There’s a lot to process about 2021—lows, sure, but also plenty of highs—so check back here as we continue to update our look back at this past year in L.A.
Time Out L.A.’s best of 2021
We recap the year in culture, cuisine and 2021’s few bright spots
Edited by Michael Juliano
Editor, Los Angeles & Western USA
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Some of our favorite things we saw in 2021
Movies
The Hayao Miyazaki retrospective at the Academy Museum is a magical forest of Ghibli goodness
Like crawling through the thicket of branches that leads to Totoro’s tree, you’ll enter the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ Hayao...
Movies
The 11 coolest things on display at the Academy Museum for movie lovers
The long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures should have both film buffs and casual movie watchers swiping open their phone app in nearly...
Art
Here’s what it’s like to visit Hollywood’s “Immersive Van Gogh” show
After a brief tease and a couple of false starts, “Immersive Van Gogh” has finally hit Hollywood with animated projections of the...
Art
LACMA’s modern art collection finds a bright new home (and a dark creepy garage)
LACMA is looking a little different compared to the last time you probably visited: Collections have been shuffled around, a sizable chunk of the...
Things to do
5 things we wish we knew before visiting Avengers Campus
After the world seemed to get ahold of the Time Stone and delay just about everything, Avengers Campus is finally set to open at Disney California Adventure...
Music
Vax Live was L.A.’s biggest concert in well over a year. Here’s what it was like to be there.
Cathartic sing-alongs, pyro-punctuated dance routines, strobe lights piercing fog, the bounce of seats as a stadium full of people jump…the wait for the...
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