Last year the Los Angeles Street Food Festival was eclectic yet packed.  This year they are prepared and aware that Food Trucks are all the rage so they are packaging the event in three different sessions.  This is your chance truly taste some of the best of food truck offerings in the country. The first two sessions have families in mind.

New York is hosting their annual New York Resturant Week celebrating 20 years of New York City resturants.

Every First Friday of the Month at Front and Third / Market and Vine Streets, galleries are open to the public for open houses (galleries include Clay Studio, the Temple Gallery, Nexus, Highwire, Muse and Third Street Gallery; and collaborative Space 1026. 

Outdoor Cinema Food Fest(OCFF) @ featuring the best food trucks of LA including Kabob N Roll, Lee's Philly, India Jones, Don Chow Tacos, Frysmith and Mango Tango Ice. 

This celebration has been taking place since 2003 in the small Barcelona community of Santa Sussana in a country house manor known as Can Ratés. The gala revolves around William Shakespeare, the great English playwright, and features national and international companies who give various performances of dance, music and theatre dedicated to Shakespeare.

If ever there is a place to watch the works of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor masterfully come to life it as the Wil Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon.  Having watched Shakespeare plays annually at this theatre, I can attest that watching productions by day or by night each has its charm.  However, night lends itself to intimate show lighting. 

More than 20,000 friends and family attended Canada Day at Mel Lastman Square in 2010. The square was packed with activities to promote healthy living for kids and an opportunity to meet Olympic athletes Charles and Francois Hamelin, Vicky Sunohara and Kristina Groves.

Every Saturday in July to Septemper, in different Rhine locations  a massive and amazing co-ordinated fireworks display from boats, stately buildings and the surrounding countryside.

Certainly Bill Pickett is one of those colorful characters in the history of Wild West Shows and rodeos. And, therefore, he was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, in 1971, the first black rodeo athlete to be so honored.  The Black Rodeo A Taste of Passion" Tour will be in Bakersfield and Los Angeles, CA so grab you partner gitty up and go!

Theatricum Botanicum kicks off its 2010 Summer Repertory Season with two offerings from the Bard. Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream will run in repertory throughout the summer in the Theatricum's 299-seat outdoor amphitheater, carved into the Topanga Canyon hillside.

Taking place Wednesday July 21 -Saturday July 24, 2010 is the wacky National  Baby Food festival in Fremont, Michigan (home to the Gerber company)which gives you an excuse to bring out your inner child. Enter blindfolded baby food taste tests or take part in the baby food cook-off. I am also told that the baby crawl contest is not to be missed. This festival is geared towards family fun.

The Garlic festival will take place July 23rd -25th 2010.  Not much is posted on the event activities for this year.   You have probably seen the festival featured on the Food Network.