flickrkoalazymonkey Original Ice Blended at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Year after year, Coachella draws a range of notable bands and performers. The weather, however, tends to stay one note: Staggeringly hot. For those headed to the music and arts festival, it might be useful to keep in mind Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's ice blended giveaway over the weekend.
It's Free Cone Day at participating Ben & Jerry's across the nation. From noon to 8 p.m., customers can get a free cone of ice cream in the flavor of his or her choice, including classic, Greek Frozen Yogurt and newer flavors.
flickr/yuhui Ben & Jerry's ice cream
President Obama declared April "Budget Responsibly" Month yesterday. April also happens to be Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month. Unbeknownst to San Francisco-based The Melt (with a location downtown), their grilled cheese sandwich giveaway will cover both bases -- looking out for both your wallet and your plate. 
Facebook/The Melt Egg-white-in-a-hole ( pepper jack cheese and jalapeño on sourdough at The Melt
We seem to be making our way out of the recession, as recent Labor Department stats indicate, but even the more financially secure wouldn't dismiss the appeal of free food. There are two giveaways in town this week -- and they're not going to be Costco-sized fun bites.
Nekter Juice Bar The Nekter Cleanse line
First up, the Fatburger/Buffalo Café joint restaurant on the corner of Sepulveda and Santa Monica Boulevards will be ringing in its grand opening with free samples. Any customer visiting between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. will receive a small Fatburger and two Buffalo wings.
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In celebration of its one-year anniversary, Plan Check will offer all of its diners orders of sugar-coated crullers on the house today. Each order comes in a set of three served with whipped cream and fresh fruit. For larger parties, enough will be brought out to include everyone in the festivities.
Plan Check Crullers
Half a century ago, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf graced us with their first location in Brentwood. Today, with over 900 stores across 25 countries, the company shop is the oldest coffee and tea retailer in the United States. They're celebrating their 50th birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 30 and the drinks are on them all day long. 
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Free coffee
Patrons get a free 16-ounce cup of the company's Anniversary Blend coffee or tea. Note that the promotion is only available at locations in California and Arizona.
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The art of flash mobbing will be practiced this Saturday at Pasadena's Fresh & Easy supermarket for the cause of the environment. A flash mob, for the uninitiated, is a group of random people who assemble suddenly in a place to perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time. 
Carrotmob.org The Carrotmob
In this case, if at least a thousand random people show up to the store tomorrow, Oct. 6, from 12 - 3 p.m., the store will vow to replace all of their giant industrial freezers with energy-efficient, zero emissions freezers. If so, it will be the first store in the entire U.S. to make that commitment to sustainable change. Anyone can show up, no purchase or RSVP necessary.
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The next Ice Age might be coming sooner than you think. On Wednesday Sept. 5, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits will partner up with the CoolHaus truck to hand out free saber-toothed ice cream sandwiches between 12:30-1:30 at the corner of Wilshire and Curson Blvd. 
Rachel Hollis Saber-Tooth Sammie
What's the reason for celebration? The life-sized, ferocious-looking saber-tooth tiger puppet that has been performing at the Natural History Museum is transferring to the Page Museum for full-time shows (the Tar Pits also happen to hold the remains many real-life prehistoric cats too, FYI).
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Haven Gastropub + Brewery in Pasadena is launching it's in-house burger pop-up Haven Burger this coming Monday, Aug. 20, which will feature an array of grass-fed and free range burgers from chef Greg Daniels, including their Haven Burger, made with pickled red onions, roasted red bell peppers, wild arugula, and pungent St. Agur cheese, as well as an extra-juicy special lamb burger.
Dave Lieberman The Haven Burger
We're not quite sure we grasp the restaurant-within-a-restaurant concept behind putting a burger joint inside a gastropub (unnecessarily Inception-y if you ask us), but to celebrate their grand opening Burger Haven is doing the one thing that everyone can get behind -- free burgers!
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