LAaLALanders,
This weekend’s events include: LA Times Travel Show, Chinese New Year Celebrations, Museums Free For All, Vintage Clothing & Textile Show, Paramount Pictures Tribute, and more!
Have a great time.
EnJOY…
LAaLA
ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND THE LAaLALand Alert!!!! IS NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THE WHEREABOUTS ADJUST. PLEASE CHECK WITH THE EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
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THE NOHO DINE OUT FRIDAYS
Hit Noho every Friday for this event filled with gourmet food trucks, boutique tables and street performers… There’s a new Laemmle Noho 7 Movie Theatre nearby on Lankershim – http://www.laemmle.com/
5pm-8pm
The Parking Lot next to the Twins Palms Apt
11458 Burbank Blvd just West of Lankershim
North Hollywood 91601
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113TH ANNUAL GOLDEN DRAGON PARADE 
110,000 individuals line the parade route to experience this colorful celebration along North Broadway in Chinatown. There will be two dozen floats, multiple marching bands, entertainers, and cultural groups. The beginning of the Lunar New Year is the most celebrated holiday of the year for nearly 1.5 million persons of Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese descent in Southern California. It is celebrated with colorful festivals, parades, and most importantly, large family gatherings. It is also a time when ancestors are fondly remembered and families give thanks for their blessings. Red packets of money (“Lai See” or “Hung Bao”) and firecrackers add fun and excitement to the Chinese New Year celebration. Happy Year of the Dragon!
Free
1pm
Hill Street at Temple toward Bernard.
Los Angeles
“MAINIFEST DESTINY” PHOTO EXHIBIT & OPENING RECEPTION
Enjoy music provided by Ethnomusicologist Marlon Fuentes and artwalk by artists: Randi Berez, Claudio Cambon, Larry S. Clark, Nicholas Alan Cope, Amanda Friedman, Michael Kelley, Lisa Romerein and Todd Weaver.
Free
6-9pm reception, exhibit thru 3.17.12
Analog Salon
Samitaur Constructs
3535 Hayden Street
Culver City 90232
LA FASHION BLOGGER HOSTS 4TH SATURDAY AT FOUR LA 
Join the winner of FOUR LA’s “Fans Fashion Favorite” Blogger Contest, Maria Carolina Blanco (http://Simplymariacarolina.tumblr) as she unveils her blogger closet from 2-4pm. Her closet will feature her favorite items at FOUR, all marked 60% OFF!
Free
11am-7pm
FOUR LA
8016 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles 90046
http://www.icontact-archive.com/0mYRqle2PnrHLlQdBCQVJS115ouRk_-y?w=2
OTIS PORTABLE PARKS IV PROJECT @ SANTA MONICA PLACE
Santa Monica Place hosts this collaborative partnership between Otis College of Art and Design, and The Getty Foundation’s Research Institute, PST’s Public Art and Performance Festival called the Portable Parks IV Project. The Portable Parks IV will temporarily transform the Center Plaza into a garden setting; raising awareness of environmental sustainability and unveiling different aspects of consumer culture to the diverse visitors to Santa Monica Place.
Lead artist Bonnie Sherk has designed “The Flower Unfolding”, a large garden of edible plants conceived specifically for the Santa Monica Place Center Plaza. Free
11am-2pm through February 5th
Santa Monica Place
395 Santa Monica Place
Santa Monica
http://www.santamonicaplace.com/Events/Details/45749
NOHO FARMER’S MARKET
The NoHo Arts District Farmers Market is a festive, family-friendly, open-air marketplace committed to bringing fresh, locally-grown food to the surrounding neighborhood. Enjoy a variety of fruits and vegetables from California farmers, as well as other foods including breads, nuts, ethnic foods, cheeses, fruit juices, and cookies. You’ll also find clothing, crafts, and children’s activities, plus much more. Conveniently located just steps away from the North Hollywood Metro stop on the Red Line. This open-air street market has approximately 20 farmers, 20 local artisans, and 30 vendors who provide baked goods and prepared foods. I find my favorite organic apples and organic dinosaur kale weekly… Also, enjoy lots of samples. There are great deals to be made with farmers who come from as far as Sacramento.
Free
9am-2pm
Bakman Avenue, between Magnolia Boulevard to the South and Weddington Street to the North
North Hollywood
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CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 
Hundreds of spectacular floats, decked out cars, dancers and bands parade down the heart of Chinatown. Enjoy one or several cultural workshops and sample the many gourmet food trucks at the event. Cupcake Wars will be on hand with 1000 Chinese New Year themed cupcakes for attendees to enjoy.
Free
12-5pm
Chinatown – Central and West Plazas
943 N Broadway
Los Angeles 90012
VINTAGE CLOTHING & TEXTILE SHOW 
Find vintage everything from clothes to table and bed linens, Victorian lace, draperies and cushions, a variety of wearable decorative trims, hats, buttons, beads, antique fabric, jewelry and accessories, etc. Over 65 dealers save their best and most unusual items for this event.
$20 for early admission from 8am-9am, $7 after
9am-3pm
Pickwick Gardens
1001 W Riverside Dr
Burbank 91506
www.vintageclothingandtextileshow.com
MELROSE TRADING POST
There are 200 eclectic vendors selling everything from records, to furniture, arts and crafts, food vendors and live entertainment.
$2, $1/students and seniors
9am-5pm
Fairfax High School Parking Lot
Fairfax & Melrose
Los Angeles
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BRAZILIAN SAMBA CLASS
Learn to Samba at Capoeira Brasil Los Angeles. The first class is only $5. All levels, all genders, all ages. Start with a cardio Based warm-up and workout and finish with a Samba de Roda at end of class. After your first class you are offered the chance to buy a 5-class pack for $50 only available your first time, so take advantage of it if you’re interested.
$5
8:15pm
Capoeira Brasil
5557 Washington Blvd
Los Angeles 90016
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LA TIMES TRAVEL SHOW 
Join this 14th annual event with hundreds of exhibitors, travel specialists, numerous trip giveaways, lots of entertainment including celebrity guests Lisa Ling, Arthur Frommer, Adam Richman, Catharine Hamm, Doug Miller, Jen Leo, Johnny Jet, Gabe Saglie, Christopher Reynolds, Alice Short, Josh Gates, and many more! Check out the Travel in Style Pavilion full of displays, galleries, and interactive experiences to pamper and transport yourself to the destination of your dreams. Head to the Xtreme Adventure Zone for active vacationers, thrill seekers, and outdoor adventurers, offering exciting activities and attractions.
There’s even a Kid’s World area featuring family friendly destinations, mini-getaways, entertainment, performances, hands-on activities and lots more!
$10
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5pm
LA Convention Center, West Hall
1201 S Figueroa St
Los Angeles 90015
THE ACADEMY CELEBRATES PARAMOUNT PICTURES 
Presented in honor of Paramount Pictures’ Centennial Celebration, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sponsors this exhibition highlighting some of the iconic films and filmmakers from the studio’s first 100 years. Culled from collections at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, the exhibition in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery will explore Paramount’s early history with correspondence from Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky’s handwritten budget for The Squaw Man (1914) and materials relating to Paramount’s stars, including Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. The exhibition will also include a gallery of posters featuring Paramount’s 12 Best Picture winners, an original production design sketch by Hans Dreier for Wings (1927), story sketches for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956) and sketches for designs by Paramount’s style maven and costume designer, Edith Head. Dozens of behind-the-scenes production stills from throughout the studio’s history will offer insights into some of the screen’s most acclaimed films, including Sunset Blvd.,The Godfather, Chinatown, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Redsand There Will Be Blood.
Free
Thru 2.5.12
The Academy Grand Lobby Gallery
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills
7TH ANNUAL MUSEUMS FREE FOR ALL WEEKEND
The Museum Marketing Roundtable sponsors this annual event where museums will be FREE FOR ALL!
Saturday & Sunday, 1.28-29.12
Various Museums
Los Angeles
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME’S 11-DAY PERFORMANCE & PUBLIC ART FESTIVAL
This 11-Day festival celebrates LA’s role, past and present, as an epicenter of performance and public art. This 11-day celebration will feature more than 30 extraordinary performances–including contemporary re-enactments of iconic works by artists such as Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Robert Wilhite and James Turrell–and interventions both large and small in the public sphere. Organized by the Getty Research Institute and LA ART, and supported by grants from the Getty Foundation in conjunction with the ongoing Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 initiative, the Performance and Public Art Festival will reexamine, reinvent, reinterpret and renew an epochal movement in contemporary art for which Los Angeles has been an epicenter. It’s one of the most noted exhibits in town.
Free
Thru Sunday, January 29th
Various Locations
Los Angeles
RESTAURANT.COM GIFT CERTIFICATES
Every few days this unique site does an amazing sale. Here’s how their site benefits over 5 million customers: find the restaurant you want to eat at and gift certificates of multiple denominations. Normally a $25 gift certificate that requires a minimum $35 purchase (+ 18% gratuity on the total bill) for 2 people sells for $10. Well, if they’re having an 80% off sale that voucher comes out to only $2! Spend $2 and get $25 off of your $35 check. This is totally legitimate and restaurants are usually quite appreciative for the new business.
ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND THE LAaLALand Alert!!!! IS NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THE WHEREABOUTS ADJUST. PLEASE CHECK WITH THE EVENT ORGANIZERS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
