Evan Charest News Today

Spend your three-day weekend sampling craft beer in Santee, attending a concert in the park in Coronado, or sinking your teeth into a strawberry celebration in Vista

Plus, a massive LA barbecue loss, and a closure along Melrose

LA’s latest pop-up, The Break Up Bar, is a safe space for haters of Valentine’s Day. Patrons here can find healing together.

Severance Wine Bar Moody Melrose spot Severance Wine Bar has quietly shut its doors just west of La Brea, following a final Valentine’s Day weekend push — though not for the usual closure reasons one might expect. Instead, the wine bar from owner Evan Charest and chef Weston Ludeke is moving on to a bigger and better space less than a mile west down the street, with a larger kitchen footprint and lots of patio seating. Severance takes over the former the Hart & the Hunter location inside th...