I didn’t know this previously, but apparently Dakota Culkin, Macaulay’s sister, was leaving Marina del Rey bar Brennan’s when she was hit by a car and killed on December 9. She was also apparently trashed.
Culkin, 29, had traces of alcohol in her system, Corral said, although it wasn’t immediately known what her blood alcohol level was. Culkin, who had recently moved to L.A. to pursue a career in film production, had reportedly just left a Marina Del Rey bar before she crossed the street and was hit.
Culkin’s family also indicated to investigators that she’d been going to therapy for alcohol addiction, Corral said.
OMG, the hours I clocked at Brennan’s when I lived in LA … they race turtles there on Wednesday nights. I’m not kidding. You rent a turtle for $1 (or bring your own!) and then the turtles have little race heats and you cheer on your turtle while getting out of your mind wasted. I mean, there’s not really a way to watch turtle races and not drink.
I lived about a mile and a half from Brennan’s, and I still never drove myself. I called a cab or had a DD. I knew how messed up everyone gets at Brennan’s. It is a get fucked up kind of bar. But I never worried about getting too drunk to cross the street. Wow.
BE CAREFUL out there, kids!!
I had met Dakota and her younger sister a few times.
Dakota hade some developmental issues that impared judgement.
Thats why she had a hard time with booze and those two things combined led to her untimely death.
Rest In Peace
Oh yeah… I’ve been to those turtle races. Good times.
(except the getting trashed and then killed part, natch.)
Brennan’s! That was one of the first bars my ex-BF brought me to when we first came to LA over ten years ago, the turtle-race bar on Lincoln Blvd. in Marina del Rey. Wow, but that’s awfully sad news. How awful! She got hit by a car or something? Wandering around drunk in the middle of the street? How horrible!
thats really tragic. and brennans is even worse now cuz they’re doing construction on that block and theres no sidewalk. or at least it was like that a few months ago..idk i try and avoid the bro bars