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Tiki Oasis 2024 Makes Its Way Out West
Tiki Oasis’ Way Out West, brought to you by hosts Baby Doe & Otto von Stroheim, will be a five-night, four-day live music event this year. Beginning Wednesday, July 31, through Sunday, August 4, 2024, this year’s event at San Diego’s Town & Country … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Cocktails, Beer, Wine & Weed, Events, Fashion, Miscellanious, Music
Tagged Al Jardine, Anja & Mike Stax, Astro 138, Baby Doe & Otto von Stroheim, Babzotica, Beach Boys, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, BigTikiDude, Bird Calls, CK Smart, Deke & The Whippersnappers, Dirt Chylde, Dirty Fuse of Greece, Dominic Priore, El Dedo, Eric Musick, Gianni Beatnik, Great Gallaspy, Ixtahulé, James David, Jayna Manoushe, Kate Scratch Fever, Lee Joseph, Lucky Ritz, Mahalo Matt, Manakooras of North Carolina, Mark A: The Suburban Savage, MeduSirena the Fire Eating Mermaid, Mike LaVella, Nuria, Otto, Par Avion, Project: Pimento from San Francisco, Rockin’ Dj Amy Dee, Ruiko Satoya of Japan, Ship Rex, Skipper Josh, Slack Key ‘Ohana of San Diego, Spin Lizzy, Surfer Joe of Italy, Taimane Gardner, Tanoa “Samoa Boy”, The Apemen, The Centuries, The Crawdaddys, The Double Whammys of Las Vegas, The Ogres of San Francisco, The Outta Sites, The Satin Dollz, The Scimitars of Southern California, The Untamed Youth, Tony the Tyger, Tropicana Joe, Venturesmania!
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Tequila’s Punk Museum Comes to Joshua Tree
Last month, the LA Beat’s own Tequila Mockingbird joined forces with graphic artist, Rolo Castillo, and AI artist and inventor, Phil Bosua, to bring “the past, present, and future of Punk” through the art of AI and the Punk Museum … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Events, Miscellanious, Music
Tagged desert trip, Joshua Tree, L.A. Punk Museum, Library Special Collections Punk Archives, Nina Hagen, Phil Bosua, Punkast, Rollo Castillo, Tales of the American, Taylor Junction, Tequila Mockingbird, Tequila Mockingbird's Punk Museum, UCLA Archives
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Festive Santa and Krampus Crawls, Stumbles, and Runs Across LA
This weekend and beyond, the winter holiday season truly begins within Greater Los Angeles when the city’s streets fill with both the most wicked and the most festive of revelers, celebrating in a style that can only be found in … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Miscellanious
Tagged Christmas crawls, krampus, krampus night, krampusnacht, pub crawls, santa crawls, SantaCon
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The Second Annual LA Rum Festival Includes More Tiki This Year
The Los Angeles Rum & Tiki Festival comes back to Downtown LA for its 2nd Annual Southern California festival Friday, September 8, 2023, from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m., once again at The Majestic Ballroom. This year will also feature … Continue reading
Surf Guitar Fans Venture to Long Beach for ‘101’ Convention
The 14th Annual Surf Guitar 101 Festival will be at the beachfront Golden Sails Hotel in Long Beach for the first time, Friday, July 28 through Sunday, July 30, 2023. The Surf Guitar 101 Convention is to feature “the very best … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Miscellanious, Music
Tagged Deke Dickerson, Draculina, Paul Johnson, Pollo Del Mar, Rocket Fish, Satan’s Pilgrims, Sir Bald Diddley a.k.a. Hip Bone Slim, The Bomboras, The Charades, The Concussions, The Eliminators, The Hellbenders, The Irradiates, The Messer Chups, The Reventlos, The Surf Kings, The Tikiyaki Orchestra, The Volcanos, Tiki Creeps, Waves of Steele
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EXOTIKON: A New ‘Wild, Weird, and Wonderful’ Comes to DTLA
EXOTIKON promises to be the “Disneyland of Exotica” — an inaugural weekend celebration of all things “wild, weird, and wonderful” in the World of Exotica, this weekend, Friday through Sunday, June 23-25, 2023, at the WisdomeLA Art Park in DTLA’s Arts … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Attractions, Events, Miscellanious, Upcoming Events
Tagged Blue Hawaiians, Creepxotic, Creepxotica, Ego Plum, El Vez, exotikon, Hukilau Hotshots, Hula Girls, Infernal Order of the Black Flame, Jason Lee & The Dark Entities, Mambo Diabolico, Martini Kings, peekaboo gallery, Reckless Night Ensemble, Shag, Thea Triffid, tiki culture, Tikiyaki Orchestra, yma sumac
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High Desert Cool Spot ‘The Station’ Becomes Cheesier in the Tastiest of Ways
On 29 Palms Highway, which cuts straight up through the high desert to Joshua Tree, sits a stunning and popular local landmark that has now, albeit briefly, been transformed into a retro “Cheez-It Stop” this week. Open only until Sunday, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Attractions, Events, Food, Miscellanious
Tagged Big Josh, California summer, Cheez-It, classic cars, Glen Steigelman, grammers, high desert, instagrammers, Joshua Tree, photo ops, Steve Halterman, Summer vacation, The Cheez-It Stop, the los angeles beat, the muffler man, The Station
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