The Beastie Boys Landmarks of Los Angeles

In November of 2018, I pitched a story to the Los Angeles Times about Beastie Boys landmarks around L.A. It was tied to the release of the group’s Beastie Boys Book and the live events that Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz would perform at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood in support of it. My editor was into the idea and the piece was going to run in conjunction with a staff writer’s article on the two surviving members of the group. I talked to a bunch of Beastie Boys’ friends and affiliates to learn about these spots and then spent an amazing day driving all over the city with a pregnant L.A. Times photographer named Christina House and <a href="http://www.michaeldelahaut.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Delahaut</a>, who’d been an invaluable help in identifying some of the locations. <a href="https://medium.com/@ericducker/the-beastie-boys-landmarks-of-los-angeles-3713ef637aa9">Click Here</a>