How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Jenny Lewis

When Jenny Lewis was born, her parents were portion of Loves Way, a philharmonic lounge enactment successful Las Vegas. After they divided up erstwhile she was 3 years old, she moved with her mom, her older sister and their babysitter (a pistillate Elvis impersonator from Memphis, Tenn.) to the San Fernando Valley.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

Lewis remained successful the Valley for astir of her life, with immoderate sojurns to the Eastside of L.A., Nashville and New York. Now she’s firmly backmost successful the Valley, except, of course, erstwhile she’s connected tour.

Lewis is simply a erstwhile kid histrion (you whitethorn retrieve her from “Troop Beverly Hills” and “The Wizard”), but has spent her adulthood arsenic a celebrated instrumentalist who has released 5 solo albums, including 2023’s “Joy’All.”

She precocious reunited with her bandmates successful Rilo Kiley, the indie stone radical that captured millennial hearts successful the aboriginal 2000s. They are presently touring the United States and volition play 2 section shows astatine the Greek Theatre connected Oct. 14 and 18. Calling from a edifice successful Nashville, she details what she likes to bash connected Sundays erstwhile she’s backmost successful L.A.

This interrogation has been lightly edited for magnitude and clarity.

8:36 a.m.: Caffeinate, fto the canine slumber in
I thin to aftermath up astir each time astatine 8:36. When I look astatine the clock, 9 times retired of 10, it’s 8:36.

I person a cockapoo, Bobby Rhubarb, she’s 4 1/2, truthful my beingness benignant of revolves astir her. I really aftermath up earlier than Bobby, who tends to loaf astir successful furniture until 11 a.m. She gets her zoomies astir midnight due to the fact that she was raised connected the road. The archetypal twelvemonth of her life, 3 months of it was spent opening for Harry Styles and surviving connected a circuit bus. She’s connected circuit docket perpetually.

So I get up — I’m precise quiescent truthful arsenic to not disturb her — and past I’ll marque coffee. I emotion Canyon Coffee. It’s a single-origin integrated roaster based successful L.A., tally by this truly cute couple.

9:30 a.m.: Love to clean, cleanable to love
Sunday is my clean-the-house day. I’m a spot of a neat freak, and present that I unrecorded connected my own, I tin indulge my tendencies. It’s besides truly bully exercise. I’m typically moving retired a mates days a week, but cleaning is an progressive happening to bash and it’s precise loving erstwhile you are fortunate capable to ain a home. You don’t truly get to cognize a location until you get connected your hands and knees and cleanable the floor.

11 a.m.: Open-hearted flea market-ing
The archetypal Sunday of the period is the Pasadena City College Flea, 2nd Sunday is the Rose Bowl, 3rd is Long Beach and 4th is Topanga. I similar the archetypal and the 4th Sundays. I similar the smaller fleas, and determination are a mates of vendors that spell to some PCC and Topanga that person astonishing stuff. I person relationships with them wherever they’ll beryllium like, “Oh, I pulled this with you successful mind.”

Flea marketplace vendors archer the past of wherever you are. These radical are experts connected aged chimayos and Navajo blankets and Midcentury Modern furniture. If you instrumentality around, you larn a batch astir worldly that you ne'er thought you needed to cognize about.

For me, the quality of thrifting and flea market-ing is based connected an unfastened bosom and a generous spirit. I’m ever donating and going done my closet and putting it backmost into the thrifting community. When I offload a clump of worldly alternatively than merchantability it, I consciousness similar I volition beryllium fortunate astatine the flea market.

You can’t truly spell with immoderate expectations; that’s not truly however it works. I’ve been looking for the cleanable fake leopard-skin overgarment for 20 years. I really person a caller opus that has that arsenic 1 of the lyrics. Maybe 1 time I’ll find it.

2:30 p.m.: Chinese nutrient cravings
If this is simply a Pasadena day, it’s an accidental to get Chinese food, which I crave connected Sundays. I’ll sometimes spell to Woon. It’s truly adjacent to wherever a batch of things burned down [in the Eaton fire], truthful it’s beauteous chill to spell determination and enactment that spot.

It tin beryllium a small jammed connected Sundays, truthful sometimes I’ll spell to the Glendale Galleria — besides jammed, but successful a antithetic mode — and Din Tai Fung.

I ever parkland connected the apical deck. You get a small sunshine. If you request to fume a small doob, you tin bash that, oregon not. And you conscionable locomotion close implicit the span into JCPenney, which I emotion walking through.

Din Tai Fung, there’s a hack if you’re by yourself, oregon if you’re 2 people: You tin beryllium astatine the barroom and not hold an hour. I’m gluten-free. Normally you would get dumplings, which look astonishing and I privation to devour them, but I can’t devour them. I’ll get the beef broth crockery — it’s unbelievable — and immoderate vegs. Depending connected the day, sometimes they archer you the solid noodles are gluten-free and sometimes they archer you they’re not, truthful I wouldn’t urge that to anyone who is celiac.

3:30 p.m.: Mall massage break
Out successful the mediate of the mall, adjacent the Uniqlo, there’s the champion 30-minute seat massage. It’s conscionable incredible. And I’m a large promenade massage aficionado.

I similar it to a bougie massage. I would alternatively bash a Thai-style massage wherever you person your apparel connected oregon Chinese acupressure. Typically promenade kiosks are Chinese acupressure. It is the champion massage for what I’m looking for, which is thing precise beardown and therapeutic.

I don’t request to spell to the spa, particularly erstwhile I’m connected the road. Oftentimes, the autobus volition beryllium astatine a Radisson connected a time disconnected and there’s a promenade crossed the highway. I’ll ever look for the massage astatine the mall, and it sets maine straight.

I’ve written truthful galore songs portion getting a massage successful the mall, due to the fact that there’s ever ambient euphony that you can’t wholly marque out. There’s thing astir that and the dependable of radical — it’s a precise freeing frequence for maine to constitute lyrics.

5 p.m.: Dinner provisions
I’m heading backmost to Mint Chip, which is the sanction of my house, to spot Bobby. On Sundays, depending connected what I had for lunch, we volition bash either burger nighttime oregon grass-fed filet mignon night.

I’ll halt astatine Gelson’s, and they’ve got 2 grass-fed fillets that are comparatively reasonable. I’ll get a baked murphy oregon mashed potatoes, a salad, prime up a vessel of earthy vino and past spell location and marque meal for myself and Bobby.

I similar things well-done, which nary 1 likes to hear, but it’s the reality. If you’re my impermanent oregon my canine and you similar things a small spot much rare, I’m blessed to marque it your mode for you.

I’ve go a truly bully navigator and I marque a large martini. I marque the Mint Chip Martini. I telephone it a maximalist martini due to the fact that it’s other dirty, olives and a twist. It disguises the alcohol. I conscionable look astatine the vermouth — I don’t enactment it successful the martini; I glimpse astatine it, and that’s capable vermouth.

I couldn’t bash thing earlier the pandemic, truthful I truly cherish that clip of learning however to instrumentality attraction of myself.

8 p.m.: Cult classics
I person a projector acceptable up successful my surviving country that projects onto a achromatic wall. I’ve been truly into this app called Night Flight [Plus]. “Night Flight” was a cult late-night TV bid [it primitively ran connected the USA Network from 1981 to 1988]. They played a batch of euphony videos, punk and dense metallic docs. Now they person this awesome streaming app, truthful you tin ticker these aged episodes. Right now, there’s a movie called “Kin-Dza-Dza!” from 1986. I emotion that Soviet stuff. Music from that epoch is truthful weird and cool.

10 p.m.: Bedtime with crime
I’ll instrumentality Bobby retired earlier furniture and past we volition spell into the maestro bedroom. I volition typically perceive to an audiobook oregon a podcast and past it’s disconnected to sleep.

I americium a existent transgression enthusiast, truthful I’ve listened to each of them. As of late, I truly enjoyed “Crooked City.” Also, “Up and Vanished: In the Midnight Sun” is great. I truly similar Payne Lindsey and each of his shows. There’s different large 1 called “Dead and Gone,” which is the crimes that happened successful the surrounding areas of Grateful Dead shows. It’s similar the afloat Grateful Dead history. I emotion the Dead, but I learned a batch astir the Dead listening to that, and I was truly conscionable listening for the crime.

I’m considering a vocation displacement into forensics. I mean, not really, but I’ve been to CrimeCon; I privation to spell to CrimeCamp. I’m obsessed. And again, this happened during the pandemic due to the fact that determination was ne'er abstraction for maine to genuinely indulge my hobbies. I’m educating myself.