🤙 Co-Create + Curate Vibes

NETFLIX BUYS WARNER BROS.

FOR $82.7 BILLION

👋 HEY CUTIE!

Happy Friday CurationsLA Family! Our team at CURATIONS has been quietly building something, and today you're the first to see it live.

Starting with today's edition, you can now comment on individual sentences within articles. Click on any sentence in today's newsletter, seriously try it right now and you'll see what we mean.

Here's how it works:

• Click a sentence -> Sidebar opens (see screenshot below)
• Read what others think --> provide your vibe
• Upvote Good Vibes that you vibe with

There will be more releases to this project, which we are calling Project Malibu, starting with today's smart commenting feature. Soon, users will be able to engage with our AI Curator, Garrett, and find similar content with a tagging system such as similar headlines, restaurant openings and events.

This is live testing with community building. We're just a Good Vibes platform, so please, no politics, rage-bait or spam. Just comments that are Good Vibes, sharing thoughts on things we're all experiencing together, bunkered-in.

Some sentences already have comments. Some are waiting for yours. Click around. See what happens.

Lmk your thoughts. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you back here on Wednesday! - Wyatt

The city has a reputation for constant sunshine and warmth, but once the sun is down at night, LA remembers it's secretly a desert under its newer identity. The cool night air doesn't care what midday was like.

🧠 AMY SPALDING

🔙 ON THIS DAY | 1848 President James K. Polk triggers the Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming a gold discovery in California

🗳️ TODAY'S TRIVIA | Grand Illuminations returned to The Yard at California Plaza yesterday with spectacular holiday displays. What is the name of the 28-foot-tall kinetic sculptures designed by LA-based art collective Liquid PXL that originally debuted at Burning Man?

• The Cosmic Blooms
• Electric Dandelions
• The Stellar Sparks
• Luminous Lotus

Answer located at bottom of today's publication in a toggle-down.

🛣️ NATIONAL

• 🔎 SEARCH TRENDS: Google's top searches released with the company's annual Year in Search
• 🍿NETFLIX X WARNER BROS: Netflix to buy Warner Bros. and HBO Max in $82.7bn deal
• ⚽ WORLD CUP: 2026 FIFA World Cup draw live updates: groups, matches and reactions, Los Angeles plays as a host city
• 🦁 MRBEAST: YouTube star MrBeast is moving into financial services View: CurationsLA's interview with Beast Games star, Player 424, Courtney Ferris
• 📺 BEST TV: Rolling Stone's list of the fifteen best TV shows of 2025
• 🦖 DINOSAURS: 18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline, and they set a new record
• 🔗 CURATIONSLA: Last publication's most viewed content: Spotify Wrapped 2025 turns listening into a competition

🤙 LOCAL

• 💰 IRVINE: Hedge fund, TGS Management plans 200,000sf campus in Irvine
• 🚧 PICO BLVD: Pico Blvd. closure begins as work ramps up for Los Angeles Convention Center expansion
• 🏡 WARNER CENTER: Mixed-use housing moves forward on Canoga Avenue as Warner Center's next urban block takes shape
• 🧢 DODGERS: How Dodgers could lay groundwork for three-peat
• 🚀 NEW EATS: Los Angeles' newest restaurant openings

🎉 FUN

• 🗓️ WEEKEND: Things to do this weekend in Los Angeles, now - Sunday
• 💯 BEST OF LA: The eleven best things Time Out Los Angeles editors saw and did this year of 2025
• 🥯 LAYLA BAGELS: Layla Bagels & Coffee coming to Brentwood
• 🐏 RAMS: NFC West implications hang in the balance as the Rams hit the road to battle the Arizona Cardinals
• ☕ DUTCH BROS: Dutch Bros officially opens first Los Angeles location in the city, located on S. Figueroa Street near USC

💌 CURATOR'S CORNER

• 🏆 CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS: Nominations announced for the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards hosted by Chelsea Handler
• 🧙 MARCH 31ST: Jackson Wang announces Magicman 2 World Tour at Kia Forum, March 31st. Tickets on-sale now. GET TICKETS
• 💌 SUBMIT CONTENT: Have content? An event? Help us at CurationsLA curate the Good that is taking place in Los Angeles by submitting what's going on within your LA-world. FREE FORM

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND
LOS ANGELES! 🤙

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