There's lots of free standing room along the 2.5 mile route of the Hollywood Christmas Parade (yes, they're back to the original name), but if you'd like to see the parade in relative comfort, you can buy tickets to the grandstand seating on Hollywood Blvd. Bleacher seats are located between Orange Drive and Highland Ave on both sides of the street.
When: Sunday, Nov 29, 2009 6:00 pm
Where: U-shaped route starts at Orange and Hollywood Blvd. - travels east on Hollywood Blvd. to Vine, turns South on Vine to Sunset, travels west on Sunset back to Orange. Grandstand seats run from the beginning of the parade route to Highland Ave on both sides of the street.
Cost: Grandstand seats $35, group discounts for 25 or more
Parking: Hollywood & Highland Center, $2 for first 4 hours
Metro: Red Line Station Hollywood & Highland
Info and reservations: (866) PARADE1 (866-727-2331). www.thehollywoodchristmasparade.com

More:

• LA Christmas Traditions
• Most Unusual Christmas Traditions in LA
• Give LA Travel Experiences for the Holidays

Photo courtesy of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

The 2010 Entertainment Book, which is valid now through November 2010, is $5 off and shipping is free through November 16. With the many 2 for 1 dining offers, you can save the price of the book in just one use. The book also includes discounts on movies and attractions. Read the Review of the Los Angeles Entertainment Book and if you decide it's right for you, click Buy Direct to get the discounted rate. Compare other discount options in the LA Discount Guide.

I fully support buying full-priced theatre tickets to support the arts if you can. But in the current economy, ticket prices may make some people think twice about a night out to see a show. No money is no excuse for not seeing a show or attending an event or tour while you're in Los Angeles. You can often see a play for less than it costs to see a movie with discounted tickets from Goldstar.com (free registration required), Stubdog.com, LAStageTix.com, or Plays411.com. Most of these have branched out to provide half price tickets to concerts, tours, museums and even spa treatments.

This week, Stubdog.com has FREE tickets to variety of comedy and theatre performances as well as half price tickets for Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, comedy shows at M.I.'s Westside Comedy Theater, the Hollywood Improv, ComedySportz LA and Quick Culture art tours, as well as this weekend's Speakeasy at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel and more.

Goldstar.com, also has half-price tickets to Kooza, plus Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, at the Pantages Theatre, Songs for a New World in Long Beach, Wait Until Dark in Hermosa Beach and many others. They also have discounted tickets to Medieval Times, Pirate's Dinner Adventure, the Laserium, the Aquarium of the Pacific, Dodgers and LA Galaxy games, museums, tours and dozens more opportunities.

LAStageTix.com has half-price tickets to Big River at the Actor's Playhouse in Hollywood, Baby It's You - the Musical in Pasadena, A Big, Gay, North Hollywood Wedding in North Hollywood, The Gogol Project at the Bootleg Theatre and more.

For additional discount theatre tickets, check out Plays411.com

If you call (909) 429-7469 x0 before 2 pm Saturday, Nov 7, you can get $10 off Tibbies Cabaret's Forever Fifties dinner show on the Queen Mary for the performances on Sunday Nov 8 and Friday, Nov 13, 2009.

Over 25 art galleries have coordinated to present the Silver Lake Art Crawl this weekend, November 6-8, 2009. The gallery events are not all simultaneous. The reception schedule is staggered, with several on Friday night, more on Saturday and Sunday from 3 pm to 1 am. It's also more of an art drive than a crawl if you want to take in all the included events. The highest concentration of galleries are along Sunset and Silver Lake Blvd, with a few farther north on Hollywood Blvd and throughout the neighborhood. Several galleries in Los Feliz, Atwater Village and Echo Park are also having related events, including a culmination party on Sunday at Barnsdall Art Park in Los Feliz/Hollywood.

For more information and a full schedule, visit www.silverlakeartcrawl.com

More: Guide to LA Art Walks and Studio Tours.

Note the comments below from the 2008 Silver Lake Art Walk.