Uncategorized: LA Weekend Preview: ‘I love you, President Lincoln’-Edition
If you have a honeybun to squeeze or you’re looking for love, this weekend is full of fun things to do in the City of Angels. Also: your best chance to make out with the Great Emancipator.
Thursday, February 11
Last week was just the kickoff of zombie season. Continue appreciating the undead at Urban Death, a collection of macabre vignettes from the Zombie Joe Underground Theater Group (4850 Lankershim Blvd) in North Hollywood. No dialogue, just horror.
Friday, February 12
Guerilla Gay Bar is back! But this time, they are taking over an undisclosed cinema for the first-ever Guerilla Gay Movie. Location is secret, but will be announced a day before. Check out their facebook page for announcements.
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Celebrate Lincoln’s birthday (and Valentine’s day), and benefit Highways Performance Space (1651 18th Street, Santa Monica). Hosted by Ian MacKinnon and featuring guests John Cantwell of The Nellie Olesons, Flint, DeadLee + Drew Mason, Diviana X Ingravallo, Dorian Wood, Mas, Hi-Fashion $9.99, Kevin Williamson, Tim Rubel, and Drew Droege. Special appearance by nude, lap dancing Abraham Lincoln.
Saturday, February 13
LA Street Food Fest! One of the best things about Los Angeles is its street food culture. And at last we have a festival to celebrate it! There will be over FIFTY street food vendors, all gathered in one spot (XXXX). In addition to LA’s celebrated taco trucks, expect to find Korean BBQ, banh mi, dosas, kabobs, and all sorts of goodies from the vendors that plow the streets of LA. There will also be crafts and goods for sale, as well as a table to make your own valentine’s cards.
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If all the street food has you and your honey feeling fattie, maybe you should consider the 8 Presidents Ride. Meet at 10:30 at Hoover and Wilshire with your bike and get set for a 30-mile journey that will the streets named for our nation’s leaders (mostly from Downtown to Culver City): Hoover, Jefferson, Van Buren, Lincoln, Madison, Jackson, Washington, and finally Adams. It seems that Reagon, Nixon, and Bush streets were too far out of the way.
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Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes! The New Beverly Cinema (7165 West Beverly Blvd) is showing my favorite movie ever at midnight! Catch The Last American Virgin, easily the Eighties’ most influential and underappreciated teenage sex comedy. The plot couldn’t be simpler: Gary wants to lose his virginity. But beyond the sexy hijinx lies a surprisingly touching story. And an amazing soundtrack.
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Lovers and Strangers Art & Music Festival at the Echoplex (1154 Gelndale Blvd). Many bands (The Idyllists, Radio Freq, WHITE ARROWS and Xanimo) as well as several DJs, both indoors and out!
Sunday, February 14
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