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ICYMI: Pasadena's City Hall Workers Are Super Over Your Wedding Photo Shoots
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- The Broad Museum will be celebrating its first birthday tomorrow and they've lined up a slate of festivities to celebrate.
- Our friends at Eater LA have all the deets on the wining and dining coming to the revamped Hotel Figueroa.
- Last night's Emmys brought in all-time low ratings, despite being the funniest awards show in recent memory (no justice in this world).
- Sterling K. Brown tried to Facebook friend request Christopher Darden (the prosecutor he played on The People v. O.J. Simpson), but it "didn't work out." [Insert Marcia Clark/Sarah Paulson BFF joke here]
- The City of Pasadena and their lovely City Hall are very tired of all the wedding photoshoots getting in the way of official business.
- A 1985 video of the late Wanda Coleman, long L.A.'s unofficial poet laureate, reading "I Live for my Car"—a truly Los Angeles poem if there ever was one:
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