{"id":354265,"date":"2026-06-10T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354265\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:45:12","slug":"sink-your-teeth-into-a-free-la-brea-tar-pits-bash-before-big-changes-begin-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354265\/","title":{"rendered":"Sink your teeth into a free La Brea Tar Pits bash before big changes begin \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to KnowKCRW Summer Nights with La Brea Tar PitsFriday, June 126 to 10 p.m.Free with RSVP; let the museum know<\/a> you’ll be there Organizers are encouraging attendees to “Ride the D” to the new Metro station at Wilshire\/Fairfax, which is located just west of the tar pitsLa Brea Tar Pits Museum to close for a two-year renovation in July; you are welcome to visit the museum through July 7<\/p>\n

Asking a sabertoothed cat to change his ways? That is, if we could somehow zap back to the Ice Age and communicate with the famously tooth felines?<\/p>\n

Well, we would never ever. Nor would we ask a dire wolf to do anything differently with his days, and ancient mammoths are just marvelous in our books.<\/p>\n

But sometimes change of a more contemporary sort can arrive at an area associated with animals of another era, specifically a location that is famously fossil-laden.<\/p>\n

That’s coming up on the Miracle Mile when La Brea Tar Pits Museum shutters for two years for a full-scale round of rethinks, reimaginings, and refurbishments.<\/p>\n

You can still visit the bubbling bastion of prehistoric plentitude through July 7, and excavation sites in Hancock Park near the museum will remain open during the two-year renovation period.<\/p>\n

But there’s something else special bubbling in the close distance: A free party before the closure, one that will bubble and pop with musical flows, cool activities, and enlightening museum wanderings.<\/p>\n

It’s KCRW Summer Nights with La Brea Tar Pits<\/a>, and it is setting up sound-strong shop at the Wilshire Boulevard natural attraction June 12.<\/p>\n

Entry is complimentary, but first things first: You’ll need to RSVP<\/a>, so make like a sabertoothed cat and let the organizers know meow… we mean now.<\/p>\n

Food trucks will be nearby, delish, though don’t look for what a mastodon might have munched on back in the day: Tasty vittles created for humans will be the theme. The museum’s Tar Bar will also be open, too, if you’re over 21 and would like to purchase a cocktail<\/p>\n

KCRW DJs Francesca Harding and Novena Carmel will be there with the terrific tunes, so plan to make like a tar pits bubble and shimmer, shine, and wiggle. <\/p>\n

Look also for the Tarpits Mobile Museum and intriguing activities that complement the scientifically splendid vibe of the night.<\/p>\n

There’s a ticketed disco-themed event called Last Dance at La Brea Tar Pits<\/a> coming up June 27 if you’re keen to don ’70s styles and party some more, but for a free fling near the goopy lakes that neighbor the soon-to-temporarily-shutter museum, the June 12th party is the “mammoth” choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowKCRW Summer Nights with La Brea Tar PitsFriday, June 126 to 10 p.m.Free with RSVP; let…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,71017,2311,645],"class_list":["post-354265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mid-wilshire","tag-museums","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}