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Michele Stueven

Balloons over Boyle Heights
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Balloons Over Boyle Heights

October 28, 2024

The Balloon Museum will bring its immersive art installation to Ace Mission Studios in Los Angeles’s Arts District on Wednesday, October 30, and run through March 16, 2025. Located along the L.A. River in the industrial flats of Boyle Heights,  the Ace Mission Studios  Balloon Museum “Let’s Fly” exhibit features installations by 21 artists including Filthy Luker, Tadao Cern, MyeongBeom Kim, Ouchhh, SpY, Max Streicher, Karina Smigla – Bobinski, Michael Shaw, ENESS, Roman Hill, Quiet Ensemble, Rub Kandy, Cyril Lancelin, Sila Sveta, Camilla Falsini, MOTORE FISICO, Alex Schweder, Hyperstudio, Mauro Pace, and Sasha Frolova.  It also marks the debut of the Balloon Museum’s…

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Chef Michael Mina Is Back At The Beach With Orla at The Regent Santa Monica

September 12, 2024

James Beard Award-winning Chef Michael Mina is bouncing back after a two-year hiatus with his most stunning concept yet, Orla, which opened in September in the Regent Santa Monica Hotel. “Orla is an incredibly personal concept for me, taking inspiration from my childhood,” Mina says during a tour of the property, in between grilling herb-marinated lamb chops with black harissa. “I was born in Egypt and grew up in a very Middle Eastern household. My father was from Alexandria and my mother was from Cairo. A lot of the food that I grew up eating I thought my whole life…

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Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week Returns May 31st

May 31, 2024

During Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week, a record 80 restaurants will offer prix-fixe menus with lunch priced at $15, $25 or $35, and dinner menus priced at $29, $39, $49 or $59. In addition to prix-fixe selections, some venues feature exclusive special offers only available during restaurant week. First-timers to this year’s food festival include the new upscale Mexican restaurant Mole in Palm Desert, which will feature a $49 dinner menu that consists of a choice of a creamy chipotle Caesar salad or chicken fideo soup, braised beef suadero enchilada or an achiote chile basted snapper filet and house-made tres…

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The Biltmore Los Angeles Celebrates 100 Years

December 17, 2023

It was home to the 1960 Democratic National Convention when John F. Kennedy was announced as the party’s presidential nominee, one of the last sightings of the Black Dahlia in 1947, the site of a significant gay rights protest against the psychiatric establishment listing homosexuality as a disease, and for its role in the death of the famous Pershing Square critter, Benny A. Squirrel. The Biltmore Los Angeles celebrates its centennial this year, and if only those walls could talk. Recently designated as a Los Angeles Historic cultural monument, the building was originally designed by architecture firm Schultze & Weaver,…

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