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Offbeat L.A. Goes on a Video Adventure: Two Bizarre Prop Houses- Bischoff’s Taxidermy & Dapper Cadaver

Our beguiling and wondrous city is most famously known for being the epicenter of the movie and TV industries. Accordingly so, Los Angeles has all the trimmings available to cater to everything to do with spinning the illustrious web of … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Walking in a Winter Wonderland- The Ice Kingdom at The Queen Mary

The holidays are officially here. Shiny Christmas bulbs, gingerbread houses and visions of sugar plums dancing in a surrealistic dreamscape. It’s the time to count our blessings and fill our cups with gratitude as we literally and figuratively reboot. Here … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Happy 88th Birthday to Custom Car Legend George Barris!

As we think of the many offbeat subcultures that have sprung from the creative loins of our beloved City of Angels, one that has reverberated worldwide has been Custom Car Culture. After all, Los Angeles came of age with the … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Meet Marty & Elayne! A Video Trip to the Dresden Room in Los Feliz

Sometimes in Los Angeles the Santa Ana winds of change blow warm and caressing, taking one’s soul down a haunted memory lane in which the past comes softly knocking. At times like these the best medicine is a stiff drink … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: There Are Strings Attached- The International Puppetry Museum in Pasadena

“Pull the string and I’ll wink at you, I’m your Puppet. I’ll do funny things if you want me to, I’m your Puppet…” – 1966 soul hit written by Dan Penn Carved from blocks of wood, porcelain, layers of paper mache … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Rock & Brews- Burgers and Beer with KISS

I am a rock-n-roll girl. I had no choice in this matter- it was bestowed upon me in utero by my music obsessed parents. My mother says I danced before I walked and that only certain rock songs would calm … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Halloween ’13- Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor

The salt filled air of the Port of Long Beach  is not the first place you might envision when pondering one of the most haunted places in America. The blue skies, sunshine and tourists might pose as a convenient cover … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Kim Fowley- Bad Boy With a Heart of Gold (Last Stop Before the Neon Graveyard)

As the timid souls of our city tuck themselves into bed at night, crossing their hearts and summoning angelic aid should they die before they wake, the real werewolves come out to play. The eccentrics, the freaks, the oddballs – … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Halloween ’13- Haunted Hollywood Sports

It’s nearly October, and as the days get shorter and our California nights get nippier, the veil begins to get thinner between the world of the living and the shadowy ghost vista on the other side. Or so they say. … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Hot Off the Presses- The Los Angeles Times Tour

The Times they are a-changin’, wrote folk balladeer Bob Dylan, back in 1964. Of course it’s obviously true. Nothing stays the same. The Los Angeles we know today, around which we’re fairly sure the world revolves, is a fairly recent … Continue reading

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