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.