Not a good idea to drink and bike so split the difference with an action-packed weekend:

• FRIDAY: Release your inner songbird at the Friday Night Sing-Along at Disney Hall's Keck Amphitheatre. Also this is the opening weekend for Grand Performances free summer concerts downtown. SCORED presents The Final Frontier: An Improvised Sci-Fi Soundtrack with Mark de Clive-Lowe at 8pm.
• SATURDAY: Foodie Alert for Cheers - L.A.'s Wine, Spirits, Beer & Food Festival at the Fairplex in Pomona.
• SUNDAY: CicLAvia - walk, stroll or roll down 6 miles of a car free Wilshire Boulevard 9am - 4pm.

 CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF CICLAVIA 

We're big fans of the bikes and that's why CicLAvia is one of our favorite events. The community spirit is what makes this such a unique experience...that and riding down major thoroughfares without dodging cars.

But this is NOT a race and not just for bikes.

This Sunday's event takes place on 6 miles of Wishire Boulevard. Arrive early and get in a few laps if you want a faster ride. Later the throngs pack the streets and temps warm up. Take sunscreen and water.

You don't need a bike to enjoy this event. It's a terrific outing just to bring a couple of chairs, a cooler and watch everyone else stroll and roll by. People are very happy so there is a real sense of goodwill and camaraderie that is hard to find anywhere else. You never know who or what you might see. There are food trucks, vendors and assorted entertainment located at the hubs. If you haven't yet been (REALLY?), then this weekend is the perfect opportunity to discover what hundreds of thousands of folks are ringing their bells over. Oh, and yes, this is FREE! So why haven't we seen you there?  

NICHE NICE: For those who'd prefer to avoid a crowd, there are always events that are low on head counts and high on fun.

• Entertainment covers a lot of ground to keep you and your friends occupied.
• Arts & Culture is a smart choice for those who have refined taste.
• Films are the classic cinematic cool solution.
• Free Events when you're low on cash? 
• Kids Stuff is the best place to find summertime youth-oriented activities.

Still scratching your head? Let us decide with this week's Editors Picks

PSYCHIC POWERS: Find out what your future holds in this month's latest Eyestrology. 

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.

Have a Happy Weekend!

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For more than 10 years now I've been photographing our city and writing about what's going on around town. As you might imagine the Eye Spy photo file is quite large.

I thought it would be fun to share some of the old stuff from the past 10 years with you.

HAVE SOME FUN: Share this with your friends to see if they know. 

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum's Charming "Taming of the Shrew" 

by Mark Share

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Creative Cognitive Dissonance: "We Are Proud to Present" by M.R. Hunter

In Jackie Sibblies Drury's west coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre, a troupe of six ragtag performers set out to create an informal discourse on the subject of a century past genocide. The 25-worded title of Drury's play details the intent, the subject matter, and the difficult task of attempting to dramatize an obscure but volatile period of history: "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Nambia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915." Like the title, Drury's play is a strange but intoxicating amalgamation of biting humor, ridiculous aspirations, history and novelty...

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CANCER - Travel

LEO - Under Your Skin

VIRGO - Reassessment Mode

LIBRA - Present

SCORPIO - Communication is Key

SAGITTARIUS - Fan Club 
CAPRICORN - Meaning

AQUARIUS - All in All

PISCES - Work Smarter

ARIES - Zero In
TAURUS - Direction

GEMINI - Go For It  

Travel is recommended for most signs. Expect snafus and delays due to Mercury's Retrograde. Keep a cool head for the next three weeks as the temperature rises and emotions get heated. Channel your energy into low risk physical activities for now. Personal and professional matters may require further finesse as well. Avoid initiating any new projects until August. This is a good time to journal, think-tank or spitball new ideas. Pay attention to dreams and your intuition too. This retrograde will not be imperceptibly felt, so utilize the arising problems as lesson tune-ups. 

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Al Fresco LA - Summer Outdoor Entertainment 2013 by Andrea Kirk

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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 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