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Fall Culture Travel :: All Roads in LA

September 28, 2007 at 10:00 AM | 0 Comments

Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.

The All Roads Film Festival will be held this weekend at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. The event includes film, a photography exhibition, a live music concert, panels and workshops.

While Beverly Hills is known for its famous zip code and mass-market films, for one weekend, the town strips off its consumerism when National Geographic gives a forum to the voices of indigenous people and the underprivileged. Directors and their subjects in this NG-hosted event do the talking. The nationalities represented in this year's festival include many tribes of native Canadians and Americans, as well as Finnish, Aboriginal Australian, Iranian, Kurdish, Ethiopian, Indian, Mexican and Maori people.

High on newly-broadened horizons and wishing you weren't on Team Oppressor, head over to Uzbekistan (the restaurant, not the country). It's down Sunset Boulevard on the corner of La Brea underneath a big purple sign. It has authentic Uzbek cuisine, including vegetable salad with dill, lagman (a homemade noodle and stir fry dish with lamb or chicken) and potato dumplings in a tomato sauce. Live bands perform on weekend nights. Even better: In the afternoons you can watch Russian soap operas while you eat.

Related Stories:
· All Roads Festival [Official Site]
· Los Angeles Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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