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ICYMI: Los Angeles Magazine Sold To Detroit-Based Publisher
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- Los Angeles Magazine has been sold to a publisher that puts out Detroit-based publications. The magazine's editor-in-chief, as well as a sizable chunk of the staff, has been let go.
- There'll be a whole line of Buffy the Vampire Slayer outfits for purchase.
- One group of people who weren't happy with Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday? Veterans who felt he'd exploited the grief of a fallen soldier's widow. Not that his antics are particularly shocking anymore.
- Did Fusion steal an idea from one of its own writers (who they fired)?
- Scientists may have found the earliest signs of life. They say they've discovered the remains of microorganisms that, at the very least, date back to 3.77 billion years ago. Those were simpler times back then.
- Disneyland's got a Beauty and the Beast pop-up restaurant. When's the brick-and-mortar coming?
- With the way things are going, maybe it's best if we speed along the uprising of the machines:
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