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ICYMI: The History Of L.A.'s Own Wrigley Field
It's time for Dodger Baseball, y'all (Photo by Steve Mitchell Gallery via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
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- As we ready ourselves for the National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and the Cubs, L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne goes deep on the story of L.A.'s own Wrigley Field, which was built in our city before Chicago got its own baseball stadium of the same name.
- Also in advance of this series, the Chicago Tribune unleashed some pretty #rude things about L.A., to which we say: lol whatever bro.
- Bon Appetit explores what some NFL players actually eat on a regular basis, which definitely includes kale smoothies among the varied responses.
- Have you been watching HBO's Westworld? It's pretty trippy! The Ringer asks: would you go?
- MediaTakeOut founder Fred Mwangaguhunga responded to Kim Kardashian's libel suit, following the site's implication that she faked the whole thing. "She is a mother, she is a wife and she was a victim of a violent crime," Mwangaguhunga said. "She definitely did not deserve it and she deserved to be believed.”
- In honor of director Todd Solondz's 57th birthday today, here's a great clip from one of his finest films, Welcome to the Dollhouse:
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