Tag Archives: Nikki Kreuzer

Offbeat L.A. event: The Great Horror Campout

I have to admit that I do love a good haunted house. In fact, every October you can find me geeking it up, gathering friends and attending as many fright events as I have time for. So when The Great … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Attack of the Giant Donuts – It’s not just Randy’s: The History of Los Angeles’ Big Ones

Doughnuts have been around far longer than our city, or even our country for that matter. Ancient Greeks and Romans served fried dough bits with honey, Medieval Arabs dipped theirs in sugar syrup, Renaissance-era Europeans began stuffing their version with … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Sexy Space Age – The Theme Building at LAX

Poised in the center of Los Angeles International Airport like a flying saucer that has just landed is the iconic Theme Building. Looking at the graceful lines of its space age architecture summons memories of early Sci-Fi movies, and if … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Police on my Back- The Los Angeles Police Museum in Highland Park

Besides being renowned for our relentless sunshine and our parade of endless celebrities, another thing that draws the eyes of the nation to the sprawling City of Angels is our police department. Whether hitting the beat with Jack Webb’s Dragnet … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Rockin’ Bones- Los Angeles Cemeteries… Visit the Stars

  Take me to the cemetery and “We’ll hear the dead people talk. They do talk there. They chatter like birds… but all they say is one word and that one word is ‘live.’  They say ‘live, live, live, live, live.’ … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Dingbat Apartments- True Los Angeles Kitsch

They are as common as the dreamers that flock to our fair city in hopes of their big breaks. They are disparaged and celebrated almost in the same breath. With their utilitarian boxy structures and their lofty and hopeful names … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Pharmaceutical Itch- Skeletons in the Closet and the Southern California Medical Museum

We have tripped the light fantastic into the dark side of Los Angeles in a few Offbeat L.A. articles already. We’ve followed the Manson family’s footsteps with the Dearly Departed tour company, hiked to a failed Nazi retreat in Pacific Palisades … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: The Los Angeles Police Academy

“Once upon a time there were three little girls who went to the Police Academy”… If you recognize these words as part of the opening sequence to the ’70’s hit TV show Charlie’s Angels then you are also sure to … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: Angelyne- Pretty in Pink

“You gotta have a little trash or people aren’t interested. The right kind of trash.” -Angelyne Hollywood… a neighborhood in our city that is, well, just a neighborhood. But to the eyes of the world Hollywood is larger than life, … Continue reading

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Offbeat L.A.: The Blessing of the Animals- A Strange Easter Tradition

What are you to do if you find your llama has a bit of the devil in him? How do you assure that your cow never runs dry of milk? Who do you turn to if you simply want to … Continue reading

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