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This week we have five interesting in-person events you can check out, from Ventura to Westminster, plus a bevy of online offerings with Mary-Louise Parker, Eric McCormack, Esa-Pekka Salonen and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star Vincent Rodriguez III. Add in South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival and two celebrations of Filipino culture, and you’ve got our weekend list of cultural offerings for your viewing consideration. All times are Pacific.
SoCal in-person events
“The Way Forward”
The Colburn School premieres a filmed celebration of music and dance with composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Calidore String Quartet. Thayer Hall, Colburn School, 200 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 8 p.m. Saturday. $25; advance purchase required. colburnschool.edu
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Dine & Drink Deals
Here are a few options from restaurants and bars as we work our way back toward normal.
Get those hats and fascinators ready. Women Who Whiskey Los Angeles holds a virtual Old Forester Mint Juleps & Kentucky Turtle Derby event on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Tune in to watch the “slowest two minutes in sports” as Louisville s Old Forester holds a turtle race before the running of the Derby. Purchase a mint julep kit for $35 (21+) and pick it up at Here & Now in downtown L.A.
Other bars and restaurants are also offering specials for the Kentucky Derby, which happens on Saturday at 3:50 p.m.
This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020.
Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.