FROM PERKS
Any serious photographer knows about Hasslebad. Hell, they put cameras on the moon. And now, Perks is bringing you one of the 74-year-old company’s finest, most groundbreaking digital cameras, plus a gratis Hasselbad x Sandqvist leather tote bag to carry it around in. Your Instagram feed may never be the same.
THE PURSUIT OF PAPPYNESS
Tickets are now available for Langley Social Club’s “Unobtanium” dinner, featuring the full lineup of Pappy Van Winkle whiskey with dinner from Barbara Jean’s Jason Fullilove. You’ll even get to try the unobtainable Pappy 25-Year. Which should make any concerns about spending $5,000 on dinner quickly dissolve.
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO LEBROCK
Weird Science. It’s easily the best movie about two nerds creating a beautiful woman on their computer from the entire ’80s. And on Thursday, LACMA will show it while local rockers Kinky provide a live soundtrack. Otherwise, LACMA probably wouldn’t be showing Weird Science.
BACK IN THE SADDLE
Sometimes 100-plus-year-old restaurants feel the need to shake things up. Like Saddle Peak Lodge, which is totally changing its steakhouse-y menu into more of a shareable plates situation involving an emu flat iron and shrimp poached in uni butter. Hey, as long as there’s emu.
SCOOP, THERE IT IS
It’s only getting hotter, but Republique has a solution. It now has an ice cream-dispensing window called the Cremerie, serving 12 rotating flavors that change each day like pistachio, gianduja and strawberry sorbet. Crazy, but it just might work.
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
It’s Sunday and you need Filipino food. Seven courses of it. So you’ll attend Rice & Shine’s pop-up brunch involving things like ube waffles, calamansi mimosas and sisig chilaquiles. Your needs are so specific and so gratifying to fulfill.
Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.
