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Have you always wanted to learn to how to code, study a new language, boost your professional skills, or just have fun expanding your horizons? Whether you're working from home or just staying in, now’s the perfect opportunity to take some online classes, check out some new learning apps, or explore cultural portals. Here are some inspiring ideas to get you started!
Class Central is a search engine and reviews site for free online courses popularly known as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. Discover thousands of free online courses from top universities around the world, including the eight Ivy League schools – Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, the Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania. HERE are 450 Ivy League Courses you can take online right now for free.
freeCodeCamp is a nonprofit community that helps you learn to code by completing coding challenges and building projects. You can also earn verified certifications along the way. Each certification takes around 300 hours of dedicated learning. Some people may take longer, but these certifications are completely self-paced, so take as long as you need. Every aspect of freeCodeCamp is 100% free.
Have you thought about learning coding, but weren't sure where to start? Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in web development, programming, data science, design, and game development, along with coding languages such as HTML & CSS, Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL, and Ruby. Codeacademy is widely considered to be one of the easiest platforms to learn coding. No matter your experience level, you'll be writing real, working code in minutes.
Learn a new language for free with Duolingo! You can learn online or with their easy-to-use app. The bite-size lessons feel more like a game than a textbook, and that's by design. Learning is easier when you're having fun. But Duolingo isn't just a game. It's based on a methodology proven to foster long-term retention and a curriculum aligned to an international standard. Lessons focus on a real-life goal – for instance, ordering at a restaurant, going to the bank, home life, or travel. Learners develop the vocabulary and grammar needed to achieve their goals through lots of varied practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 1200 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's culture to you. In addition, you'll find other fascinating content, such as A Stroll Through CERN's Underground Spaces, the tradition and science behind color, and food history from around the world. You can also unlock culture at home with machine learning. The Google Arts & Culturel Lab in Paris has been experiementing with how AI can be used for the benefit of culture. Each of these experiemental applications runs AI algorithyms in the background to let you unearth cultural connections hidden in archives – and even find artworks that match your home decor!
Discover 3300+ talks to stir your curiosity! TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics – from science to business to global issues – in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
Free online courses from edXEdX is a non-profit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT, bringing the best of higher education to students around the world. EdX offers MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence (AI).
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Photo #2: Class Central
Photo #3: freeCodeCamp
Photo #4: Codeacademy
Photo #5: Duolingo
Photo #6: Google Arts & Culture
Photo #7: TED Talks
Photo #8: edX
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Let's all relax, take a deep breath, and let the music sooth our soul. Concerts and opera performances may be cancelled, but some premiere arts organizations, including The Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Philharmonie, and Vienna State Opera, are offering free live streaming and access to their digital archives. Ordinarily, you might have to pay a hefty fee for some of these services, but in the spirit of healing through music, these groups are throwing open their virtual doors and sharing their treasures with the world.
The impact of cancellations on small, local community organizations is unprecedented. For them, every ticket matters – one canceled event could mean the difference between survival and closing their doors forever. Please consider contributing to your local arts organizations during this difficult time.
The Metropolitan Opera Nightly Opera Stream
A day after canceling upcoming performances, the Metropolitan Opera announced that it would stream encore presentations from the award-winning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions on the company website for the duration of the closure. The Met’s series of free opera streams begins with Bizet’s Carmen, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring Elīna Garanča and Robert Alagna. All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30pm EDT and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. The homepage link will open the performance on the Met Opera on Demand streaming service. The performance will also be viewable on all Met Opera on Demand apps.
Berlin Philharmonie Digital Concert Hall
The Berlin Philharmonie is closed for now, so they will come to you. The Digital Concert Hall is now free for everyone. Redeem the voucher code BERLINPHIL by March 31 and receive free access to all concerts and films in the concert archive. The Berlin Philharmonie has been the musical heart of Berlin since 1963. Located at the periphery of West Berlin when it opened, it became part of the new urban center after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The unusual tent-like shape and distinctive bright yellow color makes it one of the city’s most beloved landmarks. Although the unique architecture and innovative concert hall design initially ignited controversy, it now serves as a model for concert halls all over the world.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Replay Archive
Detroit Symphony Orchestra has made its Replay archive free to all visitors for a month. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, America’s fourth-oldest, has been at the center of Detroit’s musical heartbeat for more than 130 years. Today, under the direction of renowned Music Director Laureate Leonard Slatkin, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's primary performance venue is Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood.
Budapest Festival Quarantine Soirées
Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra will be live streaming nightly chamber concerts in a series they have called Quarantine Soirées on March 17, 18 and 19 at 11:45am Pacific Time. Since Ivan Fischer founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra more than 30 years ago, its inventiveness and the distinct ensemble tone have led to numerous accolades including two Gramophone Awards – the ‘Oscars of classical music’ – and has been nominated for a Grammy. The orchestra’s driving mission is to serve its home audience in over seventy concerts, along with making frequent appearances at alternative venues such as nursing homes, abandoned synagogues, hospitals, child care institutions, prisons and schools, where it can create an intimate connection with the audience.
Vienna State Opera Live Streaming
Vienna State Opera has opened its archives and is offering a different opera available to watch each day for free via its streaming platform. The first offering on March 16 is Adam Fischer conducting Das Rheingold in a performance recorded in 2016. You can catch the rest of the Ring cycle later this month, plus performances from Falstaff to Figaro and Eötvös’s Tri Sestry (Three Sisters). The Vienna State Opera is one of the world's most important opera houses, offering over 300 performances of more than 60 different operas and ballets per season. The artistic cornerstones of this opera house are the State Opera Orchestra / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the stage orchestra, the choir, the committed ensemble of singers, and the ballet ensemble.
Photo credits:
Photo #1: Vienna State Opera
Photo #2: Photo by Ken Howard / Met Opera
Photo #3: Berlin Philharmonie
Photo #4: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Photo #5: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Photo #6: Vienna State Opera
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If you love noodles as much as we do, there's no question that Koreatown is a noodle nut's paradise! Whether your're hankering for steaming bowls of soba, hand-pulled udon, knife-cut gook soo, or you're a fool for Pho, The Mansfield is just a slurp away from some of the best Asian noodle joints in the U.S. The restaurants tend to be stranded in neon-lit strip malls or hidden in plain sight, but don't let that stop you. The prices are generally quite reasonable and the food can be great! So get out there and start roamin' for ramen – and we're not just noodlin' around!
Ma Dang Gook Soo 869 S Western Ave #1 Los Angeles, CA 90005
It's easy to drive right past this Korean noodle shop, tucked into the corner of a big Koreatown mall on busy Western Avenue. But stop on by and you'll get to try gook soo, the signature noodles of Korea. Gook soo are flat and slightly stretchy, about the size of fettuccine, knife-cut from a thin sheet of rolled dough. The restaurant's basic gook soo, "Handmade Noodles," is served in a broth based on dried anchovies, garnished with seaweed, kimchi or bits of meat, and a few chunks of boiled potato. For a tangy change of pace, try the Kong-guksu, noodles served in a cold soy milk broth made fresh on premises, which pairs well with a kick of kimchi. Other dishes include soybean handmade noodles, steamed dumplings, and elastic spicy noodles.You can eat the gook soo as is, or spike it with the restaurant‘s smokin' chile-scallion condiment. SWIPE TO PAY ALERT: This restaurant is Cash Only!
Slurpin' Ramen Bar 3500 W 8th St. Los Angeles, CA 90005
The name Slurpin' Ramen pretty much says it all. This hip, affordable Japanese joint serves liquidy ramen bowls in an aray of sizes and guises, with ingredients sourced from local farmers' markets. The signature Slurpin' Ramen is Tonkotsu, a rich pork broth ramen that comes with green onion, garlic, dried seaweed, black garlic oil and choice of meat. Another interesting dish is Tsukemen, which consists of noodles which are eaten after being dipped in a separate bowl of soup or broth. Or try the Chashu bowl, a sybartic dish made of fattier cuts of pork braised over low heat––the low, slow cooking, renders out the fat while tenderizing the meat to melt-in-the mouth perfection. There's also a Veggie Ramen option and a selection of appetizers, most notably the bulgogi egg rolls.
KTown Pho 974 S Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90006
Expect to be treated like famlly by owners KT and Helen, who are excited to share their authentic home style Vietnamese cusine their customers. Using only the freshest ingredients, every dish strives to achieve that elusive, cuisine-defining balance of sweet, salty, and sour – even dessert. Start with the namesake Pho, a classic Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat, primarily made with either beef or chicken. Don't be shy, try the Bun, a healthy plate of vermicelli-like noodles, lettuce, fresh herbs, cucumber, carrots, bean sprouts, peanut, traditional Vietnamese dressing, and choice of pork or shrimp. Need more noodles? Go for the crispy wok stir-fried egg noodles, adorned with an assortment of vegetables and choice of meat. HUMP DAY ALERT: KTown Pho is closed on Wednesdays!
Odumak 338 S Western Ave, Ste D Los Angeles, CA 90020
Can't decide which noodle you love the most? How about a Korean-Sichuan restaurant owned by an ethnic Korean born in China, who speaks fluent Korean and Mandarin and Korean! Adding to the fusion confusion, Odumak's Chinese culinary roots are hot and spicy Sichuan, about as far away form Korea as you can get. And the Odumak BBQ is actually Korean yuksu bulgogi, thinly sliced beef in a soy-sauce based broth with julienned vegetables and glass noodles. Other standouts are the sweet spicy potato noodles on a rack and the moist, cumin-spiked toothpick lamb. BUZZ KILL: The last time we checked, Odumak did not have its liquor license. BYOB may be possible, but call first.
Hyesung Noodle House 125 N Western Ave #106, Los Angeles, CA 90004
One of the newest additions to the Koreatown noodle scene, Hyesung Noodle House is the first U.S. location of one of Seoul’s oldest noodle shops. The original was founded in 1968 by Min Sook Kim, who spent two months last year overseeing the LA opening. Moving forward, her son, Steven Bai, will be overseeing operations. Hyesung Noodle House specializes in kalguksu, or Korean knife-cut noodle soup, which is served with either an anchovy or chicken-based broth. The menu is very focused, featuring just four items, along with bossam (boiled pork belly), vegetable pancakes, beer, and soju (a traditional Korean distilled beverage).
Hangari Kalguksu 3470 W 6th St. Suite 9 10, Los Angeles, CA 90010
This popular restaurant specializes in Kalguksu, a Korean noodle dish consisting of handmade, knife-cut wheat flour noodles served in a large bowl with broth and other ingredients. The name comes from the fact that the noodles are cut, not extruded or spun. Choices include Spicy Seafood Kalguksu (hand-cut noodles in anchovy broth with clams, shrimp, 1/2 crab, mussels, potato and green onion); Chicken Kalguksu (hand-cut noodles in chicken soup with 1/2 chicken, potato, dried dates, onion and green onion); Kimchi Kalguksu (hand-cut noodles in anchovy broth with kimchi, clams, green onion and bean sprouts); and Yeolmu Bibim Guksu (thin noodles with sweet and spicy sauce, young radish kimchi, cucumber and 1/2 cold boiled egg). Plain and non-spicy versions are offered as well. ALERT: Hangari Kalguksu is take out only.
Myung Dong Kyoja 3630 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Myung Dong Kyoja is an unassuming kitchen dishing up kalguksu noodle soup, dumplings, and other Korean specialties, such as Sanchae Bibimbob (traditional Korean dish with a mixture of rice chili paste, sesame oil, and vegetables – mushrooms, bellflower coat, spinach bracken tern stems, lettuce, carrot, zucchini, bean sprouts, and radish – topped with an over-easy egg); Beef Bulgogi (marinated barbecued beef mixed in with onions); La Galbi (marinated beef short ribs with grilled onions); and Tteokguk (rice cake soup – thinly sliced rice cake with ground chicken and vegetables in chicken broth).
The Dragon Restaurant 966 S Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90006
Located in the heart of Koreatown, The Dragon Restaurant has been a popular place to go for Korean-influenced Northern Chinese cuisine for over 30 years. Established in 1980, this family owned restaurant is a testament to its commitment to high quality ingredients, delicious food, and excellent service. In addition to the main dining room, The Dragon also features 15 private dining rooms and banquet halls. Try the Chachiang Mein (also known as jjajangmyun), a Korean-style Chinese noodle dish topped with a thick sauce made of chunjang, seafood or diced pork, and vegetables.
Photo credits:
Photo #1: Image courtesy of Slurpin' Ramen Bar
Photo #2: Image courtesy of Ma Dang Gook Soo
Photo #3: Image courtesy of Slurpin' Ramen Bar
Photo #4: Image courtesy of KTown Pho
Photo #5: image courtesy of Yelp
Photo #6 – Image courtesy of Hyesung Noodle House
Photo #7 – Image courtesy of Hangari Kalguksu
Photo #8 – Image courtesy of Myung Dong Kyoja
Photo #9 – Image courtesy of The Dragon Restaurant
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What's better than a refreshing, ice cold beer to wash down a savory steak, juicy burger, or zesty plate of wings? If you're living at The Mansfield, you can head out in just about any direction and find a great brew. Koreatown is a beer-lovers haven, home to some of the foremost craft beer bars in LA. Nearby La Brea Avenue and the Fairfax District boast some great brewpubs where burgers reign supreme. Whether you prefer a comfy casual vibe, a hip destination, or an upscale elegant experience, you'll find the best craft beer bars near The Mansfield!
6th & La Brea Brewery & Restaurant 600 S La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Come on down to 6th & La Brea, where LA meets for some Cali fun! This friendly brewpub is smack dab in the center of Los Angeles – the perfect stop on your way to the La Brea Tar Pits or for waiting out the LA traffic on your way home. Watch your favorite sports on the large screen TV while sampling fresh brews and a California-inspired pub menu that runs the gamut from vegan buffalo cauliflower to a 12-ounce ribeye steak.
BiergartenLA 206 N Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90004
Established in 2010, Biergarten was Koreatown's first craft beer bar. Featured in The Food Network Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, this hip gaastropub offers Korean and German fusion food, along with other great bar food items. Beirgarten's extensive draft and tap list offers a vast selection of beers and ales from Germany, Iceland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, as well as domestic brands. The eclectic beer-friendly menu includes an assortment of burgers, bavarian pretzel, tempura fries, panko fried mushrooms, kimchi pancake, kielbasa corn dog, and German platters such as pork schnitzel and wurst.
The Southland 740 S Western Ave #112 Los Angeles, CA 90005
Locted just a few blocks south of the Wiltern in the back corner of the Heyman Center, The Southland is a great pre- or post-concert pit stop. The folks behind The Southland are self-acclaimed craft beer lovers whose dream was to creat a bar to for patrons to hang out in, featuring rotating taps, knowledgable and friendly staff, a smartly-curated bottle shop, and cool events. The name Southland celebrates the bounty of great beer in southern California, but the selection includes beers from around the world. The gastropub offers cheese boards and sausages to pair with your beer, along with small plates featuring spiced popcorn, smoked nuts, olives, and desserts from Pasta Sisters.
Beer Belly 532 S Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90020
Since opening in 2011, Beer Belly has been the K-Town go-to gastropub for craft beer aficionados, garnering them an appearance on The Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Beer Belly offers 12 rotating taps serving up a fine choice of local brews, and a rotating bottle selection featuring seasonal, domestic and international beers, and the occasional rare bottle from owner Jimmy Han’s personal collection. Nosh on their super-indugent beer snack: Death by Duck fries, tossed in duck fat, smoked salt and sweet onion sugar, with crispy duck skin cracklins and duck confit on top, while getting an eyeful of the colorful wall murals by artist Yoshi Takahashi.
Pocha Moodaepo 3014 W 7th St. Los Angeles, CA 90005
Customer reviews have rated Pocha Moodaepo as one of the best Korean Bars in LA, with a reputation for a friendly environment where people can share food and culture. The establishment offers a lively beer menu, along with craft sake, and traditonal Korean wine. Pocha Moodaepo's restaurant menu showcases simple ingredients and generous servings of signature dishes such as short rib, prime ribeye, sirloin, brisket, lobster, tiger shrimp, and scallops. Other highlights include signature Korean hot pot, hot stone bibimbap, and stir fries.
Korea Town Pizza Company 3881 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010
Koreatown Pizza Company is a sleek pizzeria in the heart of Koreatown, offering specialty pizzas & pastas, and a robust craft beer list of over 40 labels including 6 draft taps. There are also bombers, cans, draft beer pours, and wine and soju to boot. To keep their pizza game strong, dough is made fresh on-site and always goes through a 24-hour fermentation process. Pizzas are topped with an array of high quality ingredients, served in a family-friendly environment. The establishment also has a private event space for celebrations and corporate events.
Nandarang LA 3811 W 6th St. Los Angeles, CA 90020
When you go to Nandarang LA, come thirsty, my friend. This popular boîte offers an impressive list of internationsl and domestic draft, bottled and canned beers, incuding stout, pale ale, pale lager, pilsner, and fruity Belgian brews, along with a good wine selection. The eclectic food menu features specialties such as Bulgogi Pasta (bulgogi, onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, green onions, soy garlic aioli), Carbonaran Pasta (pancetta, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, egg yolk), bulgogi tacos served with green onions and salsa), Galbi Sliders served with fries, and Animal Style Fries (fries tossed in homemade sweet and spicy sauce topped with bacon, kimchi, grilled onions, and sunny-side up egg).
Escala Chapman Market 3451 W 6th St. Los Angeles, CA 90020
Created by Seoul Sausage chef Chris Oh, EsCaLA is a Colombian Korean restobar known for an intriguing selection of European, Domestic and Columbian beers, along with an eclectic food, specialty cocktails, guest DJs, and Sunday brunch parties. The menu has been crafted to suit the highly discerning palate of LA natives, while respecting and maintaining the authenticity of Latin American flavors. Everything from the menu, to the wall art and music have been chosen with the intention of replicating the life experiences of the people who dreamed Escala into reality.
The Golden State 426 N Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles 90036
The Golden State was opened in 2007 by two friends who had very limited restaurant experience and mostly no idea what they were doing. All they knew was that they cared about California, and showing off just how great the products of their home state could be. The result was one of the most unique and exciting craft beer lists in the city, a wildly popular beer float, and a burger that LA Weekly and Zagat called amongst the best in all of Los Angeles. The Golden State boasts a small menu of burgers, salads, sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream and daily specials that our fiercely loyal customers will continue to enjoy for years to come.
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One of the fastest growing communities in Los Angeles, Koreatown is a thriving focal point of commerce rivaling Chinatown and Little Tokyo. A diverse cultural hub centered on Wilshire Boulevard, stretching from Vermont to Western, KTown is a mash-up of traditional mom-and-pop shops, global enterprises, stylish retail, and trendy eateries. If you're looking for some unique retail therapy, get off the beaten path and shop LA's Koreatown!
Koreatown Plaza 928 S Western Ave., Los Angeles 90006
Located at Western and 9th Street, this three-story indoor shopping mall is home to some 70 shops including a grocery store, a multitude of skincare shops, home goods, jewelry, and one of the best food courts in the area. Got K-Pop fans on your birthday gift list? Music Plaza will fill the bill. Fancy House carries knick-knacks, stationery, Hello Kitty, K-pop paraphernalia, and Korean plush toys. Looking for home goods? ABC Plaza offers everything from Korean cookware to English dishware, as well as home appliances, lunchboxes, and personal goods. For high-end handbags and shoes from designers like Celine, Lanvin, Chloe, Balenciaga, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Alexander McQueen, don't miss Parashu, Rodeo Handbag and Milano.
MaDang the Courtyard 621 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles 90005
This modern three-level outdoor shopping and entertainment center is considered one of the more demographically mixed centers in Koreatown. H Mart, an Asian American supermarket, offers fresh produce, meats, groceries, and trendy Asian foods. Daiso is a Japanese chain store with a little bit of everything, including bento boxes and a plethora of utensil paraphernalia, stationery, home goods, origami tools and cosmetics. Check out Cosmetic World for a wide selection of American and Japanese brands such as Clinique, Estee Lauder, SK-II, Fresh, Shiseido, and Clarins. The Face Shop is a Korean franchise that carries lines of natural cosmetics and shares space with Chocolate Chair. For media lovers, Aladdin Books is the first L.A. branch of a Korean chain known for buying and selling old Korean books, English books, CDs, and DVDs.
Koreatown Galleria 3250 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 90006
Koreatown Galleria is the ultimate shopping destination, offering a one-stop shopping experience with over 70 stores, including apparel, beauty, pharmacy & health, video, books, and more. The Galleria Market, the largest Korean market in Los Angeles, carries mostly Korean products, as well as a good selection of Japanese and Chinese goods. There's also an elaborate seafood section with prepared sashimi, whole fish, and live fruits of the sea, including octopus, abalone, prawns, lobsters, and Dungeness crab, perfect for holiday entertaining. The market also includes Cake House (Korean bakery chain), Dong Bang Mi ln, (rice cake bakery), VNS Chicken, and an orchid shop.
Koreatown Galleria: Kitchen Plus 3250 W. Olympic Blvd. #113 Los Angeles 90006
For the best deals to stock up your kitchen, head to Kitchen Plus at the Koreatown Galleria. Located in the basement, this restaurant supply store offers restaurant quality kitchenware with a focus on the Asian kitchen. The space is filled with aisles bulging with over 15,000 items, mostly imported from Korea. Although they cater to mainly to restaurateurs, there are still plenty of treasures for the home cook including glassware, ceramic dishes, napkins, placemats, steamers, pots and pans, cooling racks, knives, trash cans, cutting boards, and plastic containers – at prices that won't break the bank.
City Center on 6th 3500 W 6th St. Los Angeles 90020
City Center on 6th is a three-story 165,000 square foot entertainment center providing retail shopping, an expansive food court and full service restaurants for the rapidly developing Wilshire Center. With over 60 tenants, including popular destinations like Cake House, EMC Seafood, and Crystal Spa, City Center on 6th features a sweeping skylight bringing in plenty of natural light.to enhance your shopping experience. In addition to providing mainstream retail for the thousands of people who live and work in the surrounding area, City Center on 6th serves as a congenial central meeting place for people to eat, shop, relax, and have fun.
Poketo@THE LINE 3515 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010
Since its foundation in 2003 by husband-and-wife team Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung, Poketo has grown from a small startup into a creative hub and online destination for design-driven goods infused with aesthetic intentionality. Collections include everything from furniture & lighting to apothecary, tabletop, textiles, books & prints, and apparel. If you can't find what you're looking for at Poketo, it probably doesn't exist!
Chapman Market 3465 W 6th St. Los Angeles 90189
With 1929 Spanish Colonial revival architecture, handsome wrought iron fences and art deco touches, you can sense Chapman Market’s history as you enter the doors. Formerly known as Chapman Plaza – often referred to as the world’s first drive-through grocery store or drive-in market – Chapman Market is now home to Korean-run establishments such as Gaam, a spacious lounge and eatery serving Korean pub food paired with soju (Korean rice wine) cocktails; and Toebang Cafe, a trendy restaurant specializing in Korean BBQ, bibimbap (rice with meat, vegetables and hot sauce), soju and beer. Ready for some Shibuya style? Shibuya LA offers over 7,000 authentic Japanese cosmetics, skin care products and more, ranging from makeup and face masks to snacks and drinks.
Sixth Sense Los Angeles 3881 W. 6th St, Los Angeles 90020
This family-owned home furnishings and accessories store has proudly provided hip and trendy furniture items since 2016. If you're looking for some really unique gifts or home decor, don't let the high end look of the merchandise scare you away – this store is surprisingly reasonable, especially given the good quality of the pieces. You'll find a great selection of smallers gift items, from cheeky scented candles to kitchen accessories, decorative accents, textiles, frames, tableware, wall decor, and other home accesories.
Karen's Garden 3877 W 6th St, Los Angeles 90020
Karen's Garden is a floral studio with a team of artisans, offering floral designs for all of life's celebrations. In addition to luscious floral arrangements, they also have a great selection of hand selected live plants. A clever complement to your home decor, plants are easy to maintain, help purify the air, and enhance your sense of well-being.
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If you're searching for the perfect accessory to spruce up your home in the New Year, consider becoming a plant parent! House plants are ideal for urban living – they bring nature into your home and studies indicate that plants reduce stress, help purify the air, reduce noise, improve wellness and even increase your creativity. Plants also add drama and energy to your home decor. If you have a furry friend, make sure that your new plant family members are non-toxic to nibbling pooches and felines. Check out this list of pet-friendly flowers & plants from Teleflora. Now that you're ready for plant-parenthood, here are some inspiring ideas to get you started.
As with any kind of home decor, a houseplant collection looks best when you’ve got variety – of leaf, shape, texture, color, and size. And that means sometimes you have to go big. Large leaf houseplants can tie a room together and lend an air of tropical tranquility your desk cactus just can’t achieve, no matter how hard it tries. Looking for inspiration? Apartment Therapy has some great suggestions for big leaf houseplants to bring big style to your home.
The Plant Provocateur 3318 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026
Owner Hank Jenkins admits that he's obsessed with plants and how they influence beauty, design, and lifestyle. Originally from the backwoods of Michigan, the garden designer, author, and former glam rock band front, has a mission to "Inspire with Plants" and encouirages folks to aspire to the beauty plants provide. Specializiing in unique and sometimes hard-to-find house plants, The Plant Provocateur also sells planting supplies and a curated selection of vases, jars, pots, and other interesting display vessels.
Sunset Blvd Nursery 4368 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039
Located in the heart of Silverlake on the corner of Sunset Blvd & Fountain Ave., Sunset Nursery has been family owned and operated since 1959. The nusery carries a wide selection of house plants, from small to large, to freshen your interior. Add pizzaz to your balcony with an array of colorful cacti and succulents, California native and drought tolerant plants. They also offer flower pots imported from all over the world and an extensive line of organic fertilizers and eco-friendly plant products to keep your plants happy, healthy, and all-natural.
Mickey Hargitay Plants 1255 N Sycamore Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Plant yourself in one of Los Angeles' premiere nurseries, whose clients include Sony Design Center, Whole Foods Market, Calvin Klein Studio, Tommy Hilfiger, and an astonishing list of celebrities. The 1,500-square-foot greenhouse is home to a wide selection of indoor and outdoor tropical plants of all sizes. They also stock decorative containers in Italian Terra Cotta, Malaysian and Chinese Ceramics, Mexican Red Clay and Rattan baskets. More than a store, Mickey Hargitay Plants can help with your interior and exterior landscape and design needs. They also offer a guaranteed indoor plant maintenance service, with a weekly visit by one of their expertly-trained technicians.
6 Easy Ways to Keep Your Plants Alive During the Dark Days of Winter
Baby, it’s cold outside, and since your indoor plants can’t exactly slip on a sweater, the change in season means attending to them with a little extra care. Well and Good has some tips for keeping your plants happy and healthy, like increasing the light with a grow light, stabilizing indoor temperature, skipping the fertilizer, and remembering to dust!
Bloomscape Subscription Service for Plants
Everyone should live with a little more green – and Bloomscape is here to help strengthen your relationship with plants. They make buying plants easy by delivering healthy, ready-to-go plants to your door and setting you up with the tips and tricks you need to help your plants thrive. plants make life better. Bloomscape comes from five generations of greenhouse growers and floral industry innovators, and their roots go all the way back to ancestors who were pioneers in the Netherlands’ horticulture industry. Plants are shipped with care and experience, at the right temperature to protect their roots and keep them healthy while they travel from the greenhouse to your home.
Let Your Plants Play Music, and Gardens of Sound Will Bloom
PlantWave turns a plant's biorhythms into music. Just attach two sensors to a plant’s leaves and PlantWave connects wirelessly to an iOS or Android device running the app. PlantWave converts the electrical conductivity of houseplants into audio, giving plants the chance to sing, by detecting slight electrical variations on the leaves. These variations are graphed as a wave, which is translated into pitch messages that play musical instruments designed by the PlantWave team. Other characteristics of the wave change the textural qualities of those sounds. The result is a continuous stream of pleasing music that gives you a sonic window into the secret life of plants.
If you want to live longer, surround yourself with plants
If you want to live longer, live around green space. That’s the simple conclusion of the largest analysis ever performed on the relationship between the environment and human longevity – ever. Eight million people. Seven countries. One simple finding: People who lived near more green space lived longer than people who lived near less. All the more reason to put some plants in your life!
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November is a magical time of year! The weather is still a bit balmy, but the days are growing shorter and the lights are low. Time to kick off the season with cozy concerts, culinary delights, intriguing exhibitions – and maybe a movie or two! Here are some of LA's best bets to Fall Back this November.
Louis Vuitton X 468 N. Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Until Nov 10 Louis Vuitton unveils the exhibit Louis Vuitton X, an impressive journey through the Maison's 160-year history of creative exchanges and artistic collaborations. Across the two floors of the iconic 468 North Rodeo Drive building in Beverly Hills, Vuitton X draws on over 180 items from Louis Vuitton's archives and scenography to trace the Maison's pioneering journey. The exhibition brings together a remarkable collection of early twentieth-century special order trunks, beautiful art deco perfume bottles and window displays commissioned and designed by Louis Vuitton's grandson Gaston-Louis, iconic Monogram bags reworked by renowned artists and designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Rei Kawakubo, Cindy Sherman, and Frank Gehry, and original collaborations and commissions by artists including Yayoi Kusama, Richard Prince, and Zaha Hadid. Free Admission.
Griffith Park Harvest FestIval 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Nov 10 Celebrate autumn’s glory in L.A.’s largest urban park! Now in its third year, the Griffith Park Harvest Festival is an all-day celebration that brings together visitors and residents from across Los Angeles on Veteran’s Day weekend. Join in the fun with live music, a variety of innovative food trucks, a beer garden featuring independent craft brews, dozens of local vendor booths, plus a Kids Zone that includes a climbing wall, bounce houses, pumpkin painting, and more. Once the sun sets, there will be a screening of the acclaimed Disney-Pixar film “Coco” under the stars. Free admission.
Dessert Goals Evolve Project LA 1921 Blake Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90039
Nov 9-10, 16-17 Don your tie-dye and tropical prints and gather your dessert-loving friends, because Dessert Goals is back in LA for the Tie Dye Tiki edition presented by Chase Sapphire®! General Admissions ticket includes entrance into the event for 1.5 hours; access to a drool-worthy roundup of 20+ of the best dessert vendors in LA (+ a few from New York), with desserts available for purchase; a Candy Bar with free candy; a savory Salt Bar to cleanse your palate; complimentary Rise Brewing Co cold brew coffee, Boxed Water, Vita Coco, OLIPOP + Koia; one complimentary snack from My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream; and more. Share your fun in an Instagram Garden designed specifically for all your 'gramming needs, filled with custom Insta-friendly backdrops.
Nov 14 -21 AFI FEST presented by Audi is a world-class event, showcasing the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the eight-day film festival presents screenings, panels and conversations, featuring both master filmmakers and new voices. Special events at the festival take place at iconic LA locations, such as the historic TCL Chinese Theatre and the glamorous Hollywood Roosevelt. Each year, AFI FEST showcases more than 125 films each year in several exciting sections which include Galas, Special Screenings, New Auteurs, Documentary, World Cinema, Cinema’s Legacy and Shorts. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI FEST as a qualifying festival for both Short Films categories of the annual Academy Awards®.
Candlelight Concerts Immanuel Presbyterian Cathedral 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010
Calm your mind and experience classical music in a new light with these sensational concerts by candlelight in some of Los Angeles’ most beautiful churches. Simply known as Candlelight, this event invites everyone to relive the greatest works of classical music, from Vivaldi to Mozart to Bach, in an intimate atmosphere. And after having enormous success around the world—in cities like London, Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, and NYC — the experience has finally made its way to the West Coast!
Manet and Modern Beauty Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90049
Edouard Manet was a provocateur and a dandy, the Impressionist generation's great painter of modern Paris. This first-ever exhibition to explore the last years of Manet's short life and career reveals a fresh and surprisingly intimate aspect of this celebrated artist's work. Stylish portraits, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels and watercolors, and vivid café and garden scenes convey Manet's elegant social world and reveal his growing fascination with fashion, flowers, and modern femininity, as embodied in the parisienne. This exhibition has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art LACMA 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art celebrates one of the most distinctive and compelling aspects of Japanese art: the depiction of animals. Underpinned by Japan's unique spiritual heritage of Shinto and Buddhism, the Japanese reverence for nature—and the place of animals within that realm—is expressed in sculpture, painting, lacquer-work, ceramics, metalwork, cloisonné, and woodblock prints. Lions, dogs, horses, oxen, cats, fish, insects, birds, dragons, phoenixes—animals warm and cold-blooded, real and imaginary—are meticulously and beautifully rendered in myriad works from ancient 6th-century clay sculpture to contemporary art. Arranged in themes such as Zodiac Animals, Animals from Nature, Religion, Myth and Folklore, and Leisure, the exhibition draws heavily from LACMA’s permanent collection and includes masterpieces from Japanese and American public and private collections, some of which are on view for the first time.
Tokyo Pop Underground Jeffrey Dietch Gallery 925 N Orange Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Opens Nov 23 Until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the Japanese language did not have a word for fine art. The word bijutsu was constructed, combining Chinese characters bi, for beauty, and jutsu, for craft. This hybrid term reveals the unique trajectory of Japanese contemporary art, different from the foundations of contemporary art in the West. Tokyo Pop Underground, curated by Tokyo gallerist Shinji Nanzuka, explores the complex history of Japanese contemporary art from the 1960s to the present through the works of seventeen artists who emerged from pop and underground culture. The artists in Tokyo Pop Underground reflect the strains in contemporary Japanese culture as it rebuilt itself after the ruins of war and confronts numerous natural disasters. Their work reflects what Nanzuka describes as “the crazy cross-cultural exchange” between the West, the East, and the Far East, shaping a new international artistic language.
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