STAYING IN TOWN THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND? YOU STILL CAN HAVE A BLAST!Byline: Steve Carney Staff Writer Enjoy, but don't gloat. So you're staying home for the Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. weekend, while 800,000 poor souls fight their way through LAX and 2.9 million get jammed on the highways. But now what to do, what to do? Backyard barbecues, hammock hammock, suspended bed, usually of netting, canvas, or leather. The hammock and its name were introduced to Europeans by Christopher Columbus, who learned of them from Native Americans. naps and college football can eat up several lazy hours, to be sure. But Los Angeles has plenty more to offer in the next three days. No need to flee. Stay around L.A. and see space walkers at the Hollywood Bowl, French painters at Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. , Blue Meanies A Meanie is a small stuffed animal made by Topkat LLC, starting in 1997 and lasting until 2000. A Meanie is a type of bean bag in the form of a stuffed animal toy. Beanie Fad on the screen and blue-collar theater on stage. Watch race cars in Los Angeles and razorback hogs in Lancaster. Hit the sales, or raise a sail, and fight either the shopping crowds or the offshore breezes. Just don't forget the sunscreen sunscreen /sun·screen/ (-skren) a substance applied to the skin to protect it from the effects of the sun's rays. sun·screen n. . Now put down the tongs tongs long-handled, about 3 feet, shaped like pincers with knobs on the ends of the grasping blades. Applied by standing behind the subject in a confined space and closing the jaws to grasp the animal's head just below the ears. , step away from the grill, and get going. Here are some suggestions: Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Gordon Cooper will be landing at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. While the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performs Gustav Holst's ``The Planets'' and other selections, the astronauts will narrate NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. footage projected on the Bowl's big screen. Tonight at 8:30. Tickets $3-$100; half price for children under 12. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles. Call (323) 850-2005. Unlike the recent Van Gogh exhibition, with crowds as thick as the Dutchman's brush strokes, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hosting ``Around Impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to : French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art.'' No reservations or added ticket prices are required. General admission is $7. The museum is open today and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Monday, noon to 8 p.m. LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association , 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Call (323) 857-6000. Farm animals, bands and monster trucks - everything a self-respecting fair could want, the Antelope Valley Fair has it. Along with the requisite carnival rides, petting zoo, craft displays and fried food, the fair is offering chain-saw sculpture, flower exhibits, bungee jumping, rural olympics, a demolition derby, flat-track motorcycle racing and the aptly named heavy metal band Survivor. Admission is $5; children 6 to 15 and seniors 55 and over, $3; children under 6 and active duty military personnel with identification, free. Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. , 155 E. Ave. I. at Division Street, Lancaster. Call (661) 948-6060 for information and entertainment schedules. Digitally restored to all its psychedelic splendor, the Beatles' animated movie ``Yellow Submarine'' is showing at the Nuart theater until Thursday. The 1968 film features cartoon versions of the Fab Four saving the magical undersea Pepperland from the grip of the Blue Meanies. The 35 mm print also features a remixed soundtrack and restored footage of the song ``Hey Bulldog.'' Admission is $8, or $5 for seniors and children. Screenings through Monday will be at 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 and 9:50 p.m. Landmark's Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles
Get out from behind the wheel and watch someone else battling holiday traffic for a change. The third Ford L.A. Street Race will send NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. stock cars, Indy cars and Ultra Wheels Spec Trucks hurtling along a course around the Sports Arena at Exposition Park throughout the weekend. Adult admission ranges from $10 and $17 today to $20 and $30 Monday, when the feature race - the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour - will run at 1 p.m. Exposition Park, 3990 Menlo Ave., Los Angeles. Call (310) 444-5544. Everyone must go! All stores are 100 percent open! Selling sofas, CDs, sunglasses, surfboards, sweet corn, sport shirts and strappy sandals - anything laborers could possibly want to blow their paychecks on is available at Labor Day weekend sales throughout the Southland. And of course - brace yourselves, kids - there's back-to-school shopping to do, whether it's snazzy snaz·zy adj. snaz·zi·er, snaz·zi·est Slang Fashionable or flashy. [Origin unknown.] snaz new saddle shoes for the first day of kindergarten to recordable CDs on which to etch a master's thesis. And don't forget the No. 2 pencils. Anyone weary of all the commercialism, who wants to celebrate the true meaning of Labor Day, should head for the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. Its American Stories concert-performance series will begin Monday with ``Searching for the American Dream,'' a musical celebration of the American labor movement that salutes Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, Karen Silkwood and others. Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. Admission is $10. Call (310) 455-2322. And, of course, it's a summer holiday weekend, so there's always the beach. L.A. lifeguards predict about 2 million people will sun and swim on the county's 31 miles of sand this weekend. The weather is expected to be mild, while decent 3- to 4-foot swells will make for good surfing and body-boarding, but also create a risk of rip tides. So stay near staffed lifeguard towers, lifeguard Capt. Steve Moseley advises, and be patient of long lines in parking lots and restrooms. ``We're expecting a busy weekend,'' he said. ``Kind of a last hurrah for the summer.'' CAPTION(S): 5 Photos Photo: (1--Color) MUSEUMS Lily pads, ballerinas, haystacks Haystacks can be:
(2--Color) FESTIVALS & FAIRS Follow up the cotton-candy sugar high with a ride on the Ferris wheel or a session with a hypnotist, or enjoy any of the other entertainment at the Antelope Valley Fair in Lancaster. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer (3--Color) STREET RACE The loud roar in Exposition Park this weekend will be the sound of NASCAR drivers speeding through the L.A. Street Race. Monday's main event features a $157,200 purse. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (4--Color) SHOPPING Anything that can be bought or sold is going for a discount price at a Labor Day weekend sale, judging from the ads blaring from newspaper pages and the airwaves. Nicole Bengiveno/The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times (5--Color) BEACHES Sand, surf, sunburn sunburn, inflammation of the skin caused by actinic rays from the sun or artificial sources. Moderate exposure to ultraviolet radiation is followed by a red blush, but severe exposure may result in blisters, pain, and constitutional symptoms. - more than 2 million people are expected to crowd L.A. County's 31 miles of beaches this weekend. Lifeguards warn beachgoers to beware of riptides and to be patient with the crowds. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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