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Free Market Madness

The Free Market at the Earth Day festival in Pasadena last Saturday was tons of fun! Thanks to everyone who made it out. Early birds circled around the free market area well before the market was open. Poor Janine of the Arroyo Time Bank had to shoo them away.
The tables were filled with clothes, trinkets, [...]

Cheapsters at the Free Market

[ April 24, 2010; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] In celebration of Earth Day, our friends at the Arroyo Time Bank is sponsoring a free market this Saturday, April 24th at Memorial Park in Pasadena. It’s held in conjunction with the The City of Pasadena Greening the Earth Day & Armory Family Arts Festival, and is essentially a bartering event where everything is absolutely [...]

A Cheapster's Weekend: March 26-March 28

[ March 27, 2010; March 28, 2010; ] Saturday

KSCR Music and Arts Fest: USC’s campus radio station KSCR is hosting their annual all-day indie music and arts festival this Saturday. It’s free and for all ages. DJs will be doing sets all afternoon and you’ll get a chance to check out  art installations and film projections.  The Coolhaus ice cream truck will [...]

Buttermilk Bliss

The Buttermilk Truck’s variety of sweet and savory breakfast concoctions hits all the right spots.
By Rae Contreras
Before the L.A. Street Food Festival, I heard the Buttermilk Truck’s name thrown around as being one of the more popular gourmet food trucks, but I wasn’t sure what they were about. All I had heard was they [...]

A Cheapster's Weekend

[ December 4, 2009; December 5, 2009; December 6, 2009; ] Friday

Free Movies at 212 Pier Coffee Shop: One of my favorite java joints of the Westside hosts free screenings of your most beloved films every Friday night! Starting at 8:45 p.m., swing by to partake in some free popcorn-munching and movie-watching with fellow cinephiles. This week’s film is Guy Ritchie’s Snatch.

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A Cheapster's Weekend: 11/27-29

[ November 27, 2009; November 28, 2009; November 29, 2009; ] Friday

Clearance Sale at Rockaway Records: Silver Lake’s longstanding Rockaway Records is opening up a pop-up store next door to their store and housing it with music at blow-out prices. Thousands of CDs, LPs and cassettes for a mere 99 cents! There will be tons of 45s, posters, T-shirts, books, magazines and other paper goods at [...]

Cheapster's Weekend: Oct. 15-18

[ October 15, 2009; October 16, 2009; October 17, 2009; October 18, 2009; ] Thursday

Echo Park Adventurers Club Shows Summer Films: Come one, come all. World travelers and vagabonds will converge this Thursday at the Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) to share their summer adventures. Bring homemade videos, photos, songs and tales. Free refreshments will be served.
I am not the best candidate to participate as the only thing I [...]

Cheapster's Weekend: Oct. 10 - Oct.11

[ October 10, 2009; October 11, 2009; ] Saturday:

$1 Dance Lessons: The  Music Center downtown is offering “A Taste of Dance” Saturday. This is like a sampler platter of dance class, as you get to try out different types of dance styles in 20-minute mini lessons. Styles from from Jazz Funk, Scottish Dance, or learn the Moonwalk. There’s even Thai Classical and [...]

Cheapster’s Weekend: Oct. 2 – Oct. 4

[ October 2, 2009; October 3, 2009; October 4, 2009; ] Friday

Alternative Car Expo: This Friday and Saturday is the 4th Annual Alternative Car Expo and Conference at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Be sure to check out their exhibition hall that will be chock-full of presentations displaying the latest options in alternative fuel and transportation technologies. You’ll also get a chance to check out new [...]

Free Poetry Events: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry

[ October 1, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. October 3, 2009; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. October 10, 2009; 2:00 pm; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. October 15, 2009; 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. October 17, 2009; 9:30 am to 11:00 am. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. October 18, 2009; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. October 24, 2009; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. November 7, 2009; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Calling all poet heads! Do you freestyle in the shower? Make up lines of poetry while driving in your car in the mornings? Quote  T.S. Eliot and Plath at inappropriate points of a conversation? Then Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry, a month-long celebration of the renowned nature poet Robinson Jeffers, so just for you. [...]