Culver City Travel Guide
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Get Toasty This Weekend At The Los Angeles Beer Festival
America is in the throes of the worst recession that any of us have ever seen. Times are tough. We're all giving up luxuries and cutting back on expenses.
Enter this weekend's Los Angeles Beer Festival, offering you the opportunity to replace your yuppie oenophilia and with an afternoon of grain-based bliss. The weather will be a crisp 65 degrees, the sky will be a cloudless blue, and people will be stumbling from booth to booth in a state of blurry delirium.
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Ford's Filling Station
Ford's Filling Station in Culver City has made a lot of noise for several reasons. One, it's helmed by Harrison Ford's son Benjamin Ford and in Los Angeles, any venture related to a celebrity is hot for at least two weeks. Two, Ford (Ben, not Harrison) has gone the route of a gastropub, often found in New York and London and other cities with more authentic culture than LA.
The other month we popped in for lunch on a Thursday. Having had some bad luck trying to get dinner reservations, we thought we should at least check to see if we needed a reservation for lunch before arriving. After all, Tinseltown loves to lunch and with the Sony studios nearby, we didn't want to take any chances. Turns out, reservations are recommended for lunch and dinner.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology No Walk in the Park
We finally made it over to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, expecting to be blown away by the various mind-benders on display. Unfortunately, the museum is already so impressed with itself there simply wasn't any room left for our potential awe.
The goal of the museum is admirable: To force people to think about the authority of museums and think about the differences in science museums and art museums. However, for a place that aims to blow your mind, there isn't much to the exhibits. Actor/magician Ricky Jay is pretty cool, but a narrated guide to his decaying dice collection just isn't that compelling.
To be fair, there are some diverting exhibits, like the trailer park dioramas (one of which is picture above) and the optical illusion collections. And, admission is only by suggested donation. This museum is good option if you're already going to one of Culver City's sexy new bistros, but not worth a cross-town trip on its own merits.
