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An International Hula Hooping Fest Has Descended on L.A. (VIDEO)

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If you're out and about in L.A. this weekend — Echo Park, the beach, downtown — and come across a bunch of hula-hooping adults dressed like extras from Back to the Future Part II, chances are you've stumbled upon Hoopurbia, an international "urban hooping" festival that's descended on L.A. this......
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Can a New App Get Millennial Angelenos to the Theater?

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Live theater is great. It's visceral, sexy, nerve-wracking, but for some reason getting younger people to embrace the stage has been a tall order.  The new-to-L.A. ticketing app Tix Mobile — it's already functional in New York, Chicago, London, San Francisco and D.C. — hopes to change that by making......
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Things to Do on St. Patrick's Day Besides Get Shit-Faced

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This Thursday, America celebrates a Catholic snake wrangler named St. Patrick by wearing green and throwing up beer in the backseat of an Uber. Listen. I like an excuse to start drinking in the middle of a weekday as much as the next guy, but St. Patrick's Day is fucking amateur......
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How to Host an #AltOscarParty

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For the second year in a row, women and minorities will be woefully under-represented at the Oscars. Given the Academy Awards' historical lack of diversity, this shouldn't come as a huge surprise. In the 76 years since Hattie McDaniel won best supporting actress for her role as Mammy in Gone......
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An Early Look at L.A.'s Museum of Broken Relationships

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A drawer filled with old mixtapes. A stack of immaculate Brazilian Playboy magazines, neatly fanned out. A bouquet of paper flowers.  These were among the artifacts on display at a preview of L.A.'s forthcoming Museum of Broken Relationships, a worldwide project that collects and displays the detritus of people's failed......
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Remember the Weird Year When Hollywood Gave Us Two Harper Lees?

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This morning, author Harper Lee passed away at 89 in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. At the moment, writers everywhere are churning out think pieces about her woefully small body of work and legacy, from Pulitzer Prize winner To Kill a Mockingbird and its resultant film to its not-terribly-well-received follow-up, Go Set......
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Where an NYC Fashion Designer Goes to Be Inspired in L.A.

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Menswear designer Mark McNairy is the consummate contrarian.  A former creative director for J. Press, an Ivy League-inspired clothing brand so goddamned preppy it was actually founded on Yale's campus, McNairy titled his new book F**k Ivy **and Everything Else (Harper Design, $29.99). Part fashion bible, part lifestyle guide, part......