Events for August 19th, 2008
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Tuesday - August 19th
Restaurants / Dining Event
Taste of Tuesday @ Whist
Whist - 1819 Ocean Ave. - Santa Monica
Taste of Tuesdays happen poolside at Whist through Labor Day. From 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesdays, “tastes” of Chef Warren Schwartz' creative dishes as well as cocktails are available for $5 each. An outdoor grill serves most of the bites, which might include miso soy salmon with spicy cucumber or...
Restaurants / Dining Event
Olympic Spirit @ Beacon
Beacon - 3280 Helms Ave. - Culver City (Art District)
Beacon celebrates the Beijing Olympics with Chinese-inspired specials, offered daily for the duration of the Games. Of course, chef Kazuto Matsusaka's menu of progressive Pan-Asian creations will also be on hand. Specials from the kickoff weekend included: • Potstickers of pork, leek and...
Restaurants / Dining Event
Crudo Tuesdays @ Il Grano
Il Grano - 11359 Santa Monica Blvd. - Los Angeles (West L.A.)
Crudo Tuesdays return to Il Grano. Chef Salvatore Marino keeps it raw with his Italian-style preparation of raw seafood. The freshest fish roll into downtown L.A. fish markets on Tuesdays, so you know you’ll be getting the good stuff. Sample cuts like the Japanese wild stone...
Style / Things To Do
Patagonia summer sale
Patagonia - 2936 Main St. - Santa Monica
Save up to 60 percent on all your favorite outdoor gear
Restaurants / Dining Event
Valentino 35th Anniversary menu
V-vin Wine Bar - 3115 Pico Blvd. - Santa Monica
Valentino is celebrating its 35th anniversary all year long. A three course primi menu will be offered nightly at V-vin bar for a prix-fixe of—you guessed it—$35. Weekly changing selections will highlight Valentino's exceptional Italian cuisine: antipasti of crudo from new "Crudo" chef Taku...
Restaurants / Dining Event
Week Day Happy Hour @ X Bar
X Bar - 2025 Avenue of the Stars - Century City (Century City)
X Bar’s Week Day Happy Hour debuts for summer. All beers, wines, well drinks, and small plates are half price 4 pm-6:30 pm. Selections include Asian bao buns with shredded pork, brie and walnut quesadilla triangles, boneless short rib squares, and popcorn shrimp. On Mondays,...
Restaurants / Desserts
Events / Museum Exhibit
"Please Be Seated" - Nicole Cohen
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Nicole Cohen saw the Getty's collection of 18th Century French chairs and wanted to sit in them. Of course she couldn't, but she made the chairs the subject of a video installation piece wherein participants get to see what they would look like sitting in the chairs. Working with Mike Fair to...
Events / Art
August Sander - People of the Twentieth Century
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
A commercial photographer with a portrait studio in a suburb of Cologne, August Sander set out to create an "atlas" of his fellow citizens. Starting in 1910, Sander photographed a social cross-section of the German people, filing away his images into seven groupings (farmers, skilled tradesmen,...
Events / Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher - Basic Forms
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
A husband and wife team, Bernd and Hilla Becher have been photographing industrial architecture for almost 50 years (he died in 2007). Using a large-format camera, they've travelled through Western Europe and America capturing lonely, massive structures—often abandoned remnants of vanished...
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