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World video travel guide
News • California • United States • 2012-08-09
Los Angeles News August 2012
Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival
The Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival, Los Angeles’ premier culinary extravaganza, is taking place August 9-12 in Downtown, Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Headquartered at L.A. LIVE, the event, which benefits St. Vincents Meals on Wheels, features culinary experiences, demonstrations, and exclusive dining experiences. The Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival also revives the Celebrity Chef Power Lunch Series, featuring notable chefs Wolfgang Puck and Charles Phan at WP24; Joachim Splichal and Hubert Keller at Patina Restaurant and Ari Rosenson and Lydia Shire at CUT. Santa Monica plays host toSummer At The Shore Hosted By Graham Elliot and, in Beverly Hills, I Heart Champagne & Caviar will take place at The Montage Beverly Hills. Rounding out the weekend are the marquee events hosted at L.A. LIVE;Giada\'s Festa Italiana, Asian Night Market Hosted By Andrew Zimmern, Lexus LIVE On The Plaza With Wolfgang Puck & Friends featuring a musical performance by Third Eye Blind and Saturday and Sunday’s Lexus Grand Tastings. Presented by Coastal Luxury Management (CLM), Los Angeles Food & Wine spans the length of the city and offers guests the chance to sample the cuisines and products from some of the world’s most prominent epicurean influencers, while enjoying the sights and sounds of the entertainment industry’s brightest film and musical talents. Tickets for all of the events taking place over the four-day period are available at www.lafw.com.
Three Days. Two Nights. 3,000 Years of Art and Culture.
Visitors can experience everything from antiquities to modern masterpieces at LA’s leading museums. This fall, visitors who book two nights or more at participating Los Angeles hotels get FREE admission for two adults to over two dozen of LA’s top museums – a value of more than $500. Plus, visitors can take advantage of special museum store discounts and 25% off admission to Cleopatra: The Exhibition at the California Science Center. The promotion will run on a variety of travel sites including www.expedia.com, www.orbitz.com, and www.hotels.com. Hotel packages will also be available directly through www.discoverLosAngeles.com for participating hotels starting October 1. The promotion runs for a limited time from October 1 – November 11, 2012.
Eagerly Awaited Civic Park Opens in Downtown
Downtown Los Angeles has a fresh, new green space for visitors and residents to enjoy. Civic Park opened Blocks 1 and 2 from Grand Avenue to Hill Street on July 28, 2012. When the whole 12- to-16-acre park is finished, it will unify the landmark institutions in Los Angeles\' Civic Center area from Bunker Hill and the Music Center to the steps of City Hall. Continuing design plans will break the rectangular spaces into several mini-parks, retaining many existing mature trees. The $56-million project, designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios, will be Downtown’s largest park. Plans are for Blocks 3 and 4 to open in the fall of 2012. Once complete, the space will also be used for concerts, farmers markets, outdoor readings and festivals. http://civicpark.lacounty.gov
LAX Hotels Go Green
Several Los Angeles International Airport area hotels officially get to boast that they are helping to care for the planet. Five major hotels are now participating in the LA Green Lodging Program, part of the Los Angeles Green Business Certification Program. In less than three years, the Gateway to L.A. business district hotels, including the Radisson; the Sheraton Gateway Hotel; the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel; the Crowne Plaza LAX; and, most recently, the 17-story Hilton Los Angeles Airport and Tower, earned their certificates. Each hotel had to undergo a rigorous process of transformation to earn the Green Seal. Compliance standards include waste minimization and reduction, recycling and energy efficiency, water conservation, indoor air quality and buying products that will be environmentally sound. Accumulatively, these five properties have a total inventory of nearly 4,000 guestrooms. Here is one example of going green by using new green operational procedures. It is estimated 2.6 million soap bars are discarded every day by American hotels, which will end up in landfills. Green hotels can donate the discarded soap to those developing countries with limited access to hygienic products. www.gatewaytola.org
Endeavour Coming to the California Science Center
The Space Shuttle Endeavour will be transferred to the California Science Center in Los Angeles this fall, where it will be on view to the public in an Endeavour Display Pavilion. The pavilion will house the shuttle until the new Air and Space Center is built, due to open in 2017. The Space Shuttle first flew in May 1992, replacing Challenger, which was lost in 1986. Before arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, at the end of September, officials are making plans to have the shuttle fly over the Hollywood Sign and other landmarks. Then, in mid-October, the Endeavour will be towed from the airport to the museum near Downtown – a move that will require taking out traffic lights and closing streets. Admission to the California Science Center is free.www.californiasciencecenter.org.
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AT THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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