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Judges unanimously scored Wednesday night's final bout for Jesus Rodrigues (black shorts) as he won his pro debut against Juan Sandoval. Photo by Eric Richardson.Boxing may be dying, but it's hard to tell it at L.A. Live. Over the last two years th...

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This story is an installment of Filming Closures. Photo by Eric Richardson.Navigating Downtown can be tricky enough without running into an unexpected street closure. We'll try to help you out, posting notices from film shoots that include full stre...

topics: running, wilshire

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Angeleno Mary O'Neil was all Irish at L.A. Live's Nokia Plaza. Photo by Ed Fuentes.Billed as the city's largest St. Patrick's Day celebration, L.A. Live's inaugural go at a salute to Public Safety and Irish Pride took place today out in the sun of N...

topics: celebration, los-angeles, parade

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Photo by Ed Fuentes.The bar may be closed, but the Craby Joe's neon has had heard more last calls then the clients that walked into the 7th and Main watering hole ever did. The sign that once welcomed boozers and dreamers will have an official dedi...

topics: diner, oc

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Photo by Eric Richardson.The revitalized Downtown appears set to suffer one of its first high-profile restaurant casualties, as landlord 800 Wilshire today was given the go-ahead for eviction proceedings against chef Gabriel Morales' Provecho.The c...

topics: restaurant, wilshire

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Market Cafe at the AT&T Center, a new casual cafe from the Patina Restaurant Group. Photo by Eric Richardson.Not quite visible enough to be a destination, yet too fun to classify as a building cafeteria, Patina Restaurant Group's newest Market Cafe ...

topics: cafe, menu, oc, restaurant, restaurants

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Russell Wonder Photo by Monk Turner.If Stevie Wonder had a 'brother from another mother' living in Downtown L.A., it would be Russell Walters. Even though Russell is a white guy from the backwoods of Michigan with 20/20 vision, soul music drips from...

topics: beach, cafe, hermosa-beach, manhattan-beach, redondo-beach

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Workers assemble a tower crane at the YWCA Job Corp construction site in South Park. Photo by Eric Richardson.While work at YWCA's $73-million Job Corp center has been moving steadily since the beginning of the year, the effort became a lot more vis...

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Photo by .Your odds of getting in may vary as final tweaks take place, but 213's members-only Doheny is currently soft-open as the new Ca a Rum Bar at the Doheny. Membership is still required, but dues have dropped to a much more affordable $20 a...

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The Los Angeles Police Emerald Society marches in the 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade. Photo by Ed Fuentes.Bag pipes and boxing are both on the menu for a pair of Wednesday St. Patrick's Day events at L.A. Live. The pair highlight a day that will see...

topics: festival, los-angeles, menu, outdoors, parade