What's happening in Los Angeles this week?

LA's week revolves around its farmers' markets. The Hollywood Farmers' Market takes over Ivar Avenue between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard every Sunday from 8am to 1pm. Arrive by 9am, when the stone-fruit vendors still have white peaches and the tamale lady hasn't sold out. The Santa Monica Farmers' Market on Wednesday (Arizona Avenue at 2nd Street, 8:30am to 1pm) is where restaurant chefs shop. You'll spot them hauling flats of heirloom tomatoes to their cars by 9:15. Saturday mornings bring the Silver Lake market on Sunset Triangle Plaza, smaller and quieter, mostly neighborhood regulars buying bread and flowers. The smell of roasting green chiles hits you from half a block away during the warm months.

The Getty Center on Sepulveda Pass charges no admission any day it's open, though parking runs $20 and the lot fills by 11am on weekends. Book a timed parking reservation online for Saturday or Sunday. Monday is the dark day for most major museums, including the Getty, LACMA (5905 Wilshire Boulevard, founded 1910), and the Broad. Treat Monday as your beach day or food day instead. The Broad charges nothing either but requires timed-entry tickets that release online periodically. Mind you, weekday mornings at any of these feel different from weekends. The galleries are quiet enough to hear your own footsteps on the travertine.

Summer in Los Angeles currently reads 32°C by noon, with humidity around 48% and a feels-like temperature closer to 35°C in direct sun. The marine layer sometimes lingers along the coast until 10am, keeping Venice and Santa Monica cooler than inland neighborhoods like Los Feliz or Pasadena. Plan the Hollywood Sign hike via Griffith Observatory, or any outdoor walk, for before 10am. By 2pm the concrete radiates heat and the UV sits near 10. The temperature drops fast after 6pm, falling to around 20°C, and restaurant patios across Silver Lake and West Hollywood fill by 7:30.

Thursday night is industry night in Hollywood and West Hollywood. Bars along Cahuenga Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard stay packed until 2am, and you'll hear live music from every other doorway. Friday and Saturday tilt toward Downtown LA's Arts District, where warehouse-conversion bars serve $18 cocktails and the sound of freight trains mixes with DJ sets along East 3rd Street. Sunday evening slows down. Grand Ole Echo, a free country-and-Americana show at The Echo (1822 W Sunset Boulevard, Echo Park), has run most Sundays since 2003. The lineup starts around 5pm and the crowd skews neighborhood locals in their 30s and 40s.