Inside Out Community Arts’ 4th Annual ‘Taste of Abbot Kinney’ takes place today. Help support a great cause while enjoying culinary delights prepared by Abbot Kinney’s renowned chefs. See below for all the details and order tickets soon as they will sell out. Check out our Weekly Features Page for more info about this event.

LA Art Party is running a contest….see our FB page at http://www.facebook.com/laartparty and be sure to LIKE LA Art Party while you are there. Contest ends Friday, October 12th at 3:00 pm.

The Walking Tour Tastings Package includes tastes at all participating walking tour restaurants and wine and beer tastings. Also includes exclusive Taste of Abbot Kinney Online Event Program with recipes, bios, and insider tips from the chefs and mixologists of Abbot Kinney. Walking Tour Tastings include: Abbot’s Habit, Abbot’s Pizza, Benny’s Tacos, CasaLinda, Dry Tour, FEED Body & Soul, Hal’s Bar and Grill, Intelligentsia, Joe’s Restaurant (special cocktail), Lemonade, Local 1205, N’ice Cream, The Otheroom, Primitivo, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, as well as Noble Vines wine and Golden Road Brewery Beer tastings. Click here to purchase.

The VIP Reception & Walking Tour Package includes ALL of the above Walking Tour Package PLUS: A VIP Reception with music, exclusive appetizer and cocktail tastes, cooking demonstrations, and celebrity chefs as well as early access to restaurants.

VIP additional tastings: Cafe del Rey, Jin Patisserie, Shima, The Tasting Kitchen (special cocktail), Hal’s Bar and Grill, Joe’s Restaurant, Creme Caramel LA, Chef Stef Candy Company and Whole Foods Market Venice.

Reception and Check-in: Boardriders, 585 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA

VIP Reception: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
VIP Pre-Tastings: 4:00 – 4:30 pm
Walking Tour Tastings: 4:30 – 6:30pm

What: Taste of Abbot Kinney
Where: Up and down Abbot Kinney
When: Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Phone: (310) 397-8820

2022 Update: Inside Out has closed its doors, and shut down the website

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In Santa Monica, Annenberg Beach=Culture will offer a panel discussion with local female architects about women in architecture today…Julia Morgan 2012: Contemporary Women Architects,

Inspired by quotes from Morgan and led by moderator Amy Murphy, Associate Professor at USC’s School of Architecture, this discussion will range widely over issues facing both emerging and established architects in various areas of specialization.

Featured are Cory Buckner of Cory Buckner Architects; Annie Chu of Chu+Gooding Architects; Julie Eizenberg of Koning Eizenberg Architecture; Davida Rochlin of Davida Rochlin Architecture and Lisa Little of Layer.

What: Panel Discussion: Women in Architecture Today
Where: Anennberg Beach house, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, 90402
When: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Phone: 310 458 49-4904
Website: http://beachhouse.smgov.net/

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Or how bout some poetry and art???

As part of the current exhibition Julia Schwartz: Trading Maps for Stars, Bleicher Gallery (ON LA BREA) presents an afternoon of poetry.

Performances will include poetry by psychotherapist / poets David Shaddock and Douglas Brayfield and poet / art critic Eve Wood.

On view:  September 15th – October 15th

What: Performance, Poetry and art
Where: Bleicher Gallery 355 N. La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA
When: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Phone: 1 323 545 6018
Website: http://www.labrea.bgartdealings.com/

See ya out there ….I’ll be at Decom, Corey Helford, Santa Monica Studios..for sure….Taste of Abbot Kinney too.