H2O Music Festival takes place this Saturday, August 17 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Headliners include Pitbull, A Tribe Called Quest and Roberto Tapia, and many other artists will also be performing. Doors open to the public at 3 p.m. and the festival ends around midnight. Tickets can [continue reading]
HARD Summer starts tomorrow and all HARD Summer attendees can ride Metro for FREE to and from the concert. On concert days between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., locate the Metro TAP employees in blue shirts at each station entrance (except at Vermont/Beverly and Wilshire/Normandie), show them your HARD Summer ticket or receipt and they will tap [continue reading]
The Natural History Museum recently opened their new exhibition Becoming Los Angeles, which chronicles how people and the land have affected each other over 500 years and transformed L.A. into the city we know today. Show your TAP card at the box office to save $1.25 on adult admission. The NHM is open 7 days [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Kjuewk2cg&w=560&h=315] Transportation’s addiction to petroleum products isn’t going away, so says the above [continue reading]
Start the weekend with some laughter at the Orpheum Theatre. Aziz Ansari, star of TV show Parks and Recreation, will be there to tickle your funny bone. The show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets range from $25 – $45. (Metro Red or Purple Line to Pershing Square Station, walk [continue reading]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30782480[/vimeo] Monday, Sept. 3 is Labor Day, which means Metro buses and trains will be running on holiday schedule. It also means that Metro will run extended late-night service on Sunday, Sept. 2. All Metro Rail, the Metro Orange Line and Metro Silver Line will run until 2 a.m. [continue reading]
[vimeo width=”600″ height=”338″]http://vimeo.com/27498542[/vimeo] On Saturday, September 3, Metro is once again partnering with a summer music festival to provide extended late night rail service so that concert goes can leave their cars at home. This time it’s the FYF Fest – featuring acts such as Descendents, Broken Social Scene, Explosions [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUceTfsRwE&feature=email[/youtube] Metro extended some of its rail service well past the usual midnight closing time on Saturday to accommodate the crowds going to HardFest in Los Angles State Historic Park, i.e. the Cornfields. Agency staff put together the above video. A few interesting stats: •There were about 16,000 more boardings [continue reading]
Party people listen up, Metro has partnered with HARD Events to provide extended late night service on the Red and Gold Lines on Saturday, August 6 for the HARD Summer Music Festival 2011. The festival – featuring acts including Chromeo, Ratatat and Odd Future – takes place at the Los [continue reading]
photo by the dude abides, via submission Proof again that the subject of a photo doesn’t have to dominate the frame. The inbound Gold Line train is seen here across Los Angeles State Historic Park on the northern end of downtown L.A. The photo was taken with the Instagram app [continue reading]
