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ICYMI: The LA Conservancy Is Suing The City Over That Frank Gehry Project
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- Chris Pratt's new hobby/long-game joke appears to be cropping his Passengers co-star Jennifer Lawrence halfway out of pictures before he posts them on Instagram.
- Here's a terrifying look at how President Trump could wage war on science.
- Oh dear God, an Eames-inspired stroller and car seat system exists.
- Don Calfa, the the film, stage and television actor who played the evil mortician in The Return of the Living Dead, has died at 76.
- The LA Conservancy has sued the city over that controversial Frank Gehry Sunset Strip project.
- Sasha Obama rapped along with Chance the Rapper at the White House Tree Lighting Ceremony and we all cried for the end of Obama-era America:
.@chancetherapper performed at the @WhiteHouse Tree Lighting Ceremony. pic.twitter.com/aAmhnsCzQV
— deray mckesson (@deray) December 1, 2016
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