Chinese New Year Festival Thursday, February 3, 2011
If 2011 hasn't gotten off to the awesome start you'd hoped for, try again by celebrating 4709, the Chinese New Year commencing on February 3. The 112th Annual Golden Dragon Parade serves as the centerpiece to Chinatown's Chinese New Year Festival, the Downtown L.A.-adjacent community's annual New Year's celebration complete with floats, marching bands, and dignitaries in cars, traveling along a parade route viewable from both Broadway and Hill streets (Sat., 1 p.m.). The fanfare goes on all weekend, including lion dancers, acrobats, contortionists, and performance troupes in Chinatown's Central Plaza; vendors selling original art, fashion, gifts, toys, and home accessories at the L.A. Craft Experience in the West Plaza, along with cultural workshops for adults and kids and a Ping Pong tournament; plus the "The Great Chinatown Hunt," a clue-solving scavenger hunt organized by Race/LA (info at racela.com), the Firecracker 5K/10K Walk/Run (register at firecracker10k.org), and food trucks galore. Central and West Plazas in Chinatown, near 947 N. Broadway, L.A.; Sat., Feb. 5, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; free. Full schedule at chinatownla.com. (Originally published in L.A. Weekly, February 4, 2011.)
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