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ICYMI: Students At UC Davis Can Now Get The Morning-After Pill From A Vending Machine
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- Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project has found a permanent space to call its own in the Arts District.
- Pedro Almodóvar will head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Will Smith, who has never had a movie at Cannes, is also on the jury, which we support.
- Balenciaga debuted a $2,145 tote that looks basically the same as IKEA's 99-cent shopping bag, and the Scandinavian furniture giant's response ad was very epic.
- Students at UC Davis can now purchase the morning-after pill from the same student center vending machine that sells Advil, condoms and tampons.
- Here's the menu for much-anticipated Botanica restaurant, which opens on Silver Lake Boulevard in a few weeks in the former Silver Lake Liquor storefront.
- And here's Tom Brokaw interviewing Joan Didion in the 1970s:
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