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Offbeat L.A.: Break on Through to The Morrison Hotel for L.A.’s 4th Annual Day of the Doors
“Driving down your freeways Midnight alleys roam Cops in cars, the topless bars Never saw a woman so alone…” Perhaps no rock and roll band epitomizes the city of Los Angeles as intuitively and perhaps self-destructively as The Doors, with … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Miscellanious, Music, Offbeat LA
Tagged Morrison Hotel, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat L.A., Robby Krieger, the doors
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Offbeat L.A.: Finding the Spirit- A Queen Mary Christmas
With visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads and the smell of fresh pine, the holidays allow us to hit the pause button, celebrate, and remember to express our goodwill. The season, abuzz with so much activity, can make … Continue reading
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Cult Filmmaker Al Adamson Doc ‘Blood & Flesh’ Opens in Los Angeles November 1
From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, director and Hollywood native Al Adamson made genre films – mostly horror, but also science fiction, Westerns, biker pictures, comedies and the occasional hybrid of all of those genres – that due to … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Interviews, Movies, Offbeat LA
Tagged Al Adamson, Blood & Flesh, David Konow, Severin Films
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Offbeat L.A.: Strange Cures by Rob Zabrecky… A Valley Boy’s Path from Burbank to Silverlake to the Magic Castle
Just over the hill, the San Fernando Valley has long had the not-quite–warranted reputation as the undesired step child of the Los Angeles basin; a necessary existence, but better not seen and not heard. In the early ’80s, in fact, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
Tagged Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat L.A., Rob Zabrecky, Strange Cures
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Offbeat L.A.: The Oldest Surviving Mexican Restaurants in Los Angeles
Four years ago when I compiled The Oldest Surviving Los Angeles Restaurants I had no idea the impact that it would have. I was hoping that it might reach a thousand people and make a difference. But the day it was published … Continue reading
Offbeat L.A.: The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor 2019- Historically Bewitching
October is upon us. The nights are getting longer, the evening air now has a slight chill, and the supernaturally inclined speak of the thinning of the veil between the physical world and the spiritual one. Yes, of course we … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Events, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
Tagged Dark Harbor, Halloween, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Queen Mary
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Street Style LA Slides into Summer
Posted in Fashion, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA, Photo Essays
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New Music, Food and Fun at LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight
The Los Angeles Philharmonic presents its third annual Noon to Midnight (N2M) festival in and around Walt Disney Concert Hall this Saturday, June 1st, 2019. N2M is the quintessential LA Phil event, combining uncompromisingly avant garde music with a fun … Continue reading
Among the Dead with Author Caleb Wilde
It’s Dias de los Muertos time here in Los Angeles and many other places touched by the goofy-syncretic Catholic paganism we associate with seeing our besties, our daily barrista, and even our bosses en calavera, surrounded by bouquets of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews, Offbeat LA
Tagged cemeteries, cremation, crematorium, Day Of The Dead, embalming, funeral home, Funerals, Halloween, mortician, pacemakers, pumpkin spice lattes, skeletons, skulls
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