The weekend knows the password.
Thursday tastings were already plenty lively at Silver Lake Wine shop—even before you could pair tonight's Syrahs with a grass-fed all-beef dog from the cart out front. If all goes well (and how could it not), we hear it might be a permanent fixture in '09.
For the next three Thursdays, you can find unique, design-y gifts like Japanese wooden
radios—everything's 20 percent off—while finding some gratis wine and cheese for yourself.
411: Dec 4, 11 and 18, 7-9pm, 1722 N. Vermont Ave (N. of Hollywood), Los Feliz,
323-644-1960
Third
Street
All the stores are open late tonight, many with sales and libations—our favorite alley shoe guys will be slinging drinks and some new
limited-editions.
411: Dec 4,
6-9pm, between Fairfax and La Cienega
Devine
Design
So in the name of charity, a slew of labels like Theory, Ted Baker and Oliver Peoples donate goods to a
giant sale. You buy them at discounts of 50-90 percent. Everybody wins.
To properly celebrate the anniversary of Prohibition's end, the good bartenders here thought you might need a classic Bourbon Highball or an Original Sazerac (cognac, sugar cube, Peychaud's bitters and an absinthe rinse). Or the password for a secret 75-cent special. Or all of the above.
At Wayne Federman's prior holiday heartwarmers, Margaret Cho did a "Little Drummer Boy" striptease and Sarah Silverman sang "Give the Jew Girl Toys." This year at the new Largo, Jon "Don Draper" Hamm is in the house...but we're pretty sure he won't be re-enacting either of those classics.
It's not often you can settle in by the beach for a flight of five Champagnes, each paired with an appetizer like Duck Prosciutto and Fig Marmalade, for thirty bucks total. Oh wait, it actually is pretty often—every Wednesday, to be exact.
