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Daily Email - Thursday - 1/16/2025

Restaurants can’t serve free meals forever! @LACommunityMeals is rounding up local restaurants that need funds to purchase more supplies and pay kitchen staff. Starting at only $10, purchase a meal for wildfire victims, frontline workers, and disaster relief volunteer organizations.

Take TLV Tapas, for example, a Tarzana restaurant that stepped up during this challenging time. Their expertly curated menu includes traditional “Ktanot” (small plates), salads, and charcoal-roasted vegetables, as well as specialty entrees like short rib cigars, roasted oyster mushrooms, butterfly cut branzino, and even sushi! Enter to win a $100 gift card on Instagram!

JUST ANNOUNCED

BEST PLANT SHOPS IN LA

Photo: The Juicy Leaf

Houseplants are Mother Nature’s natural air purifiers, which are a hot commodity these days. Check out these independent plant shops to add a little more green to your life!

THIS WEEKEND

🥃 Drunk Theatre

Every Friday at Santa Monica Playhouse (9PM)

A comedian takes five shots of whiskey in a row and "performs" a play with five stone-cold sober comedian castmates… Use code DOLAFREE for BOGO tickets, and enter to win a 4-pack of tickets for the 1/31 show! And all proceeds from Drunk Theatre ticket sales will be donated to wildfire relief charities.*

🧹 STOMP

Saturday & Sunday, January 18-19 at The Soraya (3PM, 8PM)

Using unconventional percussion instruments – think matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – the STOMP troupe arrives in Northridge! Enter to win tickets for the 8PM show on 1/18!*

🔊 Glass Spells

Tomorrow, January 17 at The Fonda Theatre (9PM)

Electronic duo Glass Spells are joined by Haunt Me & Donzii for a night of dancing in Hollywood. Tickets are only $30!

😋 Smorgasburg

Sunday, January 19 at ROW DTLA (10AM-4PM) 

Who’s hungry?? LA’s favorite weekly FREE food festival returns! Smorgasburg is hosting a grand reopening with over a dozen (!) new vendors. All bar profits will go to World Central Kitchen and the American Red Cross for wildfire relief.

🤘 LA Wildfire Benefit Show

Sunday, January 19 at The Venice West (6PM) 

Velvet Red pulled together an LA Wildfire Benefit Show with Luke Yansick, Ted Bordeau, Whisker, Mosaic Coyote, and Katya Jane on the lineup. Presale tickets are only $10, and 100% of proceeds will benefit the California Wildfire Relief Fund!

LOCALS ONLY

  • Admission to the Norton Simon Museum is FREE through Monday, 1/20! They’ve set up arts & crafts projects, kids’ storytime in the afternoons, and a film screening of Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers!

  • The LA Phil has partnered with Social Justice Learning Institute and LA County Parks Care Camps to set up wildfire donation drives at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Beckmen Yola Center, and the Hollywood Bowl. Check dates, times, and recommended items!

  • Wanna escape reality with FREE movies on the eastside? Vidiots in Eagle Rock partnered with NEON for expanded programming at their theater! Check their website for films, showtimes, and to RSVP.

Need more weekend plans? Volunteer!