Thrillist Los Angeles
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Hump This
Eat/Gimmick: uWink Hollywood
From the Atari/Chuck-E-Cheese creator comes the 2nd location of this casually futuristic bar-staurant: each table's got a touchscreen for drinks (from margs to the vodka/gin/rum-loaded "Vegas Strip"), grub (braised short ribs, baja fish tacos, etc), and video games like Trivia, Truth-or-Dare, and Pong, which will ape the rhythms of a conversation so boring, you opt to play Pong.
Menu, more info at uWink.com
Learn: The Perfect Fit
Taught by a guy Esquire called one of the world's "Best Dressed Real Men", the first in a series of seminars promoting Eisenhower-era manliness focuses on the surprisingly complicated task of getting the right fit for your suit. Upcoming action'll cover everything from the perfect shave to choosing a bottle of wine, as nothing says "Real Man" like a baby-smooth face, a glass of something not-beer, and Esquire.
RSVP at seminars@jakevintage.com; more details at JakeVintage.com
Retox: Bar 107 Yard Sale
This dive bar's invited downtown businesses in to unload clothing/nicknacks/old electronics/etc while they sling $2 bloody marys and mimosas to facilitate ferocious haggling. All proceeds go to a school for kids living on Skid Row's streets, because when our youth goes uneducated, we all face 18 and Life.
Click: Art Of The Title
To help you appreciate the cinematic magic that occurs while you pee, this blog streams and breaks down legendary title sequences from TV (e.g., the trampling horse of Deadwood) and movies (Vertigo's hypnotic extreme close up, Reservoir Dog's band-of-killers slow-mo). Too bad you'll have to talk faster than the Micro-Machine Man to comment on clips before someone else Tivos past them.
Watch 'em all at ArtOfTheTitle.com
Gorge: Free Taco Day
For one day only, bring in a gas receipt and Jack'll give you two free tacos -- one to ease pump pain, the other to wring into your gastank for enough biodiesel to get you home.
Details and a clip featuring Jack at JackInTheBox.com
