Twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears “most likely” won’t be hitting up any pot shops on the Amsterdam leg of their upcoming Eurotour next month. The tall, nigh-androgynous, and sole members of Orange County-based noise band The Garden are the epitome of idiosyncratic. Their songs, each barely a minute or two long, oscillate wildly between aggressive garage and experimental grunge.

A couple of weeks ago, we challenged The Active Set to eat the city’s spiciest bowl of ramen: The “Special #2” at Orochon in Little Tokyo, as featured on Man vs. It would be painful, we promised. It would be difficult. Most of all, it would be magnificent.

A month and a half after its official opening, the line outside the Earl of Sandwiches at Downtown Disney finally looks manageable – only about 20-some people on this nippy December night: A flurry of last-minute shoppers, touring families and home-for-holidays millennials.