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I’ve been spending way too much time on Twitter.  I hope you’ll follow unhipla there because I post way more over there than here now.  www.twitter.com/unhipla.  Sure once the novelty wears off for me, I’ll probably return to these pages.

In the meantime, here are some of my recent tweets of things to do in LA:

Subversive [...]

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 [...]

This probably would have been the best free event in LA’s history

R.I.P.  Michael Jackson

UnHipLA is in Chicago again

~~Note – I wrote this a few weeks ago, but am too lazy to change the verbs. ~~

I’m here in Chicago again for my annual June pilgrimage.  Here are some new observations of Chicago (It might help to read my ones from last year to compare.  Also put Chicago into my search box above.):

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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 [...]

UnHipLA is twittering

Yes, I’ve finally gotten on the bandwagon.  I’m unhip, what can I say?  Here’s my twitter link:

http://twitter.com/unhipla

I have a feeling I’ll be tweeting more than blogging only because I often have good things to share but don’t always feel like firing up the laptop, logging into the blog, typing in the small box, spellchecking, etc. [...]

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 [...]