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Mom’s the word! For you Mother’s Day planning procrastinators, be warned: Your options are narrowing. Your usual go-to’s may still closed because of the pandemic, and reservations for major destinations that have reopened think the Huntington Botanical Gardens, Descanso Gardens, the Getty Villa have already been snapped up for Sunday. Unless you can convince Mom to celebrate on Friday or Monday instead (wah-wah), you’ll want to consider these other options. Tickets for the places and events listed here appeared to be available as of Thursday morning:
In-person events
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Maybe it’s the fact that much of the campus has been demolished, or perhaps it’s the arduous ticketing system that requires you to set up an online account before snagging a reservation. Either way, LACMA had reservations available for various entries times on Sunday, meaning there’s still hope on selling Mom on a morning or afternoon of art in the campus’ R
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Moms won’t turn down a bouquet of hand-tied flowers from Bloom & Plume or a pretty potted monstera plant from Queen plant shop, but the reality is that most don’t want gifts for Mother’s Day. What they really want is to spend time with their kids (well, unless they’re within the terrible 2s-and-age 3 range. Then they’ll undoubtedly accept an all-day pass to relax at one of L.A. s Koreatown spas).
Instead, why not bring moms and plants together for a good time?
They’re an optimistic endeavor most of the time, and L.A.’s plant stores are often happy places where you can shop for plants and gifts as well as visit and enjoy time with your mother. “We get people coming in here all the time with their moms,” said Annette Gutierrez of Potted in Atwater Village. “I really love it when these young Gen Zers come in to buy their moms a plant present. They get so excited.”
My New Orleans
04/30/2021
This year, I entered into the “excited about small appliances” phase of adult development. It started when I realized that what I really wanted for my birthday was a new blender. The one we got for our wedding in 1998 was taking its last gasps. It was only a matter of time before the little engine that could, actually couldn’t anymore and caught fire. I know this because I could smell smoke sometimes while making smoothies. To be fair, 23 years is a great run for a blender. It was an Oster, so that’s where I started looking and where I ended up. I got the Oster Beehive Blender, which looks almost identical to the old one and I’m thrilled with this fact. While purchasing it, I also sprang for an immersion blender. (Also, an Oster: The turbo function stick mixer hand blender.) Honestly, the immersion blender is even more exciting than the regular blender. I can talk about that thing all day. Oh, the creamy soups I’ve been making! Butternut sq
By: Kathryn Whitbourne | Updated: Apr 23, 2021 The origins of the word cocktail is quite as dark as the origin of the thing itself, wrote H.L. Mencken. WIN-Initiative/Getty Images
Probably not long after the invention of liquor, people may have started messing around and adding things to their favorite spirit. We know that by the 1600s, people were fond of alcoholic punches. But the cocktail as we know it is a more recent invention. Here are some other facts that should leave you stirred, but not shaken.
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1. Yes, the Word Cocktail Sounds a Little Dirty With Good Reason
The origins of the word cocktail are pretty murky with several competing theories . But spirits historian David Wondrich (nice job, huh?) says the first mention of the word cocktail was in a British newspaper in 1798. Cock-tail (as the word was styled) was used as a slang term for a ginger drink. Apparently at the time, before a horse sale, a dea