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Ben Zeimis commented "Such a cool place. Sketchy, yet accessible and the location couldn't be more appropriated" on Venice Beach Freakshow in Los Angeles, CA.
about 1 year ago

Sign outside

On the right day, as you stroll down the Venice Beach boardwalk, you'll see a man sitting in front of a wildly colored Freakshow sign. When you stop to look into the small tanks he's guarding, you'll see tiny oddities of nature—animals with extra legs and heads. He and the sign promise bigger and stranger sights inside for a small fee. Do you feel ready to embrace the realm of the impossible? Well, do you?
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Ben Zeimis loved Venice Beach Freakshow in Los Angeles, CA.
about 1 year ago

Sign outside

On the right day, as you stroll down the Venice Beach boardwalk, you'll see a man sitting in front of a wildly colored Freakshow sign. When you stop to look into the small tanks he's guarding, you'll see tiny oddities of nature—animals with extra legs and heads. He and the sign promise bigger and stranger sights inside for a small fee. Do you feel ready to embrace the realm of the impossible? Well, do you?
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Ben Zeimis loved Freddie's 35er Bar in Pasadena, CA.
about 1 year ago

Cheap drinks and good times

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Ben Zeimis saved Freddie's 35er Bar in Pasadena, CA.
about 1 year ago
Ben Zeimis saved Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden in Pasadena, CA.
about 1 year ago

Norton Simon Museum of Art — Like Bartley J. D'Alfonso

They stand together wearing tattered rags, nooses, and barefoot. They are emaciated and in despair, knowing that they face execution. These are the six most prominent citizens of Calais in France, who in 1347 offered their lives to spare the city from English invaders, after a year of siege and starvation. Five centuries later, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) honored their sacrifice with a bronze statute, entitled The Burghers of Calais. Rodin rejected contemporary conventions, which portrayed the group as heroic figures. Instead, he captures their anguish of being defeated, struggling with fear and self-sacrifice, as they leave the city gates to surrender to the invaders. In the end, they were all spared by the intervention of the Queen of England, who was moved by their bravery. This statue, one of twelve created by Rodin, is displayed at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
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Ben Zeimis saved 21 Choices in Pasadena, CA.
about 1 year ago

21 Choices — Like Megan Kimble

Your back is still sweating when your face first leans into the tingly-sweet, cold air of 21 Choices. Their daily-made, organic frozen yogurt is delicious; after nine years in business, they’ve got it down. But, 21 Choices is revered as a Pasadena institution for more than its treats. It’s the waiting in line outside, people-watching at the busy pedestrian corner; inching forward, the anticipation building into a hum as the door swishes open and smacks closed. The magic is in the contrast, between the soggy heat outside and the balloon-adorned ice cream world of inside; it’s in straddling the doorway, one foot in, dancing towards fro yo salvation, one foot out, burning on the cement. It is finally stepping into the cold, wood paneled interior where a happy teenager lets you try all six of the specials before ordering and then, it's the brain freeze of a summer treat done well.
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Ben Zeimis saved Intelligentsia Coffee Roasters, Pasadena in Pasadena, CA.
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