The La Brea Tarpits rock.

I love Farmer's Market (Fairfax & 3rd). And Both the Getty and the Getty Villa are great, if you haven't had your fill of museums.

Also, just as a warning, Hollywood will still probably be a bit of a mess, due to post-Oscars craziness -- I don't think H'wood Blvd. will open again till Tuesday, which means traffic will continue to suck worse than usual.

Eat at Roscoe's and tell me if it's better than Hawkin's Place. I have a friend who's never had Hawkin's and I've never had Roscoe's, and you would help us settle our argument. Assuming you're not a vegetarian.

I hope you get to see Jean-Jacques Feuchres' Satan at LACMA. Say hi to the old guy for me if you do.

If you're not museumed out, I like the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena.

Yay! Museum of Jurassic Technology!

Someone say more about the Museum of Jurassic Technology. I almost went to that last time I was there, but fam. wanted the Museum of Tolerance, followed (fittingly) by dinner at Canter's.

The Museum of Tolerance is a must-see, though, imo.

This time of year, a drive up Vermont Ave. into Griffith Park, past the Greek Theater, parking anywhere you can and strolling up a trail will give you some nice views of the city.

Also, Descanso Gardens is likely in glorious bloom right now.

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On preview, I would also second the Tar Pits, and then you can get into the LA County Art Museum to see the Magritte exhibit, which is really really good.

We skipped the Magritte, under the theory that we can go again to the museum. We also skipped the tarpits, as we were pretty walked-out.
Did see Lucifer though. Not as wild about it, frankly. Musculature doesn't match the pose (he's weirdly clenched

And yeah, museum of jurassic technology is pretty damn sweet. It's about 15 blocks from here, so we walked. The only problem was that it was damn crowded and full of hipsters who wouldn't stop sniggering about everything. Yeah, we get it, about half of the stuff is specious (but not all of it), but sometime the silent appreciation of a joke well-rendered is better than having some dipshit point out how funny it's supposed to be.

But I'd like to find more things like that to do in LA while I'm here for the week.

Aside from that, it's all been about great food from tiny vendors and shit. (Oh, and I am vegetarian, so I don't think the Chicken and Waffles will happen, no matter how much I love Tapeheads.)

The newly remodeled Planetarium up on top of Griffith Park.

Hermosa Beach (my home town, and probably the sweetest beach town there, although none of it is like it was when I was growing up). The Bottle Inn on 22nd St. should have some food that you could eat. Good Italian.

Native Foods in Westwood.

Grand Central Station, downtown. Chinatown and Olvera St. nearby.

And yeah, museum of jurassic technology is pretty damn sweet. It's about 15 blocks from here, so we walked. The only problem was that it was damn crowded and full of hipsters who wouldn't stop sniggering about everything.

Oh man, this would have ruined it for me. I only know MJT from the website, and it seems really beautiful to me- dreamlike, like a Guy Maddin movie or a Brothers Quay animation. People treating it like a cheap joke would likely have made me very surly.

Yeah, and I don't do well in crowds like that anyway, so I was already all surly and it only made me feel moreso. But it was still pretty sweet.