Sarah Bennett

Food halls and variations on them have been popping up all across Los Angeles. Many are incorporating booze options and outdoor seating.; Credit: Danny Liao

Best New Food Court

Sarah Bennett
From Grand Central Market to the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot to Smorgasburg, Los Angeles has always found a way to assemble a curated crop of upstart food concepts in one simple location. SteelCraft takes that tradition one step further. A new-wave food court that has few local precedents in......
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Best Funk and Soul Night

Sarah Bennett
There are clubs that promise to spin funk and soul records and then there's the Good Foot, the monthly Long Beach dance night that has set the standard for nearly two decades. Founded by resident DJs (and serious crate diggers) Dennis Owens and Rodi Delgadillo in 1998, the all-vinyl affair,......
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Best Open-Streets Cycling Event

Sarah Bennett
Beach Streets0x2029In 2010, Los Angeles launched CicLAvia — the city's now-quarterly open-streets event, which makes miles of car-clogged roads accessible to cyclists and other human-powered transportation for a single day. It took five years but, in 2015, Long Beach obtained a grant to launch its own. Dubbed Beach Streets, the......
Sotomayor from Mexico City is playing Viva! Pomona Saturday August 5.; Credit: Courtesy Sotomayor

7 Artists You Won't Want to Miss at Viva! Pomona 2017

Sarah Bennett
Over the last five years of curating Viva! Pomona, one of the region’s most underrated music festivals, Rene Contreras has proven to be the best kind of music promoter. A baby-faced Chicano with a penchant for the weird, wild and undiscovered, he spends every waking minute surrounded by a diverse......