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- Seattle officials look to L.A. Live for inspiration for their own entertainment complex
- Stereogum hopes in your post-Record Store Day groove you check out Music Man Murray. We're fans here, too!
- Disney reveals they're releasing a "new" hand-drawn Mickey Mouse short, but they won't say if it's legit from the vaults, or a whole new creation.
- Santa Monica College was evacuated today after bomb threat.
- The company making the new online version of "One Life to Live" says ABC deliberately ruined the storyline by killing off key characters.
- Another Blockbuster store location bites the dust in L.A. Feeling sad?
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