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Time Out #4 | Monday 24 August, 2020

A Stranger Things drive-into experience is bringing
Hawkins to L.A.

Halloween as we know it is sort of canceled this year, but we’ll gladly take more car-centric replacements if they’re as creative as this one: Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience is slated to bring a bit of Hawkins to Downtown L.A. this October. Designed by the UK’s wildly inventive Secret Cinema, the event includes trips through the Starcourt Mall, Russian labs and the Upside Down. Tickets go on sale this week.

What to do this week

Sun at 6:30pm World Festival at the
Hollywood Bowl

We sadly can’t picnic at the Hollywood Bowl this summer. But we can listen to a decade’s worth of classic Bowl performances, including Femi Kuti and Janelle Monáe, when this KCRW series continues. You can tune in online or on the radio at 89.9.

The best of the rest:

Wed at 8:45pm Watch free back-to-back screenings of Coming to America and Girls Trip at the Paramount Drive-In during the final edition of A Night at the Drive-In.

Sat at 6pm Legendary East L.A. rock band Los Lobos tops a drive-in concert in Orange County, with support from Miriah Avila and Los Mysteriosos.

Sat at 8pm The Skirball takes its free summer concert series digital with a set from L.A.’s own disco queen Gavin Turek, who’ll be performing from the museum’s courtyard, plus South Korean band Ak Dan Gwang Chil. If you’re hungry, you can swing by the Skirball before the show to pick up a prix-fixe menu of Korean cuisine.

16 brand-new restaurant patios to try

Not every L.A. restaurant is blessed with a leafy area for outdoor dining. So when life hands you a parking lot or a sidewalk, you make a pop-up patio. With private greenhouses, astroturf and alleyways, here are some of L.A.’s newest and most innovative outdoor dining options right now.

12 beachfront Airbnbs in L.A. for a coastal escape

When we say beachfront, we mean it: All of these rentals are literally right on the ocean, with front doors on bike paths or staircases down to the sand. They’re also probably the closest most of us will ever come to being able to afford an apartment on the water. So if you want a sweet taste of that cool ocean air, book a night at one of these spots along the L.A. coastline, from Malibu down to Long Beach.

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