Eye Spy LA
June 15, 2012
Endless Possibility!

If you're looking for something to do with your dad on Sunday... Activities and entertainment make great gifts too.

 

FREE STUFF: 

BARGAINS:  the Eye Spy LA Discounts page is full of great deals for interesting entertainment and activities.  These discounts are offered directly from the event and activity producers and so do not have the extra ticketing fees that other discount ticketing services may charge you. 

 

LAST REMAINING SEATSIt's June and it's time for the LA Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats - classic films presented in the wonderfully restored classic movie palaces downtown.  If there are any remaining seats, you may want to snap them up NOW! They always sell out and the experience is totally fantastic.

 

See all of this week's Editors Picks or view the full Eye Spy LA Calendar

 

TIP: you can find events and other things to do near you - you'll find neighborhood and regional calendar links at the bottom of all Eye Spy LA web pages.

Happy Weekend! --Andrea Kirk (editor@eyespyla.com)

 

CUB SCOUTS & KITES, ALHAMBRA, CA 1946

 by Charles Phoenix

 

Kite flying is SO underrated. I bet these kite-toting Cub Scouts know that.

I was never a Cub Scout, but I was a kite flyer. On Memorial Day, I flew a kite for the first time in about 40 years. I'd waited long enough. Let's go fly a kite! 

 

Charles Phoenix    

   

My friend Rob suggested we go to Angel's Gate Park up on the cliffs of San Pedro, where the up-sweeping wind is sure to sail just about anything. So we did and it did.

But first I had to buy a kite. Where to buy a kite in L.A.?, you may ask...

 

Read the FULL STORY

Eyestrology - This Week's Event Forecast
By Cici Psy-Chic

 
Happy birthday to these celebrity Gemini's: Donald Trump (06/14), Neil Patrick Harris (06/15), Abby Elliott (06/16), Venus Williams (06/17), Paul McCartney (06/18), Paula Abdul (06/19), John Goodman (06/20).

GEMINI - Only a Phase
CANCER - Goals
LEO - Say No!
VIRGO - A Standing Ovation
LIBRA - Nostalgic
SCORPIO - Better Position
SAGITTARIUS - Thick of Things
CAPRICORN - Immediate Concern
AQUARIUS - Possibilities
PISCES - Public Opinion
ARIES - Less Confident Side
TAURUS - Stubborn

 

We're in a generous mindset this week. Whether it's supporting worthwhile causes and charities or just dropping everything to help out a buddy or a stranger, we'll be feeling extra empathetic. Don't forget dear old dad on Father's Day this Sunday. It's the perfect weekend for a small BBQ.

 

Read your full EYESTROLOGICAL Forecast   

AL FRESCO LA - THE SUMMER OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

 

Summer in L.A. is all about the experience and not so much about the money. Grab your friends, a cooler, a blanket, and a picnic. You'll find plenty of free and low cost al fresco entertainment all over town. 

 

 

Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena

Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena

 

Parks throughout L.A. often have special events or regularly scheduled outdoor music. The Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena, Warner Park in Woodland Hills, Pershing Square downtown, and many more have free summer concert programs. 

    

Check out this year's SUMMER OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

REVIEWS FROM THE FRINGE

By M.R. Hunter

Three play reviews from the 2012 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 

 

Fringe FestivalIntense and Edgy: "Rise" Cal Barnes' two-hander is a wild ride pitting former junkies with a past in a room that ticks down the time like a bomb ready to explode.

"Mission to Mate" is a Scintillating & Sexy Threesome - Bitter Lemons editor Colin Mitchell turns the tables in more ways than one with his scintillatingly sexy trio of one-acts starring Alla Poberesky and Michael Sanchez.

"Mixed Personality Disorders" is a Mixed Bag - David Michael Taylor's trip down memory lane begins with a long-winded multimedia tour through Moundsville, WV-a coal mining community whose claim to fame are prehistoric burial mounds and a retired gothic penitentiary. 
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ABOUT EYE SPY LA
 

Eye Spy LA has been the online Local's Guide to L.A. since 2003. Content is written, edited and maintained by locals and focuses on local and nearby events and the local creative community.

 

Editorial policy: Eye Spy LA editorials are stories written about places, entertainment and events that we go to. The opinions are those of our editorial staff and the writer of the piece. Calendar listings are ads posted by the people producing events and activities in the local area. Each week we pick and recommend events and other things to do based on our experience or sometimes because they look particularly unusual, unique or in some other way interesting. We do not recommend them based on any fees they may or may not have paid us for advertising.

 

You'll always find the latest events & activities plus commentary about where we've been at eyespyLA.com - updated daily. 

 

Andrea Kirk, publisher (editor@eyespyLA.com)

 

Eye Spy L.A. EYE SPY LA CONTRIBUTORS:

 

M.R. Hunter - editorial and reviews

Mark Share - reviews

Kelly Hargraves - dance and reviews

Abby Abanes - food adventures

Charles Phoenix - retro slide of the week