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  Baco Mercat: Taco on Steroids
  Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Josef Centeno's Bäco Mercat. ("The ideal customer would be someone who knows what salbitxada is, but also doesn't get upset if she accidentally splashes a little on her shirt.") Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos...
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  Lana Del Rey @ Amoeba Records
  Fresh off the release of her album Born To Die, Lana Del Rey had fans lined up around the block at Amoeba Records in Hollywood for her in store performance and signing on February 7. With limited space inside many were left on Sunset only to dream. Read our review of Lana Del Rey over at West...
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  Lina in L.A.: Underground Rebel Bingo and Cobrashop Pop-up Party
  Loud, lewd anything but old lady-like, Underground Rebel Bingo -- thinly disguised as a "School of Etiquette" event - took over the Dragonfly Saturday night with drunk college types writing on number cards (and each other), hot hosts writhing on each other and lots of winners and losers trying...
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  Lina in L.A.: Beards, Billygoats, Babes and Back Doors
  Pics of Goody Tu-Shoes' ZZ Top Tribute Night at El Cid, Rosemary's Billygoat/Coffin Case Video Shoot at 3 Clubs, and the jammin' live music nights at Sayer's Club (entrance/exit inside Hollywood's Papaya Dog), this week featuring Sophie and Nick Simmons (Gene's Family Jewels) at Corzo Sessions...
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  L.A. Cupcake Challenge @ Renaissance Hotel
  Hosted by DrinkEatPlay at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood on Sat. Feb 4th, the L.A. Cupcake Challenge featured over 35 entries from cupcakeries all over Los Angeles. Voting participants were given ballots to check off on as they walked around and collected sweet and savory mini-cupcakes from...
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  The Second Annual Sparrow Warriors vs. The Viking Horde
  Before Super Bowl went down on Sunday, there was another big game: the 2nd Annual Sparrow Warriors vs. The Viking Horde at the Orange Grove Park in South Pasadena. A football game so epic in scale that even Grizzly Adams was there. All photos by Brian Erzen.
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  Emilie Autumn @ The El Rey Theatre
  Emilie Autumn: The Asylum returned to The El Rey Theatre on Saturday, February 4, lighting up Los Angeles for the "Fight Like A Girl" tour in front of an enthusiastic and adoring crowd.
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  First Friday @ The Natural History Museum
  First Fridays at the Natural History Museum, the monthly installment of live music performances, science related discussions and museum tours. Photos from the event on Friday, February 3rd with performances by The Soft Moon, Light Asylum, Julia Holter and Corey Fogel, a discussion on Darwinian...
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  Gotye @ The El Rey Theatre
  Australian singer-songwriter Gotye and band packed the The El Rey Theatre last night for a very sold out performance of songs from his forthcoming album Making Mirrors (which features the the much talked about single "Somebody That I Used To Know") as well as tunes from his first two albums. Hot...
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  Fugiya & Miyagi @ The Echo
  Fugiya & Miyagi were at The Echo in support of their latest release Ventriloquizzing. TV Girl and Evan Voytas opened the show. All photos by Timothy Norris.
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  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. @ the Echoplex
  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. packed the room at Echoplex last night in support of their latest release, It's a Corporate World. NO opened the show. All photos by Timothy Norris.
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  Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village
  Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village in the SGV. ("It is the Chinese restaurant menu equivalent of a September Vogue, except instead of models, there are crabs and stewed pig's trotters and fried abalone, reproduced in nearly pornographic...
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