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Downtown LA Taco Tour with a local food critic
Last night I stuffed my face on six or so tacos via an Airbnb experience called Taste the LA taco scene with a leading food critic. The other guest(s) on the tour cancelled last minute to it was just me and the host, Patricia, a food critic who’s worked at various publications. The walking tour…
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LA Arts District Graffiti/Mural Tour with a local street artist
Six years ago in the “before times” as it were, when the pandemic shattered everything, I took a wide-ranging tour of the Los Angeles Arts District from a tour company that is now sadly defunct. During this trip I wanted to go a little more in depth on the street art aspect of the Arts…
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Chinatown LA Ghost Hunt from The Haunt
On Saturday night I went on a spooky adventure looking for signs of the paranormal on a tour of New Chinatown with The Haunt. The guide for our group, Rory, told us the tales of prohibition-era corruption, racist redevelopments, mysterious deaths, and unmarked graves. (See this post for more about LA’s New Chinatown.) But there…
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Nine Inch Nails – “Peel It Back” tour
When booking my trip to Los Angeles this year I discovered it happened to coincide with the final show of Nine Inch Nails’ Peel It Back tour. If there was ever an omen this was it; I had to book a ticket to the show. And what an expensive ticket it was! Somewhere along the…
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Watts Towers
I first learned about the Watts Towers as a kid when I randomly came across a TV movie called Daniel and the Towers on PBS. The movie tells a fictional story about a boy who slowly befriends a cantankerous oddball named Simon Rodia as he builds a set of towers and decorates them with colorful…
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The Broad
My final stop on this trip to Los Angeles was The Broad (pronounced more like “The Brode”) a free modern art museum financed by the wealthy Broad family. The museum’s main gallery is on the top and third floor, which unfortunately was the only part I had time to visit before heading to the airport.…
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Thought Experiments in F# Minor
The Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry is the home of Los Angeles Philharmonic, aka “LA Phil.” In the early afternoon on non-concert days several tours are available. Thought Experiments in F# Minor from artist duo Cardiff and Miller is an immersive video narrative piece that leads the audience around the labyrinth-like building…
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Angels Flight
For my last day in Los Angeles I was determined to cross a few items off my bucket list, and in order to get there I thought I’d cross off another: riding Angels Flight, the “world’s shortest railway.” It’s really a diagonal elevator with two cars that act as counterbalances. On my previous visit to…
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Santa Monica
After leaving the California Science Center I took the Metro Expo Line — soon to be renamed the E Line and combined with the Gold Line — all the way to the last stop in Santa Monica. It stops a couple blocks from the beach right by the touristy Santa Monica Pier. Not having been…
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