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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Business/Tech, California, Food and Wine
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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International, Movies & Music, Museums, Travel
Packing your bags and checking your passport twice still leaves you with a nagging feeling that something is missing. Maybe it’s rabbit’s foot for good luck, a four leaf clover or a clove of garlic tucked between your socks. Maybe it’s the memory of your grandmother splashing water behind you as you walked out the
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Food and Wine, International, Travel