Gift Guide: Picnic People

1. CB2 BBF Eco Dinnerware 2. Baguette 3. Urban Outfitters Holga 35mm 4. Jonathan Adler Oslo Tripod Napkin 5. Cypress Grove Cheese 6. Optima Blyton Vintage Picnic Tin 7. Anthropologie Refreshing Lemonade Urn 8. Jonathan Adler Hollywood Highball Glass 9. Swanson Vineyard Clarke's Bark 10. Terrain  Cotton Herringbone Throw 11. Crate and Barrel Aqua Condiment Spoon

*Photo from Grubstreet

Venture South

Well, I declare! It's time again for the Mississippi Picnic in LA, a lazy Saturday escape to the Magnolia State with lip-smackin' eats like Yazoo City fried catfish and Tupelo's own Romie's BBQ, Delta Blues music from the likes of L.C. Ulmer and Jimbo Mathus, and Lazy Magnolia beer to keep you cool while you're chewin' the fat on your picnic blanket.

WHEN: Today, September 11, 1:00-6:00 PM

WHERE: Monticello De Leo Politti Picnic Area in Elysian Park

TICKETS: $25 at the door (all you can eat/drink)

If you're feeling like traveling further South, Taco Cinema at the Downtown Film Festival is also today and brings together 25+ trucks who are putting their spin on the taco, screenings of slow food and green films plus the feature "140", and a beer garden.

WHEN: Today, September 11, 1:00-9:00 PM

1:00 PM – Greenlit
2:30 PM – Sick Amour (with Q&A)
4:00 PM – Green Shorts Program

WHERE:

The Medallion Loft Complex

(corner of 4th & Main Streets, Downtown LA)

TICKETS: $15 at the door

Southern Hospitality

The Mississippi Picnic in Los Angeles was great fun. It could have been the welcoming spirit of founder Scott Rorie, Romie's BBQ trucked in from Tupelo, MS (Elvis' hometown), the ruthless red lipstick of Lucky Rivers (the lead of Bandito Royale), the ethereal designs of Molly Gee, or the made-from-pecans Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan Ale, but whatever it was, it was a lovely 76º Saturday. Look out for the 34th picnic next year.

From top left: Mississippi classic car, the road in Elysian Park to the picnic, free beer, Bandito Royale, designs by Molly Gee, happy people