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Poster for the Marilyn Monroe Centennial exhibit at Hollywood Museum

Inside the Marilyn Monroe Centennial Exhibit at The Hollywood Museum

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Step off Hollywood Boulevard and onto Highland Avenue, and the Max Factor Building rises in front of you like a piece of frosted cake. Pale pink walls catch the California sun. Art deco lettering announces the address, and already you sense that this stop will feel different from the star-studded tourist traps nearby. This is […]

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Customers in line at Pink's hot dogs

Pink’s Hot Dogs: A Los Angeles Institution Since 1939

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Rounding the corner of La Brea and Melrose, you expect another Los Angeles strip mall. Instead, you find a line of hungry customers. It wraps past the parking lot, past the pink-and-white awning, past murals of grinning celebrity faces from Aretha Franklin to Simon Cowell. While the line barely moves, no one really looks bothered.

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AI generated image of Odysseus and Penelope

Where Myth Meets Map: Visiting Real Film Locations of The Odyssey

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Few blockbuster movies double as travel itineraries, but Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is the rare exception. Nolan built his sprawling adaptation of Homer’s epic without relying on green screens, so nearly every windswept cliff and sunbaked ruin on screen actually exists somewhere on this earth. In other words, you can actually visit these locations with

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