Hiking off Mulholland in Studio City: Fryman Canyon Park
The Wreckoning Is Coming at You: Inside the Trainwreck Studio
Found in L.A.: Medical Marijuana Ditched in the Curb
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Simply Wrong Food: IHOP's Holiday Pancakes
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Alice Cooper, Ace Frehley @ Nokia Theater 10/28/09
I'm a vegetarian so fortunately, that lifestyle choice did not lead me to a non-BBQ BBQ-event that has caused much irritation by many, and rightfully so. From experience, if you want some good BBQ in a festival environment, we know first-hand that the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival offers great food, including BBQ (well, this veggie at least recommends the best peach cobbler you'll ever have. As for the 'que, our meat-eating friends never complained and went for second servings).
Anyway, the National Autry Center's Griffith Park Museum of the American West, where the BBQ Competition took place this past weekend, is an excellent choice for some local museum going. The two-story museum has smartly divided its floors by general themes - how the West was seen through romanization and Hollywood (top floor) and how the West really was (bottom floor).
My favorite is the top floor with the rotating shows and the Romance Gallery's collection of paintings, which "explores the ideas about western lands, life and work..." Currently on display until April 22 in one of the temporary exhibit galleries is the second part of Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, which is a collection of photographs and artworks of and influenced by the National Park.
If you are into western art and cowboy lore, you will be sold on this museum. If you are not, it is definitely worth checking out at least once. Give the LA Zoo a small rest and see what happens across the street.
Photo by dnhoshor via Flickr
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I like the Autry Museum as as well, even volunteered there for about a year, but I have had issues with some of their events in the past. Sometimes the need to make money on an event can cause issues.
Douglas
I agree wholeheartedly with the fact that the Autry is a great museum-going experience. I did my undergrad thesis on Gun violence in Television Westerns and they were an invaluable resource for primary research as well. Speak to the directors through email and they'll pretty much let you have free reign of the place if you need it.