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Not all of us were swaddled in Lakers jerseys straight from the womb or outfited in 49ers onesies as toddlers. There are plenty amongst the sports fanatics who dread play-by-plays at parties and worry... More »
Masked monsters -- or actors -- may be screaming and grunting for our attention at theme park-style events around town this Halloween, but there are plenty of places in Los Angeles for a trip into the... More »
Let's get this out of the way: the Munchkins. Yes, as legend has it, during the filming of The Wizard of Oz nearby, they drank and partied here at the Culver Hotel, hung from rooftops, formed the Lollipop Guild, helped conceive Liza Minnelli -- we don't really know. But what we do know is that the hotel -- at one point owned by John Wayne -- was here way before today's version of downtown Culver City rose up around it, along with all its attempts at hip watering holes, its... More »
Opened in 1924, the Culver Hotel entered the annals of cinematic notoriety in 1939 for housing all 124 of the “little people” who played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. Wild stories emerged -- “Munchkins Run Riot!” -- augmented by claims of an underground tunnel from the hotel to the soundstage, though only one case of drunken disorderliness was actually accounted for. A rather unimaginative 1981 movie, Under the Rainbow, starring Chevy Chase and Carrie... More »
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