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Thrillist Weekend Guides

Thrillist's weekly guide to everything you can do this weekend—from hot new restaurants to art exhibits to outdoor activities.

Thrillist Weekend Guides: Everything Happening This Weekend

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As we head deeper into bonafide sweater weather in LA, it’s understandable that your apartment is now inexplicably filled with pumpkins, cinnamon brooms, scented pinecones, and maybe even a Halloween wreath.

9 Actually Fun Things to Do This Weekend in LA

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Everything You Need to Know About Legal Weed, Smoking, Edibles, CBD and More

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Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

It’s fitting that the counterculture holiday of 4/20 and Earth Day share the same week on the calendar, marking the ritual of farming and consuming cannabis plants as part of life’s great crop rotation.

8 Eco-Friendly Cannabis Brands to Support for Earth Day

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Whether you’re a seasoned macrodoser or just starting to dabble with the “California sober” lifestyle, 4/20 is a reason to celebrate with the cannabis community.

9 Fun Ways to Celebrate 4/20 in LA This Week

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It’s been a decidedly great year for weed.

The Best Cannabis Edibles of 2020

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If you’ve come looking for CBD lube recommendations, allow me to apologize in advance.

Valentine’s Cannabis Edibles That’ll Make You Believe in Love Again

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A family-run operation known for its fresh-fruit paletas, Mateo's produces some of LA’s best ice cream.

Paleta Powerhouse Mateo’s is an LA Ice Cream Staple

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Break out the goo packs and nipple tape, because it’s the one day of the year where LA traffic is horrendous but for a good cause: the LA Marathon.

Everything You Need to Know About the LA Marathon This Weekend

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Just about the sweetest thing you can do for your 420-friendly Valentine -- aside from smoking them up and going to opening night of Sonic the Hedgehog -- is to get them something sweet… with weed in it.

Lavish Your Valentine With These Cannabis Edibles

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For all the gifts and frosted cookies you’re entitled to this holiday season, so too will come the stress-related maladies of visiting with family this time of year.

The Best Cannabis Edibles to Make Your Holidays Merry and Bright

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Thrillist X Bai Present: Key Changers

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Travel

Explore adventure guides and design a custom itinerary for the destination of your choice in and around the city.

Best Travel Guides, Cool Hotels and Interesting Events - Thrillist

As our modern day gig economy turns everyone’s home into a BnB and everyone’s car into a cab, there’s also a new breed of traveler emerging who refuses to accept less than the best: the points churner.

The New Jetset Will Teach You How to Travel for Free 

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After years of anticipation, Eataly -- the mega-popular Italian marketplace with US locations in NYC, Boston, Chicago, and soon-to-open Las Vegas -- has finally opened its doors in LA.

The Best Things to Eat at the New LA Eataly

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Grand Central Market, Downtown LA’s daily food stall feasting grounds, is turning 100 this year -- and for a centenarian, the old gal has done well in keeping up with the times.