What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021

Los Angeles Greater Area

Local women-owned businesses to support

You’re gonna buy stuff. Why not give your bucks to LA women who are putting their hearts, souls and skills into their companies? Wine and flowers, beauty and fashion, artisan bread and breakfast tacos: here are some female-run places to discover.

What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021
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The early flower fields are ba-a-ack

COVID closed the Carlsbad Flower Fields just two weeks into last year’s season. Now nearly fifty acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers are blooming again, and the riot of color is glorious. Note: you must have prepurchased tickets–no admission will be sold onsite.

What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021
Carlsbad flower fields | iStock

You can now hike from Crenshaw to the beach

After 20 years, the last section of the Park to Playa trail is complete. It unspools thirteen  miles of very LA attractions, from the daunting Culver City Stairs to the breathtaking Baldwin Hills Overlook, the Ballona Creek bike path and the ocean at Playa del Rey. 

What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021
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The return of Tomatomania

The NY Times called it “the tomato freaks’ Woodstock.” We call it the world’s largest, liveliest tomato seedling sale. Watch for classes, sales events, tomato tastings and impromptu social gatherings all month at nurseries and gardens across the Southland.

What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021
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San Francisco Bay Area

Celebrating Women’s History

Did you know that March is Women’s History Month? Here’s how to celebrate (safely) all across the Bay Area with events ranging from an online discussion on what it means to be a woman to a conversation with California’s First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom. 

What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021
Pictured is Cal Academy geology collections manager Chrissy Garcia. | Photo Courtesy California Academy of Sciences

Old-school Chinatown Eatery Saved

Some good news, at last, on the San Francisco restaurant front. The 100-year-old Far East Café, one of the last remaining banquet restaurants surviving in S.F.’s historic Chinatown, has been prevented from shuttering. With a big assist from the city, two neighborhood non-profits, and the landlord, Far East will continue to dish out Cantonese and Chinese American favorites like wonton soup and egg foo young for the foreseeable future.

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Courtesy Far East Café

All that and dim sum

Many San Francisco neighborhoods have been impacted by the pandemic, but Chinatown has been one of the hardest hit. In an effort to help preserve the rich history of North America’s oldest Chinatowns, a group of students recreated the district block by block virtually via the popular Minecraft video game. You can almost smell the dim sum. 

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Famous San Francisco’s Chinatown | iStock

Moving day 

A picture really is worth a thousand words. The visuals are truly remarkable in this story about physically moving an entire 100-plus-year-old San Francisco Victorian from 807 Franklin Street to its new location at 635 Fulton Street. Easy does it.

What’s Happening This Week: March 9, 2021
Victorian homes in San Francisco’s Alamo Square. | iStock

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