Star Trek, new eats, and dinosaurs x holograms

Chef Eyal Shani has brought Malka to the ground floor of the SIXTY Hotel in Beverly Hills. The restaurant opened August 27 with a seasonal, Glatt kosher menu built around vegetables, fish, olive oil, tahini and the lively dining-room energy associated with Shani’s restaurants. Chef Loel Miller leads the kitchen, serving dishes including toasted focaccia with steak tartare or smoky eggplant caviar. Groups of nine to sixteen can choose a prix-fixe format, and the wine list stays entirely mevushal kosher.

Layla Bagels + Coffee has opened at 908 S. Barrington Avenue in Brentwood. Chef Sammi Tarantino’s third Westside shop serves hand-rolled sourdough bagels in classic and specialty flavors, including everything, sesame, poppy, jalapeño cheddar and blueberry.The menu covers breakfast and beyond, with smoked salmon, turkey, tuna salad and egg sandwiches, plus cookies, babka, brownies, espresso and matcha drinks. The shop shares the former Contempo Floor Covering building with Sora Temaki Bar.

Nancy Silverton is bringing an Italian American steakhouse to Palisades Village. Spacca Tutto is planned for 15225 Palisades Village Lane, with wide-cut steaks, seafood, seasonal salads and Focaccia di Recco extending the meat-forward approach of Chi Spacca.The AvroKO-designed restaurant pairs a 3,000-square-foot dining room with a 1,500-square-foot patio and piano bar. The wine program is expected to feature 250 Italian and domestic selections as the team prepares the opening.

Tenderfest is heading back to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, September 19, running noon to 10pm, with unlimited chicken tender tastings from a lineup that includes Delilah, Dave's Hot Chicken, Pizzeria Mozza, Raising Cane's, and several more local favorites. The day also features the ConTENDER Competition, where chefs from Miya Miya, Jitlada, Petit Trois, and Lucia face off for a charity prize, judged by names like Nancy Silverton and Cat Cora alongside Rams players Puka Nacua and Kyren Williams. Dessert vendors, a roaming sauce squad, and live entertainment round out the festival, with tickets available now through Tixr.

The Aquarium of the Pacific has turned its Ocean Theater into a new HoloTheater experience. The Long Beach aquarium says the installation is the first of its kind on the U.S. West Coast, using panoramic projection, holographic imagery and spatial audio to bring prehistoric creatures and ocean ecosystems into the room without glasses or headsets. The opening show, Dinosaur Discoveries: A Holographic Adventure, runs about 25 minutes, with daily screenings and a separate HoloTheater ticket required in addition to Aquarium admission.

Metro just landed $150 million in federal funding through the Federal Transit Administration to push the Vermont Avenue Bus Rapid Transit line toward completion. The 12.4 mile corridor runs from Hollywood Boulevard down to 120th Street and is Metro's busiest bus route, carrying more than 36,000 daily trips today. The new funding stacks on top of Measure M dollars already committed and is expected to bring rider counts closer to 66,000 once the 26 upgraded stations open. Metro is targeting full completion by 2028, timed ahead of the LA Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Port of Los Angeles processed 960,464 container units in July, its second-busiest July on record, continuing a stretch of historically strong cargo volume at the nation's busiest port. Executive Director Gene Seroka said resilient consumer demand is keeping imports at historically strong levels, with another strong month expected in August. Through the first seven months of 2026, the Port has handled just over 6 million container units, running 1.8% ahead of the same period last year.

The 2026 summer box office set an all-time record at $4.76 billion, edging past 2013's previous high of $4.756 billion. Universal won the season with $1.23 billion, largely driven by Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, while Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day is closing in on becoming the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office. The record caps a summer that ran longer than 2013's, at 130 days versus 123.

The Television Academy honored outstanding artistic and technical achievement in television Sunday night during night two of the 78th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE, recognizing craftspeople across animation, drama, comedy, and anthology series. The Academy also presented its inaugural Legacy Award to I Love Lucy for its lasting impact on the television industry and audiences worldwide. Presenters included Noah Wyle, Julia Stiles, Bradley Whitford, and Wendi McLendon-Covey, among many others from the season's top shows. Night two combines with night one for a single Creative Arts broadcast airing Saturday, September 12 on FXX, streaming the next day on Hulu, ahead of the main ceremony on September 14 hosted by Mariska Hargitay.

Shohei Ohtani returned to the Dodgers lineup Monday night after missing four straight games. He batted leadoff as designated hitter as Los Angeles beat Cincinnati 6-3 at Dodger Stadium, with Teoscar Hernández adding a three-run homer to power the win. Ohtani may be done pitching for the season, with manager Dave Roberts and Ohtani himself both pointing toward a hitting-only finish to 2026.