Those look like random numbers, sure, but they’re actually the years that some of these vintage watches were made. Watches that work just as well as they did back then. But unlike then, they’re attached to leather straps and we have penicillin.
THE MARTIN CHRONICLES
The Departed Always Did Lack a Good Mezzo-Soprano
Imagine Martin Scorsese cast talented and photogenic singers to carry Goodfellas, The Departed and Casino. It might look a little bit like For the Record’s new live show, which puts a tuneful spin on the director’s films. De Niro doesn’t do singing.
SO HAPPY TOGETHER
New Happy Hour. New Sports Bar. New You.
Wednesday afternoon: You’re drinking margaritas with cilantro crystals and eating suckling pig tacos at 1212’s new weekday happy hour. Wednesday night: You’re watching the game with friends over draft wine and filet mignon at Silver Lake’s new 33 Taps. Thursday morning: Ugh, not doing that.
Friday
PRESTIGE WORLDWIDE
You Don’t Need a Reason to Visit Catalina. Still...
You should go to Catalina this weekend. There’s going to be a three-day, Step Brothers–inspired wine mixer featuring drinking by the beach and live bands playing in the sea breeze. It’s also just a really nice place to visit from time to time.
Saturday
DESTROY STORY
It’s Breakfast. We Think.
Red Medicine’s Jordan Kahn has a new breakfast and lunch spot called Destroyer. You’ll find raw oatmeal with red currant, parsnip soup with banana and fresh cheese dumplings with snap peas there. You will not find Count Chocula.
Sunday
POINT BAKE
These Are Not Your Ordinary Cakes and Cookies
Some of the town’s best pastry chefs are rallying in Hollywood this Sunday for a benefit starring lots of sweet stuff. Expect cookies, biscuits and cakes from people like Roxana Jullapat, Bestia’s Genevieve Geris and Craft’s Shannon Swindle. A bake sale was easier than putting on a show.
Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.
