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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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Offbeat L.A.: A Cherry on Top – Fosters Freeze, the History of California’s Original Soft Serve
I scream, you scream, we all scream for… Soft Serve! Perhaps the words don’t roll off the tongue as romantically as ice cream, the much denser, higher milk-fat frozen treat that we all love and adore, but Soft Serve conjures … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
Tagged Fosters Freeze, ice cream, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA
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Offbeat L.A. ROAD TRIP: The Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada
The desert winds, warm and caressing, whisper secrets as they blow across the sun-bleached Western Nevada landscape. This terrain is a place for loners and outcasts, a final resting place for slowly rusting abandoned vehicles, a location where cold-blooded serial … Continue reading
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Tagged Clown Motel, Desert, Nevada, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA
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Offbeat L.A.: Cast Me in Your Next Film! Actor Dennis Woodruff, A Hollywood Legend and His Tricked Out Cars
Los Angeles has long had a reputation as a center for oddballs. The longstanding east coast joke about tipping the country and all the weirdos falling to the “Left Coast” is thankfully not entirely untrue. The weirdos are our blessings; … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
Tagged Cars, Dennis Woodruff, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA
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Offbeat L.A.: Watts Towers… A Common Man’s Dreams Pieced Together in Mosaic and Steel
Emerging, like shimmering spires breaking up an otherwise desolate landscape, Watts Towers rise majestically and triumphantly over a neighborhood whose reputation has long been rooted in turmoil. They are the lifelong creation of an Italian immigrant, who breathed into them … Continue reading
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Tagged Nicole Kreuzer, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Watts Towers
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Offbeat L.A.: Come Fly With Me… Vintage Aviation History at The Flight Path Museum near LAX
Ever since our dusty town, Los Angeles, was barely newborn, we have had our hands in bigger and better things- including the history of aviation. In 1910, seven years after the Wright Brothers made their first famous flight in North … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, aviation, Flightpath Museum, LAX, Nicole Kreuzer, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Vintage
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Offbeat L.A.: The Oldest Surviving Los Angeles Restaurants… A Master List of the Vintage, Historic and Old School
We are lucky in Los Angeles to have a lot of spectacular vintage restaurants, but we are still losing many every year to owners who retire, sell out for money or lose their long-held lease to nasty gentrification. I’m a … Continue reading
Posted in Cocktails, Beer, Wine & Weed, Food, Offbeat LA
Tagged Nicole Kreuzer, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Old school, Restaurants, Vintage
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Offbeat L.A.: Sidewalk Surfin’- The Skateboard Museum at Skatelab in Simi Valley
“Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin’ with me, Don’t be afraid to try the newest sport around, Bust your buns, bust your buns now. It’s catchin’ on in every city and town… Skateboard with me, why don’t you skateboard … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Miscellanious, Offbeat LA
Tagged Museum, Nicole Kreuzer, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Skateboarding, Skatelab
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Offbeat L.A.: Ripe For the Pickin’- Experience Farm Life at Underwood Farms in Moorpark
Most of us buy our fruit and vegetables at the grocery store, and although we technically know that our food comes from farming the earth, there is inherently a disconnect in the food to table process. Even when we use … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Nicole Kreuzer, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Underwood Farms
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Offbeat L.A.: All Dogs Go To Heaven- The Quite Bizarre Los Angeles Pet Cemetery
About 40 minutes northwest of Los Angeles lies a most unusual cemetery. Traditional decorum of tastefulness and quiet mourning is replaced with blasts of color, whimsical wind spinners, laminated photos of the dearly departed and personal mementos. The epitaphs on … Continue reading
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Tagged Memorial Park, Nicole Kreuzer, Nikki Kreuzer, Offbeat LA, Pet Cemetery
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