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If you want to be technical, the full title of this true Culver City dive bar is Roger's Exciting Tattle Tale Room, named after longtime owner Roger Lowell. The septuagenarian has had his hands on the namesake bar for half a century, and inside it doesn't feel like much has changed in all that time. You can still buy tall boys of domestic beers from behind the bar (they lack taps) and sing along to the nightly karaoke (it's usually pretty bad). They don't serve food at the Tattle Tale, unless you count stale bar snacks, but that's not the point. Here, it's all about playing pool, shrugging off advances from the AARP members at the bar and getting just fuzzy enough to request the next song on the karaoke machine. On football Sundays, the place is also technically a Packers bar, but that doesn't mean you can't ignore the game in favor of a day drink or two.
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The lights at the Tattle Tale Room are bare but low, illuminating half-awake bikers snuggling in booths with heavily tattooed dames; aspiring cougars in sequins swishing through the narrow spaces between tables and stools; a white guy in a black tank top hopping up to rap a karaoke rendition of "California Love." The bikers nod along. Some patrons shoot pool in the back, but most participate in that most ancient and popular of barroom pastimes: leering. They hang back along the edges of the... More »
So you've got friends or relatives coming in from out of town, and you want to swiftly disabuse them of the notion that Los Angeles is all swimming pools, movie stars and whatever other bullshit they've seen on Entourage. You need to take them to the Tattle Tale Room. Close enough to the airport that it can be a visitor's first stop right after you pick them up at LAX, this outer Culver City dive bar's raucous, chiefly working-class and frankly moderately sketchy crowd is a testament that... More »
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