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September 26, 2008
Win Tickets to David Byrne at the Greek Theatre
Summer may be officially over, but the shows at The Greek Theatre will still go on. Next week on Friday, October 3rd, David Byrne will hit the Greek to play a show with the music from the latest album by him and Brian Eno, which is their first in 30 years. Tickets run $40-75 but we're giving a few pairs away.
To enter is easy. In the comments section, tell us what your favorite city is for the Fall season. Maybe you enjoy the beautiful foliage in the Midwest or maybe you love the summer feel still kicking in Los Angeles.
Here's how the contest works:
- Enter the contest by making a comment on this post. Comments must fit the criteria, stated below.
- The criteria of the comment is that you write what your favorite city is for the Fall season, as explained above.
- You may only enter once.
- The contest closes at 11:59:59 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2008.
- One qualifying entry will be randomly selected to receive a pair of tickets and will be notified via the e-mail connected to their LAist.com login. They must confirm the receipt of the e-mail by 12:00 p.m., Thursday, October 2, 2008 or the tickets will be released to another winner.
- Tickets will be held at the will-call pick up at the event
Good luck!
Photo of Byrne on the tour earlier this year by furnstein via Flickr
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New York-Because the leaves are gold, green, and crunchy on the sidewalk. My favorite is the feeling of putting on your knee high boots, putting on a cozy sweater, and going for a long walk on the seasonal yellow brick road!
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I think of fall quarter at UC San Diego.
I miss being in school
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anywhere with trees and changing seasons. sorry L.A., no disrespect. you make up for it in other ways, like awesome winters that aren't really cold.
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Boston... the commons and public gardens turn bright, crunchy orange. The weather is cold enough for a homemade sweater, but warm enough to avoid insane layering... And what makes a Boston Fall even more special is the fact that aside from a few weeks in Spring, the rest of the year is just HORRIBLE weather-wise so those few weeks of perfect, crisp Fall weather are huge pay-offs to the nice-weather-starved.
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In the words of Magnetic Fields, "Washington D.C. is paradise to me." The Fall is DC -- sweater weather, culture kicks back into gear and November gets pretty damn interesting for the wonkier among us.
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Ravena NY in the Catskills
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Ithaca, NY. Gorges.
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As a California native, the beauty of Boston autumns blew me away for the years I was there. Doesn't mean I don't love being back on the west coast though :)
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This will sound cheesy but the sentiment is sincere. I look for Fall, my favorite season, in any city that I am residing in. I was weaned on the change of foliage on the east coast. Yes, the flame colored maple trees and the sudden briskness in the air even brought beauty to the grubby streets of Newark, NJ.
Going to the garden part of that state and the big parks in Manhattan had me gawking and tree worshipping with the best of them. The ordinary becomes extraordinary in the space of a month and ironically in a time of entropy (for trees) and plenty for the rest of us.
Sure living at the beach in LA's South Bay area is a far cry from all of that 'riotous glory' but that makes me more determined to notice the first pumpkin patches springing up on corners, the harvest goodies at the farmer's market and our own Japanese maples, pear trees and stalwart non-native trees that against all odds flare into vibrancy against a backdrop of palms and conifers. When the leaves, nuts and pods hit the pavement I stop and pick up the most interesting ones, just as I did as a child. When the local fog rolls in, the tide shifts and the beach is back to local traffic only, I start thinking: pumpkin pie. Autumn is beautiful anywhere if you know where to look. :)
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Paris during the fall is gorgeous. The leaves falling, the rain maybe coming in a bit, the cold not quite present but emerging. Must be seen!
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With out question, folks, it's the beautiful Los Angeles, California. Boston, only you can brag about "sweater weather." It seems Autumn is your favorite season by default, that's outrageous. LA is beautiful all year, but the fall here is particularly spectacular due in part because it is September and it's not "sweater weather." New York, take your prismatic leaves and sprinkle them on top of that thin crust pizza you won't shut up about. Yeah our palm trees might always look green, but don't hold that against us. There's life here 365 days a year folks, this is the time of year when you can enjoy a cool breeze at 7 at night. You can STILL go to the beach people! The coast is as beautiful as ever and the city is thriving with people still in white pants and khakis. There's nothing like fall in LA people, sorry, just the facts. WE LOVE IT!
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I have to second JuliaLat34. Growing up in the Washington DC area (Fairfax, VA), I loved, loved, loved the fall. The cool air, the fallen leaves, the smell of wood fires and the knowledge that football had started again.
Although I have to say, I took a trip one year down to Williamsburg to visit friends and William and Mary in October and it knocked my socks off. Just breathtakingly beautiful colors in the foliage and perfect weather to drink beer and talk by the fireside in a college bar.
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Chicago. The fall brings many colored leaves and crisp cool air. There's nothing like taking a stroll by the lake in a sweater and a scarf!
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my favorite city in the fall is San francisco warm days cool nights
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As far as fall goes, I like to enjoy the cool breeze in Chicago. Something about those first crisp days when it's still nice but a little chill in the air. It would be even better to be there now when the Cubbies make a run...nothing like watching the ivy turn red as summer fades.
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I was gonna say LA, but when i read Al's comment, i agree.
As a fellow UC San Diego graduate.. La Jolla!
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Think of London, a small city
It's dark, dark in the daytime
The people sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to
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City of Industry. Because it's awesome.
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Burlington, VT
Beautifully cool and clear nights. But you still get a few nice warm days to go out and enjoy the amazing scenery. - Perfect for bicycling :) Mountains, forest, lake! Trees changing, light changing. Halloween in a small new england town! Can't beat it for atmosphere. Always a buzz in the air when all the college kids come back. Great music, parties, and the farmers markets are over flowing - Playoff baseball is in the air - be it avid Boston fans or avid New York fans - There's just loads of energy in the place- you just can't beat it :)
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Mobile, Alabama
I remember Fall as a kid, I was always excited for the first chill, because Halloween was right around the corner.
Halloween is the best thing about Fall, besides a Turdukin, and seasonal beers, and Oktoberfest, or cheese toast.
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I pick Los Angeles. Though a transplant from the East Coast, I have become a old thump out here and prefer little to no alterations to my surroundings.
Often I forget what season it is out here in LA, which is good for my "change-is-bad" and "how-old- am-I-now-good-I-can't-remember" policy.
Also, I enjoy sweating while picking out my Christmas tree. Also, also... I really love the Greek and have put David Byrne on a unusually and unhealthy high pedestal, so I WANT THOSE TICKETS!!!!
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vancouver...gorgeous
or DC, to go for a walk and step on the crunchy leaves
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Amsterdam. Sitting on a bench by the canals + doob + great art galleries + listening to "Everything that Happens..." = perfect fall day.
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Providence, RI! gorgeous crisp weather, new england foliage, genius art and music back in full force after summer waterfire laziness... david byrne, do you concur?
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Definitely Chicago, IL. Nothing really compares to the fall colors of the midwest!
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Los Angeles. Because it's like the only place I've ever been in during the Fall season. I'm biased.
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i would have to say my favorite city during the fall is in santa barbara. It gets cold but is still beautiful and i love the cold.
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NYC, but really anywhere on the east coast. i miss the leaves piling up on the streets and the layers coming out of everybody's closets.
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bloomington, in. great forests.
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gambier, oh has some amazing foliage during the second weekend in october. But i will give it to LA, you have warm days and crisp nights that are tough to beat.
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best place for fall is cooperstown ny
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After spending the majority of the first week of Fall following swell up the northeast, nothing beats seeing all the leaves changing, the beer swillin', and the swell filling in at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia! No people, only flowers.
I think Byrne would approve =p
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Oxford, England. It's getting darker, earlier, now, and a bit chillier along with the rain. The stone and brick of the Oxford colleges is damp through, and the streets have a hint of the must of a thousand years of history. The brightly lit windows of the shops along the High Street promise an escape from the damp chill, but you can't stay there. The best pubs have a fire going, and the smell of damp coats drying out surrounded by threadbare carpets and dark woods. Slowly groups of people get larger and conversations get louder, the warm and bright world inside the pub makes the cold and dark outside a little more comprehensible. Walking the streets, after, shiny with wet, but warm enough inside to get home. There is an almost unimaginable tranquility, walking through a place that seems it always has been and always will be, and always knows more than you - a greatness of mind, but unhurried, with history on its side in the leaves and the rain and the chill and the dark.
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New Orleans
October is the best month, especially because there is no other city where everyone in the French Quarter dresses up for Halloween. It's not cool to just your everyday self.
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New Orleans
October is the best month, especially because there is no other city where everyone in the French Quarter dresses up for Halloween. It's not cool to be just your everyday self.
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I love Ashland, OR in the fall. The Shakespeare Festival is winding down. The leaves are changing in Lithia Park. And the first smells of winter are being hinted at.
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Tulsa. The sky is extra clear and blue during the fall. The leaves start to change, everything is bright golds, reds, and oranges. You can smell fires starting to burn in fireplaces throughout the city, it's time to start wearing sweaters (I love fall clothing!), and the leaves crunch on the ground when you go outside. Food turns to heavy and delicious fall flavors like cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin.
Fall out here make me very homesick sometimes. Then I go to a pumpkin patch, drink a seasonal coffee beverage at the coffee bean, and I start feeling a bit better.
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I vote for Charlottesville, VA, mostly for the years I spent there in college and after...the colors of the leaves in the Shenandoah Mts. this time of year are the best!
I miss the seasons...
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My favorite city in the fall is Providence, RI. It's hard not to miss the changing of the seasons living in LA, but I'm not complaining about beach days in October!
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I went to school at Wesleyan and played golf throughout my college career. There were a couple of Fall days there that can't be beat, out on the course, surrounded by a sea of yellow/orange/red, breathing that New England air...
Good times
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I love Playa del Rey in the fall- nice and cool and I can start wearing long sleeves again!
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Santa Cruz in Fall. Having grown up in LA and seeing the sun almost every day, it was a beautiful change to have rain, wind, clean air, trees, and wildlife.
Beautiful sight to walk through the UC Santa Cruz campus in the rain amongst those gorgeous Redwoods and watch the Banana Slugs slithering all over the ground. Watching the deer eat in the meadow when the rain would clear and catching a glimpse of the Ocean in the distance. I can still smell the crisp air.
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Los Angeles is still beautiful in the autumn .The ginko trees turn gold, fall and form a beautiful carpet beneath shapely branches.
Daytime still may have summer heat but the nights have a colder bite, great for cozying up with someone special...