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GOOD VIBES THIS WEEKEND
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🌴 LOCAL
01 🏄♂️
Perfect Day Surf Camp returns for LA youth
June 8th - August 28th with
CPR-certified instructors
02 🏨
The best new luxury hotels + stays across
the Golden State, sweeping from Los
Angeles to San Diego+
Napa standouts
03 📚
Burbank Public Library rolls out a
neighborhood Bookmobile
to local streets
04 🚁
1,200 drones light up Dodger Stadium for a
Harry Potter
drone spectacle
05 🔭
Getty Center's free outdoor summer
concerts return and RSVPs are open to
grab a spot early
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HEY CUTIE
We made it to Friday, one-off from our traditional
Tue/Thu due to the NFL Draft. Shout out to anyone
who survived refresh-tab hell watching round one
last night: Rams Nation, we'll talk. This
weekend is one of those 'pack a jacket, run
the coast early' kinds. We will have some
rain rolling through tomorrow, LACMA Geffen still
glowing downtown, and day two of the draft is
wrapping during your brunch surfeit. For next
Tuesday, I'm already chasing a few
reader-reply threads that I think you'll
love. Catch you Tuesday! -
Wyatt
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4-DAY FORECAST · LA
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FRI 4/24
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74° | 56°
PARTLY CLOUDY
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SAT 4/25
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66° | 54°
LIGHT RAIN
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SUN 4/26
⛅
65° | 52°
AM CLOUDS
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MON 4/27
☀️
67° | 53°
DRY, COOL
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DISCUSSION: Near-normal temperatures hold into Friday with
partly cloudy skies and afternoon coast breezes
staying just below advisory levels. A weak trough
sweeps through Saturday with a decent chance of
light showers after noon, most areas under a tenth
of an inch and up to a quarter inch in mountain
locations, with downsloping from the Transverse
range keeping it drier from southeast Santa
Barbara into western LA County. Gusty
southwest-to-west winds develop later Saturday,
strongest in the Antelope Valley with gusts to
around 45 mph. Sunday trends dry and cool with a
20% chance of lingering morning showers before
clearing, and Monday stays benign with highs still
3-6 degrees below normal.
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💭 QUOTE OF THE DAY
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection
not when there is nothing left to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away”
—ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
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📅 1981
Dodgers rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela tosses
his third shutout in four starts, pouring gasoline
on the Fernandomania fire already lighting up
Chavez Ravine. El Toro rode that spring all the
way to both Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young
that fall, a double no pitcher had ever pulled off
before.
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❓ TRIVIA QUESTION
Which Los Angeles neighborhood hides the iconic
exterior of the Brady Bunch house, recently named
a Historic-Cultural Monument?
Answer at the bottom ↓
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🍴 E A T S 🍴
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BREA MALL
NORTH ITALIA HITS 50TH AT BREA
@EATNORTHITALIA
The Fox Restaurant Concepts flagship crossed its
50th-location milestone on Wednesday, and it is
landing at the Brea Mall with chef Chris Curtiss
running the corporate culinary playbook. The
opening marks the chain's second Orange
County store after Irvine, with handmade pastas,
wood-fired pizzas and seasonal antipasti anchoring
the menu. Curtiss climbed San Francisco kitchens
like Quince and Madcap before joining restaurateur
Sam Fox's team in Phoenix back in 2010. A
polished date-night play for the
north OC crowd hungry for a little bit of Italy
between Brea and Fullerton.
WEBSITE
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INSTAGRAM
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HANCOCK PARK
JACARANDA PLANTS ROOTS ACROSS FROM MOZZA
JACARANDA.LA ON INSTAGRAM
Modern California fine dining
arrives on Melrose May 6th,
courtesy of chef Daniel Patterson and Sarah
Lewitinn. The husband-and-wife team is graduating
their at-home Jaca Social Club supper series into
a brick-and-mortar tasting-menu room at 6623
Melrose Ave, directly across from Mozza in the
former Koast space. Expect a seasonal West Coast
menu and a tight, dinner-party feel for May
6th's opening window. Reservations land via
OpenTable as the build-out wraps
WEBSITE
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INSTAGRAM
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MELROSE HILL
ROSHONA BILASH BRINGS BENGALI HOME
ROSHONA BILASH
Bangladeshi comfort food finally gets a proper LA
stage at Roshona Bilash, chef-owner Abul
Ibrahim's long-awaited return to the line
after decades away. The name translates to
luxurious taste and the 861 N Western Ave
quick-service room leans into Bengali classics
like bone-marrow nihari, morog polao, beef teheri
and breads pulled from a clay oven. Stephanie
Breijo's LA Times profile on March 27 set the
table, with plans for coastal Bangladeshi seafood
dishes still to come. A Melrose Hill soft-open
worth the detour before the regional specials roll
in.
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🍟 MORE EATS
🎡 SANTA MONICA: Bower Santa
Monica headlines a surge of casual cafes and
eateries rolling into the city, with Dragon Alley
Coffee Shop, Sonia's Café, DOL Coffee House,
a second Bacio di Latte, and La Diperie's
first West Coast outpost all mapping out openings,
via Santa Monica Daily Press
🍕 CITY WIDE: Pizza City
Fest brings 40 top SoCal pizzerias to LA this
weekend,
via LAist
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🌴 C O M M U N I T Y 🌴
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EAST HOLLYWOOD
CHLA PANTRY NOW ACCEPTS SNAP/EBT
children's hospital LOS ANGELES
Children's Hospital Los Angeles opened an
in-hospital Family Pantry that accepts SNAP/EBT,
making it the
first pediatric medical institution
in California to integrate federal nutrition
assistance directly into its hospital system.
Patient families and team members can now tap
their benefits to buy farm-fresh organic produce
from East Hollywood's Rick's Produce
Market, alongside dry pantry staples and
essentials right next to the HBO Café. The program
grew out of pandemic-era food reclamation led by
CHLA's Community Affairs and Food and
Nutrition Services teams, with partners including
the East Hollywood Community Garden, East
Hollywood Neighborhood Council, USDA, and LA
County DPSS. A daily Rick's signature
smoothie pop-up and seasonal farm-to-table
workshops round out the weekly programming
READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT
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🌴 MORE COMMUNITY
🏆 LIFE ACHIEVEMENT: Eddie Murphy
receives the AFI Life Achievement Award honoring
decades of film, stand-up, and comedy legacy work,
via LA Sentinel
🎃 HALLOWEEN? Spring meets
October as "Halfway to Halloween" events
eerily arrive across Southern California,
via NBC Los Angeles
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🏡 D E V E L O P M E N T 🏡
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SUNSET STRIP
PUBLIC'S JUNE PREMIERE ON SUNSET
PUBLIC WEST HOLLYWOOD
Ian Schrager's PUBLIC brand makes its West
Coast debut in June, taking over the former
Standard on Sunset Strip for 137 keys of
luxury for all hospitality.
British architect John Pawson is designing the
reinterpretation, with a vibrant lobby,
ground-floor pool, and a lushly landscaped
16,000-square-foot rooftop terrace serving up
360-degree views of Los Angeles. Three food,
beverage, and entertainment venues anchor the
property, leaning into Schrager's four
signature pillars of service, style,
entertainment, and experience. A pre-opening
signup list is live on the brand's West
Hollywood landing page right now.
sign up for reservations
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SANTA MONICA
401 HOMES PROPOSED NEAR BERGAMOT
RENDERING AC MARTIN
Santa Monica's housing pipeline
keeps filling in, with plans
filed for an eight-story, 401-unit mixed-use build
at 1655 26th Street directly across from the Water
Garden office campus. AC Martin's design
wraps studios, one- and two-bedrooms around a
central courtyard with pool and landscaped
walkways, with 41 homes set aside as moderate-,
low-, and very-low-income affordable units through
density bonus provisions. Ground-floor commercial
space comes in around 1,820 square feet, with
semi-subterranean parking for 444 vehicles tucked
below. The site sits around the corner from
Bergamot Station Arts Center, adding to the
neighborhood's infill momentum.
SEE THE RENDERINGS
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🏡 MORE DEVELOPMENT
🏳️🌈 WEST HOLLYWOOD: City of West
Hollywood lands a $370,000 County grant to kick
off Plummer Park planning,
via WeHo Times
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💼 B U S I N E S S 💼
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📺 NETFLIX
NETFLIX NEARS $330M RADFORD DEAL
Netflix is in final talks to acquire the historic
Radford Studio Center in Studio City for a price
tag around $330 million, putting the streamer on
the verge of owning a Valley backlot long known as
the home of CBS sitcom classics like Seinfeld. The
acquisition would hand Netflix its first major
owned Los Angeles production campus, anchoring
decades of soundstage, post-production, and office
space tucked between Ventura Boulevard and the
Metro Orange Line. A close look within
reach this quarter
per Hollywood Reporter sources
close to the negotiation. A Radford-anchored
footprint stacks on Netflix's already-growing
West Coast production muscle.
READ THE REPORT
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💼 MORE BUSINESS
👯
PLAYBOY: Playboy (NASDAQ: PLBY)
rolled out a new global model search that turns
fan voting into a revenue engine, with a
six-figure prize pool and legacy Playmate judges
Shanna Moakler, Daphnée Duplaix, Summer Altice,
Brande Roderick, and Gillian Nation leading
finalist rounds,
via Business Wire
✈️ BURBANK: Jay Leno
fronts a promotional video hyping Burbank
Airport's $379M municipal bond sale to muni
investors,
via Fortune
🎢 MAGIC MOUNTAIN: Six
Flags names ten new park presidents across Magic
Mountain, Knott's Berry Farm, and Carowinds
in a leadership shuffle,
via Daily Bulletin
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🎬 E N T E R T A I N M E N T 🎬
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🎞️ TCM FESTIVAL
tcm fest lights hollywood up
The 17th annual TCM Classic Film Festival rolls
into Hollywood April 30th through May 3rd under
this year's programming theme The World Comes
to Hollywood, celebrating immigrant filmmakers who
shaped American cinema. Barefoot in the Park opens
the run Thursday night, with tributes planned for
Barbara Hershey and Paul Williams plus new World
Premiere Restorations of Pal Joey and Auntie Mame.
Screenings take over the TCL Chinese IMAX, the
Chinese Multiplex, the Egyptian, the El Capitan
and Club TCM at the Hollywood Roosevelt across
four days. A must-attend weekend for cinephiles
looking to catch classics the way they were meant
to be seen.
SEE THE LINEUP
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🎬 MORE ENTERTAINMENT
⭐
HOLLYWOOD: Emily Blunt and
Stanley Tucci set for a double Walk of Fame star
ceremony hosted by the Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce,
via Hollywood Walk of Fame
📺 HULU: Margaret
Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel The
Testaments is streaming now with Ann Dowd
returning as Aunt Lydia, new episodes every
Wednesday through the May 27 finale,
via Hulu
🃏 ESPN JEOPARDY!: Emmy
winner Joe Buck takes the Alex Trebek Stage for
new spinoff ESPN Jeopardy! with ESPN talent as
contestants, streaming on Disney+ and Hulu,
via Hollywood Reporter
🎬 A24: Zendaya and Robert
Pattinson's romantic dark comedy The Drama
just crossed $100M worldwide, becoming A24's
fifth film to hit the century mark,
via Screen Daily
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🏈 S P O R T S 🏈
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NFL DRAFT
MENDOZA HEADLINES WILD PITTSBURGH NIGHT
Round 1 kicked off Thursday night in Pittsburgh
with the Raiders locking in Indiana QB Fernando
Mendoza at No. 1 overall, followed by Texas Tech
EDGE David Bailey to the Jets and Notre Dame RB
Jeremiyah Love to the Cardinals in the
night's first stunner. Ohio State WR Carnell
Tate then went No. 4 to Tennessee over every
projected defender, Arizona State WR Jordyn Tyson
landed at No. 8 with New Orleans, and Dallas
traded up to No. 11 to grab Ohio State safety
Caleb Downs. Eight trades, nine offensive linemen,
and seven teams making multiple first-round picks
made it a
lively night in Pittsburgh, with
the Jets leading everyone at three selections.
Miami EDGE Rueben Bain Jr. capped the top 15 with
Tampa Bay, and eight clubs sat Day 1 out entirely
before Friday's resume here shortly
ROUND 1 RECAP
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RAMS
STAFFORD SUCCESSION PLAN LANDS IN LA
Les Snead and Sean McVay shook the board by taking
Alabama QB Ty Simpson with the 13th overall pick,
after trading their original first-rounder to
Kansas City this offseason for All-Pro corner
Trent McDuffie. The Rams called Simpson a bonus
pick from last year's Atlanta trade and
framed him as the
long-term answer behind
38-year-old reigning MVP Matthew Stafford, whom
the club briefed ahead of the call per Tom
Pelissero. Thursday's Hollywood Park press
conference ran a subdued 11 minutes with few
smiles, though Pelissero reported the move had
been months in the making internally. Day 2
resumes at 4 PM PT Friday with Los Angeles holding
pick No. 61 in Round 2 and No. 93 in Round 3, with
wide receiver depth behind Puka Nacua plus
offensive line help still topping the remaining
board
RAMS DRAFT HUB
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⚡ CHARGERS
BOLTS LAND MIAMI EDGE RUSHER
Jim Harbaugh and GM Joe Hortiz grabbed Miami EDGE
Akheem Mesidor at No. 22 overall, a 2025
Second-Team All-American who posted 12.5 sacks and
17.5 tackles for loss as a senior and 35.5 sacks
across his full college career. Mesidor projects
as a
plug-and-play rusher opposite
Tuli Tuipulotu with Khalil Mack, Bud Dupree, and
Kyle Kennard rounding out the rotation, and the
25-year-old told reporters he can't wait to
get to work during Thursday night's virtual
media session. The Chargers still hold their
original picks in Rounds 2, 3, 4, and 6, with Day
2 stops at No. 55 and No. 86 once the 49ers open
Round 2 from pick No. 33. Top remaining needs per
ESPN stay interior offensive line (RG, LG) and
defensive tackle, so keep an eye on Ohio State DT
Kayden McDonald and Georgia Tech IOL Keylan
Rutledge if they fall.
CHARGERS DRAFT HUB
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🏈 MORE SPORTS
🏈 DAY 2 KICKOFF: Rounds 2 and 3
resume Friday at 4 PM PT in Pittsburgh across
ESPN, ABC, and NFL Network with the 49ers on the
clock at No. 33,
via NFL.com
📋
DAY 2 BOARD: CBS Sports maps Day
2 with Denzel Boston, Carson Beck, Garrett
Nussmeier, and Jermod McCoy headlining the names
still
on the board
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✅ TRIVIA ANSWER
STUDIO CITY
The two-story residence at 11222 Dilling Street
served as the real-life exterior for the 1969-1974
sitcom, and earned its Historic-Cultural Monument
designation from the LA Planning and Land Use
Commission in early 2026. Reportedly the
second-most photographed house in America after
the White House
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HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND
LOS ANGELES 🤙
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