What's happening in Los Angeles this week?

Mid-June in Los Angeles means June Gloom. The marine layer rolls in off the Pacific most mornings. It drops visibility at Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach to a few hundred meters before 10am, and the air feels cool and damp against bare skin. The fog tends to burn off by noon. Clear skies and dry afternoons around 26°C follow, with humidity near 55%. You might arrive at LAX expecting blazing sun and walk out into grey mist. Pack a light layer for mornings. By 1pm the San Fernando Valley likely sits 4-5 degrees warmer than the coast, and inland neighborhoods like Pasadena and Burbank bake while the beach stays pleasant. This pattern holds through late June, sometimes into early July.

LA's week has a predictable shape. Monday is closure day. The Getty Center, which is free admission every day it opens, shuts its doors on Mondays. So does the Broad on Grand Avenue in Downtown. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire, founded in 1910, closes Wednesdays. Plan museum days for Tuesday or Thursday, when crowds thin to maybe 40% of weekend levels. Sunday mornings belong to the farmers markets. The Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Avenue runs 8am to 1pm, and the smell of roasting Hatch chiles drifts from the New Mexico vendor's stall across the parking lot. Mar Vista's market on Grand View Boulevard is smaller, more residential, and has better prepared food. Saturday mornings, the Silver Lake market on Sunset Boulevard fills with the cold-brew crowd by 8am.

Tuesday through Thursday, LA feels like a different city. Traffic on the 405 still crawls, but Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice is walkable without dodging photo shoots every 10 meters. The restaurants in Silver Lake and Los Feliz run at a quieter pace, and you can get a table at Sqirl on Virgil Avenue for breakfast without the 45-minute weekend wait. Wednesday morning is likely the best time to walk the 2,700 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame along Hollywood Boulevard, when the sidewalks are navigable and the costumed performers haven't set up yet. Friday and Saturday shift the weight. The Sunset Strip between Doheny Drive and Fairfax Avenue fills after 9pm. Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade gets dense from about 6pm. Sunday is the beach day. Zuma Beach in Malibu runs cooler and less crowded than Venice Beach, and mid-June water temperature sits around 17°C. Cold enough that you'll notice.

Koreatown along 6th Street and Western Avenue is the reliable late-night play after 10pm any night of the week, with spots like Park's BBQ serving past 11pm. The weekday taco trucks along Olympic Boulevard in Pico-Union tend to be better, and cheaper at $2-3 per taco, than the weekend-hyped spots. Happy hour runs strong Tuesday through Friday from about 4pm to 7pm, with cocktail prices dropping $3-5 at bars across Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Venice. Sunday brunch is a ritual in West Hollywood and Silver Lake, but wait times at popular spots reach 90 minutes by 11am. Republique on South La Brea takes walk-ins at 9am, and the line at that hour is still short.