31 Cent Scoop Night at Baskin Robbins

Yesterday you got your free chicken, today you can have dessert.

Tonight from 5-10pm, select Baskin Robbins stores will have 31 cent scoops.

More info here.

Enjoy!

Taste the Fire...but only if you ask for it

Tomorrow El Pollo Loco will give you some free chicken. You just have to ask if you can "Taste the Fire." I'll let you weigh the embarassment vs. the benefit.

Official rules at the El Pollo Loco website.

POOLTRADESHOW Sample Sale

Saturday. Sample sale. Silver Lake.

POOLTRADESHOW is having a sample sale with discounts up to 90% off on 20 designers and labels of men's and women's clothing and shoes from spring '09, fall '08, and more.

Also, DJs, free food, and free beer. Sold.

Saturday, April 25
Noon-6pm, drinks and music 'til 8pm
2900 Rowena Ave, LA, 90020
Phone during sale: 310-592-6184

Make sure you take cash.

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Bibliophiles take heed! UCLA will be hosting the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. And it's free!

Check the website for the comprehensive list of authors and exhibitors. Lots of cool stuff, including Ray Bradbury (!), S.E. Hinton (!), Gore Vidal (!)...

Festival of Books at UCLA
Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 10-5
Festival of Books Website

LA Weekly LA Weekend

Not sure how it happened, but you used to have to buy tickets, and now you don't.

To celebrate 30 years of LA Weekly, LA Weekend "will showcase some of LA's most dynamic and colorful talent, programming a cutting edge film screening, speaker panels, art, food, music and book signings."

There is some pretty awesome stuff on their schedule - Wil Wheaton, Point Break Live, a screening of "The Heart is a Drum Machine," and something called Belvedere Lounge from noon-4 on Saturday...Belvedere is a sponsor, so perhaps that means free booze? Looks like there is a bunch of free meat as well. Everybody loves free meat.

Events 4/24 and 4/25
Nike Montalban Theatre
1615 N. Vine St.
Hollywood

LA Weekly LA Weekend website

I highly recommend taking the train to Hollywood/Vine, as parking around there is already a nightmare and the metro station is around the corner from the Montalban.

Have fun!

Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's!

4/21 is my favorite ice cream day. Because it's free. And delicious. Plus last year on free cone day I saw Dustin Hoffman. The possibilites are endless.

Ben & Jerry's Store Locator

Freedom Snatch at iO - Week 34

They're unstoppably funny. Check it out.

Freedom Snatch in the Improv Cage Match
11 pm Thursday, 4/16
Free
iO West
6366 Hollywood Blvd.

Do it now!

Today until 6pm PT, Allegiant Air has tickets from LAX to the following cities for $15 one-way:

* Bellingham, Washington ... service starts May 2
* Billings, Montana ... service starts May 22
* Des Moines, Iowa ... service starts May 24
* Fargo, North Dakota ... service starts May 23
* Grand Junction, Colorado ... service starts May 1
* McAllen, Texas ... service starts May 24
* Medford, Oregon ... service starts May 1
* Missoula, Montana ... service starts May 2
* Monterey, California ... service starts May 3
* Northwest Arkansas (XNA) ... service starts May 22
* Sioux Falls, South Dakota ... service starts May 23
* Springfield, Missouri ... service starts May 3
* Wichita, Kansas ... service starts May 23

Go! Buy! Vacate!

Allegiantair.com

April 15th - Look on the bright side

Tax day isn't fun for anybody. Even if you do get money back, by the time it arrives you've spent so long stressing about it and the refund is so small that it's hardly even worth it anymore. Or maybe that's just me.

If you work in Hollywood or are unemployed, Wednesday may just be your lucky day. At least as far as lunch is concerned.

Ivan Kane's Cafe Wa s is serving select menu items for absolutely free on Wednesday from 11am until 2pm. I might just have to take the day off.

Ivan Kane's Cafe Wa s
1521 N. Vine St. (Right behind Borders)
Hollywood, CA 90028

Make sure you stimulate...er...tip your waiters.

Ye Coach and Horses Ladies Night

Ladies Night has always struck me as a little odd and gotten an undesirable song stuck in my head, but hey, times are hard, and if I have to wade through a few glassy-eyed old guys to get some extra cheap liquor, so be it.

Tuesday is Ladies Night at Ye Coach and Horses, from 8pm until close. $3 wine and $5 you-call-its, except for top shelf. And only for the ladies. Thank you, reverse discrimination!

Ye Coach and Horses
7617 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (323) 876-6900

Consolation prize for the fellas - they always have $4 PBR tallboys.

Car Insurance for $400 or less annually

I know some genius sleuth-ers. Not sure how she found out about it, but my friend Michelle sent me this tip:

California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program (CLCA)

The primary goal of the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program (CLCA) is to provide an affordable auto insurance option to low-income good drivers.

LA County is $350 a year for liability only.

This is for real. Eligibility requirements and more info here.

Thanks, Michelle!

Art opening: "Charlie Foxtrot" by Daniel Newman

Eight Veil is a new gallery and publishing house on Sunset. Tonight is the opening reception of their first show, "Charlie Foxtrot" by Daniel Newman. Newman's works are "montages and drawings that illustrate the cultural amnesia of a society obsessed with the figure and representation."

"CHARLIE FOXTROT marks the inauguration of Eighth Veil, a new contemporary art exhibition and publishing house in Hollywood, California. Eighth Veil will provide artists with residencies to develop and oversee the creation of printed matter, as well as host a rotation of exhibitions and events."

Opening reception tonight, April 10, from 6-9pm
Eighth Veil
7174 Sunset Boulevard

Xicano Moratorium to the Ballad of El-Lay

I love tongue-in-cheek self reverence. Hope that's what they were going for.

Exhibit of new and less-new works by Willie Herrón. I can't make the opening, but hope to check it out before it closes. Have a free drink for me.

Beauty Bar 9th Anniversary

Beauty Bar on Cahuenga in Hollywood is turning 9. Three Olives is "hosting" the bar from 9:30-10:30. I assume that means you drink for free. DJs won't be the only ones spinning.

Beauty Bar turns 9
Sunday, April 5
1638 N. Cahuenga
Three Olives Hosted bar 9:30-10:30

Pillow Fight!

Someone Awesome has organized a city-wide pillow fight for Saturday, April 4, which is World Pillow Fight Day. Bring your own pillow. Steer clear of the ones with zippers.

3 pm on Saturday, April 4
Pershing Square
535 S Hill St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Los Angeles Pillow Fight website
World Pillow Fight website

Freedom Snatch at iO - Week 32

Funny. Free. iO. 11pm.