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Movies Till Dawn: Only the Best People
* indicates that this title is also available to rent, stream, or purchase on various platforms. Please note that streaming options may differ from these home video presentations in terms of visuals, supplemental features, etc. “Shelf Life” (1993, Liberation Hall) … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Liberation Hall, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Conflict Resolution 101
* denotes that this title is also available for rent, purchase, or streaming from various online platforms. Please note that streaming options may differ from these home video presentations. “Tokyo Pop” * (1988, Kino Lorber) Believing the industry hype that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cranked Up Films, Kino Lorber, Milestone Films, VCI Entertainment
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Offbeat L.A.: There’s a New State Fair in Town- FREE tickets
What a crazy 16 months it has been with the rollercoaster ride of coronavirus and a long void of anything fun in 2020. The blackhole of social distance may have ebbed & flowed, but we need playtime and human stimulation … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
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Offbeat L.A.: That’s Amore- The Oldest Surviving Italian Restaurants & Delis in Los Angeles
Ciao Bella! Welcome to the second installment of my Oldest Surviving Los Angeles Restaurants map series. This one features The Oldest Surviving Italian Restaurants & Delis, including Los Angeles and Orange Counties along with parts of San Bernardino & Riverside … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
Tagged Italian, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat L.A., Restaurants
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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
