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Space Shuttle Endeavour
Today I went to the California Science Center — a free Los Angeles museum mostly aimed at kids — to see something pretty amazing: a Space Shuttle that flew 25 missions in space. Looking back it’s easy to see the Space Shuttle program as a weird quirk of space travel history, or at worst as…
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I got to see Neil Hamburger live at a small venue in LA
On Sunday night I went to see Neil Hamburger (with special guests) live at The Satellite, a small venue in LA’s Silverlake neighborhood. For those unfamiliar with Neil Hamburger he requires a little explanation: he’s not a “real” person but a comedian character played by Gregg Turkington. Neil is a sad sack, third rate comic…
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The Triforium
Easily the strangest thing in downtown LA is the Triforium, a concrete sculpture covered in colorful glass prisms in a public plaza, surrounded by government buildings. The obvious question — what is this thing? — doesn’t have a simple answer. Artist Joseph Young built the Triforium for the plaza. Originally the plan was for it…
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LACMA and the La Brae Tar Pits
I left the Hollywood History tour a little tired, but decided to soldier on via an LA Metro bus to see LACMA and the La Brae Tar Pits next door. I should point out in advance I didn’t pay to enter either museum; LACMA’s main gallery is currently being rebuilt, and the La Brae Tar…
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Hollywood History walking tour
This morning I took the LA Metro to Hollywood and Vine, the meeting place of another Downtown LA Walking Tour, Hollywood History. The name of the tour company is kind of a misfit here as Hollywood is not located downtown. The first thing anyone should know about Hollywood Boulevard is — if the two wax…
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Arts District tour
Yesterday afternoon I took a tour of LA’s Arts District from Downtown LA Walking Tours. I had the same tour guide as I did when I took the Chinatown and Little Tokyo tour on my last visit, and as it turns out he’s intimately familiar with the local art scene through his other job as…
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Grand Central Market
On my last visit to LA I kept kicking myself for not taking any photos of Grand Central Market, the big local food hall downtown. It’s also one of the best food halls I’ve ever been to and I have some recommendations. So here we go. Opening at 8 AM, a handful of vendors serve…
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Pershing Square
Just like my last visit to Los Angeles I’m staying near Pershing Square, a public plaza spanning an entire city block. I’ve also found it’s a convenient orientation point when I’m not quite sure where something is located in downtown LA. The square is named after American WWI general John J. Pershing. Though he was…
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The Last Bookstore’s upstairs labyrinth
On my last trip to LA I just sort of stumbled across The Last Bookstore, a large bookstore selling new, used, antique, and rare books and comic books as well as vinyl records. Both times I wandered in I was a little distracted by well-attended events they were holding in the store with authors and…
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LA’s Union Station
It’s been almost two years since my last visit to Los Angeles, a trip I accidentally over-planned to the point where I had three times as much stuff to do as I did time to do it. So today I’ve returned for a few nights in an attempt to cross a few more of those…
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