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Extra, Extra: Happy Hour Helper, Time Travel Restaurant, & Free Parking at Meters
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- Looking for a Happy Hour guide that covers DTLA & Santa Monica? TasteTerminal has you covered with the second installation in their HH series.
- If you were in Venice this afternoon and wondered what the LAPD perimeter was about, it was a "scuffle" with a suspect that left an officer wounded.
- Which LA restaurant did Zagat say lets diners "travel back in time" to the 1900s?
- Los Angeles I'm Yours has given us something to think about that we've never considered before: "Why Do People Insist On Taking Their Photos In Front Of Artwork?"
- The big reveal of the next "Dancing With the Stars" cast was made today, but the LAT reports everyone is pretty much ripping on it online.
- Sacha Baron Cohen's Oscar night prank led to record-setting traffic for The Hollywood Reporter's website.
- Here's how a new bar in a Hollywood hotel is causing a hubub in the community.
- Will it soon be free again to park at broken meters in the City of L.A.?
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