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FRIDAY · NOV 6, 2026 · 9 MIN READ

Tall Christmas Vibes

HEY CUTIE

Happy Friday, CurationsLA Fam! We’re on a rare Friday schedule this week, and we’re closing it out tall. The world’s tallest fresh-cut Christmas tree lights up tomorrow night at Citadel Outlets, Luka keeps dropping 40, undefeated UCLA takes its perfect record to Minnesota, and the sun is out with highs in the low 80s. Enjoy your weekend, and I will see everyone back here on Tuesday. Wyatt

HOV LANES

QUICK LANES FOR WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
4-DAY FORECAST · LA
FRI High 83°, low 60°. Sunny and warm, with a mostly clear night.
SAT High 85°, low 63°. Sunny and warmer, in the mid-80s.
SUN High 86°, low 64°. Sunny, the warmest day of the stretch.
MON High 85°, low 62°. Sunny and still warm.

Sunshine and a warm Friday, with a high near 83 and a mostly clear night around 60. Santa Ana winds bring elevated fire risk this weekend. A targeted Red Flag Warning runs Saturday from 2:00am to 6:00pm PST for the western San Gabriel, Santa Susana and Santa Monica mountains, plus the Santa Clarita Valley. Stay alert to local guidance and avoid anything that could spark a fire. No rain is forecast through Monday. Central Los Angeles forecast checked Friday morning.

SOURCE · National Weather Service central Los Angeles forecast · FULL FORECAST

SOURCES · National Weather Service Los Angeles forecast discussion · National Weather Service targeted Saturday Red Flag Warning

💬 QUOTE OF THE DAY

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
📅 ON THIS DAY

📺 24 HOURS

2001

24, starring Kiefer Sutherland and told in real time, premieres on Fox.

SOURCE · The Paley Center for Media

❓ TRIVIA QUESTION

Before David Boreanaz picked up the case for NBC’s reboot, which actor first played private eye Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files?

ANSWER AT THE BOTTOM ↓

EATS

A tomato salad with basil and sliced shallots at Stiletto in Santa Monica.
🥩 SANTA MONICA 📷 Stiletto on Instagram

STILETTO

Stiletto has opened at Santa Monica Airport, a live-fire steakhouse sharing a restored 1940s building with Matilda’s, the bakery we featured Wednesday, from the same owner, Sean Martin. Ireland-born chef Patrick Powell, a veteran of London’s Chiltern Firehouse, cooks over the flames with beef from Texas’s Rosewood Ranch: bone-in rib-eye, prime rib and steak au poivre, alongside steak tartare, grilled hispi cabbage and peri peri chicken. Start with a Matilda’s baguette and butter or an anchovy gilda, grab a martini or a pint of Guinness at the 38-seat marble bar, and save room for sticky toffee pudding. The name salutes the Douglas X-3 Stiletto jet at the airport’s neighboring museum.

Loaded nachos at Guanatos Tacos.
🇲🇽 HOLLYWOOD 📷 Guanatos Tacos on Instagram

GUANATOS TACOS

Guanatos Tacos is serving up tacos on Hollywood Blvd., bringing its taqueria to Hollywood from its home base north of the city, with locations in Santa Clarita, Canyon Country and Sylmar. The name nods to Guadalajara, the city locals affectionately call Guanatos. Expect house Guanatos tacos and classic street tacos, cheesy birria quesadillas and an Orange Bang to wash it all down.

Breakfast spread at Lodge Bread.
🥪 PASADENA 📷 Lodge Bread on Instagram

LODGE BREAD

Lodge Bread is bringing its naturally leavened loaves to Pasadena, with its newest bakery café opening this fall on Lincoln Avenue near the Altadena border, alongside neighbors Homestate and Kismet. The two-time James Beard Award semifinalist is known for its country, seeded, ancient grain, olive and cheese loaves, plus challah on Fridays. The café menu leans into sourdough toasts topped with ricotta and seasonal jam or smoked salmon, shakshuka and baked eggs for breakfast, and stacked sandwiches like smoked pastrami with Russian dressing and a jambon beurre on baguette. Pumpkin and pecan pies are also up for Thanksgiving preorder.

COMMUNITY

The Christmas tree lit up beside a palm tree at Citadel Outlets.
🎄 COMMERCE 📷 Citadel Outlets

WORLD’S TALLEST CHRISTMAS TREE

The world’s tallest fresh-cut Christmas tree has arrived at Citadel Outlets in Commerce. It’s a 115-foot white fir that traveled about 600 miles over three days from near Mt. Shasta. Dressed in more than 18,000 lights and 10,000 bows and ornaments, it stands 35 feet taller than the Rockefeller Center tree and 25 feet taller than the Santa Monica Pier Ferris wheel. See it lit up this Saturday, Nov. 7, at the free 25th annual Tree Lighting Ceremony and Concert, starting at 5:00pm with live performances, a visit from Santa and the debut of nightly snow flurries.

🦃 SAN GABRIEL VALLEY

HELP FILL THANKSGIVING TABLES ACROSS THE SGV

Foothill Unity Center is asking neighbors to help fill Thanksgiving tables across the San Gabriel Valley. The nonprofit, which has served 12 SGV communities since 1980, is collecting grocery gift cards, canned corn, cranberry sauce, stuffing mix and cake mix, along with monetary donations and volunteers to pack and hand out holiday boxes. Holiday distribution runs as a walk-up on Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 9:00am to 4:00pm at its Pasadena location on N. Oak Ave. and its Monrovia location on W. Chestnut Ave., followed by a drive-through on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 8:00am to 4:00pm in Monrovia. Details on giving and volunteering are in the article below.

DEVELOPMENT

Rendering of the 130 W. College St. office campus in Chinatown.
🏮 CHINATOWN 📷 Grimshaw Architects

MASS-TIMBER OFFICES FOR CHINATOWN

Plans for a new office campus at 130 W. College St. in Chinatown are moving forward after approval from the Los Angeles City Planning Commission. The Riboli family is behind the five-story, all-electric project, designed by Grimshaw Architects and built from mass timber. It would bring more than 224,000 square feet of offices, plus a restaurant and shops, to a 2.2-acre surface parking lot near Chinatown Station. Two office wings would frame a landscaped opening with a second-level terrace, outdoor workspaces would line Bruno Street, and storefronts, not parking, would face Alameda, Bruno and Main streets.

BUSINESS

Island Pacific Seafood Market storefront.
🇵🇭 GLASSELL PARK 📷 Island Pacific

FILIPINO FLAVORS COME TO NELA

Island Pacific Seafood Market has opened its 22nd supermarket at 4044 N. Eagle Rock Blvd. in Glassell Park, celebrating its grand opening on Thursday. Shoppers will find Filipino groceries and specialty ingredients alongside fresh seafood, meats and produce, as part of a mission to make affordable groceries and Filipino food easier to find for local families. Nino Jefferson Lim founded the Filipino-American chain in 2000, and it now has stores across California and Nevada. The opening ties into its IPASA NATIN campaign, which means Pass It On and celebrates the Filipino tradition of sharing food, stories and culture across generations.

🛒 FAIRFAX

WHOLE FOODS OPENS ITS 3RD & FAIRFAX FLAGSHIP

Whole Foods Market opens its new 63,082-square-foot flagship next Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 9:00am in the Bloom on Third shopping center at 3rd & Fairfax, relocating its original Fairfax store next door, which has been open since 2002. Shoppers will find more than 1,900 local items from California-based suppliers, plus a taproom pouring California wine and beer, a charcuterie venue run by trained cheesemongers, a coffee and juice bar, sushi from Kikka Sushi and breads from Tartine Bakery. Opening morning brings coffee from Canyon Coffee and a limited-edition 3rd & Fairfax tote for the first 300 shoppers in line, and since it lands on Veterans Day, veterans get a free brown butter chocolate chip cookie. Regular hours are 7:00am to 10:00pm daily, with more than 600 spaces in the parking structure.

ENTERTAINMENT

David Boreanaz as Jim Rockford behind the wheel.
🕵️ JIM ROCKFORD 📷 NBC / MARK HILL

THE ROCKFORD FILES RETURNS

The Rockford Files is back, with David Boreanaz stepping in as Los Angeles private eye Jim Rockford in NBC’s reboot of the classic detective series, which first ran on the network from 1974 to 1980. This time, Rockford has been paroled for a crime he didn’t commit and is working to clear his name while caught between the police and organized crime. Michaela McManus, Ilfenesh Hadera and Jacki Weaver round out the cast. The series premieres Saturday, Jan. 2, at 5:00pm PT after an NBC NFL game, then moves to its regular Thursday slot on Jan. 7. In a nod to the original’s famous answering-machine opening, fans can call (760) JIM-ROCK to hear a message from Boreanaz himself.

🦇 BEVERLY HILLS

PATTINSON’S AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE HONOR

Robert Pattinson will receive the 40th American Cinematheque Award at a Feb. 9 gala at the Beverly Hilton, joining past honorees such as Steven Spielberg, Denzel Washington and Nicole Kidman. The night caps a huge year that includes Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the upcoming Dune: Part Three, and it raises money for the nonprofit’s Egyptian, Aero and Los Feliz 3 theaters.

SPORTS

🔥 SACRAMENTO

LUKA KEEPS DROPPING 40

Luka Dončić is on a scoring tear. He put up 40 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists Wednesday night as the Lakers beat the Kings 116-103 in Sacramento for their third straight win. That’s his third straight 40-point game and his fourth in five, and his 308 points through eight games make him the first player to top 300 that fast since Michael Jordan in 1988-89. Austin Reaves added 21 and Walker Kessler chipped in 15 points and 4 blocks for the 7-2 Lakers, who host Portland tonight.

🐻 MINNEAPOLIS

UNDEFEATED BRUINS HIT THE ROAD

Undefeated UCLA puts its perfect record on the line tomorrow at Minnesota, with kickoff at 9:00am PT on FOX. The 8-0 Bruins are ranked No. 5 in the AP poll and No. 8 in the College Football Playoff rankings, their highest AP ranking since 2001, and a win would give them only the fourth 9-0 start in program history. Running back Wayne Knight leads the Big Ten with 14 total touchdowns and has scored in every game this season. Bob Chesney is already the first UCLA head coach to open his tenure 8-0, and the Bruins have climbed from No. 23 to No. 5 in just five weeks.

❓ TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION

Before David Boreanaz picked up the case for NBC’s reboot, which actor first played private eye Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files?

✅ TRIVIA ANSWER

James Garner

He played Jim Rockford from 1974 to 1980, and the show was famous for opening every episode on Rockford’s answering machine.

A woman gives a cheerful wave goodbye in a classroom.

Have a wonderful weekend, LA Fam!

SEE YOU BACK HERE TUESDAY · WYATT

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