WEEKEND FESTIVALS.Downtown fest looks to be Grand On Saturday, downtown L.A. showcases its best as the Grand Avenue Festival spotlights the performing arts and the finest in culinary cuisine. Highlights of the festival include the ``Taste of Downtown L.A.,'' featuring delicious food for $5 or less from restaurants such as California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen (NASDAQ: CPKI, known within the food industry as CPK) is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, and Kendall's Brasserie bras·se·rie n. A restaurant serving alcoholic beverages, especially beer, as well as food. [French, from brasser, to malt, brew, from Old French bracier, from Vulgar Latin . The Music Center will host its annual ``Family Festival on the Plaza,'' with two stages of ongoing music, and the Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. will present ``Performing Books,'' a series of free afternoon performances at the Library's Mark Taper Theater. The festival will also offer art exhibits, stand-up comedy  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. ,
cultural dances and free admission to the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Grand Avenue between First and Fourth streets,
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Also happening TODAY Carnivale Street Fair and Bourbon Street Bourbon Street (French: Rue Bourbon) is a famous and historic street that runs the length of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the city was founded in 1718, it was originally centered around the French Quarter. Parade: will benefit Hurricane Katrina victims. Event features a Mardi Gras party, pool tournament at Yankee Doodles and poker tournament at Gotham Hall. Live bands, stilt stilt, common name for some members of the family Recurvirostridae, shore birds including the avocet. Stilts, as their name implies, have the longest legs of any bird except the flamingo. walkers, jugglers, belly dancers will also be part of the entertainment. Event will take place from 5 to 9:30 p.m. today at the Third Street Promenade The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian street in Santa Monica, California, United States. It is considered one of the premier shopping destinations in West Los Angeles and frequently draws crowds from all over Los Angeles County. in Santa Monica. Admission is free. Event is suitable for all ages. Mardi Gras party will take place from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. The pool tournament will take place from 6 to 8 p.m., and the poker tournament will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The parade begins at 9 p.m. and will close the free portion of the event. Donations of $20 will be accepted. For more information, visit www.statusart.com. THIS WEEKEND Our Lady of Lourdes The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old peasant girl from Lourdes, when questioned by her mother, admitted that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, on 11 February, 1858, while she was gathering 21st Annual Festival: features live bands, rides, games, food, silent auction and a $5,000 first-prize raffle. There will also be international food booths with Filipino, Greek, Mexican and German cusine and a car show on Sunday. Open 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Separate charges for food and rides. Our Lady of Lourdes School, 18437 Superior St., Northridge. (818) 349-0245. Faulkner Farm Pumpkin Patch & Harvest Festival: features a Children's Costume Parade for ages 12 and under every Saturday and Sunday. Each child will receive a free raffle ticket for a drawing on Oct. 30. Also features a giant sunflower forest for kids, hay rides, farm animals, face painting, food and more. Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. The children's costume parade takes place 10:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $1 on weekdays for adults and kids 3 and over and $2 on weekends. 14292 W. Telegraph Road, Santa Paula. (805) 525-2226. www.faulknerfarm.com. Taste of Encino: features arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. booths, a children's balloon bounce, a home show, Wellness & Business Expo, hot dog eating contest and foods and beverages from local vendors. Musical entertainment will be provided by the California Traditional Music Society. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Ventura and Balboa boulevards, Encino. (818) 789-4711. www.encinochamber.org. Seaside Highland Games: featuring Celtic music and dance, games, a Highland Dancer and Bag Pipe competition, vendors, celtic food, shopping and much more. Open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and military, $2 for children 6-12, free for children 5 and under. Seaside Park, Ventura County Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. , Ventura. For information call (818) 886-4968. Palmdale Fall Festival: featuring a health and beauty expo, pizza-eating contest, farmers market, Kids of Rock Theater, Mariachi Divas, food, rides, games and musical entertainment by top artists. Open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7 for adults, $3 for seniors 62 and over, kids 6-12 and military, free for children 5 and under. Four free kids rides with paid child's admission. Marie Kerr Park, 2723 Rancho Vista Blvd., Palmdale. (661) 267-5611. www.cityofpalmdale.org. |
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