went to this.  It was very cool to see all the great [...]

Free Malibu Public Beach Safaris!

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers are at it again, offering its free safaris of the secret (but public) Malibu Beaches.  If you hit my beaches tab, you’ll see how much fun I had going on this a few years ago.  They showed me that the beach could be all mine, mine, mine.  Here are the [...]

Free 4th of July

Happy 4th of July!

For listing of free things to do for the 4th, go here:

http://www.freefunguides.com/?page_id=4

Sierra Madre’s 4th activities sound pretty happening!

Summer starts today! Hollywood Bowl without the Bowl

Tonight kicks off the Levitt Pavilion’s free outdoor concert series in Pasadena.  http://www.levittpavilionpasadena.org/summer-calendar-2009.html

And this Friday begins Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park. http://www.independentshakespeare.com/box-office/box-office.html

You can picnic at both of these places.  When I first started this blog, I was majorly enamored by both these events and wrote about them here and here.  The Levitt Pasadena is [...]

The Midwest is nice to its children

We saw Up today at the AMC Barrington 30 in South Barrington, Il.  While there, I noticed two flyers for special screenings:

Summer Movie Camp – $1.00 movies, Wednesdays at 10 am for kids.  July 1st will be Madagascar Escape 2.  The money goes to charity. My sister tells me these movie days are a madhouse [...]

A Half Mile of Al Fresco Installations, sculptures and performances

On the trail of A Half Mile of Al Fresco Installations, sculptures and performances
This sounds great!  I love New Town’s installations.  June 6 – 7, 2009.  Free.

Visit Pompeii for Free!

Ever since I was little, the story of Pompeii intrigued and haunted me

From LACMA’s email newsletter:

Special Offer: Free Admission to Pompeii and the Roman Villa

 

LACMA is pleased to offer one day of totally free access—June 9—to its blockbuster exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa and the entire museum!

KCRW [...]

Make a Coffee Cup

This sounds intriguing, got it off a listserv.  Also, could be a fun cheap date/recession fun outing -

" The Coffee Cup Collective is a project sited at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock and Swork for the Intersections 2009 exhibition. The production phase of the project introduces participants to ceramic reproduction methods with the [...]

The tide is high

We visited Lechuza Beach over the Memorial Day weekend, arriving right when the tide was pretty high – after sunset but still light out – so we couldn’t walk onto the beach.  Still, it was very cool.  Look how close the water comes to the stairs.  It was as if these stairs led straight to [...]