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Not riding Amtrak’s Coachella Express to the big show? Here’s some other options for you to enjoy sans car this weekend. If you have an event that you think should be included in next week’s T.O.W., email us at metrorider@elhay.net.

Tonight

• WHAT’S HOT: No Age, Yeasayer, Death Set, Free Blood
  WHERE: Los Angeles Ukrainian Center, East Hollywood
  WHEN: 8:00pm
  WHY: Awesome punk rock line-up in East Hollywood. Better than Coachella fer sure.
  HOW MUCH: $8
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 4315 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.
• WHAT’S HOT: Indian Film Festival Los Angeles presents Johnny Gaddaar
  WHERE: ArcLight Cinemas, Hollywood
  WHEN: 9:30pm
  WHY: Vikram (Mukesh), a cutthroat stock speculator revisits an alliance with an ex-gangster Sheshadri (Dharmendra) when an opportunity to make a quick fortune presents itself. The job requires five men to work together with the bounty to be split equally. Matters go haywire when Vikram decides to increase the share by cutting down the size of the team during the job. When the plan misfires, the body count piles up as Vikram is forced to weave a web of deceit to protect his identity.
  HOW MUCH: $11
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 6360 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.

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The weekend before Earth Day (April 22nd) is a great opportunity to get out and support our mass transit system. Plus, it looks like the weather is going to be delightful. If you have an event that you think should be included in next week’s T.O.W., email us at metrorider@elhay.net.

Tonight

• WHAT’S HOT: Pink Slip Party for Roger Snoble hosted by The Bus Bench
  WHERE: Union Bagel at Union Station, Downtown Los Angeles
  WHEN: 6:00pm
  WHY: Join BusTard, Browne and the BusBenchers for the Pink Slip Pity Party for Roger Snoble next Friday (18 April) at 6 p.m., at Union Bagel. (We might go over to Traxx, unless we have young ‘uns among us.) Too, be sure to bring a small written piece—say, 50 words or so—about where you think Roger should be employed next. Best bit gets a Toy Bus Metro Liner and runner-up gets a Roger Snoble Mustache Mask!
  HOW MUCH: FREE
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 800 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.
• WHAT’S HOT: Fresh Paint at The New LATC
  WHERE: The NEW Los Angeles Theater Center, Downtown Los Angeles
  WHEN: 9:00pm
  WHY: In the spirit of the new downtown LA and the role of the arts in its development, “FRESH PAINT” is a free event, open to all, that offers a wide range of diverse, street, soul creations. The night will include live music from Semyon Kobialka, Cita La Muñeca Rota, Noah and the Clap, and So Many Wizards, art installations from Gronk and William Deutsch, DJ Original Bozak on the turntables, and the Buckworld One krump dancers. The LA Theater Initiative looks forward to working with THE NEW LATC to push their goal of transforming their venue into the bustling artistic community that it is poised to become.
  HOW MUCH: FREE
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 514 S Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90013. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.

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Image courtesy of The Watson Twins.

Welcome to a new month folks. April is here which means spring is in the air which means the animal kingdom is all about gettin’ some. What that has to do with Transit Oriented Weekends, I dunno, but The Watson Twins (pictured above), who will be performing at First Fridays this weekend, are looking awfully cute if you ask me.

If you have an event that you think should be included in next week’s T.O.W., email us at metrorider@elhay.net.

Tonight

• WHAT’S HOT: First Fridays
  WHERE: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, West Adams District
  WHEN: 5:30pm - 10:00pm
  WHY: How apropos for spring time, this month’s topic is “Love and Feeling in the Age of Mammals”. One hallmark of mammals is the evolution of a highly developed brain capable of orchestrating amazingly complex behaviors. What our minds do so effortlessly - the ability to nurture and love, the ability to learn, to make decisions and to solve problems, the ability to communicate through verbal and non-verbal languages, the ability to form deep social networks, the ability to be consciously aware of the world - arises from our highly developed brains. This theme will be explored in depth with six of the most eminent scholars, writers, and speakers on the brains and minds of mammals, including humans. Discussion followed by performances by The Watson Twins and Castledoor with DJ set by Small Town Talk.
  HOW MUCH: Adults $9, Students (w/ ID) $6.50, Members FREE
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.
• WHAT’S HOT: Autechre at the Echoplex
  WHERE: The Echoplex, Echo Park
  WHEN: 9:00pm
  WHY: According to The Village Voice: “It would be deathlessly simplistic to say that Autechre make dance music, like saying that Vivendi sells compact discs. While it’s true that the English duo’s sound is coincidentally rhythmic, it’d be more appropriate to hail them as the true Sound of the City. Just as 1995’s Tri Repetae perfectly and pristinely captured the paranoid spirit of rapidly gentrifying urban areas—the soundtrack of homeless people pushed east, sodium streetlights casting an aura over rain-slick streets, and a deserted series of districts devoted part-time to factory-made toys, candy, and machine parts—their ninth and latest album, Quaristice, finely etches a glass metropolis with acid both nitric and hallucinogenic.”
  HOW MUCH: $22/ 18+
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 1154 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.

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For this special edition of Transit Oriented Weekend we bring you transit directions to the historical L.A. Coliseum for the Dodgers vs. Red Sox game where over 115,000 fans will be congregating in what’s sure to be a fantastic mess if you are in a car. This is why mass transit was invented.

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The above Google Map shows the various bus lines that serve the L.A. Coliseum with links to the timetables from the Metro website. Remember to look at the Saturday schedule on the timetable. Used in conjunction with the Metro Advanced Trip Planner you should be able to find your way to the Coliseum without a car, no problemo.

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Easter weekend is upon us, so why not make Jesus happy and make it a Transit Oriented Easter Weekend. If you have an event that you think should be included in next weeks T.O.W., email us at metrorider@elhay.net.

Tonight

• WHAT’S HOT: The Mae Shi, RTX, Bad Dudes, Foot Village
  WHERE: The Knitting Factory, Hollywood
  WHEN: 8:00pm
  WHY: Crazy fun rock music is a cool way to spend Good Friday
  HOW MUCH: $12
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 7021 Hollywood Boulevard. One block west of the Hollywood & Highland Metro Red Line station. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.
• WHAT’S HOT: Punky Reggae Party
  WHERE: La Cita Bar, Downtown LA
  WHEN: 9:00pm - 2:00am
  WHY: Punk, reggae, ska and anything else with that rocksteady beat.
  HOW MUCH: FREE
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 336 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 . You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.

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So we missed Friday, but here’s a Transit Oriented Weekend roundup that will include Monday, St. Patrick’s Day, to make up for it. Enjoy Responsibly, Take Public Transit. If you have an event that you think should be included in next weeks T.O.W., email us at metrorider@elhay.net.

Tonight

• WHAT’S HOT: Poefest
  WHERE: Zombie Joes Underground Theater
  WHEN: “The Pit and the Pendulum” 8:30pm (also 6:30pm on Sunday); “The Tell-tale Heart & The Bells” 6:30pm (also 4:30pm on Sunday)
  WHY: A homage to the late-great master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe. Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group has
  selected two of Poe’s most dynamic tales to perform: THE TELL-TALE HEART, the story of an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a vulture eye, and THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, a tale of a prisoner in a dark room containing a large blade-like pendulum that pushes him closer and closer to falling into a deep pit. Each of his frightening tales of terror are told, word for word, in a stylized “performance fusion” with the group’s signature staging, choreography, and an original musical score.
  HOW MUCH: $12
  HOW TO GET THERE: Transit Map of 4850 Lankershim Blvd. A 0.7 mile walk from the Metro Red Line and Orange Line stations in North Hollywood. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.

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