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ICYMI: Magic Johnson Chilled With Darth Vader At A Dodger Game
Another candy colored sunset on Sunset.(Photo by Eric Demarcq via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Tag #LAist on Instagram if you want to see your photo featured here)
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Save Sunset Junction
, a group opposed to development in Silver Lake (particularly the proposed "Junction Gateway Project") created some pretty
hardcore posters
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- Several landmarks across L.A.
went dark for an hour last night
as part of Mayor Eric Garcetti's "Save Energy L.A." campaign. The lights went out at places like Griffith Observatory and LACMA's Instagram-favorite Urban Light setup.
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Magic Johnson with a couple storm troopers and Darth Vader
at "Star Wars Night" at Dodger Stadium.
- Remember when toxic algae turned
Pyramid Lake a crazy green
? Something similar is happening in Lake Elsinore, where
officials have prohibited
swimming, boating, and fishing due to harmful levels of blue-green algae.
- Praise be: The Larry Sanders Show will be
available for streaming
on HBO in September!
- And finally, we'd like to wish a very happy birthday to the one and only Kate Bush...coincidentally, it is also the birthday of Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights, which inspired this KB classic:
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