Tis the Season When DTLA s The Bloc Sparkles Los Angeles Magazine lamag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lamag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Shining bright this holiday season: The Bloc DTLA. And not just due to its prime shopping and dining. Here, one of LA’s largest multi-colored interactive holiday displays is underway: Sparkle DTLA. Wowing visitors every hour on the hour (5 p.m. to 9 p.m.), 18 million hues of color come alight, bursting into a synchronized dance to seasonal tunes. Other lights joining the melange are the flashes of shoppers’ mobile phones grabbing photo opps. Hashtags to include on social media: #sparkledtla and #theblocla, of course. Catch the Sparkle DTLA extravaganza now through January 2. Admission is free and open to humans and furry friends alike.
The day will come when driving into the massively reconceived, rebuilt Manhattan Village from the Sepulveda Boulevard entrance, Joey Restaurant will offer a welcoming sight â a massive modernist structure, with seating inside and out, glass all around, and affluent diners bent over their Spicy Passionfruit Margaritas and Real Peach Bellinis. But not yet. For though Joey is open, the Village is still under construction. And if you enter (as I did) from the Rosecrans Avenue side, you may wonder if youâve come to the right mall.
Until the rubble of construction is cleared away, finding the oddly named Joey (my urge to put an âapostrophe sâ after âJoeyâ is a throwback to my years spent on copy desks) can be a bit of a treasure hunt. It sits off one of the (many!) new parking structures, with a fountained plaza on one side, and a massive California Pizza Kitchen nearby.